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by fexl 13y ago
Thanks. I'm not using make, so I don't really need a make rule, but I can see that gcc -M does something useful: $ gcc -M src/value.c value.o: src/value.c src/memory.h src/value.h The result of my gre
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by fexl 13y ago
For this reason and others I just wrote my own build script using /bin/sh: https://github.com/chkoreff/Fexl/blob/master/build Configurable with a small src/config file: https://
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Russia to Grab Pension Money, Temporarily(blogs.wsj.com)
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by fexl 13y ago
They do hire some ignorant yahoos from time to time.
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by fexl 13y ago
Bringing in water is a rescue effort, and it saves more people from suffering or dying from dehydration. No, the last thing FEMA wants is for people to see how useless and counterproductive they are.
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by fexl 13y ago
In the aftermath of Katrina, people from Walmart and other organizations tried to bring water to stranded people in New Orleans, and FEMA turned them away. What was the motivation there? Maintaining orderly road traffic?
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by fexl 13y ago
Never forget the May Scale of Monetary Hardness, from my old friend J.P. May: http://stakeventures.com/articles/2012/03/07/the-may-scale-o...
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by fexl 13y ago
"in the fork model a number of processes can grow uncontrollably." You can use setrlimit to prevent that. Plus, your application is likely to have direct control over forking anyway.
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by fexl 13y ago
I agree that functional programming is wonderful, but imperative programs can often look especially clear. Quite a conundrum. In Fexl ( http://fexl.com ), you can reduce the nesting by using the ';' ("pivot")
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by fexl 13y ago
The article says that freedom refers to the absence of external structure, as if it's a grim state of confused aimlessness. I say that freedom refers to the absence of external coercion, which is a happy state of purpose and possibili
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by fexl 13y ago
They're also demanding private SSL keys: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57595202-38/feds-put-heat-... In that case they can easily sniff passwords as they are used.
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by fexl 13y ago
Right, it doesn't seem likely to succeed, especially if these dynamics prevail: "A currency that quintuples in a month, and then loses two-thirds of its value in the following week, is not a currency that inspires confidence in u
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by fexl 13y ago
I disagree with two words. :)
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by fexl 13y ago
Happy 50th birthday, TAB! I love you.
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by fexl 13y ago
The problem I have with his example is that I would probably want to do this: Person person = dataSource.getPersonById(personId); if (person != null) { person.setPhoneNumber(phoneNumber); dataSource.updatePerson(pe
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by fexl 13y ago
I define a "gang" as any organized group of people which systematically initiates force against others, or coerces them with the credible threat of force. A gang violates my core moral principle, which is that relations among peo
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by fexl 13y ago
If you're young and inexperienced, or want to flaunt your disregard for safety, a "Speed Limit 25" sign won't dissuade you either. It might even persuade you.
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by fexl 13y ago
The number of people driving 80mph through a residential area each year would be about the same as it is today: approximately zero. There are far fewer psychopaths than you think, and psychopaths are largely undissuaded by laws.
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by fexl 13y ago
"Although" is not the right word here -- you're supporting my point. :) The requirement to pay taxes in USD is the primary "inherent value" which makes that particular commodity circulate as money. The "inhere
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by fexl 13y ago
Yes, though I'm a little unclear on how the following technologies might work together to ... save us ... from the disastrous CA FUD: http://curvecp.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cjdns http:
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by fexl 13y ago
That's right, and it was set in America.
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by fexl 13y ago
By "gang", I mean any organized group of people which systematically initiates force against others, or coerces them with the credible threat of force. What "anarchist"? Nobody I even know is an anarchist.
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by fexl 13y ago
I had the same thought as you, which is why I posted the skeptical response "... All without telling anyone or getting noticed by ops people etc." To anyone who notices, there's always "shut up and not notice." But
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by fexl 13y ago
Even governments cannot rely on taxation to fund armies or anything else they do. For centuries, they have relied instead on seizing monopoly control of money and then debasing it. This has the effect of stealing people's savings and
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by fexl 13y ago
The reality is that approximately 200 million people were killed by people in government in the 20th century. If the basic role of government is to protect "its" own citizens against that , then not only have they utterly fail
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by fexl 13y ago
"All of the freedoms that we enjoy in Western democracies were hard-won and continue to be backed up by guns, bombs, codes, and secrets. It's not pretty, but that's how things are." That's the official story. In re
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by fexl 13y ago
It amazes me that an attack which cost only a few hundred thousand dollars could provoke a decade of mass paranoia, a widely applauded loss of freedom, trillions of dollars in wasted wealth, billions of hours of wasted time, and many thous
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by fexl 13y ago
This article discusses how high-level executives and many top engineers might have no idea what is happening: https://financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/001431.html Excerpt: "How is this apparent contradi
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by fexl 13y ago
Right: (1) the chance of being murdered for any reason is very low, (2) the chance of being murdered for a political reason (a.k.a "terrorism") is extremely low, and (3) the chance that a multi-billion dollar, multi-yottabyte inf
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by fexl 13y ago
Revolution is one violent gang fighting another violent gang, producing a new boss that's same as the old boss. Instead, seriously consider ways of living and behaving which minimize your contact with and support for all gangs.

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