cbd1984

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by cbd1984 10y ago
Haskell has exceptions and monads. Either can be used for error handling; monads are, admittedly, unusual, but the error-handing type monads (as opposed to side-effect-handling type monads) are easy to understand in terms of wrapping values
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by cbd1984 10y ago
> Analog TV sets tended to emit loudly at the local oscillator frequency. The UK used to drive around with "television detector" vans to find people who didn't pay their TV tax, which funds the BBC. But tuners quieted down
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by cbd1984 10y ago
Any gear which makes battery life a selling point will look hard at every RF emanation it makes and cut the noise. I'd look at things plugged into walls before anything running off a battery.
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by cbd1984 10y ago
Yes, which raises one possible way of fighting it: Make electronics manufacturers adhere to power efficiency ratings. The moment they have to care about how power efficient their gear is, they'll look at everywhere power's being w
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by cbd1984 10y ago
Sorry to be anal, but saying "GNU/Linux" devalues the contributions of people who are associated with neither the GNU Project nor the Linux kernel, such as the X.Org team, the Apache team, the Mozilla Firefox team, and so on.
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by cbd1984 10y ago
> Carbohydrates in excessive amounts, yes. That's the definition of 'excessive', yes.
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by cbd1984 10y ago
Eh, literally everything can be a buzzword. "Email" has been a buzzword in the past, as has "Internet" and "mobile phone" and so on.
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by cbd1984 10y ago
The Civil Rights Era wouldn't exist but for an active Federal Government overruling state and local governments. Same with Obergefell and similar pro-GLBTQ laws and rulings. Countries need a strong central government to overrule loca
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by cbd1984 10y ago
> Have you read the ingredients list, its insane! It literally contains dihydrogen monoxide! More seriously: Unless you actually understand what's on the list, just slamming it because it looks "insane" is ignorant.
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by cbd1984 10y ago
To expand on your point: Hobbes was wrong on one count: Human life in a state of nature isn't nasty, brutish, short, or any of the other War Of All Against All nonsense he proposed unless there's been a serious disaster in the rec
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by cbd1984 10y ago
A larger government is less likely to be ruled by the prejudices endemic to a single region.
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by cbd1984 10y ago
As a practical matter, you can evade US taxes if you have no financial contact with the US; the IRS can deem you liable for any amount of taxes and it won't have any effect on you if they're unable to collect them.
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by cbd1984 10y ago
Except without a higher authority to prevent it, majoritarianism is exactly what ends up happening. It isn't a strawman if it's inevitable.
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by cbd1984 10y ago
It's impossible to have a society without laws, written or unwritten, and the Constitution is the underlying legal document which all laws must be in accordance with. (A society without written laws is anarchistic, or despotic. A socie
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by cbd1984 10y ago
> the power of the state envisioned gets smaller and more directly accountable to citizens. Pure majoritarianism doesn't work, you know. It leads to grossly immoral systems which destroy the rights of minorities. There needs to be l
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by cbd1984 10y ago
I've read it and I think it's juvenile. If you want to opt out of a society, wonderful. Leave it. Most governments will allow you to leave, and I certainly agree that those which do not are tyrannical. However, if you try to opt o
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by cbd1984 10y ago
> I take offense to the idea of the "golden age fallacy". That doesn't mean it's false. > Roman democracy the golden age was so and so centuries -- no ifs and buts about it Historiography is always changing.
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by cbd1984 10y ago
You're not being cynical, that's actually a pretty fair reaction to these people and their ideas. The ideas all share one common feature: They're just not worth it. They're complex, contradictory, and utterly frivolous,
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by cbd1984 10y ago
In adult land, the terms "legal" and "lawful" are completely synonymous. Anyone you hear saying otherwise is living in a fantasy world, and/or wants to sell you tickets to a fantasy world.
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by cbd1984 10y ago
> Larry Becraft Jr, an attorney who has fought the IRS Becraft doesn't want to pay income tax and has developed some lunatic theories which, to his mind, allow him to not pay income tax. He's done time in prison because, surpri
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by cbd1984 10y ago
BeOS doesn't run on my hardware, I'm pretty sure, even though it was ported to x86 eventually.
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by cbd1984 10y ago
It works fine as in "I can listen to audio on my laptop from multiple programs at once, with a centralized way to control audio volume on a per-application or per-sound-device basis." I literally cannot imagine any audio system do
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by cbd1984 10y ago
It made more sense when you could assume each machine was tended by a sysadmin who was responsible for running it, so having a quick way to reach that person in the Net's distributed "phone book" was a fairly obvious thing to
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by cbd1984 10y ago
Audio on Linux works fine in my experience.
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by cbd1984 10y ago
Macs are nowhere near as usable as Linux systems in any respect, especially at the GUI level. The Mac GUI is just, fundamentally, a mistake Apple made in the 1980s and never moved on from. Even Jobs recognized the Mac's error when he m
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by cbd1984 10y ago
It works just fine.
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by cbd1984 10y ago
You can run KDE on Ubuntu, you know.
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by cbd1984 10y ago
They say it's public domain so it is, indeed, license-free. AFAIK, the public domain dedication makes the rest of the section chaff.
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by cbd1984 10y ago
Tying profiling to political correctness means you want racial profiling or similar, which would have such a huge false negative and false positive rate as to be worse than useless. Besides, I'm sure the TSA already de facto does it, b
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by cbd1984 10y ago
Maybe if you went to more than two places in the US you'd get a different picture.

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