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by waps 12y ago
I think that raising indebtedness, raising effectively the minimum acceptable wage for a large number of people is how the FED (and euro central banks) raised the standard of living. And this worked marvelous ... until about 1987 or so wher
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by waps 12y ago
Sadly psychological studies confirm this : there's nothing that motivates people quite like seeing a few others fail, and the consequences of that failure, like homelessness. This motivates a lot better than anything on Maslow's p
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by waps 12y ago
You forget, this guy is western, and must be guilty of anything he could prevent. By that standard, of course, Gandhi would also be worse than Hitler, as he could have prevented massacres during the partition that killed much more people th
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by waps 12y ago
At university we learned a turing machine implementation in lambda calculus. Now while I will fully agree that it's a disastrously difficult programming language, but "big" (non-trivial) programs in lambda calculus both exist
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by waps 12y ago
> Consider Lisp as a potential pinnacle of perfection. Paul Graham quipped that Lisp was "discovered" by John McCarthy, rather than invented or designed – Lisp already existed in the way that mathematical truths exist. That&#x2
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by waps 12y ago
He might mean this, since the time period is a bit more correct : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sea_deluge_hypothesis
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by waps 12y ago
There is, however, plenty of evidence for a huge, huge flood at about the correct time. About 1/3 of the Black Sea was dry land until about 6000 BC [1]. The theory goes that it went from essentially dry land with forests and cities and
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by waps 12y ago
I'd be interested in hearing more about this codebase. What was it's function ? Are you including libraries ? What is taking up so many lines of python ?
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by waps 12y ago
You forgot to mention the elephant in the room : http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-06-13/gruesome-footage-is... Blame where blame is deserved, but ignore what unites these people, and how they recuit, who directs
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by waps 12y ago
Well add to that that you're assuming that "right" rules that are pareto efficient 1) exist 2) are significantly different from capitalism All non-trivial pareto efficient rulesets I've ever seen involve some form of rev
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by waps 12y ago
Well then we're doubly fucked in the recent conflicts, aren't we ? No way that these islamist wars in the middle east will bring even a tiny amount of innovation, just death, massacres and economic disruption (which will bring a l
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by waps 12y ago
Note that "perfect" capitalism, for obvious reasons (amongst others the ones you mention) does not have a commons. And yes, there are "natural" commons, like the athmosphere, but those are unsolved problems. > The con
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by waps 12y ago
Actually this is quite easily possible. They have lots of settings for it. But in python, for the love of God, PEP8. This standard is built in to pycharm. But there's no substitute for an autopep8 [1] commit script. (Preferably make it
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by waps 12y ago
Nor will python. Python is dynamically typed. It may not be impossible to write big functioning python apps, but it's damn hard. And specifically, it's a lot harder than doing it in java or C++. I've seen C++ codebases that e
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by waps 12y ago
Please note that the post gives an extremely bad impression. First of all, pareto efficiency and nash equilibria exist both in capitalism and other economic systems. And the obvious alternative economic system : centrally planned economies,
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by waps 12y ago
That's actually true. Greece demonstrated what happens after a default, and then Cyprus did. In both cases it didn't prevent them from reissuing bonds and selling out.
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by waps 12y ago
No, this is not true at all. In practice every program is typed. There is no useful function that is fully general, so in practice there are limits on the types and the values of the inputs. All dynamic typing gets you is that you can ignor
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by waps 12y ago
Translation: they're government guaranteed by making the students seel themselves into loan slavery instead of by taxpayer money. Note the evolution of public finances since this started : expenses increased. Same thing will happen : g
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by waps 12y ago
Beating java in memory usage is like beating a tied-up blindfolded turtle you gave cement shoes and dropped into a toxic vat in the 100 meters walking. You know, if the turtle was disqualified ahead of time. Now let's compare how many
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by waps 12y ago
And hiding assets from trivial privatized checks is hard ?
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by waps 12y ago
> Also, you can't make small scale fusion power plants. If the reactor was the size of a light bulb and produced 40w of power you would still need several feet of shielding to avoid killing anyone in the area and that shielding woul
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by waps 12y ago
But ITER is the worst possible fusion project. I mean no offence, but ITER makes nuclear reactors look cheap and small. (well, granted, the actual reactors are small, but I'm talking about the support infrastructure too) Frankly, if I
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by waps 12y ago
Welcome to the US, where parties that would be villified for being extreme-right in Europe are actually on the left side of the aisle, and the left side as it exists in Europe simply doesn't exist. Welcome to the country where the majo
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by waps 12y ago
You think university is about education. To an extent, of course, this is true. However, the reason "top" universities pay off better is not the quality of education. The difference in aptitude of students easily trumps the advant
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by waps 12y ago
You forget that most wealthy people do not have a "direct" income and have the ability to redirect tax obligations. So, like in Europe, most wealthy students have a very strong case that they're really poor : just look at the
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by waps 12y ago
As for 2) But while nobody's publicly saying so, it is true that the (not really) "poor" homeowners are responsible for the 2001 crisis. The cause of the crisis was, after all, that >2% of homeowners (mostly poor ones) sto
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by waps 12y ago
If you honestly think like this what do you think people should do that live under more invasive governments ? Even most of Europe has more invasive data collection laws (in all European countries, the secret service and the IRS equivalent
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by waps 12y ago
The problem of course is that everyone in the chain benefits, except the customer. 1) Government gets free (non-taxing) income from the cab drivers. 2) Government officials have to deal with a voting bloc (and potential strikes) if they don
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by waps 12y ago
> I don't need to deal with the inevitable argument about why I'm trying to pay with a credit card instead of cash. This.

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