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<div><br></div><div>> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 13px">It may have been, but it was _not my question_.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 13px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 13px">Oh, it sure was. You quoted something from Twitter added something like "Is he right?". That's definitely low effort. ;-)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 13px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 13px">> [...]</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 13px"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 13px">the </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 13px">shortness of posts mandates being terse and that tends to mean clear, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 13px">quick, succinct [...]</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 13px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 13px">Ha! If anything, promotes laziness. Writing clear, concise, and correct thoughts takes a lot of effort. With more text, there is at least some chance that not-so-good writes may express themselves somehow. Without that, what's left is often superficial rant because there are not so many good writers out there. Just my two cents. :-)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 13px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 13px">> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 13px">I don't know if you saw my talk, or read the script, or anything. If</span></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 13px">> not, you might find it interesting, and then you would understand my</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 13px"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 13px">> position.</span><div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 13px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 13px">I will do that. Thanks for sharing. :-)</span></div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Marcel</div><blockquote class="history_container" type="cite" style="border-left-style: solid;border-width: 1px;margin-top: 20px;margin-left: 0px;padding-left: 10px;min-width: 500px">
<p style="color: #AAAAAA; margin-top: 10px;">Am 16.03.2021 14:52:59 schrieb Liam Proven <lproven@gmail.com>:</p><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Tue, 16 Mar 2021 at 14:47, Marcel Taeumel <marcel.taeumel@hpi.de> wrote:<br>><br>> Hi Liam.<br>><br>> I am happy to read that there is actual interest behind your initial question, which -- to be honest -- looked rather provocative to me. ;-) Sorry, if my previous answer did irritate you in some way.<br><br>It may have been, but it was _not my question_.<br>><br>> Well, countering a fundamentally negative attitude is in my experience not worth the effort if the topic-under-discussion may not even be relevant at all. Especially that thing about "malware" hints at a rather negative disposition toward people in general.<br><br>Yes and no. Up to a point I find Twitter useful for this: the<br>shortness of posts mandates being terse and that tends to mean clear,<br>quick, succinct. It prevents people from going on and on like a<br>politician facing a difficult question.<br><br>> Yet, I am always happy to answer open-minded questions about Squeak and its concepts.<br><br>I don't know if you saw my talk, or read the script, or anything. If<br>not, you might find it interesting, and then you would understand my<br>position.<br>The video is here: https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/new_type_of_computer/<br>Transcript, slides, etc: https://liam-on-linux.livejournal.com/77065.html<br><br>I am very much more on this side:<br><br>> Or are you more interested in "augmenting human intellect" (see Douglas Engelbart) through a computational system? :-)<br><br>-- <br>Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven<br>Email: lproven@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lproven@gmail.com<br>Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn/Flickr: lproven – Skype: liamproven<br>UK: +44 7939-087884 – ČR (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053<br><br></marcel.taeumel@hpi.de></div></blockquote></div>