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by kloop 2y ago
Could still be done by re-incorporating companies in countries without kyc laws. And if fines for being breached get high enough, that's probably what would happen. That would probably be bad for tax receipts though, so it's more
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by kloop 2y ago
> If 'undesirables' are part of your local area, then they'll be on the public transport. The clue is in the name. Their examples of undesirables are about behaviors, not sectors of society. Since we're using Japan as
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by kloop 2y ago
> The government would likely have a very big uphill battle to out-market the automobile industry given a large segment of the population distrusts or dislikes the government. It seems weird that the response to "a democratic govern
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by kloop 2y ago
If you forward declare things there are. The compiler really just cares about the shape and the symbol it has to call.
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by kloop 2y ago
That's an interesting point. I don't think either the book or the blog post say there's literally zero value in the system. But if the main value is taking care of the kids during the day, we can change the system A LOT. And
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by kloop 2y ago
> I think the song is very funny and charming, but I do think this is a rare case where Lehrer is just wrong, the "borrowing" style is a much better and clearer way to explain subtraction. How much of that is that you're f
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by kloop 2y ago
> The article misses the point of learning, confusing it with "education." They really don't. The book in question is specifically titled "A case against education", and it's not an anti-learning book. It&#x
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by kloop 2y ago
The lisp world has a rather different idea of extensibility via library than you are used to. For example, the Common Lisp Object System (CLOS, object oriented programming in lisp) originated as a library. Lisp's main looping mechanism
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by kloop 2y ago
As long as we only see one birth, that's probably fine. It just implies a stable time loop.
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by kloop 2y ago
If they're smoking and boozing that hard, doesn't it seem kind of likely that they'll be dead in 5 years?
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by kloop 2y ago
They said no one was speaking to this moment. The people you're talking about were speaking to their time. It's not automatically clear that proposals for an industrializing economy are applicable to a post-industrial highly finan
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by kloop 2y ago
> You wouldn't put aside, say, 3% of your taxes to fund research into medicine? Not if it goes through the traditional grant process. I've fundamentally soured on that. Maybe an open bounty system? First one to develop an effec
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by kloop 2y ago
> If your country's only advantage is to steal tax money Your assumption seems to be that countries have a right to someone's productivity even after they emigrate elsewhere. Care to actually defend this point?