gnaritas

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by gnaritas 9y ago
You can avoid paying taxes in any currency, including USD; it's still illegal regardless.
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by gnaritas 9y ago
> Now we have the internet -- so it is easy and cheap for hotels to engage directly with many customers. It's really not. > Why should my local Hilton Garden Inn give 20% of the gross to Expedia? Because Expedia has the traffic t
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by gnaritas 9y ago
> Dynamic languages just don't scale to large codebases You mean "popular" dynamic languages due to their lack of tooling. Dynamic languages like Smalltalk scale up just fine, but Smalltalk has automated refactoring tools
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by gnaritas 9y ago
That doesn't remotely agree with your claim. That women feel more anxiety than men isn't remotely the same as saying most women can't handle adversity. Being anxious doesn't equate to not handling adversity, and if you
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by gnaritas 9y ago
> I have no idea why it hasn't caught on. Because there is no parenthesis problem; there's a newb problem. The people who complain about parenthesis haven't used a Lisp long enough, that's all. Parens are a feature,
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by gnaritas 9y ago
> Most women can't handle adversity Hmm... massively sexist comment, and not remotely true. Two relationships is not a valid sample size to make judgements about "most women" and likely your hindsight is a bit flawed give
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by gnaritas 9y ago
> Do not talk to your wife. That's pretty much never good advice; you should always talk to your wife, that's what a relationship is. If you aren't, your marriage is dysfunctional.
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by gnaritas 9y ago
Absolutely true.
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by gnaritas 9y ago
That's a roundabout way of describing theft. > Many dev jobs can be accomplished by pretty tried and true technology. Then they should be. > To become a mid-level engineer and make more money, you've got to implement some ki
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by gnaritas 9y ago
> My point is that just because something has a steep learning curve, that doesn't necessarily mean that it's a bad design. It does if the app is aimed at companies with high turnover where said learning curve poses a continual
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by gnaritas 9y ago
> No, we have a republic. Fundamentally different animal. No it's not, and it's really sad and tiring such a simple concept escapes so many people. Please take a course in government and learn the difference between these thin
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by gnaritas 9y ago
Having a constitution just makes a country "constitutional", it doesn't make it a republic. You're conflating being constitutional with being a republic, they are different things; we are both of those things, but they
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by gnaritas 9y ago
No, ours is, but not all republics are democracies. Republic just means we don't have a monarchy and leaders are chosen by some other means. It doesn't mean that means is a democracy.
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by gnaritas 9y ago
I sympathize with your goal, but you can't legally enforce journalistic ethics. And yes of course Fox is often non-factual, my point was one can be misleading with nothing but the truth and they demonstrate that constantly, stopping t
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by gnaritas 9y ago
> First of all, it is a republic and not a democracy. That's like saying it's a dog not an animal; our republic is also a democracy, they are not mutually exclusive terms so please stop saying this nonsense.
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by gnaritas 9y ago
> It's a little less kick-ass if you live in North Dakota, and wonder why a few coastal congressmen are able to pass laws which interfere with your lifestyle. And which laws would those be? I'm curious because the fact is a vo
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by gnaritas 9y ago
> Like I said, mandate factual reporting standards and the news agencies will do the research for the people. You can't mandate factual reporting and still call it a free press as those enforcing the "fact" standards now c
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by gnaritas 9y ago
No, really. Natural language processing isn't going to allow it to see and recognize the thing, nor navigate to the thing; it'll take vastly more complication than the OP implied to do something as simple as pick up something when
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by gnaritas 9y ago
> "Herbert: grab my car keys." "Herbert: set the dinner table." "Herbert: put the mail in the mailbox." Doing that requires far more than simply being able to pick things up and put things down and walk arou
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by gnaritas 9y ago
Because archaeologist's aren't dumb.
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by gnaritas 9y ago
Yes, several, it's slightly too dependent on the mouse for focus; I'd rather never touch a mouse. I wish it used native windows (this is specific to Squeak/Pharo) so my editor felt like any other editor rather than a window
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by gnaritas 9y ago
> That's not how Lisp works. Macros are not simple code generators, where the workflow would be write macro code, expand that, and use the expanded code. You're putting words in my mouth, and yes macros are just code generators
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by gnaritas 9y ago
We get it, you're a static typing fan, this debate is as old as the hills, but late bound dynamic languages are not going anywhere, are not being replaced, and will continue be popular and make money because what you don't seem to
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by gnaritas 9y ago
I'm well aware, I've programmed in Pharo daily for a decade; I Smalltalk for a living. What I said it true practically speaking, you're getting into implementation details that don't make a practical difference. Lisp a
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by gnaritas 9y ago
> Lisp and Smalltalk actually suffer from the same problem: late-binding sucks. That's a feature, not a bug. Late binding rocks. > This plays havoc with your ability to do static analysis, and languages that hinder static analysi
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by gnaritas 9y ago
Yea, that's a weird statement, however a better one is that Smalltalk doesn't need macros because it has a clean syntax for lambas that remove a common use for macros, hiding boilerplate use of Lisp's lambda. Beyond that, Sm
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by gnaritas 9y ago
> It does actually matter because minimum wages were created to prevent minorities from finding jobs and compete with whites, they still have the same effect today. I've already refuted that poor line of reasoning, I'm not goin
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by gnaritas 9y ago
And my point is resources are the goal, not work; there are other ways of obtaining a minimum living wage that don't require working yourself to the bone for less than a livable wage. We have safety nets for a reason. It has everything
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Unless it is, which it sometimes is.
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by gnaritas 9y ago
Your points are only meaningful if you think the goal of life is to have a job. When you realize others have different goals, then you'll be getting somewhere. Are you aware that penicillin was discovered by accident therefore it must

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