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by plesn 3mo ago
"All interesting questions are causal." I like that punchline !
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by plesn 3mo ago
This seems to me like Ideology disguised as Tautology. "Saving = Investment" is an accounting identity and not a causal law. He shifts by implying that 'saving' drives 'investment'. In accounting even unsold in
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by plesn 8mo ago
No wonder he returned: he can focus on meaningful work without direct financial pressure, with full access to people, decisions, and resources. If only we all had a time in life to do what we love, get paid, and face no paywalls. I call tha
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by plesn 7y ago
Thanks for this punchline which starts better than a long an laborious argumentation.
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by plesn 8y ago
free doesn't imply that the service/product has no costs, only that your transaction has no costs. Google is also free but it has costs (mostly paid by ads which are then included in products costs).
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by plesn 8y ago
Indeed, I copy-pasted in emacs but not in vim, my bad...
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by plesn 8y ago
How do I see those invisible characters in emacs or vim ? In emacs I thought that whitespace-mode would do the trick but apparently it doesn't.
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by plesn 9y ago
Could you provide more precisions / examples of this C code-style ?
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by plesn 9y ago
Those are only for fun, but real stuff are designed to be deliberately inconvenient (e.g. against homeless people): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostile_architecture
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by plesn 9y ago
I would kill to have this module in the batteries included…
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by plesn 15y ago
I didn't know the last one. Nevertheless I find the mix of functions with no arguments, function values and optionnal parenthesis quite confusing syntax wise.
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by plesn 15y ago
What about the end of life of solar panels ? Did they manage to build recyclable ones ?
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by plesn 15y ago
There is a gray scale of "entrepreneurs" and "companies" based on the means they use to gain power and influence, so this is rather natural,just as people already read Machiavel or Sun Tzu before. Law, customs, means of legitimation (media)
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by plesn 15y ago
Yes, thanks for reminding this essay. I think though that de-duplication is a lawyer oriented smoke-screen. It is based on a complete misunderstanding of Colour because Colour tracking happens at the wrong abstraction level. Colour does not
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by plesn 15y ago
Many things are "externalized" in the process and we are pretty naive about risk. Do we count the cost of side-effects like wars and oppression in our energy ? Think about Libya for oil or Niger for Uranium. Do we count the cost for democra
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by plesn 16y ago
Haskell's Data.Typeable kind of does this. ( http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/Data-... ). It does not feel like python though…
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by plesn 16y ago
Interesting article, clear explanation. One minus : in the conclusion it is assumed that the problem of pursuing nuclear power is about risk assessment on nuclear plants. This is partial truth biased by current events, in fact many side ef
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by plesn 16y ago
No problem : play and further autoplay could be authorized on a per app basis.
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by plesn 16y ago
Give me easy audio but no autoplay and I will be happy. The same applies for video. In fact, in unicorn-land I would like it also for heavy animations. At least one advantage with flash is Flashblock ;-)
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by plesn 16y ago
Agreed, but precisely only through the mirror of our own desires and fears :)
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by plesn 16y ago
Aah, economy on HN… : ready, fight! More seriously, as Einstein put it quite briefly, economy is not a science because it is not testable. I would even add, following some philosopher's wisdom, that behind all those pretty theories you can
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by plesn 16y ago
Interesting, even though i'm not suprised knowing Einstein's affinity for Spinoza : he must have carefully read Marx and other materialist philosophers.
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by plesn 16y ago
This gives some hope, especially the Gini graph. I'll wait for more information to have a more definitive opinion though as autonomy is not always well captured in those quantitative data. For example if more people live in big cities, is t
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by plesn 16y ago
For the server itself or for permanant storage ?
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by plesn 16y ago
Is it possible to run a web server like, say, Snap, directly on top of it ?
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by plesn 16y ago
Maybe it would be usefull to gather this kind of commented experience about evaluation order and memory behaviour in a little book of case studies (or several blog posts). There are some slides by dons and book chapters in RWH, but it is st
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by plesn 16y ago
I feel like reading stakhanovist USSR propaganda. Work more and the world will be better and you'll be a hero. Look, those french required to work 35 hours, they should be ashamed. Do like those couragous doctors, you tiny humanoid working
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by plesn 16y ago
Haskell has a cool macro system : template haskell. So it comes down to typing.
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by plesn 16y ago
The first answer is interesting but I don't understand step 10. Imperative is a model with state and deterministic sequence and Haskell constructs like state and IO monads form imperative DSLs (with some typing burden/advantages). I don't s
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by plesn 16y ago
> my feeling that diminishing returns have set in to investments in higher education That's seeing people only as a black box slave-like "workforce", giving them "education" as well as food to sustain your busyness > Now it is true

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