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COBOL doesn't have a default date/time type
As such implementation decisions are left to the implementor
The implementors* of the SS system chose 1875 as the epoch date for reasons
*I made a lot of money in 1999. The original implementors of SS probably used something else ("it'll be rewritten before this is a problem" was essentially the whole raison de etre of Y2K). The 1875 thing, if it's a thing, was probably the result of Y2K work. But I have no direct knowledge of these matters.
There's something beautiful here and you honestly couldn't make it up.
Roll the related data up into materialized views for read performance.
I think what you're going for is a species of monism maybe? The idea that Thought and Extension are attributes of one Substance?
A choice decision then Birds have clipped wings Ten pound, checkbook, and a pen Wahl razor and, well, other things
cf. STEP 3 "Do it twice."
I'd add a note to say some more or whisper Latin at the door but I have promises to keep and Myles to go before I sleep...
Presumably the King (or Crown, it makes no odds) once owned all the swans in Ireland too. Then one day didn't. Now those swans are free swans living in an actual, honest to God, Republic. Technically the ones in the North are still his but their ownership status is disputed. The swans that fly back and forth I'm not sure what to do about, post Brexit arrangements being shoddy at best.
All this talk of ownership seems to confuse power with right, right with tradition, tradition with law, law with power.
And power grows from the barrel of a gun.
Give 'em five hot minutes...
The problem isn't how the business solves software. It's how software dissolves the business.
Fagamid suid mar a te se
Not my field of study or existence, but what happened in a bare hundred years to make public execution private, and prisons into factories into schools?
It's a great book, you should read it.
The Republic (Plato)
How do you get someone to listen to you? (first answer: threaten them with violence). "Footnotes to" etc.