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by hencq 7y ago
But I was led to believe that whenever you get questioned, a Scottish person will appear out of nowhere to declare it's legal tender [0] [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gx-a5rYIAOM
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by hencq 7y ago
Not OP, but that helped me at least, so thank you. The description of the mixnet seems a bit similar to the way Tor anonymizes where requests come. What I'm not clear on is how a voter can know that the mixnet is working correctly. I.e
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by hencq 7y ago
I would agree, I love the structure s-expressions bring, especially using smartparens in Emacs. At the same time I really enjoy some of the deviations from pure s-expressions that Clojure has made (like hash literals, using vectors for func
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by hencq 7y ago
That's one of the first things I noticed when I moved to the US. Not sure if it's specific to the US or maybe just the Bay Area or even just a sign of the times, but it seems like it's impossible for people to "kind of l
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by hencq 7y ago
For me personally the regularity is definitely a plus. Especially combined with an editor like paredit or smartparens it becomes very easy to move entire sections of code around.
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by hencq 7y ago
Very interesting. I'm curious what you'll come up with. The description also reminds me of Eve [1][2], which is itself based on Bloom [3][4]. [1] http://play.witheve.com/#/examples/quickstart.eve [2] ht
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by hencq 7y ago
True of course, though the video does have some examples of physical comedy as well; no 7 in his list for example. Personally I love this example from Hot Stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30kUNex1cuI
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by hencq 7y ago
Hahaha, this is genius. I love the inventiveness of the low-tech keylogger here.
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by hencq 7y ago
There's nothing wrong with the title. It's a direct quote from the interview. Also, the article literally has "Interview with Edward Snowden" above it with a picture of him. Just because it entices you to read doesn&#x27
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by hencq 7y ago
Yeah, to me it felt that's when the 90's with its optimism were truly over.
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by hencq 7y ago
I liked this quote from the article in that regard: > “This is going to be the first fighter jet produced in the thousands for a very long time,” said Richard Aboulafia, an aerospace analyst with the Teal Group. “None of this is stoppabl
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by hencq 7y ago
Great article! I was not aware of China's need for dollars due to dollar denominated debt. One question I still have is how/why they ended up with dollar denominated debt as opposed to debt in RMB? Also, who currently holds this d
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by hencq 7y ago
This could still be true though. There are more likely to be outliers in the large group than in the small group. However, there is a lower bound on the number (nobody makes below $0), but no upper bound. So the distribution is likely to be
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by hencq 7y ago
> Don't know why I've been downvoted for answering the question. If the U.S. wanted to reply, that's simply the most likely legal mechanism. I don't know either. People seem to automatically assume that a Western resp
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by hencq 7y ago
Unfortunately in the event of (armed) intervention, I expect the US and Europe's reactions to be similar to the Kashoggi murder. A bit of faux outrage and then everything goes back to normal. Heck, I could even see Trump praise Xi Jinp
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by hencq 7y ago
Note that your link is to one of the leaders, which always explicitly give the opinion of the Economist akin to The Editorial Board in the NY Times.
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by hencq 7y ago
Yeah, I guess you're right. It's just confusing to see them call the spreadsheet "Cashflow projections" and then use the words 'expenses' and 'profit/loss'. But then again, they also use 'ex
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by hencq 7y ago
It's not though. For example, the hardware/software purchases in month 1 are an expenditure, but would likely be a depreciation expense over a period of time.
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by hencq 7y ago
Very cool to see that this is getting ready for prime time. It seems they succeeded in achieving the primary goal of making the implementation more maintainable and easier to work with. But the lesser goal (or perhaps non goal, but somethin
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Rebuilding Racket on Chez Scheme Experience Report [pdf](cs.utah.edu)
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by hencq 7y ago
Yeah, this sounds a lot like booking.com. It's obvious that they've relentlessly tuned their purchase flow to make it as seamless as possible.
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by hencq 7y ago
From English to Chinese.
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by hencq 7y ago
I think you just misinterpreted the point he's making. Yes, Python has an expression form for if, but it's a separate form. You can definitely write functional Python, but the point he makes is that Python differentiates between e
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by hencq 7y ago
Yeah, I'm in the same boat. I mainly used Clojure, but have been doing more Racket lately. Mainly for short scripts, because it doesn't have the warm-up time of Clojure. Racket is a beautiful language, but some things in Clojure a
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by hencq 7y ago
Why does the marketplace need to be decentralized? The NYSE is centralized, but that doesn't seem to inhibit trading. The EU has a carbon cap and trade system (ETS) and while there is a fair bit to criticize about it, I don't thin
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by hencq 7y ago
An absolutely terrific book about (among other things) this is The Discoverers by Daniel J. Boorstin. He goes into a lot of detail on how map making in Europe for the longest time was driven, as you say, more by religious importance than an
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by hencq 7y ago
I'm pretty sure that's exactly their point. People assume that interactive means interpreted, but that doesn't need to be the case.
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by hencq 7y ago
Haha this is incredible. I love the Economist and have had a subscription for years, but this is spot on.
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by hencq 8y ago
Maybe I misunderstand your argument, but doesn't that linked page have a section "How the forecast has changed"[1]? [1] https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/...
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by hencq 8y ago
Well you're not wrong, but not only is that in the article, it's literally the next line below the title.

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