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by sparkie 8y ago
There's a `task {}` computation expression is the FSharpx.Extras library, which makes it much more pleasant to work with TPL libraries, and removes the performance issues associated with using Async.AwaitTask etc.
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by sparkie 8y ago
Many of those kinds of monopolies are not natural but enforced by violence (or threat of). In many of those cases (if not all), a free-market would produce cheaper, better and faster services. Being government owned or government granted mo
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by sparkie 8y ago
It's like mixing an elixir with red wine. You drink it and it cures you, and you then claim red wine has cured you, rather than the elixir.
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by sparkie 8y ago
Venezuela, Cuba, Mauritania, Laos, North Korea, to name a few. China is communist in name only. It's a capitalist economy which has enabled them to grow economically. Similarly with Vietnam, they're still recovering from the effec
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by sparkie 8y ago
Capitalism has, not globalization. There are still places trying socialism, and learning it doesn't raise people out of poverty, but creates more of it.
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by sparkie 8y ago
If the country was run like a business, they wouldn't be in business, they would be bankrupt. The purpose of a business it create wealth. The purpose of government is to take wealth. Government does some useful functions with the w
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by sparkie 8y ago
Only for Scots. The rest of the UK is £9k/y tuition, typically 3 years for an BSc. You can live under £5k/y if you're frugal and house share. You probably want a bit more than this to enjoy yourself though. Exception is Londo
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by sparkie 8y ago
I'd suggest either Lazarus (Free Pascal) or Visual Studio (VB.NET/others).
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by sparkie 8y ago
The blockchain provides the security, ensuring that nobody can take funds unilaterally out of a channel. At all times, each party has bitcoin transactions for the correct channel state, partially signed by the channel's counter party,
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by sparkie 8y ago
> why would I want to route a payment through a bunch of arbitrary nodes, rather than just establish a connection with a single node, who I pay to guarantee uptime? There are already countless systems to do the latter. You can use PayPal
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by sparkie 8y ago
If civilization collapsed I think people would have more pressing issues than whether or not they can spend their Bitcoin.
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by sparkie 8y ago
It's one of many reasons to keep blocks small. Ability to send over many kinds of restricted bandwidth mediums, including the Tor network is part of it. Other concerns are bandwidth caps/monthly limits, storage costs, validation t
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by sparkie 8y ago
The channel capacities in Lightning are currently restricted by an arbitrary limit of 2^24 satoshis which was put there by the developers to prevent people from putting too much into what is effectively a beta test network currently. The li
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by sparkie 8y ago
Imagine what would happen to Spain or Portugal's economies if tourism from the UK dropped considerably? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourism_in_Spain#Arrivals_by_c...
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by sparkie 8y ago
That's certainly a possibility too, but do you think it's one that EU leaders are willing to bet the future of their superstate on? The UK has a lot going for it. It might not be hunky-dory immediately after leaving, but there&#x2
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by sparkie 8y ago
The problem with you rejecting my claim as a "sweeping generalization" is that you've done exactly the same in your counter argument. Polls are not reliable (they didn't predict the vote, after all). The vote is the most
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by sparkie 8y ago
> Brexit is history in the making. The EU is a phenomenally novel way of integrating sovereign nation-states into a singular political entity, that happened without war. It's aim is to make something as singularly powerful as the Un
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by sparkie 8y ago
They will make concessions. I'll put money on it. The UK leaving with no deal would be the beginning of the end of the EU. There is already growing anti-EU sentiment in Italy (4th largest economy in the block), Hungary, Austria, Poland
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by sparkie 8y ago
If there's always another vote, no vote needs to be implemented. What's the point of voting then? Kids learn at an early age that when you lose, you lose. They usually grow out of "best of 3" or "best of 5" bef
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by sparkie 8y ago
If the left to right order is preferred, Haskell has Control.Category.(>>>) f >>> g = g . f Works for any instance of Category.
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by sparkie 8y ago
Their Airlander 50 (in development) claims it will hold a 60,000kg payload ( https://www.hybridairvehicles.com/downloads/Airlander-77.pdf ).
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by sparkie 8y ago
It's not imaginary. How often do you see people being interviewed on the news and bringing their babies into view? I'm not complaining that people are hurt by their funding, I'm complaining about how they're using their
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by sparkie 8y ago
If there are multiple services which provide national weather, the ones which offer the best service at the best price will succeed - if they can stay in business. The point is that they must be profitable, or at the very least break even.
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by sparkie 8y ago
> You and I both know this is not the cause of a 86% of expenditures. This is missing my point. The point is that if it were a private development, then they would be sacked and replaced. This isn't some isolated case and many areas
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by sparkie 8y ago
If given the option for a $2M toilet where "the locals are engaged", and takes 4 years to build, or a $300k toilet which is built in 6 months, which do you think most people would opt for? The real problem is government is too da
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by sparkie 8y ago
The two arguments do not necessarily need to be mutually exclusive. You can have governance without monopoly. This would be the ideal scenario. Governments operate federal parks, but there are also private parks which are just as well kept,
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by sparkie 8y ago
Even the 'essential parts' would be better if the government had competition. If one provider of the essential services shut down, they'd go out of business and another would take their place. People would pay the provider of
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by sparkie 8y ago
Government has no requirement to be efficient, because it has no local competition. Can you imagine if the board members in a business were in a disagreement and they decided "oh, lets just shut this down until we can come to an agreem
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by sparkie 8y ago
This is Horseshoe Theory ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory ). Commentators from both sides will vehemently defend their position and claim it to be nothing like the other side. From the reasonable person&#
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by sparkie 8y ago
Most Chinese citizens do not feel the need to go "underground". North Korean citizens generally don't go "underground" either. Do you think they're well informed about the world? It's a different story in

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