"As an European, all I can say is [...]". Not "As I officially represent all Europeans and their opinions on this topic [...]".

Of course, and there is quite a lot of good science coming out of Europe. I really should ignore blowhards.

What do you think what kind of mindset brought such things as your computer (or the software it runs) to life in the first place ? Oh, the site is called Hacker News, by the way :D

Well, I'm not much of an intellectual either, but if there were sufficient amounts of free whiskey, cigars and monocles, it still could be worth a try...

One could use a shell alias, a function or something similar for that.

alias sl='sl;ls'