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by nemo1618 10y ago
That sounds well and good, but "better education" is a bit hand-wavey, isn't it? When we educate someone, aren't we, in a way, taking away their choice to do certain things? Sure, in principle they can still make compl
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by nemo1618 10y ago
I agree that ideally, a total ban wouldn't be necessary. For example, in the 1950's (in America), it wasn't illegal to get a divorce, but there was intense social pressure not to. And even if something is illegal, that doesn&
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by nemo1618 10y ago
Generally speaking, laws are inventions of the superego designed to rein in the id when the superego is resting. We practice this on an individual level when our superego sets a goal and commits to it despite the protests of the id. I think
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by nemo1618 10y ago
Not necessarily. Adults get fat and rot their teeth out too. We like to think that we are making our own choices, but in reality we are largely prisoners of our genetic programming. Given the choice between broccoli and a marshmallow, well,
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by nemo1618 10y ago
Most children are interested in eating candy. Doesn't mean we should give them unrestricted access to as much candy as they want.
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by nemo1618 10y ago
What most people miss about CO detectors is that they don't go off until CO levels have been elevated for a while. At low concentrations it can take multiple hours to trigger the alarm; at higher concentrations it can take 30 minutes.
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by nemo1618 10y ago
"onEach" looks helpful. I actually just added such a function to my own Go extension project, although I named it "tee". The benefit is that when you have a long chain of map -> filter -> reduce, you can insert a t
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by nemo1618 10y ago
Sia is 100% open source: https://github.com/NebulousLabs/Sia
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by nemo1618 10y ago
>This is the thinking of someone that lives in a country with a philosophy that puts country before individuals. There is nothing wrong with putting the needs of the group above the needs of the individual. The West has been learning thi
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by nemo1618 10y ago
Have looks pretty cool, and their project is certainly far more involved than mine (e.g. they have their own lexer/parser). I am excited to see more compile-to-Go languages. The only other one I'm aware of is iGo. That said, I&#x2
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by nemo1618 10y ago
>generics seem like a pretty easy thing to write a preprocessor for I am basically doing this: https://github.com/lukechampine/ply Ply is like Go except you can write things like []int{1,2,3}.filter(even) and it wil
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by nemo1618 10y ago
>Languages like Go make it too easy to ignore errors. What? I've almost exclusively heard the opposite: Go makes error handling too in-your-face. People don't like writing "if err != nil" constantly. >Finally, th
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by nemo1618 10y ago
This is really neat! It's fun to imagine what true 2D programming could look like, unconstrained by bitmap fonts. I'll state the obvious, though: this isn't going to be useful for the #1 time I need to code on a whiteboard: i
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by nemo1618 10y ago
Go has one very significant advantage over Rust: Simplicity. Reading someone else's Go code is such a breath of fresh air compared to reading someone else's C++ code (or god forbid, Haskell). Having a standard formatting further e
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by nemo1618 10y ago
>Of course, all of this only applies if you're sufficiently like them to be judged worthy of membership. Well, of course. A group who accepts anyone and everyone loses its identity. The real problem is that people don't have fr
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by nemo1618 10y ago
I think one of the biggest missteps of modern industrial society was to disregard religion as outmoded without making any attempt to fill the psychological void it leaves. Seen in this light, atheism is clearly not interchangeable with re
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by nemo1618 10y ago
Wondering how Nix plays into this. I'm no expert on it, but IIUC it attacks point 4 of Russ' list: "Two different versions of a package cannot be installed simultaneously." Nix allows you to install multiple versions of
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by nemo1618 10y ago
A fascinating tidbit from Wikipedia: >The 1986 Soviet film Race of the Century ("Гонка века") gave a dramatic presentation of the events of the Golden Globe Race and the fate of Donald Crowhurst. The movie focused on the idea o
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Hacking Go Maps for Fun and Profit(lukechampine.com)
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by nemo1618 10y ago
Quite a few people have tried; AFAIK, no one has succeeded. There are storage-based blockchains, but they just use traditional proof-of-work with storage-focused smart contracts. In most schemes I'm aware of, the nodes are storing usef
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by nemo1618 10y ago
Isn't 2FA considered dangerous now? We've seen how susceptible it can be to social engineering. On a related note, I noticed that my Windows Phone displays text message notifications even when it's locked... So adding a PIN d
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by nemo1618 10y ago
Worth noting that Coffiest (Soylent's latest drink product) contains both caffeine and L-theanine. Their ratio is questionable (150mg caffeine, 75mg L-theanine), but subjectively I have found it to be a great way to boost my productivi
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by nemo1618 10y ago
I've been using elementaryOS for a few years now and just upgraded to Loki. On the whole it has been great, but there are just a few buggy elements that occasionally make me want to wipe the thing and start fresh with Ubuntu, which at
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by nemo1618 10y ago
Is this the same period cited by Julian Jaynes in his theory of the bicameral mind? http://www.meltingasphalt.com/hallucinated-gods/
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by nemo1618 10y ago
If the author's assertion is true -- that "the most significant food movement is the purposeful pushback against the postwar industrial food system" -- then where is the demand for Soylent coming from? People clearly want it.
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by nemo1618 10y ago
>I don't really like living for the benefit of others. It's much easier (satisfying, even) when the other people are friends, family, spouse, neighbors... people you care about. It is no sacrifice to expend time and energy help
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by nemo1618 10y ago
The author states that: > Until recently there were really no very good analogies available On the contrary, our theories of mind have mirrored our latest technology for thousands of years. First, a hydraulic model, with "hum
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by nemo1618 10y ago
I think the author glosses over the issue of keywords . In order to be productive in the Wolfram Language (or any language), you need to build up an understanding of what operations it supports. There are thousands of such operations, necc
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by nemo1618 10y ago
>Or you can also think of it as "Cap-and-Proto". Which is an intentional pun ("capabilities and protocols", or something). I never realized that! I like the name much more now.
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by nemo1618 10y ago
Nitpick: I think you meant "&c". The t is superfluous.

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