So to summarise, from what I can gather by browsing the various links, it is essentially the web but with a built in payment system for document publishers, and mechanisms for publishing new documents using sections of existing documents. What did I miss?
He was the first author I read where I couldn't get away with my typical habit at-the-time of skimming the boring bits, rather than paying close attention to the text, and which was interesting enough to warrant reading more carefully. A great writer. I'll have to pick up what I missed of his work.
If that applied, then major changes to the structure of the European Union such as Maastricht or the Lisbon treaty should also have required the >50% vote.
The impact of the body that created the moon is meant to have taken place in the early Hadean, long before the Earths surface cooled enough to support life.
The point being, I assume, that as a left-wing person they would be more sensitive to right-wing lies, so that they would get a more accurate model of the world through right-wing media.
Personally, it is better to have functions small enough that they fit on a handful of lines, and the if-else structure makes it obvious that you are doing one or another thing, rather than having separate if structures at the top of the function that may-or-may-not exit before you reach the main body of the function.
Not really, but it has enough memorable scenes and ideas that you will want to read it again in a few years, and you will then get a lot more out of it, assuming you are anything like myself.
I doubt normal people even used RSS directly during its heyday. Even so, all sites that regularly publish content still seem to have RSS, and very useful it is too.