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by innguest 12y ago
I am more convinced of Dr James Flynn's arguments than yours regarding IQ because I have gone over some of his work, which contradicts what you are saying. If you point me to some of yours or your sources I'd take a look.
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by innguest 12y ago
You missed my point. Haskell beginners do not know we use the word "morphism" for the most generic "take an input, give an output" thing (the most generic map). That's why they call it "function". It'
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by innguest 12y ago
Yes, but let's be careful not to confuse beginners that thought they were on the path to understanding and then you come and say "it's not combining two functions". Well, it is combining two morphisms - that you can&#x
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by innguest 12y ago
> FTFA: "The project consisted of four modules: an economic simulator [...]" We have sophisticated physics simulators nowadays but no economic simulator to be found. It's almost as if all those economic formulae are a gian
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by innguest 12y ago
Well, you're not alone. I also think the "malleability" we see in children is just because of the attributes of their existence: nothing to worry about, nothing to do but play (and voluntary learning is play) and so on. And
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by innguest 12y ago
So if everyone were clones that would not be enough equality for you? How would you go about your further goals in this clone society? Constant monitoring of citizens, tracking their lives, measuring disparities in the short and long term a
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by innguest 12y ago
Did you not say that a substantial number of employers owe their existence to creations of government and for this reason are bound by government obligations? For that to be a principled argument, would it not follow that if one does not ow
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by innguest 12y ago
Oh, gotcha. Well, barter exists in nature, and gold as well, so from what you're saying I gather that you would not be opposed to: - instead of a Corporation or an LLC, I just be myself - instead of an employee, I choose to barter some
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by innguest 12y ago
It's an idea that comes from Smalltalk, where for the longest time they've had a way to search for object methods given an input and an output, and it would search which object method did that. So you can give it "blah"
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by innguest 12y ago
To say "we let you exist" is to say "we could have destroyed you but chose not to". To be said "we could have destroyed you" to, is to be oppressed. So you really like this "nugget" that makes your su
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by innguest 12y ago
Maybe if academics were engaged in real work that can't be faked this wouldn't be a problem. For instance, why not only accept papers that come along with cold, hard evidence for what the paper is saying? If it's a chemistr
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by innguest 12y ago
So you'd say with a straight face that if everyone in the world suddenly became white, straight and good-looking, that this would be so unbearable to you that you would kill yourself? If you're not literally saying that, then what
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by innguest 12y ago
There are more direct and efficient ways of addressing inequality than genetically changing people to be equal?
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by innguest 12y ago
Your first sentence is a non-sequitur. When did Nature decide that the more well-educated are the fittest? Your second sentence is wrong. People's intelligence vary widely which is why some people can't even answer a hypothetical
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by innguest 12y ago
I don't know about "Randians" but libertarians in general are against corporations as they are a product of the State. Individual rights are not losing their credibility because some illegitimate market rigging is allowed by
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by innguest 12y ago
The OP point is incorrect since it incorrectly states that Locke's definition of human rights came from Libertarianism. The OP therefore doesn't have a point since their argument relies on a false statement.
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by innguest 12y ago
This is the Biology equivalent of Astronomy's "land a rocket on a rock". I'll be happy to have $0.70 of my tax money allocated for this research. Deep down I think we're all fond of the mammoth. I know I am. Mammoth
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by innguest 12y ago
You can have space leaks without memory leaks (if you build up big enough thunks/delayed computations/promises or otherwise run out of heap space) and you can have memory leaks without space leaks (malloc 1 byte and lose its point
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by innguest 12y ago
Relax. It's not pedantry. If I click on a link titled "Memory leak in Ruby" I'm concerned the GC has a problem and I should avoid some particular method call or something else because the GC is currently having trouble c
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by innguest 12y ago
> Considering that each entry could involve a large number of AR objects memory leakage was very high. Ah. I thought I was going crazy. Memory leaks in a managed language (i.e. one with a GC) are solely the fault of the GC implementer an
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by innguest 12y ago
Google Schmoogle - Peter Norvig is a powerhouse name and Google gains in prestige for having Peter Norvig, not the other way around.
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by innguest 12y ago
This is wrong. There are no purely functional data structures analogous to hash tables in terms of performance. Hash tables are inherently stateful and cannot be implemented without state.
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by innguest 12y ago
I don't mind if they choose not to pick the language I like, but I do mind that other people will fall for this faulty reasoning, and not give the language a chance. That's why I pointed out where the fault in the reasoning is.
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by innguest 12y ago
Yes, there is a reason. woman -> femina, related to women -> femininus man -> vir, related to men -> mas As you can see it seems even the Romans did not like to make derivations from the old, old word "vir" (also see e
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by innguest 12y ago
Imagine you have to take over someone else's 1,000,000 LoC written with their own, unique, classes and methods, some of which may invoke other methods, and interact with instance variables in surprising ways, depending on which method
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by innguest 12y ago
Real property = that which is material, i.e. made out of stuff that you can carry around. For instance, if you print a computer file, the sheet of paper with the data on it is real property because it's a material thing in the world. T
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by innguest 12y ago
I'd love to chat with you at more length if you're interested. I'm not sure I understand your two objections as I can't see an example of how the free market with its reliance on private property fails to address the tra
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by innguest 12y ago
I never said "with lisp, everyone has to come up with their own syntax for commonly-needed things". But it sounds your mind is already made up by hypothetical prejudices. You said you stick with Clojure over Scheme on account of
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by innguest 12y ago
> which gives Mediacom exclusive rights in our city > because the market sure won't. What market? You have no market there. A monopoly is not a market. Your free market hatred is showing.
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by innguest 12y ago
1 - Everything is an expression so it's easier to snap code together. 2 - List based = flexibility, get more done faster because lists are simple and everywhere 3 - Strongly nudges in the direction of functional programming 4 - Rocking

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