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by sparkie 8y ago
I'm not suggesting that miners will invent new solutions themselves . I'm suggesting that they will put some of their profits towards research and development of new solutions, and they will acquire promising startups to cut out
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by sparkie 8y ago
Bitcoin will drive innovation in cheaper energy sources faster than any amount of carbon tax could hope to achieve. Miners revenue can only decline as the block subsidy halves, as more miners participate in the network and the difficulty in
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by sparkie 8y ago
It clearly doesn't, because it is biting them in the ass now. I suspect that the social justice enforcement officers at Patreon are calling the shots, and the people making decisions about the business are powerless to oppose because t
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by sparkie 8y ago
She has been deliberately and systematically targeted by SJWs and NYT racist "journalists," who don't like the way she dresses.
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by sparkie 8y ago
It might only be a small minority of people who are true believers in Bitcoin, but many of them have taken it upon themselves to continue building new financial instruments and technologies around it. The internet changed the way the world
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by sparkie 8y ago
Middle ground exists because it is ultimately for a court to decide whether or not something is a copyright violation. These things aren't black and white. A license is a piece of legal advice which suggests the decision a court might
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by sparkie 8y ago
Well, you can expect it might take some time to gain adoption for an idea which has such a profound and extensive impact on many areas of life, and not just software. Bitcoin has changed the way the world thinks about money in just 10 years
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by sparkie 8y ago
I could argue a completely different case. The only "restriction" it is placing on you is that you may not restrict anyone else from exercising the same rights that you yourself were granted by the license, which I believe is the
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by sparkie 8y ago
Mostly. It does add some novel new features which could be reused on other platforms, but many of the features are tightly linked to the .NET base class library, and would not translate cleanly over to other platforms (certainly possible to
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by sparkie 8y ago
I wouldn't say it's really sophisticated tooling. Many basic editors support visual whitespace in one form or another. Some insert a semi-opaque character in place of tabs/spaces, and others show rulers. F# is whitespace sens
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by sparkie 8y ago
Another suggestion would be websharper. I'm not a web developer, but I have found it extremely simple to write some basic web apps using this.
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by sparkie 8y ago
I wish MS had continued support for their "Axum" project, or at least open-sourced it so that it could be continued outside of MS. It was essentially a C# subset with "static" removed and replaced with "isolated&quo
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by sparkie 8y ago
F# without the .NET platform is essentially OCaml. The differences between the two languages are primarily in the way it integrates with the .NET platform and many assumptions on it. If you wanted something similar on say, the JVM, starting
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by sparkie 8y ago
Maybe Microsoft don't put the effort into the F# ecosystem because it's like the gateway drug to other platforms, which aren't Microsoft. I ended up moving to Haskell after learning F#. I've since moved back to using F#
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by sparkie 8y ago
If you use VS or Monodevelop, there's are options you can enable which show indentation margins, which is even better than braces. Seems like a non-issue.
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by sparkie 8y ago
One thing about F# is that the ordering of compilation units is essential. You need to list your files in the order they are to be compiled because you cannot have circular dependencies between the units. This leads to making better decisio
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by sparkie 8y ago
abstract sealed class Employee { enum TAG { Worker, Manager } readonly TAG tag; Employee(TAG t) { tag = t; } public class Worker : Employee { public Worker(P
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by sparkie 8y ago
Another thing hindering F# adoption is the expectation that people will want to use your libraries from C# too, which leads you to using a C# compatible subset of F# which does not leverage its main advantages over C#.
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by sparkie 8y ago
If it bothers you, you can just stick type annotations where you need them. Annotations are mostly optional, but required in cases where they can't be inferred automatically. If you're using Visual Studio or Monodevelop, merely ho
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by sparkie 8y ago
F# is not strictly tied to Windows, it also works fine on Android, iOS & Linux, and is completely open source. It was open source well before the rest of the .NET ecosystem. Community contributions are larger than Microsoft's own.
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by sparkie 8y ago
Well, my original comment was making a point that r/politics has become exactly what Digg became. A cesspit of bury brigades with a political aim. I wasn't entirely sure what was/wasn't on their whitelist because I don&#
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by sparkie 8y ago
Just looked in "new", and every one of those you've listed which are there are downvoted to zero. Care to prove my point further?
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by sparkie 8y ago
In my first year of university I ended up in a shared accommodation with two muslims and a jew, and two other people. I made the innocent mistake of cooking a pepperoni pizza in the oven. After hearing them swear at me in Arabic and Hebrew
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by sparkie 8y ago
This is just people being culturally sensitive. I would chose not to share a flat with Muslims, or Jews, because I love eating pork, and I'm well aware that they're very uncomfortable about sharing a kitchen in which I cook it.
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by sparkie 8y ago
A filtered news feed of the political left. The difference is /r/politics has a whitelist of "acceptable" domains. Essentially anything left of Lenin is OK, and anything else is deemed "far right". The bury bri
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by sparkie 8y ago
Digg's demise was due to its failure to police their content and to leave it up to the users. I remember it being a fun place, and then it became overrun by do-gooders we called the "bury brigades". Anything remotely interest
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by sparkie 8y ago
The people pledging to solve the problem are actually making it worse by not coming up with a plan. They think the problem will solve itself if they just pay a chunk of GDP to unelected UN bureaucrats (who also don't have a plan). All
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by sparkie 8y ago
You have a bizarre perspective on history if you believe this. It is only recently that governments have tried to monopolize infrastructure developments. And they have the unfortunate outcome that they outsource the work to private entities
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by sparkie 8y ago
The costs are always passed on to the consumer in the end. It makes no difference to the big energy companies. In fact, it creates the perverse incentive that the legislature are generating so much income from carbon taxes that they will no
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by sparkie 8y ago
A pledge is pointless without a plan. Not much substance coming out of those promises.

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