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by lolcraft 14y ago
Agreed, but, I don't see what a PhD has to do with any of these. My snarky, probably very ignorant, reply would be something like, if you want intellectual freedom, get a subscription to a library. Renegotiate your lowly Bachelor of Science
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by lolcraft 14y ago
My take: Kim Dotcom knows very well that Bitcoin is an absurdly deflationary currency, and wants to long it as much as he can, as soon as he can. As you very well point out, there's a possibility the bitcoin economy will grow exponentially,
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by lolcraft 14y ago
Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. What my country (Spain) labor legislation does, and I suspect many of the european ones, is not at all what you think it is, don't worry. The law just allows workers, if they consider their rights to have bee
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by lolcraft 14y ago
I sympathize, but take notice that this is part of the classic one-two strategy that capitalists, as a class, have historically used to gain a disproportionate amount of power in certain historical periods. Say, the 19th century, or the 80s
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by lolcraft 14y ago
Yeah, yeah, cool stuff, but those aren't ideas. Those are technologies . Evolution theory, universal democracy, organized labour, atheism, those were massive ideas. The Internet was a massive technology. Well, to be fair, that was a bad ex
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by lolcraft 14y ago
The Song of Solomon and Ecclesiastes are the shit, though. But honestly, yeah, the Bible is the poorest written fiction I've ever not finished reading. It's not even worth the paper as a religious reference, surprisingly. Maybe reading some
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by lolcraft 14y ago
Playing chicken with the world in order to prevent another conventional war between two superpowers... justified. Otherwise, a hardline faction in any government could have easily pushed for it. Not the mainstream political force in the U
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by lolcraft 14y ago
So, if I get this, the "party line" was that C++ is great because it's OOP -- never mind if it actually does not provide encapsulation or modularity. Or garbage collection. Or reflection. But now it is that C++ is great because it's not OOP
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by lolcraft 14y ago
Nah. That's a bad analogy. The film equivalent to BPM is composition (scene switch, montage) speed. Much better to think of 48 fps as going from ~ 40 kHz to 48 kHz sampling rate: instead of fitting more things into a movie, what you film ha
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by lolcraft 14y ago
> I think most dollars spent by both poor people and rich people are spent on consumption, not investment. Not at all. Poor people expend on consumption. Rich people spend far more on investment and savings. Yeah, Paul Allen might have
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by lolcraft 14y ago
I see the Singularity as an apocalyptic prophecy, textbook millenarianism [1] that takes much inspiration from old-school Marxism. Like the latter, it presents itself as economic and scientific because it has big-sounding concepts like Law
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by lolcraft 14y ago
complexFn = do x <- getSomeData y <- computeWith x z <- computeSomeMore y return z Let's say you have here straightforward imperative code. Of course, a real example would be more complex. But suppose x is now a lis
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by lolcraft 14y ago
Well, to be trollish :), he also didn't want it because: 1 - With TCO, there would be no more "recursiveFunction recursiveFunction recursiveFunction" x 1000 stack traces. Which apparently is bad. Might force someone to use a debugger, you k
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by lolcraft 14y ago
Hmmm, that's a bold move from Notch. I wonder how political activism in the US by a Swedish citizen is going to sit. Personally, I would just have thanked my luck for working in a country with sane patent laws.
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by lolcraft 14y ago
I don't know why Clojure does not do TCO, but I would be surprised if the Java VM has something to do with it. I mean, why? TCO is just an AST transformation. Takes a function, returns a function and a for loop. Yeah, yeah, the easy impleme
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by lolcraft 14y ago
Look, I get it, it's funny, but please stop throwing conspiratory shit around. The most likely explanation, by far, is that the photo is real and the EXIF tags are real. If the photo is not real, why care about the tags? You weren't there.
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by lolcraft 14y ago
I guess we, in our youthful arrogance, dismiss our seniors as enterprise relics of a lost age, without considering what led them to that place before. Things don't seem to change that much, after all. Sadly. Which is coincidentally the them
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by lolcraft 14y ago
This is, surprisingly, a warning for entrepreneurs worldwide. You should read it. "After I left finance, I started attending some of the fashionable conferences attended by he new class of technology intellectuals. I was initially exhilarat
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by lolcraft 14y ago
I don't find the Chinese room argument convincing in the least. After all, it's the software that does the understanding, not the hardware. Otherwise, it would be like asking my fingers to understand this comment, or even asking my brain, w
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by lolcraft 14y ago
This is a great read: http://www.idlewords.com/2005/08/a_rocket_to_nowhere.htm . Talks about how the Air Force requirements for launching spy satellites, the Cold War and SDI madness affected NASA's Shuttle design. I wouldn't make of it a
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by lolcraft 14y ago
Well, I understand he didn't knew about the Keynesian macroeconomic framework, or was understandably suspicious of it's validity, as new as it was. Microeconomic theory just couldn't model an event such as the Great Depression, at the time.
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by lolcraft 14y ago
Well, actually, it is. And it's spot on. Some might have this fetish for rationality that claims if it's delusion it's a lie, whatever, you might think that too. Honestly, in a career path that requires a very big blind bet, and hopes for o
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by lolcraft 14y ago
Not judging? "... most likely you're either missing something you really should know, or you're lucky enough to be working within a narrow area where your deficit doesn't matter." Talk about reading just part of the sentence.
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by lolcraft 14y ago
Actually, I agree with the article: if you have a Brilliant Jerk on board, please fire them as soon as they've got another job. Think of it not as your company outgrowing this person. Rather, face that this Jerk is simply in another level.
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by lolcraft 14y ago
Today's first-world sub-economy is not limited by total energy output, but by consumer demand and private credit. Furthermore, production of high-energy products would be moved towards underdeveloped countries that aren't on the Annex I of
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by lolcraft 14y ago
If Apple has shown something, is what putting millions of dollars and more than a thousand full-time engineers working on a Unix OS with custom hardware looks like. Most Linux users don't care about the X server nor find it underperformant.
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by lolcraft 14y ago
I don't see how any rational person could see any difference between dying in an accident and being murdered in a random, untargeted act. Is it dishonorable or something? Would they be heartbroken by this terrorist cell show of rudeness? No
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by lolcraft 14y ago
Coincidentally, it would be thirty hundred thousand times the amount I would pay to a local Cambodian corrupt cop to get that dude's ass on jail. With little variance. Point is, Swedish readers, you should vote me for chief prosecutor of yo
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by lolcraft 14y ago
I would downvote it, not only for the historical egocentrism of claiming that somehow those fighting the Vietnam War were protecting united-statesian lives (as if the conflict ever was anything other than wrestling for political influence
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by lolcraft 14y ago
Interesting article, but that submission title ("NASA faked the moon landing--Therefore (Climate) Science is a Hoax") is shit. A much better one would be "An Anatomy of the Motivated Rejection of Science".

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