iamatologist

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by iamatologist 6y ago
This factoid keeps getting discovered in the comment sections on the Internet. I guess the Scandinavian centre-right think tanks have got some reach. They are also quite pleased with how supposedly socialist America already is. It seems a
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by iamatologist 6y ago
Freedom in this context always effectively means the freedom to make a profit. Are people getting addicted? Well who are you to infringe on the tobacco industry’s right to make a buck? But after all the cigarette butts we don’t make a f
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by iamatologist 6y ago
Billionaires would absolutely not pay a lot in sales taxes, you are correct. Especially the sweatervest billionaires who are almost conspiciously frugal (at least in public). And even the ones who flaunt their wealth won’t buy one yacht f
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by iamatologist 6y ago
I don’t understand why individuals make posts about grand topics like overhauling a whole tax system. It’s not like anyone is going to listen to them. In any case. It seems to me that tax systems are complex (if they are) because you can
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by iamatologist 6y ago
Fair enough.
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by iamatologist 6y ago
Does an application need to prove it can do what it claims to do before it can be ported to OpenBSD? Seems like a high bar. :-)
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by iamatologist 6y ago
The thread topic is now: top the linked email’s exaggeration and make a programming language’s community sound even more like a revolutionary force. Go!
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by iamatologist 6y ago
Sebastien Marie wanted to make Zig work on OpenBSD. I don’t know why Raadt then respondend by saying that Zig hasn’t proved that it can do what it claims to do. But maybe I don’t understand this mailing list’s culture (or what “import Zig
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by iamatologist 6y ago
Maybe he needed to get that off his chest. Maybe that’s part of what people do on mailing lists, public or not. I don’t think everything that one posts is supposed to be rigorous, even though anything a person with a certain amount of fam
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by iamatologist 6y ago
This is not really an abstraction.
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by iamatologist 6y ago
Upcoming website from Klabnik: www.arewedoneyet.rs
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by iamatologist 6y ago
It must be hard to design a zero-cost abstractions language. It seems that there are more and more terms and concepts that come up in order to support more directly-pragmatic PL features.[1] Reminds me a bit of how Haskell comes across to