gnaritas

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by gnaritas 10y ago
Government isn't a company, isn't competing with them, and shouldn't be measured in the way companies are measured; that you're even making this comparison speaks to the fact that you don't understand the purpose of
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by gnaritas 10y ago
Wrong, it's exactly the world I want to live in and the Constitution happens to agree, which is why we've amended it many a time, because the governed decided it was outdated. The notion that we should still be living by the dict
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by gnaritas 10y ago
> so the compromises are less ideal Such is the nature of democracy and all design by committee, accept it, it's better than the alternative: dictatorship. > than a more pragmatic approach Forcing more pragmatic approaches would
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by gnaritas 10y ago
The purpose of government is about whatever the governed of the current day decide that purpose is. Your view of government is just that, your opinion, not a fact. Liberals in particular tend to see the purpose of government as providing o
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by gnaritas 10y ago
That's not how government works; it's not about pragmatic solutions or logical solutions; it's about what you can get enough people to agree on, which is what Obamacare is, the most enough people could agree on to get it pass
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by gnaritas 10y ago
No. His definition is correct. If you make the call, it's a library, that it might use threads during that call does not make it a framework. Libraries don't mean you're in full control of everything, they only mean you invo
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by gnaritas 10y ago
That's a function deployed as a library, not a real library; the word library implies many functions.
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by gnaritas 10y ago
Are we now disputing that ignorance is a bad thing, really? Do you think society is better off with more uneducated people? Racism, bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, etc are all symptoms of ignorance; those are petty tribalisms. Ignorance isn
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by gnaritas 10y ago
That's because part of education is learning to think critically, which specifically means learning to overcome those biases you mention. You say "in reality" as if those supporting education are't aware of human nature,
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by gnaritas 10y ago
Because "we're" being realistic. Changing that is unrealistic.
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by gnaritas 10y ago
> Maybe if you're a day or mechanical trader. Or swing trader or any kind of trader looking to time the market. Trading requires the ability to execute in near real-time. Block chain transactions and worse, fiat transfers between
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by gnaritas 10y ago
Far too slow for any real trading. Exchanges exist for trading quickly, they must be centralized due to this.
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by gnaritas 10y ago
That doesn't seem obvious at all, it presumes sleeping is about conserving energy and that's an unwarranted assumption and baseless assumption. Sleep very well could be a requirement for brains to work they way they do. If you a
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by gnaritas 10y ago
You're only proving his point.
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by gnaritas 10y ago
They're anecdata, the best kind of data for those with an agenda or those without brains.
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by gnaritas 10y ago
> Tell them: Look, you can play around with your currency in whatever way you want. But if the trade balance is not balanced, we charge a 10% import tax. Per day. Cumulative. Yea, that's not how the world works; the President isn&#x
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by gnaritas 10y ago
LINQ is not a fluent programming style, LINQ is standard functional programming with higher order functions. Chaining calls back to back isn't what fluent is, chaining calls to the same object back to back is fluent whereas with LINQ
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by gnaritas 10y ago
Pharo isn't Smalltalk inspired , Pharo is a Smalltalk, one of several; it forked from Squeak to create a more business oriented Smalltalk rather than the garish toy for children that Squeak was.
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by gnaritas 10y ago
> As a side effect, Simula was the first object-oriented language. No, Simula was the first language with objects; having objects does not make a language object oriented. Smalltalk was the first object oriented langauge, the object was
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by gnaritas 10y ago
The Fluent API styles is to return "this" so setter methods can be chained, that style doesn't produce nulls.
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by gnaritas 10y ago
That's quite a lot of something for "literally absolutely nothing".
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by gnaritas 10y ago
That's a very blub answer. Regex search & replace isn't in the same universe as automated refactorings.
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by gnaritas 10y ago
Have you read Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns by Kent Beck? I'd throw it in that mix if you haven't. It and the Pragmatic Programmer are my two favorites. Code Complete is too verbose imho.
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by gnaritas 10y ago
There was logic to his actions, he stole their ad revenues and kept the money while dangling a carrot of big investment to keep them from noticing. Scammy bullshit artists still have goals.
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by gnaritas 10y ago
> I prefer to be judged on the content of my comments rather than the number of internet points displayed by my name. It is not up to you how other people judge you, no matter your preference, and attempting to make them is abusive behav
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by gnaritas 10y ago
> So telling people not to overeat--to save resources--is the same as rounding up people and shooting them Yes, they're both equally ridiculous impractical and unrealistic solutions to a problem. That's the point he's mak
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by gnaritas 10y ago
> Literally absolutely nothing. That position is known as the blank slate and is no longer taken seriously among scientists. Language is an instinct that springs forth even when there is no language to pick up from the environment. Wha
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Haven't been keeping up on how fast ASIC's are, just asking, thanks.
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So with hardware sha256, can this mine bitcoin cheaper than an ASIC?
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by gnaritas 10y ago
> The only real solution is electric cars plus significantly reduced speed limits. No, hover cars; no road noise if you don't touch the road.

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