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by michael_fine 11y ago
I imagine that's much of the motivation for the actual politicians, though the public wouldn't stomach this without a healthy does of FUD.
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Financial Times' 404 Page(ft.com)
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by michael_fine 11y ago
I really wouldn't -- there are orders of magnitude more facts in the world than I have time to digest, so it certainly helps having a basis of analysis, even if sometimes that analysis is misguided.
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by michael_fine 11y ago
IS controls the territory, but they don't actually control the citizens on that territory. However, the same could be said of the current, US recognized Iraqi government. In common parlance it essentially comes down to whether the We
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by michael_fine 11y ago
what would do good rather than using this to hasten the big brother state to the next level would be to attack these problems at the root This certainly is a valid point, but here you're complaining that he took the wrong political
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by michael_fine 11y ago
So I guess the time to politicize these attacks has come already. This complaint has never quite sat right with me. This was, fundamentally, a political action -- a foreign "nation" (entity?) attacking another nation&#x2
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by michael_fine 11y ago
Yeah, I'm sure if the USSR had won the Cold War, students would be taught the the Soviets dusted America in the Space Race with the launch of Sputnik.
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by michael_fine 11y ago
That's a feature, not a bug, I believe. Results that contradict the dominant theory are in general much less likely than one's that confirm it or extend it, and as such will have much lower odds. As a result, if you have significa
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How Æxecor’s programming error led to 28000 tons of coal delivered (2009)(thedailywtf.com)
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by michael_fine 11y ago
At least the scoping and verbose lambda problem have been solved in ES6, with the introduction of let-vars and fat arrow functions, respectively.
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by michael_fine 11y ago
You're right, in an ideal world it would mean nothing, as country distinctions are mostly arbitrary. However, there doesn't exist, and most likely won't exist in the near future, a world government that can realitistically re
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by michael_fine 11y ago
artists’ take for ad-supported listeners was **0.08** cents per song Actually, it's 8 hundredths of a cent per song, which is more in line with other sources on that.
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by michael_fine 11y ago
This is a nice post that mirrors a lot of the thoughts I had when learning Haskell. I especially agree about his point on position dependant partial functions -- I think the idea of a placeholder symbol (maybe _) that you can put in place o
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by michael_fine 11y ago
What's their rationale for saying That Node is not ready? I've found it to be stable and performant, and if it doesn't have quite the volume of useful libraries Ruby/Rails does, it's certainly fast approaching.
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by michael_fine 11y ago
I'm only vaguely familiar with clojure, but why would you want to use clojurescript over clojure?
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by michael_fine 12y ago
The examples don't illustrate this very well, but the benefit of message passing is flexibility/decentralization of events. To use your example, if when you saved the profile you wanted to also pass it to an internal analytics dat
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Food Is a Death Sentence to These Kids(nytimes.com)
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The Wilder Shores of Marx, Excerpt (1991)(blog.skepticaldoctor.com)
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by michael_fine 12y ago
According to my AP World textbook, at least, classical refers to a lot of geographically diverse civilizations, from the Byzantines to the Song Chinese to the Aztecs
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by michael_fine 12y ago
I think what they were referring to was a quine
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by michael_fine 12y ago
Yeah, post-classical would have been the more accurate term, thought I'm not sure it would've had the same comprehensibility.
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What I Did After Police Killed My Son(politico.com)
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Simple CPU(simplecpu.com)
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by michael_fine 12y ago
Actually though, no schools in the Ivy League give athletic scholarships [1], and most college sports are revenue neutral. 1: http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/information/psa/index
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by michael_fine 12y ago
From what I can tell, it seems like a quirky lisp with a great set of libraries, and a very integrated IDE. Is there more to it?
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by michael_fine 12y ago
Those don't really show much of the FRP style programming, it's how pretty much all haskell graphics libraries work.
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The Road not Taken(pastebin.com)
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Wikihistory(tor.com)
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by michael_fine 12y ago
One possible way of getting around that, stolen from machine learning, is to use colors to represent the fourth dimension, ie, make things darker (or change the hue/saturation) that are bigger in the fourth axis, and vice versa for sm
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Testing on the Toilet: Don't Put Logic in Tests(googletesting.blogspot.com)
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