My experience with document interchange led me to classify document formats using the essential distinction that some are "programmable" and some are not. [..]
The reason that this distinction is essential with respect to document interchange is that extracting information from documents in "programmable" document formats is equivalent to the halting problem. That is, it is arbitrarily difficult and cannot be automated in a general fashion.
For example, I conjecture that it is impossible to write a program that will extract the third word from a TeX document.
Computer Science in the 1960s to 80s spent a lot of effort making languages which were as powerful as possible. Nowadays we have to appreciate the reasons for picking not the most powerful solution but the least powerful. The reason for this is that the less powerful the language, the more you can do with the data stored in that language. If you write it in a simple declarative from, anyone can write a program to analyze it in many ways. The Semantic Web is an attempt, largely, to map large quantities of existing data onto a common language so that the data can be analyzed in ways never dreamed of by its creators.
"Unsere intuitive Moral - selbsttäuschend, nepotistisch, sippenbetont, anthropozentrisch und an Strafen orientiert - lässt sich nicht mit irgendeiner konsistenten Menge moralischer Werte in Einklang bringen, seien diese nun aristotelisch, kantianisch oder utilaristisch." - Geoffrey Miller, Das Kontinuum von Persönlichkeit und Wahnsinn, S.315
"I’m not a moralist. I’m a pragmatist operating at a level of long-term vision and ruthlessness that is difficult for most people to wrap their minds around (and perhaps impossible for you). I don’t give a shit about “right thought” as long as I can elicit the behaviors I want, and I believe “right thought” usually follows changes in behavior as a rationalization rather than causally preceding them." - Eric S. Raymond, comment to own article
Von der Leyens Zusatzrenten-Modell helfe nicht als Mittel gegen Altersarmut, sagt Sozialforscher Butterwegge gegenüber tagesschau.de: "Das ist reine Augenwischerei." Nur eine ganz kleine Gruppe Menschen würde damit überhaupt erreicht werden. Und mit Demografie habe das Rentenproblem gar nichts zu tun.
There a 4 generations working side by side right now. That has never happened before at any time in human history. None of them are stepping aside for the current generation.