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by spopejoy 7y ago
I would like to know how much of this is state-organized thuggery, typical of all authoritarian regimes. As in, directly fund, indoctrinate and direct initimidation and violence against anything that is seen as threatening to the state.
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by spopejoy 7y ago
Right especially given their 20-year advance understanding of differential cryptanalysis ... My impression is the NSA of today is very different than that of the 70s and 80s.
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by spopejoy 7y ago
Two of this article's sources are John Tierney who has had it out against recycling since the 90s, and has written other anti-environmentalist pieces, including a hit piece on Rachel Carson in 2007 that sang the praises of DDT spraying
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by spopejoy 7y ago
I confess to scanning the top photo in TFA for Baggers! You can see them in the distance
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by spopejoy 7y ago
> it's worth mentioning that Semantic, as a rule, does not encounter runtime crashes: null pointer exceptions, missing-method exceptions, and invalid casts are entirely obviated, as Haskell makes it nigh-impossible to build programs
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by spopejoy 7y ago
I more meant "GC for those who want it", as advanced GC with Edens and mark-sweep tenured generations can handle high-allocation and large-heap scenarios that are extremely challenging for simpler MM approaches. I don't know
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by spopejoy 7y ago
Agreed. I'm always surprised when people get away with this kind of blinkered panglossian pap. There is simply no evidence that as a species we're happier, more secure, etc than generations past. Every advance we enjoy seems to co
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by spopejoy 7y ago
In which a community dominated by nerds and physicists pretend to understand the longstanding and largely irrefutable arguments against nuclear because nerds and physicists understand nukes and don't have a clue about - public health &
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by spopejoy 7y ago
Oh I think you can easily equate unconstrained corporate lobbying with corruption. A lot of the western world's focus on corruption in other countries comes down to the fact that good old "pay an extra $50 to get your building per
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by spopejoy 7y ago
Other TS products like OneTick, RDBMSs for TAQ (esp. if you need non-TS indexes), streambase for UI backends I even met a programmer who hacked something together in Java using the same columnar kdb layout but, you know, multithreaded, so d
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by spopejoy 7y ago
Every programmer/musician (or music-curious) owes themselves a look at Supercollider https://supercollider.github.io/ . // two band limited square waves thru a resonant low pass filter { RLPF.ar(Pulse.ar
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by spopejoy 7y ago
Korg Electribe
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by spopejoy 7y ago
> Effortlessly handling hundreds of terabytes of data on a single machine Single machine, because it can't handle parallel queries, at all, and there are no options to scale it. Every financial institution I've worked at is bus
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by spopejoy 7y ago
> Nobody gets fired for buying Oracle I can think of environments where you'd get fired. Oracle these days screams "legacy", and especially if you're working on low-latency projects like trading systems it would be a
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by spopejoy 7y ago
Is there ever a plan for GC?
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by spopejoy 7y ago
Isn't that mainly for integrations though? I would think straight Oracle RDBMS licensing would be on life support without some big ERP connector etc.
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by spopejoy 8y ago
M-~ (meta-tilde)! Accidentally discovered this the other day.
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by spopejoy 8y ago
Instead, he was forced into retirement or reassignment, as 4-star Dickwad Mattis was head over heels for Theranos: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/12/01/trump... (Note that doe
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by spopejoy 8y ago
> I wanted to magnify the unbelievably sick ambitions of egotistical political dictators, ruling elites and downright insane architects, urban planners and social engineers. Reminded me of Plan Voisin: http://www.businessinsid
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by spopejoy 9y ago
Yes to this. People should always add up the total interest they're going to pay on a 30-year mortgage, some states require this to be prominently displayed on the loan. The amount is truly staggering. Given that your average money-mar
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by spopejoy 9y ago
Do they still have Condoleeza Rice on their board?
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by spopejoy 9y ago
> That doesn't really offer a solution for those of us that need to get paid. If you have anything at all to do with software you're "getting paid" by using the wealth of free software that makes up GNU Linux, OS X, e
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by spopejoy 9y ago
The author also mentions his company's release Uplink ( https://github.com/adjoint-io/uplink ), plus there's the Pact smart contract language ( https://github.com/kadena-io/pact )
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by spopejoy 9y ago
Pact ( http://github.com/kadena-io/pact ) is a turing-incomplete LISP (no recursion, no lambdas, no unbounded loops ... no macros either ;) ) and built in Haskell. Also has formal verification by directly compiling to SM
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by spopejoy 9y ago
The original tweet is a takeoff on the Michael Pollan maxim right? "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants"
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by spopejoy 9y ago
I found this discussion which is perhaps germane, about sensitivity to nonce repetition: https://www.imperialviolet.org/2017/05/14/aesgcmsiv.html
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by spopejoy 9y ago
> the pitfalls of AES-GCM Can you elaborate a little on this? I ask because Noise protocol standardizes on AES-GCM or ChaChaPoly, will apps using Noise with AES-GCM face "pitfalls"?
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by spopejoy 9y ago
> I would be very happy to supply more examples if you ask for it. I'd love an answer to a different question: why do so many tech reporters etc think he's some kind of f'ing genius? Beyond the usual success-worship that i
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by spopejoy 9y ago
> I also need to accept transactions signed by at least one of two keys. Keysets are designed for precisely this; what's more this rule can now be persisted. > anything more complicated would go outside of the system you have des
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by spopejoy 9y ago
Hmm ... would love to see an example of Solidity contracts calling pre-existing Solidity contracts as a best practice, especially given the difficulty of verifying the state of code on the blockchain. In Pact, when you load a module, all

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