muuh-gnu

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by muuh-gnu 11y ago
Why did you waste your time responding then, and still do?
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by muuh-gnu 11y ago
> Cows & Pigs don't deserve to be murdered for their meat, but we do it, to live. We dont _need_ to eat meat. We _want_ to eat meat. We want it so much that we'll kill them to get it. But for some psycho-social reason unkno
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by muuh-gnu 11y ago
> That doesn't benefit all of society now does it? How does then involuntary wealth transfer from the rich to the poor benefit _all_ of society, including the rich? > Attacking a neighbouring country won't benefit society Wa
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by muuh-gnu 11y ago
What makes you think I will try to constructively respond to your question if you dont try to constructively respond to mine?
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by muuh-gnu 11y ago
> Does having rich people benefit all of society? Who cares? > If it doesn't then we should tax the rich So if society is comprised of 10 people, and you devour one of them and redistribute to the other 9, thats OK simply because
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by muuh-gnu 11y ago
> most viable and desirable ways to distribute wealth None. > If you don't pay taxes, you go to jail. "If you dont pay protection money, we demolish your restaurant." So essentially youre advocating for a society thats
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by muuh-gnu 11y ago
Whatever I'm advocating, youre advocating flat out mugging, and to conceal that, youre giving it other names. Muging, aka forcible redistribution of other peoples wealth is called "communism", so stop pretending youre advocat
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by muuh-gnu 11y ago
> For example, with basic income Oh a UBI communist again. Sooner or later every problem discussed leads to someone suggesting the good ole "tax the rich". > paying people to stay home to care for their kids. Why should I pa
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by muuh-gnu 11y ago
> What's wrong with Common Lisp? Nothing. But Schemers just passionately hate it since the 70s because it doesnt enforce their religious dogmas like recursion, continuations, unusable macros, and other similarly silly pretexts. The
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by muuh-gnu 11y ago
> And Michael Brown was probably a thug, so deserved to die? He didnt "deserve" to die, but the fact that he violently robbed a store minutes before he died, maybe, _only maybe_, contributed to his violent death, dont you agree
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by muuh-gnu 11y ago
> Wow, trying to redefine racial diversity as racism. If a diversity quota decides about you gettnig a job or not getting a job, then it is indistinguishable from a race quota, i.e. racism.
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by muuh-gnu 11y ago
> These experiences will have shaped the two men differently. You are implying that those negative experiences are a product of racism and not of simple statistics. Maybe, only maybe, people _dont have_ as many problems with white guys w
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by muuh-gnu 11y ago
> Xenophobic insults are not allowed on HN This sentence was neither xenophobic nor an insult. > If you do it again we will ban your account. Stop threatening people for innocuous statements.
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by muuh-gnu 11y ago
They didnt have to, neither Stroustrup nor Hejlsberg called their languages "a C".
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by muuh-gnu 11y ago
> You might do more than just disagree. He didnt do more than just claim it. > You might supply some reasons why you think Scheme isn't a Lisp. So you want a negative proof without providing a positive proof first? > That woul
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by muuh-gnu 11y ago
> Scheme is a Lisp. No, it isn't . > I've never met anyone who disagrees. Now you have.
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by muuh-gnu 11y ago
> Racket, arguably the most popular Scheme implementation Umm, NO. Racket isnt a "Scheme implementation". Racket was a Scheme as long as they called themselves MzScheme. Then they decided that they changed too much that a compl
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by muuh-gnu 11y ago
> £20k/year doesn't actually strike me as that much. You should learn about investing. If he invested the initial amount without spending it, a moderate dividend yield of 3% would make him $15000 a year. Add 25 years of dividen
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by muuh-gnu 11y ago
> unless if you start paying. Which is unfortunate. So you want something for nothing. Why exactly would Ubuntu (or anybody else) want you as an user?
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by muuh-gnu 12y ago
Considering that the push for Guile is not coming from the Emacs community, but from the Guile community in order to promote Guile, I guess that Emacs will be forked as soon as they deprecate Elisp and start forcing people to use Scheme. Sw
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by muuh-gnu 12y ago
Please spread your religious propaganda elsewhere. HN is a place to discuss, not to proselytize. Thanks.
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by muuh-gnu 12y ago
> I wonder why nobody has forked Wikipedia yet. Wikipedia _was_ forked, several times. The reason you dont seem to know about them are: 1. The added utility was not sufficient to make an impact strong enough to pull people away from wiki
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by muuh-gnu 12y ago
Or dont talk about these prehistoric details _at all_. Dont talk about the 80s. Dont talk about 27 different and incompatible implementations. Dont talk about lambda calculus or McCarthy. Dont talk about 1001 different editors. Nobody findi
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by muuh-gnu 12y ago
> left anarchism If it is not statist, what actually makes it "left"? > anarcho-communism Same question, how could a stateless communism possibly work?
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by muuh-gnu 12y ago
Even if they all rode rusty bicycles, basic logic implies that they won't/can't bite the hand that feeds them simply because obviously nobody else would voluntarily feed them and they're (obviously) intelligent enough to
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by muuh-gnu 12y ago
> Also state == leftism? Precisely. > What about fascist and quasi-fascist states? Fascism, communism, nazism, socialism, etc, are subsets of leftism/statism.
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by muuh-gnu 12y ago
They _are_ driven by the money that is necessary to finance academia. They wouldnt be in academia if adacemia had to actually earn the money it needs to exist.
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by muuh-gnu 12y ago
Not necessarily Republicans, since they are statists too, although somewhat less than Dems. But for the sake of argument, yes, conservatives tend to be biased against statist academia because they are aware that since academia wouldnt exist
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by muuh-gnu 12y ago
Academia _as a whole_ is biased against republicans/libertarians/capitalists and toward the state, i.e. towards leftism, because thats where their paychecks come from. He who pays the piper, calls the tune.
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by muuh-gnu 12y ago
They always have a choice, they are just weak-willed and have a ridiculously high time preference. Being poor isnt primarily an inability to make money, it is an inability to save money and delay gratification. Being poor is a mental state.

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