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by funklute 4y ago
> You don't happen to read many Lisp HN threads in detail do you? Again, you could dial down the arrogance. I do read most threads on lisp in a fair bit of detail, and I don't often find "trolls". I usually find an as
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by funklute 4y ago
> I suggest those developers to stick to sites like https://github.com/trending instead of injecting their popularity contest questions in a thread about homoiconicity and lambda-calculus. You are not the sole person who
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by funklute 4y ago
Do you feel that fennel was merely a slightly nicer way of writing neovim plugins, or did it in fact give you a significant boost in productivity/capabilities?
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by funklute 4y ago
> either terribly missing the point or written in bad faith Honestly, this comes across as a pretty arrogant statement. I think it is you who is missing the point that many developers would genuinely like to see a cool language being _us
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by funklute 4y ago
That makes sense!
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by funklute 4y ago
> First one doesn't really make much sense. There are so many intelligent lifeforms on earth ... that the leap to exponential tool use doesn't seem like something that would take anything close to 100B years, let alone trillion
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by funklute 4y ago
> Telling the 9/10 from Q2 that they are "wrong" is, again, very misguided and pretty jerky honestly. I disagree. I do see your point about linguistic evolution. But I don't think it applies here. In my native tongue,
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by funklute 4y ago
> e.g. and i.e. both have come to interchangeably and loosely mean "for example" It seems you live on a completely different planet to me... "i.e." simply does not mean "for example", and no one who has a go
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by funklute 4y ago
> just that the borrow checker doesn't fully check here, which for certain core algorithms can be necessary Why is that? Does this imply that there are certain algorithms you simply can't write (efficiently) when using the borr
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by funklute 4y ago
> Compelling helpful action leads to all kinds of absurd conclusions. No it doesn't. Besides, "not doing something helpful" vs "doing something hurtful" is often simply a matter of perspective. > For example,
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by funklute 4y ago
> A political organization like EU has no say in this. This is the short-sighted view. The unguided free market very often makes "decisions" that are detrimental to society as a whole, and it is absolutely necessary for politic
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by funklute 4y ago
> Blockchains are inherently public The vote is public, yes, but the participation is anonymous. I can easily set up two different miners, both controlled by me, but with different addresses. There is not generally an easy way of looking
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by funklute 4y ago
And I think this is a very valid viewpoint. Clearly, many people think the same, otherwise we'd already have non-reversible transactions in the conventional banking system.
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by funklute 4y ago
> These people create demand for the asset I don't think I really understood what you meant by this... Nor did I really follow your overall point here, if I'm to be honest... > means that the network is not properly decentra
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by funklute 4y ago
> You also (almost always) try to preserve anonymity in a democracy. You most definitely do not. When you turn up to vote, you get asked for id. EDIT: your actual vote is anonymous, yes. But your participation in the voting is not anonym
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by funklute 4y ago
Interestingly, the original bitcoin white-paper had a motivating example that basically amounted to side-stepping banks, because banks do not provide fully non-reversible transactions. In essence, bitcoin was a technological solution to a p
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by funklute 4y ago
Except that with blockchain solutions, you generally try to preserve anonymity. (as also elaborated on in other comments in this thread)
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by funklute 4y ago
> But this change also means that "Decentralisation" and "Power to the people" are fading away right? But it was always like this, also with proof of work. PoS and PoW are both just variations of "proof of resour
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by funklute 4y ago
In what way were the developers expected to "master" k8/helm? In the sense of actually making contributions to the k8/helm setup, or simply using an existing k8/helm setup to provide a development environment? Was t
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by funklute 4y ago
> When the revealed policy preference of world leaders is to shut down the AC in summer in a desert, turn off the heat in a Scandanavian winter, and restrict energy supplies to developing countries, you don't have a workable solutio
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by funklute 4y ago
> all money is very literally, nothing more, nothing less than debt This doesn't seem to work for a dollar bill in my hand though?
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by funklute 4y ago
> And idk what neovims plugin ecosystem looks like, but if Python's startup times were a real issue, I don't think I would mind having a persistent daemon to reduce the problem, especially if it means better plugins. That'
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by funklute 4y ago
Yes, true - I didn't word that very well. I believe lua is faster than python mostly due to the simplicity of the language implementation itself, but as another comment pointed out, it might not actually be that big a difference (and I
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by funklute 4y ago
I wasn't disputing that though. However, because of the batteries included, it has significantly more overhead than lua.
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by funklute 4y ago
> IMO, any application for editing/powerusers with a plugin system should be using Python exclusively. While I agree that python is often a good (or even the best) choice, I think the neovim team made a solid argument for lua (easie
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by funklute 4y ago
Well, academic consensus usually takes a long time to build. And obviously it can take wrong turns (and there are plenty of examples of that historically, often due to work based on incomplete or wrong data - though arguably even if the aca
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by funklute 4y ago
> otherwise this is equivalent to saying that academic consensus can never be wrong No it is not. I said that the assumption must be that the consensus becomes less wrong over time, not that it is never wrong. Those are two very differen
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by funklute 4y ago
"supposed to be" is perhaps not quite the wording I would use. My understanding is that these kinds of materialist explanations are out of favour because they have some genuine shortcomings: 1) they are largely untestable/unf
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by funklute 4y ago
> I think one of the challenge with relying on academics of History or anthropology is that, unlike physics, consensus doesn’t necessarily progress towards a more accurate interpretation. I think this statement needs some very strong evi
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by funklute 4y ago
I'm struggling to decide whether to take this critique seriously or not. You yourself told the parent "many experts disagree with your assessment", when the parent clearly indicated that they simply were following what appear

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