another-one-off

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by another-one-off 7y ago
What looks bad about the ClojureScript example? I'm obviously a bit slow, but I can't see any practical difference between the two. I do prefer the ClojureScript because I don't know how to type "λ" and that seems l
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by another-one-off 7y ago
Is any bias towards one gender doing better in the workplace acceptable? If men and women perform equally and we balance outcomes as is a stated goal in many circles, how could a male full-fill their traditional gender norm as a provider? T
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by another-one-off 7y ago
Imagine the mucky world of politics; somebody is advocating or willing to consider almost any crazy idea. So any state of law is usually a balance between forces that want to move regulation in some new direction. If the pro-liberty forces
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by another-one-off 7y ago
I'm struggling to think of any aspects of masculinity that I could safely class as 'healthy' in the current climate. For example, traditionally the view that males should be providers for the family would have been considered
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by another-one-off 7y ago
Guessing: Got to have a system that is resistant to single points of failure and where the costs of knocking out a communication node is high relative to the benefits the government gets. A website is quite centralised.
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by another-one-off 7y ago
I fully support the teachers doing this, but the response by employers is more likely to be to lower the workload than anything else. The only effective (read: doesn't cost anything to execute) strategy employers have to calibrate how
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by another-one-off 7y ago
> You can redeploy the code scheme independently of the data scheme and set up permissions so that higher layers can only use objects from the code scheme and never touch the data. That all just sounds a touch complicated compared to dat
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by another-one-off 7y ago
All sorts of things are possible but it misses a fantastic opportunity to compartmentalise the data away from the implementation. If it doesn't make sense to compartmentalise data and logic, why compartmentalise anywhere? Do the whole
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by another-one-off 7y ago
I can't quite interpret what you are saying; so I'll say what I hope you are saying: If the x86 and x86_64 instruction sets became an open standard so that anyone could implement them; that would be great for consumers. If Intel i
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by another-one-off 7y ago
> the pieces' powers [don't] mutate [in a Go game] That comment in particular suggests to me that you havn't spent a lot of time playing Go. The pieces' powers mutate quite spectacularly as the situation around them c
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by another-one-off 7y ago
The classic issue here is the lack of evidence could mean it didn't happen or that that the evidence is expertly hidden. However the American spy network is large, well provisioned, has no compunction about spying on Russians and was c
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by another-one-off 8y ago
> Would you consider them trusthworthy in court, where lives are at stake? Probably. Human intelligence is extremely fallible - based on the statistics the only reason we trust humans to do half the stuff they do is because there is lite
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by another-one-off 8y ago
Being bombarded in a trench for days and still being partially functional as a soldier is pretty much the gold standard for courage. Nevertheless 'water behind a dam you call on [with different sizes for different people]' is a ve
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by another-one-off 8y ago
Cheerful concurrence. It is worth remembering that most of history and indeed the present can be described in very bleak terms given a little bit of effort. Humans have good reason to fear the future. The future is very scary. However, the
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by another-one-off 8y ago
Rich Hickey stands for good design. That means saying "no" to a lot if ideas that are good, but not part of the vision, and it means not running experiments on your users in the main releases. Whether he reaches that ideal, I dunn
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by another-one-off 8y ago
> You also can't expect exployees to stand up to a corporation because they may need the job desperately. If an employee thinks their job security is more important than the human rights of the population of China then I personally
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by another-one-off 8y ago
The people who run water systems, food distribution networks, defense systems and similar should be people who would reasonably accept that their responsibility to the system comes before [insert issue]. Every possible opinion is represente
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by another-one-off 8y ago
In semi-rare cases, majorities organise against minorities. If that happens and the majority gets access to the data stored in something like Facebook's databases, it will be catastrophic. We can't say what minority it will be eit
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by another-one-off 8y ago
Also fairly critically; a mathematician can go from assuming that one exists as a concept to multiple ordinals of infinity with about 20 minutes of scribbling. The fact that 64 bit is a modern standard doesn't exclude the fact that R c
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by another-one-off 8y ago
There is something interesting to be said about Bitcoin's ability to expose and correct market distortions so neatly. I personally quite like the idea of a quota system for access to cheap, local power. It is interesting however to ima
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by another-one-off 8y ago
That is mischaracterising what I said in a very specific way. Humans are different from animals - not in some intrinsic way, but because you and I are humans and our success is more important than some animal's success. I'm saying
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by another-one-off 8y ago
> that unbalancing them disturbs our interests I've talked to farmers on trains, I've lived in cities, I've worked in mines. This doesn't reflect my experiences, we have shredded the natural environment to our benefit
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by another-one-off 8y ago
Why do you think we mine things? Do you imagine the 1% have basements full of oil that they swim in and laugh about? We don't stockpile this stuff, we use it. :) These resources are for people to live their lives in comfort. I know a w
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by another-one-off 8y ago
Pretty much any mine? I've seen proposed mines get shut down by that sort of environmental activism. Bar a bit of recycling, everything that is metal or stone and most of our energy comes from some sort of mining activity. The cheaper
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by another-one-off 8y ago
I'm going to live a little dangerously here, partly because I have a job in mining, partly because of who I am. I don't have the foggiest idea why it is important to protect endangered species in and of itself, and I don't th
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by another-one-off 8y ago
The Broken Hill Proprietary Company, BHP, comes from Broken Hill, Australia. It is one of the largest mining companies in the world. Now what is interesting about Broken Hill is I have it on reasonable authority that the area as a whole has
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by another-one-off 8y ago
The point of consent is that it isn't your (or Dropbox's) opinion on what constitutes harm that matters. It is the person who gives consent.
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by another-one-off 8y ago
> That said, it doesn’t break anything important No, they clearly damaged something important - the uniqueness of each issue number. If the issue number identifying a specific issue is not important, why have an issue number? They may as
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by another-one-off 8y ago
So, always attack? But if we don't know that the other army is in position, and if Eve burns every message, then the problem is clearly unsolvable.
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by another-one-off 8y ago
> Except there's a lot more going on here and a lot more at stake. Beliefs about [...] why bad things happen to good people, can dramatically affect policy decisions and what a given culture considers acceptable. Someone feeling goo

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