davidreiss

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   by davidreiss 9y ago

   > I disagree that corporations are more powerful than nations, because FB and google can't compel you to do anything. Not directly but they could get the government to act on their behalf. Also, I'd say FB, GOOGL are more power
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   by davidreiss 9y ago

   Does that argument fly anymore when corporations are so much more powerful than most nations? FB and google both have a larger population than china. Censorship by FB or Google is far more harmful/effective than whatever the chinese go
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   by davidreiss 9y ago

   > I love Solar City, Tesla, and SpaceX, but I just don't see Hyperloop/Boring Co as viable or useful. Solar City wasn't viable and had to be "bought" by Tesla to avoid bankruptcy. > The problems with US transi
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   by davidreiss 9y ago

   > So it's asking if Clojure is better at it than other languages/paradigms. My argument was that there are such a wide variety of languages/frameworks/paradigms that it makes no sense to make such a claim. Someone fro
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   by davidreiss 9y ago

   That's true of any language. Even within the same language paradigm. If you know C#/Java then learn C++ or vice versa and it'll affect the way you think about programming. Go outside of the statically typed OO world and try o