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by alentist 6y ago
Huh?
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by alentist 6y ago
> Lol we didn't agree mate Your comment says otherwise.
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by alentist 6y ago
Not at all. That's nonsense. Now, can you please answer the question you keep dodging? If the USSR had such a wonderful society, why did they have to systematically mass murder ordinary people who wanted to leave this wonderful societ
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by alentist 6y ago
On the contrary: It was Western technology and capital that propped up the USSR despite its repeated failures and inefficiencies. https://capx.co/soviet-communism-was-dependent-on-western-te...
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by alentist 6y ago
GP: They did not have a wonderful society. It was very deficient in many ways. I didn't argue that point because we agree. You: Exactly! Glad you also agree with my comments, then.
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by alentist 6y ago
You again keep trying to dodge the question and change the subject, so I'll ask it yet again: If the USSR had such a wonderful society, why did they have to systematically mass murder ordinary people who wanted to leave this wonderful
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by alentist 6y ago
You completely dodged the question and tried to change the subject, so I'll ask it again: If they had such a wonderful society, why did they have to systematically mass murder people who wanted to leave this wonderful society? Your que
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by alentist 6y ago
You completely dodged the question and tried to change the subject, so I'll ask it again: If they had such a wonderful society, why did they have to systematically mass murder people who wanted to leave this wonderful society?
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by alentist 6y ago
> You declare that one way is more "convenient" than the other (he calls it ugly), without defining what "convenient" means. This makes the argument subjective. Nope. 1. Some things are objectively more convenient tha
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by alentist 6y ago
> The USSR, had it not had to fight a cold war against the US, could very well have been a much better system not just for space flight, but for a way to structure and run society in general. What makes you think that? If they had such a
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by alentist 6y ago
> Today, we know that markets are likely not efficient, thanks to P likely being smaller than NP, along lines sketched by Nash and Gödel over half a century ago. You seem to be confused with your history/terminology. To address your
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by alentist 6y ago
> The "Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands" (SPD) literally has "socialist" in its name. It literally does not .
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by alentist 6y ago
> Most people in Europe associate socialism with things like healthcare, paid vacations, &c. Absolutely false. Are you American yourself? As the Danish PM put it, "I know that some people in the US associate the Nordic model wit
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by alentist 6y ago
Yep, the regulation applies to all websites that use cookies.
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by alentist 6y ago
> There is no regulation mandating cookie consent overlays Yes there is. A mugging is still a mugging even if the victim is "free" to give their wallet. > websites are free to not abuse cookies to track their users. You&#x27
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by alentist 6y ago
Yes yes yes. Luckily for us, these problems are technically solvable, no handling (?) "evil ways" (?) needed. The latter proposal is both ill-defined and a waste of time and resources. Better to spend those resources on designi
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by alentist 6y ago
You are propagating a false narrative yourself. This narrative has itself been roundly refuted, which you decided to omit. See [0][1]. [0] https://cafehayek.com/2013/09/ritholtz-and-the-big-lie.html [1] https:&#x
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by alentist 6y ago
That you don't know what natural numbers are does not exactly inspire confidence in your commentary. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_number Dijkstra is saying the following. Part 1: Natural numbers have a le
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by alentist 6y ago
It is. Just like 0 is a natural number, the empty string is a string, the empty set is a set, etc. If you've worked with mathematical proofs before, you'll have experience with how they make proofs shorter and more elegant. That&#
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by alentist 6y ago
> Although Bitcoin mining strains the power grid, experts say it’s not the real reason behind Iran’s electricity outages and dangerous air pollution. The telecommunications ministry estimates that Bitcoin consumes less than 2% of Iran’s
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by alentist 6y ago
> That comment doesn't enumerate or even alludes to any tangible benefits of crypto currencies. Either: 1. You didn't actually read the comment. 2. You have no idea what ZeroNet or Blockstream are. It is no crime to be ignorant
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by alentist 6y ago
Income inequality isn’t the problem. Poverty is. [0] I’m not automatically worse off because someone else is better off. That’s fallacious nonsense (the zero-sum fallacy). And it definitely does not meaningfully translate across countries
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by alentist 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24206257
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by alentist 6y ago
> Because they distract from the fact that Bitcoin or any other crypto currency doesn't provide any tangible benefit to our societies. I recommend expanding your understanding of the world beyond your coddled first-world perspective
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by alentist 6y ago
There are smarter ways to deal with data structures in the functional setting than copying the entire structure over and over again. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purely_functional_data_structu... and Okasaki’s boo
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by alentist 6y ago
It’s more than that. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25841660 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25841283 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25839697
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by alentist 6y ago
The GP specifically said the headline . See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25841660 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25841283 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25839697
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by alentist 6y ago
A range doesn’t have to start at 1.
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by alentist 6y ago
> Then 1-based can be described as the interval [1,N] where N is both the last element and the length of the vector/array/list. Doesn't work when the start position isn't 1. > But that first case doesn't matte
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by alentist 6y ago
2. How is (c) better for calculating range size if you're using 1-based? 3. "But how do you have two adjacent ranges when they both have the same starting position?" What do you mean? Consider the length n prefix of a seque

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