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> I am and forever will be a fan of the scheme (and now clojure) convention of saying foo->bar to say foo to bar. I just think that's swell.

In his book—Lisp in Small Pieces—Christian Quienec suggests using a reversed arrow (ie. bar<-foo) so the direction of the arrow agrees with the evaluation order in a function composition. eg. (foo<-bar (bar<-foo ...)), which would have otherwise been (bar->foo (foo->bar ...)).

It's called Lindy Effect. It is applicable to some non-perishable things, where mortality rate decreases with time.

SICP language in racket lacks 1+ and -1+ (increment and decrement), last I checked. So it does still need some modification.

Cash payments can already be done anonymously.

It's called prettify-symbols-mode: http://www.modernemacs.com/post/prettify-mode/

Sometimes, people (at least in northern parts of India) tend to use the word as a synonym for "last name" in common parlance. It can be used without an intention to discriminate (though the consequences depend on the context, since you can figure out the community from a last name in most cases).

Was the interviewee of Indian origin? Unless you are of Indian origin, it's not applicable to you.

If the interviewee was of Indian origin, and she didn't already know the interviewee's last name, I would probably give her the benefit of doubt, and ask to clarify what she meant.

I think the bulls plough the fields (which are not that holy).

Have you tried Jabber with Conversations or Pix-Art android app? It has end to end encryption (OMEMO), support for sharing media, voice and video calling, multitude of desktop clients, (a less secure) web client etc.

Most importantly, you can host the server yourself without cutting off from the network.