rasmafazi

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by rasmafazi 9y ago
I see. I just looked at the HTML excerpts, so, I thought it was about something generic. I am ok with translated games. I am not ok with translated math, though. It's like the localization of the glibc library. It inflates the size of
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by rasmafazi 9y ago
I can only emphasize that vernacular indeed has its place, if only to build local identity and belongingness. So, I am not advocating to abolish it. As I said, I speak vernacular with my own children, and they speak it with the kids of the
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by rasmafazi 9y ago
Well, in their own interest, it may be better to bite the bullet, and learn English. I ran into my own first book on programming at the end of the eighties, when I was fourteen. It was an old photocopy of Borland Turbo Pascal, in English. T
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by rasmafazi 9y ago
National institutions have indeed begun their long slide into irrelevance. Ray Kurzweil, a big shot at Google, already wrote about that. Anything that existed before the widespread commercialization of the internet cannot remain the same, a
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by rasmafazi 9y ago
Sometimes you just have to bite the bullet. For interesting subjects, which always have global reach, the virtual conversations are conducted in English. There is also a place for vernacular -- it is part of people's cultural identity
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Is the following a valid application of Gödel's incompleteness theorem?
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by rasmafazi 9y ago
That is mostly a problem in the USA. You could get your healthcare in places like the Philippines and save 95% of the bill.
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by rasmafazi 9y ago
I have made way more money from my bitcoin capital gains than from anything else I did for the last 3 years.
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by rasmafazi 9y ago
I have had a few customers from Nigeria and I also worked for 6 years with a Nigerian programmer, who was my sub-contractor on dozens of usually smaller projects. It all worked out perfectly fine. Nobody ever complained. It was great busine
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by rasmafazi 9y ago
VCs drag you into mainstream orthodoxies in order to be able to do an IPO on Wall Street. With ICOs around, who would put up with VCs again?