olewhalehunter

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by olewhalehunter 11y ago
Developers sneaking in pirated copies of software from companies like Borland into the office long preceded and anticipated their entry.
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by olewhalehunter 11y ago
If your parental style happens to include sexual abuse, yes it does. Whether a parental style consisting of a hyperreal social platform and being the child of the man who created it causes a serious rift in your sense of reality remains to
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by olewhalehunter 11y ago
>to the contrary it's narcissicism, ego and maybe guilt. Lets not kid ourselves here, Zuckerburg probably likes to think he is God, and with his investments into VR also probably sees his daughter as one of last to be born in anythi
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by olewhalehunter 11y ago
Either way, if Zuckerburg doesn't live up to his promise, his daughter is going to be as schizophrenic as the world her father helped create.
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by olewhalehunter 11y ago
"We are redefining home" Colonial anglo-american hegemony redefined home, the first two paragraphs start with how her brain had to be trained so she could remain relevant during the internet age and globalization. This is just a s
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toxicologists are the best psychonauts for obvious reasons
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by olewhalehunter 11y ago
1950 - work is 9-5, but your free time will soon be liberated by machines! 2015 - work is 8-6, but machine processing time will soon be liberated by humans! 2016 - we cached your workflows and did enough analysis on it to extrapolate functi
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by olewhalehunter 11y ago
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?CommonLispConditionSystem "When an exception is thrown in Java, the stack unwinds meaning all state in stack frames from the point of the throw to the handler gets thrown out." "In
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by olewhalehunter 11y ago
Considering Clojure would work better in SBCL I think that says a little something about Clojure and a little something about CL. Macros in ParenScript make Clojurescript seem like a bad rails library.
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by olewhalehunter 11y ago
Applying the same standards of health information protection mechanisms fully to authorized guns would require all sorts of other reforms, like drug law: what's to keep a police officer that arrests a corporate executive on cocaine or
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by olewhalehunter 11y ago
>Would American workers have it in them if there were a serious liquidity crisis? Asian real estate tycoons would own the area before the workers could pronounce "transpacific capital monitoring". much less before they were tol
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by olewhalehunter 11y ago
Or infinite eons of entropic sex toys for the post eschaton neuro-orgey.
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by olewhalehunter 11y ago
Or several decades worth of oil for our cyborg overlords.
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by olewhalehunter 11y ago
How Viruses use Wasps and Caterpillars to Survive .
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Doubt it, everyone's food to kaiju
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by olewhalehunter 11y ago
There's something very off about working with a lisp and not being able to inject stateful inline expressions for prototyping. In other lisps you find the fluid abstraction/computational nature of sexps holding up very nicely whil
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by olewhalehunter 11y ago
You live life with significantly more "cheat codes" than the rest of the world, now what makes you think you aren't already living with "cheat codes" you aren't aware of? Since you could also program your reali
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by olewhalehunter 11y ago
Not religion, ideology: secular humanism too seems to operate on a narrative that technological and cultural progress will continue without interruption from chaotic cosmological catastrophe, that those things contribute to human happiness
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by olewhalehunter 11y ago
not necessarily http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.... it's almost as if the market rewards entropy
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by olewhalehunter 11y ago
For anyone interested in having their application and web testing in the same runtime, I'm making a CL web automation library/front-end out of emacs for testing and botting purposes. https://github.com/olewhalehunt
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by olewhalehunter 11y ago
>Neither me, but you and I have agency and free will. "These humans, they might have agency and free will, but they don't have fuqismatk or missildrigg like we do and so it's ethical"
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by olewhalehunter 11y ago
I would not be comfortable with an alien of superior intelligence prodding my brain on the grounds that it had the functioning capacity of one of their 5 week old foetuses.
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by olewhalehunter 11y ago
the inability to communicate pain does not demonstrate the inability to feel pain
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by olewhalehunter 11y ago
if this thing is "running" this is horrendously unethical
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by olewhalehunter 11y ago
"If you see the Buddha in the road, kill him. Take off his robes and wear them: now you are the Buddha and must defend yourself against hordes of challengers like that guy in Afro Samurai."
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by olewhalehunter 11y ago
>Kotlin comes from industry, not academia. It solves problems faced by working programmers today. Most of those problems come from too much industry, not enough academia.
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by olewhalehunter 11y ago
Switzerland has also been a parasite on European finance since the renaissance and especially since the Treaty of Paris in 1815, every outcome of Germanic squabbles ending in unpaid damages and debts to other European peoples from the Hussi
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Alice and Bob are friends born on planet X who now live on planets Y and Z respectively each a light year away from X on opposites sides. Bob's mom on X dies, and the news on intergalactic social media is beamed to planets Y and Z wher