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by sparkie 7y ago
The big issue is the presence of cyclic dependencies between parts of code. If a piece of code is identified by its content, and its identifier is the Merkle root of its parts, then you can't possibly have cycles because you can't
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by sparkie 7y ago
I'd recommend Purely Functional Data Structures by Okasaki. https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/theses/okasaki.pdf
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by sparkie 8y ago
> the subject of a full lecture A WHOLE lecture? Wow. I bet you covered all the works of Mises in that time. Thanks for reinforcing my point. I'm not suggesting that anybody is trying to erase Austrian economics, only that the ind
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by sparkie 8y ago
An economy is based on every person individually making choices based on their own (perhaps narrow) view of money. The Keynesian view of economics requires that there is centralized control of monetary policy. In an economy where there exis
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by sparkie 8y ago
Bitcoin alone doesn't make the greatest payment system, but it needs comparing to gold for its best physical analogue. With physical gold, confirming it takes expertise, special equipment and time. It has a huge attack surface for frau
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by sparkie 8y ago
The value of bitcoin isn't how much energy it took to create, but how much energy it would take to steal. By being energy intensive, it ensures that an attacker or malicious agent who wishes steal it, or install an involuntary tax on
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by sparkie 8y ago
Storage can change value at the blink of an eye, as can the junk token which purports to represent it. The things which dictate value are supply and demand. In storage, you will pay what you need based on your demands, and the price will be
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by sparkie 8y ago
Bitcoin has initial inflation due to the process by which the currency is created, where the operators of the network are subsidized in the newly created coin for designating their hardware to securing the network. However, there is a halve
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by sparkie 8y ago
All cryptocurrencies (except Bitcoin) are idiotware. Bitcoin was built on the idea of sound money - as a fix for the serious problem of inflation. Other "cryptocurrencies" are pro-inflation by design. They're based on the ide
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by sparkie 8y ago
Cone is developed as a proof of concept for the author's paper Gradual Memory Management[1]. The author is experienced in language development and has previously written Acorn. It was seen as more appropriate to write a new language ra
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by sparkie 8y ago
You can't put a price on it. Imagine, for example, if when Donald Trump was signing up for Twitter, he got irked off and decided to use a different platform instead. That's potentially 60M people using your competitor. Poor user e
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by sparkie 8y ago
You can take anything out of context and present it as something else to make an argument, and it goes both ways. People can take something totally benign and present it as if it were a white supremacist argument. It's not hard to imag
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by sparkie 8y ago
Speech that is about "exterminating nonwhites" is already illegal speech. It is incitement to commit crime. There does not need to be new rules or laws to prevent this speech - there just needs to be enforcement of the existing ru
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by sparkie 8y ago
Brexit is good for Britain, but bad for the EU. The only chaos is in parliament which is betraying the British electorate by going against their vote to leave and trying to remain at all cost. They will meet their maker at the next general
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by sparkie 8y ago
> despite the fact that we as a society have said hate speech should not be tolerated Here's your problem. Free speech isn't about "we as a society". "We as a society" had decided that the earth was the cent
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by sparkie 8y ago
Facebook and others are not responsible for what their users upload and enjoy the legal protection that comes from it. If they decide that they are going to be curators of content on their platforms, they are no longer a mere service provid
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by sparkie 8y ago
I don't have personal experience living in China. I've followed SerpentZA and laowhy86 on youtube for many years, who share and film their own experiences living in southern China. They have a shared channel, ADVChina, where they
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by sparkie 8y ago
As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, it is not just about convincing people, but also having an avenue for repair once they are convinced. The UK can mend existing laws by voting in a new parliament who pledge to carry it out in their ele
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by sparkie 8y ago
In the UK, laws can be repealed by a newly elected government. The elected MPs can put forward proposals and create new legislation on which the parliament can vote. In the EU, new legislation are only put forward by the commission - who ar
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by sparkie 8y ago
What it doesn't include: The cost of the users you will lose because you have a dog shit user experience blocking people before they even get to sample your service.
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by sparkie 8y ago
"They (who?) have a higher headcount so our violence is OK" Conservatives call out and distance themselves from the far-right and violence. A few deranged lunatics on the fringes of society do not represent conservative views. By
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by sparkie 8y ago
PewDiePie gets more views on Youtube than the entire mainstream media combined , who pour a shitload of money into Youtube to get their videos promoted because they are losing viewers and can't get the ratings through good content. Of
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by sparkie 8y ago
A macro or FEXPR may never evaluate an operand at all. They simply receive the unevaluated forms and decide what to do with them, with explicit evaluation being just one option which can be performed on the operand. Delayed (lazy) evaluat
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by sparkie 8y ago
This is covered in the book I linked. The "contingency fund" for the most needy. When properly managed, has a net benefit to society because it helps people get back to work and become productive capital accumulators , which bene
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by sparkie 8y ago
Unless you can "earn your keep", you will not have any time to follow your aspirations because your entire existence will be dedicated to basic survival. You are Baker and Charlie[1] spending all day fishing, while Abel can foll
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by sparkie 8y ago
It is in both parties interest to uphold the result of the referendum which was held in 2016, and which they pledged to implement in their election manifestos in 2017, because if new general election comes about, their constituents will rem
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by sparkie 8y ago
The EU doesn't want the UK to leave. It would damage their project massively. It might even unravel it entirely if some other countries decide to follow in the UK's footsteps.
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by sparkie 8y ago
Membership of the EU has been a hot topic before the EU even existed. Ted Heath got us into the EEC without a referendum in 72, and then offered us a vote to remain or leave in 75. The scaremongering about leaving back then was almost exact
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by sparkie 8y ago
If voting should happen twice, can we vote again on our politicians before they cancel our previous vote on leaving the EU? (Who all promised to deliver the result of the vote in the election manifestos)
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by sparkie 8y ago
The idea that nobody wants Brexit is an false image painted by (predominantly left-wing) mainstream media to try and prevent it from ever happening. There is massive support for Brexit across England and Northern Ireland. Support for remain

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