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by baumbart 9y ago
Imagine an artificial intelligence (surgery robot) making this decision.
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by baumbart 9y ago
That's a good question. Interestingly not! For one part I think that drinking (modest) amounts of alcohol is not as bad for your health as smoking. I would avoid people who love binge-drinking though, for the same reasons as above. Als
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by baumbart 9y ago
I would never want to become a business partner with someone who is smoking cigarettes. Why? For me it indicates a lack of intelligence, not being good at dealing with stress and bad long-term thinking. When smoking cigarettes you are payin
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by baumbart 9y ago
Thanks, makes sense!
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by baumbart 9y ago
Could someone explain to me how Golang would compare to Rust for this purpose? I'm a Golang newbie and I always wondered if it would be possible to write an OS in it (+ some assembly).
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by baumbart 9y ago
As humans we are evolved to have more compassion the more similar a being is to us, and less compassion the more different it is from ourselves. Human ethics is often selfish (pun not intended) in the sense that it is based on what feels ba
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by baumbart 11y ago
This is awesome, thanks =)
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by baumbart 11y ago
Yeah how are they solving the tor outproxy problem? You are essentially letting another user use your IP to access websites, which holds a lot of room for abuse.
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by baumbart 11y ago
Hi, I am gladful that I stumbled across this question. I am not going to tell you a sorry. The essence of my answer first: You can heal yourself. The body follows the mind. First there is reality in your head, and then in the physical wor
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by baumbart 12y ago
Linux does not have lost its way. It has truly followed its way, and that's what you got. It was always clear (at least for me and many other people), that if you don't design a system but put it together step by step, you will en
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by baumbart 12y ago
Nice article! One of the authors points was that people are not effected in their daily life through privacy problems (or at least that's what I read between the lines during that "dead bodies" metaphor). So here's my id
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by baumbart 12y ago
For me, the language of a project has a large impact on whether I would consider contributing to it or not. When I dislike the language, I'll usually not want to be involved with the project, but just watch it growing. Thus, it makes a
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Conception – An experimental modern IDE written in Go(github.com)
215 points by baumbart 12y ago|78 comments
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by baumbart 12y ago
No. Bitmessage is essentially a decentralized version of alt.anonymous.messages.
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by baumbart 12y ago
https://bitmessage.org/
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by baumbart 12y ago
First reaction: Jeez. Not this shit again. Second reaction: Whatever works. There are too many ideas for one problem to find and establish "the best". This is definitely not elegant, but let's see what it gets.
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by baumbart 12y ago
Well for me, Email is already dead. Of course, dead software still exists, for information can not be destroyed. But, there will be more surveillance. There will be more counter-surveillance tools becoming popular. But Email will not stay o
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by baumbart 12y ago
Note that you can use Nix packages in Guix. They are compatible.
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by baumbart 12y ago
I have used both NixOS and Guix and can say that I definitely prefer Guix. Internally, the package manager is really the same. On the interface side, Nix uses its own functional programming language, while Guix uses Scheme which I am used t
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by baumbart 12y ago
Oh dear. Not this shit again. The discussion is always the same. Windows vs. Linux. Or maybe a Mac? C'mon, just use what you like and leave us kids alone.
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by baumbart 12y ago
Leave Emacs? Never, ever. A fool who thinks he could beat the power of Lisp! :P
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by baumbart 12y ago
"I see the future of "resource coins" as being efficient mechanisms for p2p resource distribution." -- Agree. This is totally valid and can definitely work; it's kind of a special purpose currency or intermediate cu
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by baumbart 12y ago
I think this kind of belongs to the MysticalProgramming corner ( http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?MysticalProgramming ).
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by baumbart 12y ago
Ok, I see some similarities to other projects here. Let's introduce one additional layer of abstraction that we call "resources-coin". Disk space is not the only limited resource that can be shared using an economic system; C
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The OFF System(offsystem.sourceforge.net)
1 points by baumbart 12y ago|0 comments
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by baumbart 12y ago
Well thats an interesting question. Among the best is certainly "How to design Programs", http://htdp.org/ It's about Scheme. It does a better job than SICP I think, even though it still needs some endurance
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by baumbart 12y ago
So, the first thing you have to think about is: What is a programming language? Or better, what is the purpose of a programming language? PLs give the programmer a way to express their idea in such a form the computer can understand. Here a
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by baumbart 12y ago
Could maybe someone explain to me: What exactly is wrong with Adblock Edge + Ghostery? If not, why do they make another similar extension then? There is no actual manual configuration needed, they don't use me for their business model