Emotionally it’s definitely a good thing, anyone who hates their country of birth can renounce their citizenship but I have simply built a good life elsewhere and wouldn’t want my old passport involuntarily taken away from me, it’s emotionally valuable to be able to go back and show the old passport and be welcomed just like one has always been, even if my daily life nowadays is somewhere else.

The great prof. dr. Edsger W. Dijkstra wrote exactly that already in his 1978 essay On the foolishness of “natural language programming”:

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD667.html

tomato, tomato

They’re both named Sam, they both have pale faces, they’re both some kind of technology entrepreneur.

Yes, I never really thought much about it, it just seemed so obvious to me that there was just one Sam from Stanford who talked a lot about revolutionizing technology while scamming people out of their money.

Does the number of stars have any defined meaning? What is the definition of 7 stars? What would be required to remove or add a star to that rating?

Shall I pretend to be surprised?

This is an amazingly stupid court decision.

[…] looks like they’ve seen an iPhone

What does that mean?