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by greenrd 10y ago
You can't embed control characters in URLs, though. Of course some web servers and web applications may blithely accept illegal unescaped control characters in URLs. If so, they're buggy.
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by greenrd 10y ago
Darcs was mostly a failure because no-one, not even the original author, could satisfactorily explain its patch model - whereas git's patch model is simple and easy to understand. That has nothing to do with Haskell.
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by greenrd 10y ago
The main lens library in Haskell doesn't exactly have no documentation, but it is pretty much impenetrable without a third-party tutorial or blog post. But persevere - it's really powerful!
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by greenrd 10y ago
Type-checked examples are becoming more popular in the Scala community, e.g. using the tut tool. This is one of the few ways in which the Scala community appears to be ahead of the Haskell community, in terms of technology.
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by greenrd 10y ago
That looks like more of a combination of existing monads than a truly new monad. I must admit that I can't remember ever creating my own monad from scratch.
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by greenrd 10y ago
I think it's because people commonly forget what it's like to be a beginner and which things that are obvious to them are not obvious to a beginner. This is probably more true in Haskell where there is just so much that it's
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by greenrd 10y ago
Yes, it's a mistake to believe that the type class instances of a type are always going to be advanced details that can be skipped until later. They might be, or they might not.
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by greenrd 10y ago
I'm not sure I agree. Functional Reactive Programming is a declarative way of doing user interaction, but it's still a computer science research topic (Elm used to claim to be FRP, but has now decided to move away from its old all
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by greenrd 10y ago
Additionally, in languages with good, convenient support for functional programming like Haskell and Scala, I find that I tend to write lots of short functions, often making use of higher-order functions to decompose code into really simple
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by greenrd 10y ago
That's a hypothetical though, I'm guessing. Does The DAO actually use uncancellable payments, and if so, what for?
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by greenrd 10y ago
Huh? Laws operate within countries. You can't file (or even defend against) lawsuits in a country without being "present" in that country.
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by greenrd 11y ago
It depends. I wouldn't hire Yarvin, because his record of alleged racist writing and speech suggest he would be a lawsuit waiting to happen. But Lambdaconf appear to have decided that explicitly muzzling his alleged racist and politica
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by greenrd 11y ago
Point 5 is moot and offensive because slavery is wrong. Even Moldbug now claims he does not support chattel slavery. However he is very keen on tyranny, which he correctly identifies as akin to slavery.
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by greenrd 11y ago
>If that's to apply, then the people who are using it first need to have convinced society at large. Just FYI, the controversial speaker at issue here quotes Carlyle - a man who advocated slavery, and using lethal force to put down
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by greenrd 11y ago
AFAIK decentralised Bitcoin transactions are already illegal in the US if none of the parties to the transaction have a money transmitter license - correct me if I'm wrong.
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by greenrd 11y ago
You don't understand what a code of conduct is, or what this debate is about.
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by greenrd 11y ago
If it's already what you feel is expected of you, why object to agreeing to it?
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by greenrd 11y ago
You need a code of conduct to prevent that if you are not to pre-vet all slides, which is excessively bureaucratic and creates an implicit code of conduct anyway.
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by greenrd 11y ago
Will be irrelevant in a few hundred years, you mean.
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by greenrd 11y ago
Please cite specific examples, so that everyone can know where they stand.
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by greenrd 11y ago
Discriminating against homophobic people is going to discriminate against a lot of Muslims, Russians etc. Discriminating against racists is going to discriminate against a lot of people from all over the world. Are you OK with that?
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by greenrd 11y ago
There's this weird thing where libertarians go so far right they become neoreactionaries, and vice versa. It's sort of the horseshoe theory for the authoritarian-libertarian spectrum I guess. I don't really understand it.
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by greenrd 11y ago
So Donald Trump is against the 1st amendment? Along with any other politician who has people removed from events for political disagreement?
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by greenrd 11y ago
And if you hate the guy a lot (I do) you can always go to the conference and boycott his particular talk.
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by greenrd 11y ago
It's probably not a patch on what a dedicated AGI could achieve. Read Nick Bostrom's book Superintelligence for some in-depth arguments on this.
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by greenrd 11y ago
This is Scientific American, a general-interest publication, not AGI Risks Weekly. In other words, most of the people reading this article will have never come across these ideas, let alone considering the questions "obvious". I&#
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by greenrd 11y ago
Feudalism is a word that has been applied to such a wide variety of historical situations that it almost has no meaning, like the word "liberal". Please explain what is bad with having to pay rent to the government, given that we
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by greenrd 11y ago
For my (slightly outdated) sceptical take on this idea, see http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Market_monetarism
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by greenrd 11y ago
Worth noting that the community has spread out into a kind of "diaspora": some have gone into effective altruism (many retaining their AI risk beliefs, especially the ones in California); some have been hired to work on existentia
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by greenrd 11y ago
I'm amused at the irony of users on a site devoted to technology, many of whom are probably software engineers, complaining about obscure jargon...

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