Researcher question – what's the point of semicolons and curly braces?

[Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d]

On 05/04/2016 03:38 PM, Joakim wrote:
> On Wednesday, 4 May 2016 at 15:46:13 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> Anti-female systems in place? Bull fucking shit. Anyone who claims
>> there are: put up REAL fucking examples instead of parroting vacuous
>> rhetoric or shut the fuck up forever.
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> Well, there's the Obama White House:
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> https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/male-female-pay-gap-remains-entrenched-at-white-house/2014/07/01/dbc6c088-0155-11e4-8fd0-3a663dfa68ac_story.html
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> Don't forget Hillary's Senate staff:
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> http://www.ijreview.com/2015/02/257200-hillary-clinton-paid-female-staff-28-percent-less-men/
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> If those paragons of virtue are underpaying their female staffers,
> imagine how much worse it is elsewhere? ;) Of course I'm joking, since
> you missed deadalnix's sarcasm.
>

I meant specifically in tech fields, esp. programming. Naturally, I'm 
not surprised that sort of thing happens in DC.