I'm also a vimwiki fan. Used to use emacs just for org mode but didn't find the extra effort worthwhile for the returns. I haven't used calendar.vim ... I will tomorrow, thanks!

I have a MBP Mid 2014; it has always had a freeze problem. During 2016 probably twice a week. Drove me nuts. I forget the 2015 rate. The second half of this year, approx, has been really good to the point that I'd forgotten about freezes until a recent "your computer restarted 'cos it had a problem".

Wow. Way to completely miss all of context for the dressing.

I’m a white, late 20’s woman and I still have found an inability to ignore K.Dot’s wisdom through the medium. His lyricism and presentation is unparalleled in modern mainstream music.

I imagine you’re not a fan of Kubrick, either, because he makes his points with brutal violence?

Seeing past the medium into the message is the quintessential hallmark of being a true, educated critic.

Otherwise you’re just commenting on your taste, which is fine, but contributes nothing to the conversation.

Well, I'm honoured to be in the presence of "a true, educated critic". Late twenties, so I can see how you consider yourself to be an expert on wisdom too. Alas, being considerably older I only see old hat (as suggested in the comment, but you didn't seem to manage to pick up on, despite your quintessential hallmarks). Damned eyes. I see that "K.Dot" is not much older than you (I assume "K.Dot" is the intellectual's name for Kendrick Lamar). Anyway, I'll let you get back to your yourself.

Conservator.

Well... if you read up to that point you would also have read "is the key to the future for both children and adults alike" - and you've only addressed the kids bit. I think the silly craze has died down a bit in the UK, but a few years ago we were subjected to such excitement as the news highlighting activities like c level execs doing coding classes in their lunchbreaks - 10 o'clock news?! This may have been about the same time as the BBC microbit was produced - I've heard nothing of that recently either. Easiest way to confirm it was a silly craze is to watch peak daft hysteria disappear into the distance.

The idea of making some degree of programming universal in the school curriculum both predates and will outlast the craze you're talking about. I don't know about the Trump plan, but Obama proposed spending hundreds of millions of dollars changing the way hundreds of millions of elementary to high school aged kids are taught. If such a program is carried out, the effects and the costs will be felt over decades.

c level execs doing coding classes in their lunchbreaks

This just doesn't sound weird to me at all. CTOs read about marketing and finance; pharma CFOs read about biochemistry. Execs spend an afternoon working in the call center or learning to operate a jackhammer to prove they're regular guys. It's what you get when you mix ambition, personal curiosity, image awareness, and having the authority to make stuff like that happen. In that context it's not as significant as the 10 o'clock news might make it sound.

I did learned about loosely related to my job topics or on the news topics over lunch breaks and evenings. I am programmer, but I did read up on management, accounting, physics, art, biology, finance, children, history etc. I dont think any of that was silly.

For many people, the idea that they could do learn some programming was new and they were curios just as I was about the above. Pretty much any temporary hobby people tend to do is like that - something wakes up curiosity and ambition. Network effect is usually smaller, it is just one company or office doing the thing, but when it is in the news a lot of them gonna do it at the same time.

Italy is also pushing forward with a 6% revenue tax on Amazon and similar.

On the contrary, the opportunity to access the UK market has much enthusiasm.

> On the contrary, the opportunity to access the UK market has much enthusiasm.

You're implying that's some kind of great news. I'd say, real estate investors have lots of enthusiasm for sellers threatened with foreclosure. You can frame it as positively as you want but at the end of the day the UK's position at the negotiation table is simply weaker, and it's no surprise everyone suddenly wants to talk.

They(US, Japan, China) would like a deal with the UK because it would be easier for them to obtain more preferential terms than if they were negotiating with the EU. The EU is a much bigger market than the UK alone, Australia which made some noises about a free trade deal with the UK don't want to actually make a deal, or even discuss it, until they have their EU deal sewn up. The reality is we lost a lot of negotiating power through brexit and put ourselves in a position where we need trade deals and all our trading partners know that we need those deals. It's a poor position from which to negotiate.

It certainly does. A country reeling in economic shock, suddenly cut off from the free trade it enjoyed with 300 million other people? They will take trade deals that previously they wouldn't have given the time of day to.

Thats a bit hyperbolic. It's not like trade with the EU will suddenly stop. Worst case will be WTO tariffs , most of which will already be offset by the fall in the pound.

Yeah, but definitely not if you're importing into UK.

In particular, the prospect of access to the UK market on China/US/Japan's terms is cause for much enthusiasm.

It was the lack of basic keybindings that resulted in me never getting going with it. Everytime I wanted to do "trivial thing" I was expected to write a script. Too much yak shaving.

Meteorites.

Edit: Dang, and yea we also the sun and cosmic rays increasing the earth's mass. Radioactive decay also decreases the mass.

So are we getting fatter or slimmer? By a quick Google survey it depends which estimates one trusts, but probably losing a bit.