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by mwattsun 5y ago
Thank you for taking the time to answer! At compile time vs at runtime is an important distinction that I need to think about. I'll start the video from the beginning because I'm curious about Clojure and most things Rich Hickey d
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When I first started writing asm code, it was accepted to write self-modifying code (programmatically create new code, then jmp to it.) Then I discovered and was told it was a bad idea. So that's how I view Lisp macros - creating code
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My impression, and I hope I'm wrong, is that macros and meta programming were powerful ideas 30 years ago, but now most modern languages have generics, template meta programming [1] and reflection. I'm a curious amateur and probab
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by mwattsun 5y ago
It would be difficult to make it illegal in all jurisdictions in the world, so a 51% attack by a fed up nation state or states working together could shut it down. I am not an expert by any means, but it seems within the realm of possibily.
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When Nick Grossman's article was posted 9 months ago [1], there were people who argued in favor of Bitcoin as a battery, but now it seems Bitcoin is so hated that my original comment is headed into negative territory and I'm argui
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A lot of people in Santa Cruz are building secondary buildings on their property since the city loosened the rules to help with the housing crisis in the area.
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You are literally correct, but if I use excess energy in Iceland to create Bitcoin, which I electronically send to Chile to finance a hydroelectric power plant, thus making electricity available in Chile that previously wasn't, how is
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by mwattsun 5y ago
Yes, energy in at one geographic location, energy out at another
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by mwattsun 5y ago
Ideally, you would mine your Bitcoin in Iceland or Chile [1] with geothermal or hydro and buy corn from Iowa with it and the farmers there use it to buy power from the local windmill grid, so it's a battery in that sense. [1] https:&#
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by mwattsun 5y ago
The counter argument is that Bitcoin is a battery [1] so that if you live in a place like Iceland with plentiful energy, so much that even exporting it as aluminum leaves extra, then you can turn it into Bitcoin and export it that way. But
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Who Owns the Future?(jaronlanier.com)
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I'm fascinated because I don't understand how a bunch of rich, powerful men (they were mostly men) fall for this? Was she the daughter they wished they had? Was she like an angel fallen from heaven with an odd hairstyle and deep v
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I had to ask myself why VR was different and it's because there's no screen that a parent can monitor. Once a child puts the glasses on, who knows where they go are where they are? I think parents will demand a screencast feature
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I had a dream last night that expressed my recent concern that Mark Zuckerberg and Meta are Pied Pipers leading our kids into virtual worlds where Meta controls everything including allowable expression and thought, where even certain conce
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When the verdict comes out I'm riding my bike to the court house to watch the reporters on the steps ask the questions. Theranos is a fascinating story that has almost become mythological.
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by mwattsun 5y ago
This is really cool. Another Japanese concept is Wabi Sabi, which has really helped me overcome perfectionism in my code. In traditional Japanese aesthetics, wabi-sabi (侘寂) is a world view centered on the acceptance of transience and imper
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That's what I was looking for. Thanks.
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I looked on my hard drive to see what I saved and there were two, other than the usual technical saves: Why Hacker News Thinks PHP Won Something (2009) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=438871 Unfortunately the article a
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by mwattsun 5y ago
You're probably right. I thought the same thing, but since I didn't care I didn't pursue it. I would have cared if the scuttlebutt was that people were getting sick and dying, but that was not the case. Sub sailors were not d
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by mwattsun 5y ago
No, this is not the case. We often surfaced at night to recirculate with fresh air. In fact, this is done so often that the first thing we do is turn the clocks 12 hour forward so our day shift when everyone was working occurred at night. W
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by mwattsun 5y ago
They sent me something out of the blue a couple of years ago documenting my total radiation exposure. There must have been a law passed sometime.
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Is there a word for "strictly" organic, because that's what my friend is by choice
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I re-watched it since I am once again thinking about programming languages 17:15 "Slavoj Zizek likes to say that obsessional activity is doing something in order to do nothing" which to me sounds like pursuing a goal without ever
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I wore a dosimeter in my 20's on a nuclear submarine and received some radiation exposure working on the reactor, but the Navy explained to me that it was balanced out because I was underwater and not receiving radiation exposure from
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This is one of the pillars of the web3 argument as I understand it. It's a tough sell to convince people to pay for something they are accustomed to getting for free. HBO and NetFlix went the no advertising route and became quite succe
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The Code has not been officially accepted as law by any nation or as official ethics guidelines by any association. In fact, the Code's reference to Hippocratic duty to the individual patient and the need to provide information was no
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Where do you derive your right to consent or not? I could say I have the right to not have my body put in jail, but I have no basis for that.
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Could you elaborate a bit on what right you are asserting? I don't think I'm alone in not understanding what right you are fighting for. You're asking me to take a stand without telling me what I'm taking a stand for.
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Since the author is open up front about their OCD issues, this talk immediately came to mind. It's a bit of an elaborate tongue-in-cheek joke, but I found it personally helpful for thinking about why a choose a language. Pervert in th
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I agree. Maybe I'll be the one to write it. It'd be easy. Just start driving Uber again and delivering food and start collecting stories.

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