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weeznerpson Steve Jobs vs. Knuth

This really is just folklore, see this recent thread and Knuth himself on this story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18698651 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmbGs290qeM&feature=youtu.be

weeznerpson Woman offers WaPo false tale about Roy Moore in effort to discredit the paper

I can definitely imagine it as a Coen brothers directed comedy

weeznerpson Norway's Progress Party calls for ban on circumcision for boys

south korea has high rates of circumcision in adulthood, so relevant data (people who would know the difference between how it feels to be circumcised vs uncircumcised) exists

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/MG_Pang/publication/664...