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by carapace 3y ago
The "free" in "free market" refers in part to free flow of information. Surfacing information about prices is kind of the point of a market. It's a mechanism that assigns prices "automatically" (as contr
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Character assassination is against site guidelines.
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I still remember when 12oz cans became 11.5oz cans.
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Schmidhuber literally says that his goal is to "create an automatic scientist and then retire."
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His website: https://www.toddecological.com/ Revolutionary technology.
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Oh this is that Kenny!? https://kenney.nl/
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Thanks for the feedback, I disagree. > tone-deaf, needlessly aggressive, hostile, confrontational, and borderline malicious posts I wish I could cleanse the Internet of wholesale. I have never said this before, but maybe you're a li
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by carapace 3y ago
I feel your tone-policing is misplaced here. When someone is that ignorant or foolish they should be told so so they can hopefully recalibrate or something. There's enough inchoate nonsense on the Internet that I appreciate the effor
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WebAssembly SDL Example(main.lv)
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I was just thinking this morning how JSON is a symptom of people not learning formal grammar et. al. as part of their education and training. Maybe it's just because I cut my teeth on Wirth languages, but JSON seems like net negative
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Prolog. (Seriously though, there are many things that could be considered successors, like Mercury or maybe even Datalog, but to a first approximation I'd say that Prolog is still timely.)
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Are we not switching to the non-moving ionic wind generators now? I thought that was the next big thing? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaneless_ion_wind_generator
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by carapace 3y ago
I have, over the years, developed a theory, to wit: we keep reinventing basic system administration tools over and over again for three reasons: 1) It's fun. 2) Most programmers are naive. (This point bears expansion: most programmers
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> Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.
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Sometimes I cheer myself up with the thought that, hey, there hasn't been an x-ray radiant supernova nearby today. ("nearby today" relatively, of course.) - - - - edit to add: wow you sure touched a nerve, eh? I dunno what n
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by carapace 3y ago
Part II made the front page yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37426080 A comment there makes what I think is a very good point about "the lack of consolidation of computer algebra efforts": https:&#
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We live in a world where Crypto AG was a CIA front. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG Of regime changes in the 21st century over half of them were the result of some kind of coup (aka "conspiracy").
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The comment you're replying to is technically correct, but completely misses the point.
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Ahead of what? They die too just like everybody else.
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One of the classic and unmistakable hallmarks of a fool is that they think they know what they are doing.
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Emmy A powerful computer algebra system written in Clojure(Script)(emmy.mentat.org)
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The whole place is classified as "gravelly loam", it's rocks upon rocks in a loam matrix at least ten meters deep. ;D I don't really have topsoil, it's literally just rocks and rocks and more rocks. (I suspect it
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by carapace 3y ago
Yeah, compost worms, aquaculture, and chickens. The Grow Biointensive system claims to be a complete diet and require no fertilizer. The trick is that 60% of your crop is so-called "carbon farming" that produces a lot of compos
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> how do you plan to stop starving people from stealing that food while you are asleep? In a word, robots. But I really really hope it doesn't come to that. If things get really "Mad Max" ... I don't know that I
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That's the "mass migration" OP mentioned, eh? Do you imagine a billion people moving from India to Siberia? (Edit to add: that would be so epic that the entire Mahābhārata could be seen as it's prelude.)
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I just got twenty acres of land in a place that gets over 100F in the summer now. I spent some time there last month and it's unlivable when it's that hot. You have to have some way to mitigate the heat or you'll pretty much
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Thank you, for this comment and for the work you've done, all this time. - - - - THe thing that gets me is that people seem pretty much content with things. E.g. they'll complain about Amazon and then in the next breath admit tha
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> Very large-scale integration (VLSI) is the process of creating an integrated circuit (IC) by combining millions or billions of MOS transistors onto a single chip. VLSI began in the 1970s when MOS integrated circuit (Metal Oxide Semicon
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I think you need a grammar of gestures. Without that you can't really replace CLI or GUI (or the new talking interfaces.) Sign language is a language.
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> Hoare logic (also known as Floyd–Hoare logic or Hoare rules) is a formal system with a set of logical rules for reasoning rigorously about the correctness of computer programs. It was proposed in 1969 by the British computer scientist

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