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by fexl 16y ago
I always thought they should have used the phrase "Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price" (M.S.R.P). But I would actually favor striking the word "dollar" altogether. People can just use ordinary silver pieces bearing the mark "One Troy O
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by fexl 16y ago
This is Turing equivalent, however in its present form it only reduces an expression to a normal form and stops there. I'll enhance it later to emulate some "side effects" such as print and read. I use this technology when I need to embed
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Fexl: Live Functional Programming Demo(fexl.com)
2 points by fexl 16y ago|1 comments
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Tool for finding vendors who do specific trades(loom.cc)
1 points by fexl 16y ago|0 comments
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Loom Server Now Supports ACID Transactions(loom.cc)
2 points by fexl 16y ago|0 comments
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by fexl 16y ago
Yes, and see http://diceware.com for a method of generating highly secure and memorable passphrases completely offline, using standard six-sided dice.
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by fexl 16y ago
Right, that's "K" as in "Konstanzfunktion" in the original German. The book "From Frege to Gödel" uses "C" as in "Constancy Function" in English, and I got in the habit of using that.
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by fexl 16y ago
I've been working on a combinatoric approach with Fexl, "compiling" all the way down to my two turtles S and C, e.g.: http://fexl.com/blog/9 I'm also relying on two higher-level combinators L and R to reduce the size of the combinatorial
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by fexl 16y ago
Yes, because my typing teacher in 1975 told me to do it.
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by fexl 16y ago
He discusses real estate in a separate chapter, but what he says is interesting: "Real estate isn't an essential investment for a Permanent Portfolio. Real estate offers no profit or protection to a portfolio that can't be achieved more ea
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by fexl 16y ago
Harry Browne demonstrates the effectiveness of asset allocation and periodic balancing in his book "Why the Best-Laid Investment Plans Usually Go Wrong". It's an old book from 1987, but the principle is timeless. For example, I'm looking a
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by fexl 16y ago
Thanks for the suggestions everyone! I had a bad experience trying this with some Lisp a couple of years ago -- I could not for the life of me turn off the stupid banner printout, but I did manage to disable the REPL. At the time I just g
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by fexl 16y ago
Can someone recommend a Lisp that will behave properly as a scripting language? By that I mean run quietly without a REPL, and honor this convention: #!/usr/bin/lisp
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by fexl 16y ago
Although my Loom server code is completely standalone and does not use Apache, I'll take this opportunity to discuss Keep-Alive policy since the article mentions it. The Loom server automatically scales down the Keep-Alive interval as the s
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by fexl 16y ago
This also sets the stage for handling arbitrary ACID transactions across the internet API using begin, commit, and cancel. I already have code in there for that, but it's disabled now because I need to enforce an upper bound on memory usag
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Loom Server Now Uses Optimistic Concurrency(loom.cc)
3 points by fexl 16y ago|1 comments
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by fexl 16y ago
Right, and the only way to ban those coffin sellers is by force. Someone has to be willing to go in there with a gun and make them stop. The ability to get that done is called "political power". Of course, normally it doesn't come to that
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by fexl 16y ago
I'll go ahead and add Standard and Poor's, Moody's, the SEC, and the FDA to your list of bad examples, since poor quality and bad incentives can arise with either voluntary or coerced funding. But at least with voluntary funding you can ta
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by fexl 16y ago
Also, on the subject of safety in the free market, think Underwriters Laboratory and Consumer Reports. People don't want coffee makers that burst into flames or cars that roll over.
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by fexl 16y ago
This is all true, but you are merely describing different symptoms of a common illness. The illness is that some people choose to initiate force against others. Every single human being should refrain from such behavior. All interactions
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by fexl 16y ago
No, the article describes the practice of acquiring political power, not economic power.
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by fexl 16y ago
I certainly favor the market (i.e. free people) holding Paypal, Mastercard, and Visa accountable for their policies, but I don't condone vandalism. It seems that "Anonymous" have started on a more constructive approach, which is laudable:
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by fexl 16y ago
I'm with you man, freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose. I cast my fate to the wind years ago. And by the way, I think the use of tin foil is highly underrated and needlessly ridiculed. What I want to know is, why should ha
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by fexl 16y ago
Just last week someone asked on HN "what are the legal consequences of donating to an organization that is branded a "terrorist organization"? Can you be punished retroactively?" I replied that yes, you can, and you should not expect ration
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by fexl 16y ago
From what I'm hearing, the women delightedly reported on twitter and text messages that they had done it with Assange. This is hearsay mind you, so feel free to confirm or deny.
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by fexl 16y ago
2H:)
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by fexl 16y ago
That's interesting. On "Info War Friday" I simply added this to my /etc/hosts file: 213.251.145.96 wikileaks.org DDos? What DDos? Although it's not the content of Wikileaks that interests me most, but the people who literally s
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by fexl 16y ago
There are no goods which by their nature require the initiation of force against other people to produce them.
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by fexl 16y ago
Whew, just in time! Paypal caved!
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by fexl 16y ago
There, I just donated 50 euros. I'll let you know if I get audited. Of course if they do, they'll just end up owing me money.

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