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by sparkie 6y ago
> If all the "impossible" technologies necessary to stop climate change existed today then I don't think anyone would say we should go back to the old fossil fuel days. The argument isn't about whether or not fossil f
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by sparkie 6y ago
An FEXPR is similar to a function (EXPR), except that its operands are not be implicitly evaluated before being passed to the body of the FEXPR. Consider the following: (if (and a b) x y) Were it the case that `if`, `and` were regu
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by sparkie 6y ago
I referred the the intellectuals as "cheerleaders," but in many cases they are also the advisers who are pushing and pressuring the policymakers. The majority of IYIs are for whatever policy makers put forward because the idea o
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by sparkie 6y ago
Try to look from another lens. Climate hysterics want to avoid responsibility for the economic damage that their carbon-neutral policies are going to have on society. They want accountability from others, but not themselves. How many have d
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by sparkie 6y ago
Thomas Sowell writes about this in depth in several of his works. In Intellectuals and Society , he notes that many "intellectual elite" have been cheerleaders for some of the worst (economic) disasters and human rights abuses of
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by sparkie 6y ago
Spend fiat, denominated in crypto.
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by sparkie 6y ago
Take a look at Connection Machine Lisp ( http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/paperbot/25aa007a093cd69bbf0... )
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Both are toxic waste, but one often ends up in landfill or flytipped, and the other is safely contained underground because its developers are legally obliged to plan for its disposal and long-term storage as part of the design process. The
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by sparkie 6y ago
Google's name comes from "go ogle". It was their goal all along to stare at everything you do.
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by sparkie 6y ago
Why didn't Apple/FaceTime sue Facebook for using "Face" in their name? (The FaceTime franchise dates back to 1997, way before Facebook). Why is "face" generic, but "book" is not? I recall their being
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by sparkie 6y ago
> Sounds great in theory. Now try to ascertain if someone made a hiring/promotion decision based on merit or on melanin without some kind of Star Trek era brain scan. I'm of the opinion that business owners should be the sole a
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by sparkie 6y ago
> I think the CEO’s refusal to take a stance on whether Black Lives Matter is a stance in itself. It’s hard not to assume that he doesn’t agree with the organization or the statement, even if that’s not the case. And while the movement i
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by sparkie 6y ago
It's the same as saying "Don't discuss religion at work." A religious fundamentalist would take issue with the mere fact that they are being told not to discuss their religion. That's what we have with virtue signal
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by sparkie 6y ago
> By which you mean C# gets new features every year, and F# gets thrown enough tidbits to keep it looking alive? Every new C# version makes interoperability more of a pain. The C# team have no interest in compatibility with F# and will N
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by sparkie 6y ago
There's a nice collection of material here: https://github.com/rain-1/continuations-study-group/wiki/Rea...
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by sparkie 6y ago
I had an almost complete loss of smell, unlike anything I've experienced before, but could still smell some aerosols like air freshener. My sense of smell was back to normal in about 3 days.
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by sparkie 6y ago
Out of curiosity, where are you heading? Somewhere you are taxed more? Somewhere with more illegal immigration? Somewhere your children are less safe from predators? Yeah, thought not. You don't realize how good a country you live in.
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by sparkie 6y ago
Yeah, I can't take you seriously. GL with your blackouts and energy quotas, oh, and reliance of fossil fuels. Where do you think the energy is going to come from to perform electrolysis for hydrogen? solar? You are nowhere near meeti
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by sparkie 6y ago
But this is missing the elephant in the living room (this thread), which is nuclear. One of the main issues with nuclear is that it isn't cost effective to turn on/off to meet demand changes in day and night. Nuclear power station
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by sparkie 6y ago
As stated, that is "at most". A usual UPS is 80-89% efficient. Even still, assuming they were 90% efficient, is it worth the extra 10% energy consumption just so you can run your computer for 1 hour at night when the solar energy
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by sparkie 6y ago
Try a carnivore diet for 1 month. Eat as much as you need, but meat, fish, eggs and dairy only. You'll probably find your cravings decreasing when you're full. Carbs are addictive, give you a sugar rush which is then followed by a
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by sparkie 6y ago
> What if prices for power go way up during the night Individual energy providers do not control prices. The market does. If there is market demand for energy at night, then people will fill in the gap to provide it. Anyone pushing up pr
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by sparkie 6y ago
Early digitization will be looked back in history as an information dark age. I can't even access a website from 10 years ago, unless the sole archivist, The Internet Archive, has an old copy of it saved. Digital information doesn&#x27
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I recommend becoming familiar with the theory and making the decision for yourself. My personal preference is pretty much the same as Tratt's, except I never had an aversion to LR grammars to begin with. I always found them intuitive.
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by sparkie 6y ago
Engineering a Compiler by Cooper & Torczon covers the theory behind Regular expressions, LL and LR parsing.
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by sparkie 6y ago
Comes across as an academic, not a professional.
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by sparkie 6y ago
Yeah, it could be similar. (Can't remember clearly first time as it was 10 years ago now). Second time my stomach complaint got really bad, my doc assumed it was gastroenteritis and prescribed me more antibiotics. They were useless, an
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by sparkie 6y ago
Purely an anecdote: I wrote in a related thread about 5 years ago how I had an allergic reaction and my guts became a mess after taking antibiotics for the first time in my life (around age 23) [ https://news.ycombinator.com/
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> This is only as true as saying that any personal attempt to minimize your carbon footprint is self-harm. But here, it has other implications as well: society needs to "agree" that Bitcoin has value. If Bitcoin starts (rightfu
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by sparkie 6y ago
> We developed ethics around clinical research. Looks like we need to develop some ethics around economic experimentation. The harm caused by lockdowns is going to absolutely dwarf any harm which may have been caused by live research of

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