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by sparkie 8y ago
I wonder how many people will base their mining operations in the UK when the government wants to take their cut.
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by sparkie 8y ago
Also, it defines them as nested classes, and marks the outer class as `sealed`, as they're closed types, and it prevents the type being extended with new cases. C# can't do this because the compiler rejects putting `abstract` and
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by sparkie 8y ago
Yes, my point was more that they're pretty much the same thing. A delegate and an interface with a single method are essentially isomorphic in their behaviour. The delegate obviously breaks down when you have more than one method. For
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by sparkie 8y ago
One of the features that makes F# great for organization is the sequential ordering of compilation units which makes it easier to understand code dependencies, and makes it awkward to create mutually recursive types (requiring them to be in
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by sparkie 8y ago
I used Expert F# (2.0) when learning some years ago. A bit dated now, but I believe that it has had a more recent revision. It is co-authored by the language creator, Don Syme.
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by sparkie 8y ago
I primarily use F# over C#, and I would prefer the interface version over the functions in many cases. An interface makes it a bit more explicit and self-explanatory what is expected to be passed. A Func<List<int>, List<int>&
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by sparkie 8y ago
Chips will get better, but we're approaching the limit of Moore's Law in terms of shrinking them to get the exponential gains we've seen over the past half century. The improvements in Hash/W are going to continue to slo
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by sparkie 8y ago
> People who shun white supremacists are not morally equivalent to white supremacists. I'm not suggesting anything of the like. In fact, I will join you in shunning white supremacists, as I would shun supremacists of any race. When
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by sparkie 8y ago
It's a different argument, because child molestation is a heinous crime, but white supremacy is in itself, not a criminal offence. Certain behaviours which may manifest as a result of white supremacy may be criminal. We have legal syst
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by sparkie 8y ago
Gossip is P2P. The protocols can be hidden as if they were SSL or some other widely used protocols, but without the PKI and the centralization problems that has. Evading the censors will probably be a continuous effort. The great firewall h
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by sparkie 8y ago
The left are creating divisions that don't exist anymore. That were solved decades ago. It has gone from "equality for all" to "more equality to those who didn't have the same equality in the past." It is compl
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by sparkie 8y ago
To me it only seems that their is a lack of reflection among socialists to acknowledge the utter failures of communism everywhere and every time it has been preached. I believe most conservatives acknowledge the failures of facsism. I'
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by sparkie 8y ago
That kind of thinking is why black people would be given seats at the back of the bus. You really need to stop making judgements about people.
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by sparkie 8y ago
> I guess I still dont understand. Why should a private company be required to support a cause they dissagree with? By that argument, you could conclude that anyone has the right to refuse services to any race, gender, sexuality. We have
825.
by sparkie 8y ago
You can disagree all you want. The point is that you can't force your disagreement on me.
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by sparkie 8y ago
Most of the hate is coming from the left, but this is "acceptable hate" if is directed at white/straight/christian/men, or other bogeyman they can come up with to justify their eternal victimhood. The divisions are
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by sparkie 8y ago
This is about more than just Patreon. It took a couple of days for SubscribeStar to have their paypal access removed once the loonies began their next witch hunt. How far do we take the witch hunts before we decide enough is enough? If ever
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by sparkie 8y ago
The far-left has been getting more extreme over the last few years, probably largely due to "trump derangement syndrome". I care very deeply about fundamental human rights such as free speech. Many people do not seem to understand
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by sparkie 8y ago
DNS is a problem for censorship resistance. The solution is not to identify people by their IP address, but to identify them by a unique token which cannot be forged by anyone else (a public key). In place of DNS, you have distributed gossi
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by sparkie 8y ago
What kills startups is a cartel of payment processors colluding to limit competition. A free market would allow users to make their own decisions about what platforms they wish to use. The entrenched players simply do not want to allow comp
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by sparkie 8y ago
In societies with a rule of law, that would easily fall under incitement to crime, which is a crime. We have legal systems which can and do deal with this so that a bank does not need to take upon itself to make politically charged decision
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by sparkie 8y ago
The irony is that you see many people non-ironically touting a hammer and sickle on their profiles on these sites. To me that symbol is as dreadful as the swastika. Both communism and fascism are two sides to the same coin. Horseshoe theory
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by sparkie 8y ago
> If a bank gets made aware that they accidentially support a cause they despise morally, why shouldnt they cancel their account? Because a person's political views have nothing to do with banking. Because consumer protection laws e
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by sparkie 8y ago
Your delusion is that you associate everyone on these platforms with the alt-right because some of them are alt-right. The reason alt-right flock to those platforms is because they are de-platformed elsewhere. This does not make the non alt
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by sparkie 8y ago
If that were the case, why would there be a need for such efforts to shut them down? The antidote to bad speech is more speech. Instead of attacking people, attack their arguments.
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by sparkie 8y ago
> However, this does not mean that I have to let my racist neighbour hold a talk in my living room. The actions of the left are more akin to investigating which bank your neighbour uses, then going to that bank and asking them to close h
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by sparkie 8y ago
You have no clue what is happening in SA right now, and how it will end up if the far-left keep providing a platform for this kind of racist vitriol against whites.
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by sparkie 8y ago
What stops Patreon et al from becoming extremist? (On the left) IMO, it has already happened. The far-left have already crossed lines that are tremendously damaging for society, while at the same time they point the finger at countries like
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by sparkie 8y ago
What makes you so sure? BitTorrent couldn't be shut down, and that certainly didn't fail. Various torrent websites have been shut down and the protocol sill runs as good as ever. What is needed isn't just a company delivering
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by sparkie 8y ago
Chinese cannot even type "I disagree" on social media without it being censored. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJc4KgBCdoM

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