I know you’re only half joking. In practice many, perhaps most of my DDG queries do end in !w - but there’s a wealth of information that is relevant, interesting, and useful, but wouldn’t be considered encyclopaedic, or that is merely summarised in Wikipedia; in addition, their references are included as supporting citations, very far from a comprehensive index of currently accessible information.
I get the feeling you're reading this too literally. I think eyelidlessness is talking about using a technique that is analogous or similar to that of a virtual DOM. Nobody is talking about an actual DOM.
Maybe not in a traditional sense, but certainly there are strong social pressures to eat similar things to those around you. Advertising can strongly affect your food choices. Smoking is also not contagious in the sense that it doesn’t immediately give you cancer: it takes years, often decades. Yet we’ve decided to outlaw it in many public places.
Ultimately decisions about diet are made by yourself and affect nobody else (unless maybe you're feeding dependents). Smoking is prohibited in public areas for the same reason that businesses are shuttered now; it subjects others who do not have a choice to a situation that is quite frankly dangerous.
It was founded by Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis (Danish) in equal measure. The software was based on Janus Friis' earlier work (the Kazaa p2p network). It was developed by an outsourced team in Estonia.
Yeah. You are right about that. So I am not ruling out the possibility that someone who mispronounces the word was the author.
Still the odds are low, considering this is a common phrase and he/she has likely made similar mistakes before (zh -> z) and taken some corrective actions to prevent future typos.
