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by spopejoy 6y ago
If you're a little older and were reading papers in the late 80s and 90s, Thomas Sowell was a fixture of the Op-Ed as a reliable apologist for capitalism and white supremacy. It's definitely _why_ he was so prolific at that time b
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by spopejoy 6y ago
It's a recent pivot/rebrand. As of May 2019 their hero copy was "Adjoint empowers enterprises to achieve new levels of efficiency and control by delivering blockchain technology built specifically for the needs of the financi
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by spopejoy 6y ago
It's worth noting that the author's company is in the private blockchain field, complete with a smart contract language under their belt, in Haskell. Indeed, it's not the first time that a private blockchain partisan has atte
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by spopejoy 6y ago
The trance like aspects aren't really what it's about with dance. Sports/martial arts/yogas are great, but the whole point of TFA is that dance is different. The others have all sorts of strengths, so it's a little
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by spopejoy 6y ago
Noted, and happy to abide to the best of my ability. I'm confused by the phrase "ideological flamewar" though and would like to clarify: flamewar is the issue right? E.g., flamewar over GPL would be equally undesirable. Tone
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by spopejoy 6y ago
She's a rich VC so by definition her viewpoint is more important than the twitter mobs, yes.
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Nope, it's your bosses' call, 100%. Businesses are dictatorships. What you describe is your read of what you might think your boss will do, but if it is in their interest to keep you, they will keep you, even if your "peers&q
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> causing free speech to be threatened. [citation needed]. Social media platforms are not 1st-amendment platforms. What's hilarious about the author of this article is her admiration for South Park. And yet, they did the satire of a
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> The far-left radical progressive movement is different and has greater power and momentum than anything we've seen in the past two decades. Huh. So let me get this straight, the relentless war on drugs started by Nixon 50 years ag
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> I had someone call me gross and “where was your outrage when a Black man was killed by a cop? I didn’t see you post anything then” Sounds rude. Does not sound like a huge tragedy? You wanted to post some random news article and get som
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by spopejoy 6y ago
Not sure why you aren't more critical of your CEO than the boogie man of cancel culture taking away our guns, oh sorry, what are they taking away? Our right to tweet without fear? Forgot where I saw that was an inalienable right ... Bu
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by spopejoy 6y ago
Haven't read it but this currently-free Springer textbook covers DEs, Laplace and Fourier transformations, "Differential Equations and Their Applications": https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-1-4
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> All told, EYOS Expeditions said that just seven people had reached the point before Sullivan, all of whom were men. So she is both the first female spacewalker AND the first female Challenger Deep diver. That is really remarkable, tal
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by spopejoy 6y ago
> However, I've never driven a car with physical buttons that got it wrong. I sure have, the climate control in 2001 VW GTIs is a fiddly mess of small buttons with feedback from a tiny screen almost as low as the gearstick. It'
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by spopejoy 6y ago
> brown-nosing speech towards the end of broadcast Was there any truth to the claims made that Trump has been exceptional in space support?
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So many cheeky touches! It's such a different vibe than the NASA launches of old. It's old news but I still was caught off guard by announcers flatly referring to "Of Course I Still Love You" EDIT this is not a criticism
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by spopejoy 6y ago
One thing is minor is unquestionably more dissonant than major; a major chord (in just intonation) is one of the most powerful sounds in existence which is why Baroque music almost always ends on major -- ie not to "sound happy" b
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> Finance is a very important industry that adds a lot of value. perhaps, but > The great recession after 2008 and the great depression both show what happens when finance stops working. shows the problem with your comment. The "
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by spopejoy 7y ago
It's really aggravating that HN goes against it's own culture so thoroughly when it comes to Haskell. We're supposed to comment on what TFA says, not lick our wounds about how Haskell wasn't what we wanted it to be. f yo
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by spopejoy 7y ago
You're not alone, wikipedia for zip says > ZIP supports a simple password-based symmetric encryption system generally known as ZipCrypto. It is documented in the ZIP specification, and known to be seriously flawed. In particular, it
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by spopejoy 7y ago
C++ has always been the language that "has a safe subset to use but nobody can agree what that subset is". JS is ... well, JS This is at least for me the first time I've seen them discussed in the same breath, which is revolu
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Yes but ED-448 is Spinal-Tap Grade
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> Why would you forgive student loans? That way you reward incompetence It's the opposite: it's a step toward removing the moral hazard that allowed predatory loans to be offered to students in the first place. The logical end-
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> I have no idea what Shakti's doing, but they, too, are probably making a substantial amount of money. I'd think AW would be more concerned about legacy and impact than just $$$ at this point -- tradetech has long stopped bein
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I agree and don't mean to imply Haskell has an out-of-the-box K/APL experience. More that with it's syntactic flexibility, one can imagine offering a k-like DSL/library in Haskell which would then give you access to its
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> With most of the array languages, it is commercial, so I'd be cautious about building a business around it K/Kdb/q seems very happy with this state of affairs, which is really strange: if they O/S'd it I could
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by spopejoy 7y ago
Or the J incunabulum[1] ... typedef char C;typedef long I; typedef struct a{I t,r,d[3],p[2];}*A; #define P printf #define R return #define V1(f) A f(w)A w; #define V2(f) A f(a,w)A a,w; #define DO(n,x) {I i=0,_n=(n);for(;i&lt
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Huh ... it's a cheaper way to get into the Haken Eaganmatrix too, vs $3500 for a half-size Continuum. That's a really trippy synth and given what the Continuum needs, a great choice for the Osmose
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This is the thing I worry about -- my business requires a decent amount of air travel, and in general business travel is where you hear most of people bopping in and out of town in a single day, whereas vacationing is often for at least a f

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