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by scottjad 14y ago
One book that tries to quantify along several dimensions is "Democracy: The God that Failed: The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy, and Natural Order" by Hans-Hermann Hoppe. Here's my notes from a related talk he gave on the sub
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For Rich, two of my favorites are: Are We There Yet http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Are-We-There-Yet-Rich-Hic... Clojure Concurrency http://blip.tv/clojure/clojure-concurrency-819147 These early videos of Rich demoing his little proj
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I loved TA and all, but unless this has two features I'm skeptical it will have lasting interest for me: - More than two races. There just isn't enough variety. - Balanced units that are useful through out the game. I'd rather have 15 total
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Perhaps not today (I'm unfamiliar with current federal laws on this), but for a considerable portion of US history the US federal government took your property and threw you in jail. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morrill_Anti-Bigamy_Act h
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Classes didn’t hold my attention- I could teach myself more in an afternoon than I would learn in a 10-week class. If this were true then you would have spent four afternoons learning Calculus, Business, Communications, and Databases, and
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A CD? In 2012? Windows and OS X haven't fit on a CD in almost 10 years and you can barely find a copy of OS X on DVD. Most (legal) Windows and OS X users aren't downloading and installing the OS from cd/usb/dvd. Most Debian users are. Res
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http://mises.org (economics and politics) and http://volokh.com (law)
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For some value of significant, Squeak. The turn out has been down for the last few elections, with the last one getting around a hundred votes, with around 450 people authorized to vote.
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Not a complete list, but some Emacs equivalents: M-^ delete-indentation (or join-line) C-x C-t transpose-lines kill-line M-0 C-k kill to beginning of line djcb-duplicate-line (not built-in) M-q fill-paragraph C-c c comment-u
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I think you're thinking about this wrong. Python support appears to be an incentive/carrot to help raise more money in general, not just for that feature. So Chris probably thought "it would be nice if we could raise even more money" for al
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"Haskell is the king of purely-functional, lazy, statically-typed languages." Add enough qualifiers and every language is the king of something.
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Simplicity Matters By Rich Hickey (Keynote at RailsConf 2012)(confreaks.com)
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> Open source IDEs are uh... ...let's just say they're an acquired taste, and leave it at that. You say PyCharm is amazing. IntelliJ which it is based on is open source. Eclipse and Netbeans, which are generally considered to be in the
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With the game due out in three weeks, my guess is there's very little "beta" about this. Anyone have an educated guess when the game is sent to publishers for production? A day after beta ends? Already? I think this is more like a demo or a
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In the Table view it might be nice to color the cards based on their namespace like Whisker browser: http://www.maartensz.org/computing/squeak/Helps/Programming/...
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It's too bad no one has released a virtual machine with all the configuration steps already done and the system up and running so people can easily try it out.
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I believe some (e.g. Rothbardian) libertarians only consider title-transfer contracts to be enforceable.
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Depends on whether you think IP is legitimate property. See the book "Against Intellectual Property" for one side.
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Minor note: enforcement of GPL (and copyright) would be considered aggression (or threat thereof) by some libertarians because it consists in the state abridging life, liberty or property through imprisonment or seizure of property in respo
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You can download from blip.tv too, but it's not obvious how. You can either get the urls from http://blip.tv/clojure/rss or you can use a program like #{youtube-dl movgrab cclive}
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If you just want to use org-mode with Octopress this is how: http://jaderholm.com/blog/blog/2011/09/26/blogging-with-org-...
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Misleading title. From 1994 to 2007, Bill Gates "gave" to a foundation an amount slightly larger than what US Foreign Aid "gave" in the single year of 2007. The Foundation has not given that money to charities, it has given some small perce
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This is an old recording. It's my favorite of the many recordings of Rich giving presentations on Clojure in the early days. It's where he presented his famous ants program that runs on ~64 native threads.
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GUIFTW wraps SWT and Swing for Clojure. https://github.com/santamon/GUIFTW
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> Here is what I mean - if I learn the concepts "delete = d", "change = c", "copy(yank) = y", "in = i" and "around = a", I can construct "delete around (" = "da(", "yank block" = "yank around {" = "ya{", "change array contents" = "chang
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A hyper-intelligent alien is supposedly in our midst and the only evidence given of his vast intelligence is that once upon a time he asked why two software concepts that have been used prominently for years to great profit in his software
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Slime and Clojure have improved, mainly through clojure-jack-in and ritz. Of course the Common Lisp Slime experience is still better but the essentials are definitely there with Clojure. There are several heavyweights in the Clojure communi
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a) My best guess at the weather tomorrow is the weather today. 2007 was the latest data I saw. I did not read 99% of that document. After the dot-com crash the wealth distribution became much more equal, so a major crash can go either way.
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Your characterization of the pie fallacy is wrong. pg: "I can remember believing, as a child, that if a few rich people had all the money, it left less for everyone else. Many people seem to continue to believe something like this well into
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"The richest 1% of Americans control over 1/3 of the wealth, leaving the bottom 80% with less than 1/5." This suffers from the pie fallacy covered in http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html Also if you look at http://sociology.ucsc.edu/who

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