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by gammafactor 11y ago
Racket is not Common Lisp which is what Roswell is built for, so why bring it up here? I've used Racket ever since it was called PLT Scheme but I've moved on to Common Lisp for the past 5 years, once I realized that there is basic
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by gammafactor 11y ago
I'm chinese and was mostly referring to my country. I know there are places like Japan and maybe as you said India where this does not apply. EDIT: It's also funny that you mentioned the spiritual angle. I've studied Advaita
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by gammafactor 11y ago
Don't assume things about me (this is another tendency that "people" have :-) From an early age, I found contemporary "people" uninteresting to extremely dull. I had to force myself to socialize with them in order n
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by gammafactor 11y ago
I'm chinese and was using primitive in an evolutionary sense. Wrong choice of word, I agree with you.
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by gammafactor 11y ago
Amazing piece of logic here, "you came out of people -> you depend on people" and "you must like people" is implied. I hate that I have to depend on people. I find them unreliable at best. Which is why a lot of us are
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by gammafactor 11y ago
I'm sorry but this is garbage in my view. We need to use the time we have in order to do the things that are important to us , not to enrich "others" whoever they may be. This obsession about society and socializing and foll
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by gammafactor 11y ago
I never understood this stigma about hermits/social isolation in western societies. In the east, it's much more accepted. Reading this piece I got the impression that the writer and persons interviewed were HORRIFIED by what they
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by gammafactor 11y ago
Well odds are there exists something relevant, but it probably falls under "quantum mysticism" or other such quackery (e.g. transcendental meditation has actual scientists backing it but you gotta pay 1000$ for the privilege and i
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by gammafactor 11y ago
The idea here (that one gradually slips into with meditation or other mystical systems) is that there is no "You". Happy, sad, You, other people, all these "things" don't really exist, they're all illusions, mi
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by gammafactor 11y ago
If it's peace you want, you really should look into Advaita Vedanta. Happiness/sadness is but another duality. There is no peace in duality. Once you understand (as you seem to) that one can find no lasting peace in ephemeral thin
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by gammafactor 11y ago
Unfortunately, modern smalltalk environments (pharo, squeak) are terrible compared to modern Common Lisp implementations. The libraries are not there, monticello doesn't even support HTTPS last I checked, nevermind cryptographic signat
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by gammafactor 11y ago
Unfortunately, and this goes for pretty much every UNIX out there with hardened (grsec) linux as possible exception, not just OSX, once someone has a local user on your machine, it's trivial to get root. On OSX, you don't even nee
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by gammafactor 11y ago
What problem does this solve exactly? (As others have mentioned), it's closed source, so who is going to trust it with personal data? I'd much rather trust bittorrent sync than this but this point is really irrelevant. This isn&#x