star-castle

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by star-castle 8y ago
Ideally we can move to a more humane system of sending both children and parents right back across the border.
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by star-castle 8y ago
>we should readily engage in political discussion You must mean political lecturing, because 'discussion' implies more than one side, which means hearing from more than one side, which means not censoring or aggressively punish
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by star-castle 8y ago
And before the 1980s, people were medicated into living like zombies. There might be a cycle of skepticism and liberalism, but what what hasn't changed is that doctors can't feel your pain for you, and they can't know where t
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by star-castle 8y ago
> You think horrifyingly painful medical conditions are extremely rare Yes. In particular, they are much less of a concern than the epidemic of people killing themselves with opiates. This is so blatantly the case that I see this piece a
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by star-castle 8y ago
> I think it's a good idea to initially assume most things you read were written in good faith When a journalist writes, I only look for the narrative.
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by star-castle 8y ago
I'd rather be fired by a machine than fired by a database. In this guy's case, everyone of importance was on his side, it was just a technical matter to get the situation resolved in his favor. In my case, there was a decision tha
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by star-castle 8y ago
They've already released "a game". The ultimate failure will come in the form an announcement: it's done! tadaaa! click here to purchase! But the SC as imagined by the 1000th "what money is still coming in? promise
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by star-castle 8y ago
I want my descendants to have at least a minimally functional civilization. Dramatic (staged) pictures of dead children don't change that. A single border agent being meeeeeeeeaean to chhiiiiiiiildren doesn't change that.
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by star-castle 8y ago
"Oh, my insignificant family life is ruined, but at least I still have options when it comes to a fulfilling and meaningful career!" "Oh, I have cancer. But at least I'll be saving money on haircuts soon!" ... not q
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by star-castle 8y ago
Google manipulates its results in a variety of ways. The end result is that if you and your networked peers aren't already searching for things related to Dragonfly BSD, then you're less likely to find it, because Google will be
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by star-castle 8y ago
Why do you trust it? You got into a car on an arranged deal and the driver immediately wants to back out of it--this is already a shady situation. Why do you think he'll drive you anywhere after he gets the $10? Why do you think he won
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by star-castle 8y ago
I don't believe you. No offense, but it's easier to learn that the Earth is flat, or that a place called 'Australia' exists, or that reality is entirely a consensus affair and that strenuous wishing can change it, than i
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by star-castle 8y ago
How? Uber is a current-year tech company. Like Google, there technically is a support line that technically exists, but just forget about it. I called Uber 10 times, in Houston. Got scammed 5 times. Part of the "the driver just keeps d
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by star-castle 8y ago
c.f. https://github.com/deech/LeftPad/blob/master/left-pad.org , in particular "At the type level we have:" and "At the level of sorts and refinements:" Or take this silly code: http
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by star-castle 8y ago
2015 MacBook Pro, compiling his 'first cut at it' example: # time idris -o Foo Foo.idr real 0m31.683s user 0m30.646s sys 0m0.876s
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by star-castle 8y ago
Click the [-] at the top right of that doc page. You won't find it so overwhelming.
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by star-castle 8y ago
OCaml has a type-safe printf and isn't purely functional. ATS is essentially 'C with dependent types'. And optionally some other languages with dependent types. You can think of its dependent type checking and theorem-proving
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by star-castle 8y ago
I doubt that the svk guy had that problem either. His problem was, instead, "I took a year off work to produce a VCS and then saw the throne taken by git. My work has been forgotten and nobody uses it--not even me."
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by star-castle 8y ago
Reminds me of the fellow that took a year off to create an amazing new version control system. He made svk, which was pretty good except for being followed too closely by git. However good Zig looks, there's also Nim, ATS, Rust, and a
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by star-castle 8y ago
>Please be nice to each other, regardless of ethnicity without talking about ethnicities that dislike other ethnicities, I can't explain why this photo means that the media won't talk about the Uyger genocide until it's at
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by star-castle 8y ago
That's basically how it works in the US, yes.
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by star-castle 8y ago
> but it is not necessary for the website displaying the advertisements, as proven by ad-blockers. when I was a child I stole a toy from Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart is still around. Therefore, Wal-Mart's entire existence as a store does not
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by star-castle 8y ago
What do you mean by "does not depend on tracking"? Do you mean that you can conceive of a way to implement the service as it appears to the user, without tracking? Because Facebook can certainly inject tracking into their chat app
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by star-castle 8y ago
what? seriously? Do EU citizens have some kind of legal right to Facebook access, now? It's illegal for Facebook to not serve people they can't sell to advertisers? I'd love it if Facebook were nationalized (or destroyed), bu