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by newuser88273 11y ago
Common Lisp actually has a core of a mere thirteen "special operators". You can think of everything else as standard library.
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by newuser88273 11y ago
If Mozilla was a-political, Klabnik couldn't work there if Brendan couldn't. He can, and Mozilla isn't. Actually, the politicalization of Mozilla means that everything technical will lose priority over time.
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by newuser88273 11y ago
Expecting privacy (or privacy-preserving security) from Google products has always been folly. Mozilla used to be different. However, when Brendan was purged, first doubts may have arisen. Now that we also see cyber-bully Klabnik on their p
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by newuser88273 11y ago
If you combine that with the pain stim version into one device and give me the remote, I'll have you barking like a dog whenever I lift my little finger. The good news is that schools don't have to drug unruly boys anymore...
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by newuser88273 11y ago
Just so people don't think there's no third way to think about your work: I get nothing but snake oil vibes from Urbit, but loved the blog, which, among other things, was the venerable art form of Usenet trolling taken to utter pe
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by newuser88273 11y ago
If you sum over all micro-insults suffered by victims of racists, caused by billions, possibly trillions of micro-aggressions, who knows how many death-equivalents you might get? Anyway, whomever socialists might have killed, it was long ag
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by newuser88273 11y ago
So this outfit, mSpy, sold to people the capability to track activities on one (1) other person's smartphone: Less than a nanogoogle! Why the outrage?
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by newuser88273 11y ago
Japan is betting that automation means they don't need gazillions of workers to feed their old. If they're right, they'd win so big compared to "us" that in fact the biggest obstacle they're facing might be tha
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by newuser88273 11y ago
Scheme has come up with the idea of pretending that an undelimited contination is a function, which is somewhat true-ish... in the degenerate sense of a function with empty domain. This is fine for Scheme, which is an expression language, s
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by newuser88273 11y ago
Maybe you know about usenet. Of course, usenet is dead. However, one of the last groups to die was comp.lang.lisp, which is an instructive example in this context. I submit that what, or rather who, kept comp.lang.lisp alive for so long bey
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by newuser88273 11y ago
If you're in the west, KGB backdoors are less of a risk to you. Say you're in the west. NSA has backdoors into your US-designed hardware and your US-designed OS. NSA also, probably, has access to your ISP's routers and US ne
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by newuser88273 11y ago
I've seen multiple sources showing reduced fertility in high-IQ females (across multiple countries.) The culprit, however, doesn't seem to be raw intelligence as such, but modern western education, which seems to have a dose depen
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by newuser88273 11y ago
I probably unconsciously undercount "legitimate" grey-outs, so... maybe. Still, you really can't have all three of these: (1) Votes to register (dis-)agreement and (2) very prominent visual effect of downvotes, yet (3) no hiv
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by newuser88273 11y ago
Under that assumption, upvote should not be a way to voice agreement, as that implies that downvote is disagreement. But downvote leads to graying-out and disappearance, which is just perfect to induce the hive mind. And yes, downvoting int
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by newuser88273 11y ago
You're downvoted because your comment implies that "just following orders" at companies with morally questionable business models might reflect back on the one taking orders. For more downvotes, try suggesting that working fo
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by newuser88273 11y ago
You were supposed to compare --- not the forbidden things AS SUCH, but (a) the abstract fact that they're illegal, composed with (b) SANE ways your OWN country can react to the fact of a NON-FRIENDLY FOREIGN power engages in ENABLING,
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by newuser88273 11y ago
...and watch China flood the US with dollars (it has a few of those, y'know?), halt all Apple smartphone production and lobby hard and successfully to finally replace the petrodollar? Maybe all-out war is not the fitting answer to what
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by newuser88273 11y ago
To play devil's advocate: If you had the choice between identifying all domestic users of GFW circumvention tools, rounding them up, and shooting them, or attacking some of the foreign devil peddlers of such tools, which is the more hu
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by newuser88273 11y ago
Lower prestige? I think this is true. People may not be consciously aware of it, but due to the company's core business model, i.e. basically adware and spyware, non-billionaire employees will almost certainly incur a hit to their soci
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by newuser88273 11y ago
The registry is not very discoverable. However, once you discovered, a lot of customization can be had from running as little as a single registry script. As a trivial example, remapping caps-lock to something sane was easier on the last fe
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by newuser88273 11y ago
Clojure code is surprisingly hard to edit for a Lisp-like language. The gratuitous use of square brackets where a Lisp would just use parentheses is part of that. Omitting the parentheses inside those square brackets, however, was an even w
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by newuser88273 12y ago
There are some interesting similarities between Urbit and... the Church of Scientology. Like Yarvin, L.Ron Hubbard made up a lot of new terminology for things that had perfecly good names before. Like Urbit, in order to be able to be able t
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by newuser88273 12y ago
Haskell: ""We want a non-proprietary Miranda".
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by newuser88273 12y ago
No, but my pain point as a user is that I want a fully charged phone right now. I don't care that the spares sit in a charging station for an hour or two; that's an uninteresting detail of the implementation.
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by newuser88273 12y ago
I used to have that technology on my first mobile phone, back in a previous millenium. It was called "spare battery".
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by newuser88273 12y ago
So it seems the problem with the German law was that they created a basic prisoner's dilemma kind of situation. Publishers who tried to get some compensation from Google for appropriating the fruits of their labor were thwarted by def
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by newuser88273 12y ago
Your comment was funny, duly upvoted, but you seem to be making somewhat of a category error, as we're not talking about divorce rate prediction but divoce rate measurement, while global warming controversy is about prediction, not muc
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by newuser88273 12y ago
Because your dual business model is (1) showing ads to humans and (2) gathering intel on humans. Bots can be used to bypass both.
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by newuser88273 12y ago
Is there an anti-trust angle to this?
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by newuser88273 12y ago
X11 was a great success because it was a protocol that you could write X servers and X clients and X window managers against. Nobody wants to do that anymore. There are two major forces to blame. First, open source. A well designed protocol

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