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by euccastro 8y ago
OTOH, it's fortunate that the people that like those things get one obvious place to meet.
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by euccastro 8y ago
Besides the JVM part, this is my take on it: as a language, Racket defines a vast possibility space, which is a superset of that defined with Clojure. You could implement Clojure (barring the JVM) quite naturally in Racket, while the other
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by euccastro 8y ago
And sometimes I can do fine with no wrapper at all. Not only there's a lot of JVM code available, but interfacing with it is pretty quick, straightforward and smooth compared to wrapping C (or, god forbid, C++) from any Scheme I tried.
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by euccastro 8y ago
Nah, you'll be fine.
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by euccastro 8y ago
If you're interested into digging deeper, this just came out: https://purelyfunctional.tv/guide/clojure-collections/
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by euccastro 9y ago
Echoing back the verb is a common way to reply affirmatively in Portuguese and (traditional) Galician. I hear that was common in Latin too. For some old Galician people, replying "yes" to a question is comprehensible but a mark
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by euccastro 9y ago
https://twitter.com/Juanmi_News/status/898599542001733633
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by euccastro 9y ago
http://www.eldiario.es/catalunya/barcelona/comunidad-musulma...
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by euccastro 9y ago
Alternate title if we're going to point fingers: "Tom's Hardware Italy editor killed in terrorist act claimed by organization created, funded and armed by the US and some of its puppet states." I think it's more acc
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by euccastro 9y ago
I remember no big changes, nor any breaking changes, from Python 1.5.2 to Python 2. The major version bump was mostly a marketing move. At that time, a 1.x.y version number didn't look mature enough for some companies.
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by euccastro 10y ago
Hasta siempre comandante! <3 <3 <3
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by euccastro 10y ago
Yeah, why not? (Holy f* s*)
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by euccastro 11y ago
Maybe "bank-issued" currency is more accurate for the more traditional kind?
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by euccastro 11y ago
So apparently they really did close Sirkus[1], but they didn't tear down the house and build anything in its place? [1] :´(
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by euccastro 11y ago
Could you elaborate on Varoufakis' confrontational manners? I think you may be misattributing to Varoufakis some moves by other actors in the Greek government. As for high stakes... well, the stakes for someone coming into the finance
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by euccastro 11y ago
I don't suppose you mean that discussion is futile because our sources are tainted? In this case Varoufakis is saying pretty much the same he used to years before he had any political responsibility.
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by euccastro 11y ago
FWIW, @barbijaputa is a contraction for "Barbie hija puta", which would be literally translated as "Barbie, daughter of a whore", although it's best understood as "Barbie the bastard". See her profile pic
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by euccastro 11y ago
It's not like they're having a lot of trouble pushing around Spain either...
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by euccastro 11y ago
A non-difference is that most of those loans went to service old loans anyway. And the main reason Greece can't get loans on the markets is because its current debt is obviously unsustainable and its position as a deficit country in a
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by euccastro 11y ago
I'm not disagreeing categorically, but I don't think it's that one-sided. I was (i) considering the cascading effect of a Greek exit from the Euro, and (ii) thinking in relative terms: I'm not arguing that Germany will b
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by euccastro 11y ago
Re: the French position wrt the Euro, you'd be surprised: http://yanisvaroufakis.eu/2014/12/26/6265/
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by euccastro 11y ago
Don't be so sure.
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by euccastro 11y ago
Economic policy is not designed for the benefit of "most Germans". I can assure you that life became much better for "some Germans" in the years since the Deutsche Mark, as cheap labor from Eastern Europe drove costs do
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by euccastro 11y ago
OK. It's just as clear that Greece will not be able to indefinitely refinance its debt. As in, debt will perpetually grow beyond GDP. I don't think this is even controversial. The US is an anomaly in that it has had the printin
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by euccastro 11y ago
If you read up on IMF's track record, esp. in Latin America, you could be excused to roll your eyes approximately as hard with both versions. I understand that Wikipedia accepts the first definition because it's an official missi
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by euccastro 11y ago
Euro exit is the nuclear option that Germany wants to keep in order to maintain its hegemony within the Eurozone, but never wants to exercise. The Euro served nobody better than Germany. The day Germany starts facing competitive devaluati
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by euccastro 11y ago
The day after Greece gets out the EU will have more and bigger problems than the day before.
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by euccastro 11y ago
No, German banks that made foolish investments should have taken the losses, so the German people wouldn't have to bail them out by proxy.
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by euccastro 11y ago
There is also an economic dimension: (a) and (b) are just impossible. There's no way Greece's debt can ever be repaid in full. All along, this farce has been about bailing out the foolish investments of private creditors (mainly
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by euccastro 11y ago
Future contracts depend more on the position of a country than on its payment history. Consider Ecuador. It has better ratings and access to credit after it pursued aggressive debt haircuts.

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