gnaritas

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by gnaritas 9y ago
I'm very well aware of what he means, that's obvious from my response, one can be clear without misusing words and it's entirely appropriate to correct someone who's using those words wrong as if they're unrelated w
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by gnaritas 9y ago
You can't chase dividends without risk, it's all speculation. You're making a distinction without a real difference. All investment involves risk, all investment is thus speculation. Not all speculation is investment, gamb
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by gnaritas 9y ago
The words are literally synonyms, see any dictionary.
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by gnaritas 9y ago
> However, it still sounds bizarre that about 90% of their expenses was food. What do you think being poor is?
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by gnaritas 9y ago
Investment and speculation are not different things, all investment is speculation.
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by gnaritas 9y ago
> Thats not speculation, thats straight down investment. You make no sense, all investment is speculation.
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by gnaritas 9y ago
Maybe it does, but does intelligence require consciousness?
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by gnaritas 9y ago
Yea, total nonsense, the universe isn't 2d, and like I said, see the bullet cluster. Dark matter is here, in our 3d universe, mixed with normal matter.
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by gnaritas 9y ago
No, we see evidence of dark matter everywhere inside the universe, around galaxies; you may be confusing dark matter with dark energy.
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by gnaritas 9y ago
See the bullet cluster; you misunderstand the evidence for dark matter.
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by gnaritas 9y ago
> You’re quibbling about words. So are you, this whole thread is you quibbling about words.
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by gnaritas 9y ago
> The evidence (however preliminary) was the fact that nearly all of Pro Publica’s cited rulings were in favor of conservatives. I'd still call that opinion, not evidence. A conservative might say those rulings were in favor of rea
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by gnaritas 9y ago
No, there was his judgement of the results as partisan, that is not evidence. Thinking you see bias is not the same thing as finding evidence of bias.
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by gnaritas 9y ago
Hypothesis without some evidence are quite literally baseless speculation; if there were evidence, it wouldn't be baseless.
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by gnaritas 9y ago
> to get us all to collectively act like the constitution says something different than the plain words on the paper. That is itself an interpretation; those words aren't nearly as plain as you're pretending they are, they&#x27
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by gnaritas 9y ago
I reject your notion that humans aren't swayed by facts; categorically. You live in a world that exists because people are swayed by facts. Humans are swayed by facts, the best ones for sure, certainly not all. If you're not swa
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by gnaritas 9y ago
Your position presumes facts aren't part of how people arrive at their convictions to begin with. If you feed someone bad facts, they're going to come to bad conclusions, how can you deny this? > If you want judges to issue d
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by gnaritas 9y ago
Horizontal scaling is often just as much about redundancy as it is scaling; no one server solution is a valid answer to a production application.
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by gnaritas 9y ago
Because languages are tools, and you should learn to use more than one tool. If you know JavaScript, you basically already know most C based languages syntactically, it's very little effort to at least learn one of them for tasks JS i
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by gnaritas 9y ago
I'd agree.
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by gnaritas 9y ago
I'd argue you're conflating simple with easy; the code might be simple, but I'd wager given the inability of Haskell'ers to even explain what a monad is successfully, that few would find it easy.
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by gnaritas 9y ago
Yep :). I don't agree math defines reality however; it can describe reality, it doesn't define it.
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by gnaritas 9y ago
The question is about learning functional programming, Haskell forces you to learn much more than that to use it. Functional programming should be taught in something like Scheme, which lets you focus on the functional without being forced
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by gnaritas 9y ago
Those abstractions are about static typing, not functional programming. Functional programming doesn't require static types.
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by gnaritas 9y ago
No, teach in Scheme; functional programming has shit to do with advanced static type systems.
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by gnaritas 9y ago
> Javascript doesn't support duck typing. It doesn't support any typing actually: it's dynamically typed. Dynamically typed doesn't mean untyped; you still have types in JavaScript. Most dynamic languages are strongl
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by gnaritas 9y ago
That's a distinction without a difference, they mean the same thing. Not friendly does not imply neutral, it implies not friendly. If I said don't walk through that neighborhood it's not friendly, you would not interpret th
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by gnaritas 9y ago
I wouldn't call not giving special privileges to home owners over renters unfriendly, I'd call it neutral and fair.
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by gnaritas 9y ago
Wouldn't it be more accurate to say they don't give special treatment to home owners over renters? Sounds more fair to me.
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by gnaritas 9y ago
I'm suggesting all of programming is syntactic sugar. Calling something syntactic sugar is not a valid critique.

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