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by fexl 16y ago
Also here's a list of Wikileaks mirrors: http://pastebin.com/2ASAUkR6
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by fexl 16y ago
Yes. These lawless people will do anything they want under color of law. Do not expect rationality or good faith from them. Expect savagery. [Note: I'll interpret the down-votes as disagreement. I hope you're right. But I think donatio
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by fexl 16y ago
I've concluded that freedom is an anti-value for many people. They don't want the responsibility that goes with freedom. They want people in government to grant them the cozy feeling of living at home with their parents, carefree, even
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by fexl 16y ago
I too played it safe and avoided floating point operations in the loom.cc code: https://loom.cc/?function=grid_tutorial&help=1 All asset quantities are signed 128 bit integers under the hood. However, when the wallet interface displa
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by fexl 16y ago
I had to fight with it for a while with Firefox on Linux. Hung up the browser. Worked on Epiphany first time. Finally got it working on Firefox. My CPU seems to have calmed down too.
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by fexl 16y ago
I'll be opting out as well, karma be damned.
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by fexl 16y ago
Also, alcohol is both dangerous and good for you, depending on how you use it. A recent study showed that moderate drinkers outlive heavy drinkers, but heavy drinkers outlive non-drinkers. As with all drugs, the key is dosage control, cos
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by fexl 16y ago
Friedman also conceived of income tax withholding and what he called the "negative income tax," now known as EITC. It does not surprise me that he would advocate Monetary Mischief as well. The QE arguments are an example of magical thinkin
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Fexl Version 00(fexl.com)
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by fexl 16y ago
That's exactly why https://loom.cc/ uses only a passphrase, with no user name. Users are not identifying themselves, they are identifying a wallet.
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by fexl 16y ago
I created a Fexl discussion group at http://groups.google.com/group/fexl . You can reach everything from http://fexl.com , including the Blog and Discussion group.
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by fexl 16y ago
By the way, the initial release of Fexl will take a very simple form: A Universal Filter. The "fexl" executable will be nothing more than a program which maps standard input to standard output. So it's a filter. But it's universal becau
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by fexl 16y ago
That was the general idea. But it's taken quite an interesting turn lately! Turns out I can parse Fexl one character at a time and build the closed executable form in a single pass as I go along -- thanks to a concept which I discovered s
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by fexl 16y ago
OK, here's one more example of how to write a Fexl combinator. Back in 1924 the great Moses Schönfinkel demonstrated that all computable functions can be defined in terms of just two primitive functions: C (the constant function), and S (th
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by fexl 16y ago
The whole thing is about 800 lines of C code so far, and I aim to get that lower. :) For one thing, I'm busy bootstrapping the Fexl parser into Fexl itself. It's really neat to be able to express executable concepts simply and completely
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by fexl 16y ago
The Fexl interpreter is simple, elegant, and fast. The core "reduce" routine runs about 43.5 million cycles per second on a simple infinite loop. If I set max_cycles to a billion it stops after about 23 seconds. To test it with something
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by fexl 16y ago
The thing I like most about your post is that you never advocate locking human beings in a cage for smoking vegetation. You are "anti-marijuana" in the sense that it does not fit your vision of an ideal life, and that's all fine and good.
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by fexl 16y ago
I have decided not to store type pointers directly in the Fexl arena. Instead, I will use a type number , which will be an integer offset into a static array of function pointers in the C program. That way I could use a memory-mapped arra
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by fexl 16y ago
Not only have I done foreign function interface to C, the entire system depends on it. Every atomic item begins with a pointer to its "type". Following the type pointer is an arbitrary vector of 0 or more machine words which constitute t
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by fexl 16y ago
Actually there's a much simpler metastasis function, perhaps the most evil function of all, namely, the result of applying the Y combinator to the Y combinator itself: Y Y If you expand this function two steps, you'll notice that it
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by fexl 16y ago
That was a good parody. You got my position on patents exactly right. You also accurately mocked my tendency to state my views point blank without including disclaimers that they are my views. So excuse me: morally wrong in my book . Y
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by fexl 16y ago
You are free to produce the substance. If you produce it, it is your property. You own it. You may choose to keep it, or you may choose to trade it for someone else's property. You may ask a billion dollars per gram if you like. No one
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by fexl 16y ago
Thanks, that's very good to know. I've made excellent progress on the Perl implementation, doing everything in terms of combinatorics. Much thought has gone into this. I think before I put up the sandboxed interpreter at fexl.com, I'll ju
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by fexl 16y ago
If you use Vim and have "showmatch" enabled, then when you move your cursor onto a left or right parenthesis, it shows that character with a charcoal background, and the matching parenthesis with a teal background. Your mind immediately pe
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by fexl 16y ago
The picture in that article reminds me of the scene from the movie "Brazil" where Harry Tuttle is swallowed up in paper and disappears. That movie is sadly prescient.
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by fexl 16y ago
Do you have a personal limit on what you would tolerate? What tax rate might prompt you to avoid the taxes, for example by moving?
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by fexl 16y ago
Update: It might not be ready by the end of August. I just returned from a week-long trip, and I'm now busy rewriting the whole Fexl interpreter in terms of pure combinatorics (see http://fexl.com/#combinatorics ). The interpreter under
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by fexl 16y ago
Yes. We started our hedge fund accounting business six years ago with one customer, and I still have a copy of that first check. I like what Branson says here: "I felt our limited capital kept us focused on finding the next great act, and
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by fexl 16y ago
Mark Handley makes that very point on page 3 of his paper here (sorry about the PDF): http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/m.handley/slides/tcpcrypt.pdf "Encryption without authentication is like meeting a stranger in a dark alley." However, on
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by fexl 16y ago
Forget the IRS -- just legalize it, period. People have the natural right to produce, trade, and ingest any substances they choose -- even to the point of injuring or killing themselves. I don't support legalization for your pragmatic rea

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