https://jollycontrarian.com/index.php?title=Daniel_Susskind&feed=atom&action=historyDaniel Susskind - Revision history2024-03-28T12:29:21ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.39.3https://jollycontrarian.com/index.php?title=Daniel_Susskind&diff=50033&oldid=prevAmwelladmin at 19:59, 12 December 20202020-12-12T19:59:45Z<p></p>
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</table>Amwelladminhttps://jollycontrarian.com/index.php?title=Daniel_Susskind&diff=43961&oldid=prevAmwelladmin at 16:20, 21 April 20202020-04-21T16:20:27Z<p></p>
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</table>Amwelladminhttps://jollycontrarian.com/index.php?title=Daniel_Susskind&diff=42620&oldid=prevAmwelladmin at 08:57, 1 April 20202020-04-01T08:57:39Z<p></p>
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</table>Amwelladminhttps://jollycontrarian.com/index.php?title=Daniel_Susskind&diff=41103&oldid=prevAmwelladmin at 14:57, 10 March 20202020-03-10T14:57:37Z<p></p>
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<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Doubtless this all makes his dad — very much of the same intellectual stripe — proud: it is an interesting validation for the theory that ideas involve by infecting host minds and regenerating through some kind of Lamarckian [[evolution]]<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, for there </ins>seem to be only two people on the planet prepared to make <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">such strident </ins>arguments to this effect — okay, three, if you count legal technology futurologist <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">''</ins>Jamie<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'' </ins>Susskind <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">who</ins>, by another remarkable coincidence spent <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">his </ins>childhood being dandled on the very same knee <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">as Daniel — and</ins>, if that has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that they happen to be father and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">sons</ins>, would be quite the improbable coincidence<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.</ins></div></td></tr>
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