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by gorgonical 7y ago
There's a branch of economics, usually lumped in with "heterodox economics" that says that interpersonal comparisons of utility are impossible. This is called the Austrian school of economics, whose figures are von Mises and
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by gorgonical 7y ago
I think that's part of this push, that Perl 6 is gonna become Raku, so that Perl 5 is just Perl again. Then I think Perl 11 is an aspirational interpreter/VM that will allow both to run, as was originally intended. I do see your p
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by gorgonical 7y ago
I agree and in one of my replies I acknowledge that. It's okay to admire but you have to understand what you are admiring and its context. A very good recent example is that the Nazis were the first government to acknowledge that smoki
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by gorgonical 7y ago
The first post also has parts where he explains how even by contemporary standards it was cruel. That doesn't excuse the attitude that we often hold, that we are the most morally evolved and have the right to judge. I don't think
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by gorgonical 7y ago
After reading the first one, "on spartan schooling" I'm a little sad. I understand the point of casting a more clear light on the alien and brutal practices of ancient civilizations, but the distaste and condemnation that the
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by gorgonical 7y ago
I think they probably could sue him for damages in civil court, but the problem is that (as I understand it) it is not possible to compel someone to pay. You can garnish wages, seize property, etc., but if you're stealing ~$10 of belts
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by gorgonical 7y ago
The personal assistant it says it's inspired by is called Leon: https://github.com/leon-ai/leon
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by gorgonical 8y ago
I was interested in this story and did some digging. I managed to find a WSJ article detailing it from 2000, but it was behind a paywall. I found another website duplicates the article "A Year After Merger With Ameritech, SBC Still Has
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by gorgonical 8y ago
I am actually a research scientist working on NDN (Named-data Networking). Van certainly was the founder of NDN and is often consulted to remind us about his vision for the network, but the torch really has been passed to the other PIs; mos
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by gorgonical 8y ago
I'm guessing, but I'll guess that you live somewhere on the coast. I work in research and I make a very good salary in my city, but I only make ~65k/year. My roommate, with many more years of experience, makes 70k/year,
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by gorgonical 9y ago
I have made extensive use of org-mode for many years, and I keep trying to get into org-brain as a way to really have a "digital brain" -- I use org-mode to implement my own horrible version of GTD, to great success. I have tried
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by gorgonical 9y ago
I agree. Even extremely safe languages like Ada, which have found most of their use in safety-critical situations like in plane avionics and medical equipment, allow the programmer to do "unchecked conversions," the equivalent of
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by gorgonical 9y ago
This is more or less what corporativism suggests, that geography really doesn't make much sense as a grouping parameter. Corporatism suggests grouping people in a voting area by occupation, usually by way of guilds or unions or the lik