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Sadly, your examples seem to suggest the opposite. The condensing of phrases makes the language more opaque and difficult to learn. So to a versed English speaker, the dropped implied words are easy to fill in; for someone learning, it's requires significant processing.

What state would that be?

When I purchased my Paperwhite, it was in small part due to the frustration that came with variable font sizes from different books. Giving up the high quality lettering so that I can read without losing my line has made the act so much more enjoyable. Now if only they supported some form of quick stylus based highlighting (and easy on device access).

"The Golden Age of Fiction is Twelve"

Possibly Peter Graham, looks like that's to whom Hartwell attributes it too.: https://books.google.com/books?id=uYs2NbD-d4oC&pg=PA81&lpg=P...

When I want to ensure strict immutability, I use an implementation of deepFreeze (https://github.com/jsdf/deep-freeze) that recursively calls Object.freeze() on all child properties. Obviously slower than strict browser support. Does ClojureScript rely on the Clojure compiler to ensure the properties aren't modified or is there some polyfill?

I was under the impression that ad fraud was more seen as how those sites put 6 iframe windows of ads one on top of another so while they were all loaded and "seen" by visiter, only one of them was visible. The main thrust of ad fraud was "this ad cannot possibly be seen by a consumer". As with all things, some may pervert the definition for gain but on the whole: you'd call it fraud if you paid for a billboard and the company put up your ad but then plastered somebody else's ad on top of it.

> I know we're talking about checking accounts. That was tried too -- it was called Washington Mutual,

Is there evidence to suggest the "free checking account no questions asked" was large portion of it being one of the "Biggest Bank crash in U.S. history". It looks like Washington Mutual crashed for the same reason the others did: it had all this loans out on people who couldn't pay them. Not because it offered checking/savings accounts to underprivileged. It's weird you reference the 2008 collapse then fail to mention that being the exact time when WaMu crashed.

> should not be based only on whether a p-value passes a specific threshold.

It seems as though you'd missed the "only" in the clause. Further, they say nothing w.r.t. "does not pass" (aka: not hitting minimum threshold). Both your complaint and their point are orthogonal.