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by waps 12y ago
> Yes. The religion is open to criticism. Show me where it says otherwise. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_and_blasphemy I find it hard to believe you're somehow not aware of this. Are you serious.
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by waps 12y ago
1) does that excuse muhammad's massacres in any way ? Or should I answer with pointing out that atheists are responsible for the biggest massacres of the 20th century perhaps (ie. the communist "opium for the people" folks) 2
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by waps 12y ago
> He only had one killed? What a modest man, by biblical standards. No this is just one example. Estimates of how many people got killed and/or massacred by the prophet to bring us islam range from 10 000 to 100 000. Individual peop
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by waps 12y ago
> A compelling explanation is that species that age most likely outcompete those that do not during periods of environmental change. Thanks for this (and the link). It seems very obvious but I hadn't thought of it or read about it a
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by waps 12y ago
It is known for quite some time that while there are diseases caused by transcription errors, the only reason the occurence of those diseases increases with age is that the immune system becomes worse over time. There are strong indications
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by waps 12y ago
There are no sects of islam that don't accept the prophet's actions as holy and unconditionally right. There are only differences about what those actions were, famously whether he appointed Ali as caliph or not (that's the d
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by waps 12y ago
And does this answer satisfy you ? Answering-christianity (the site) is full of these sorts of answers. Most are similar to this one. The technical answer to this reply is, firstly, that the same story is told by different narrators, not ju
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by waps 12y ago
I think maybe he meant from the perspective of muslims. That answer is here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27Asma%27_bint_Marwan This is what makes this so difficult : muslims killing because of negative opinions on i
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by waps 12y ago
The difference that seems to matter to most people is that Go has a standard library that's (currently) free of cruft, and free of "historical reasons". Java's standard library is bytecode-compatible with Java1 programs,
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by waps 12y ago
Also you should consider that the more you scale, the more "scaling in the small" saves you money/machines/operators/... Why ? Less resource-hungry code requires less resources and doesn't cause problems quite
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by waps 12y ago
This is the launch that will actually try to land on the ocean platform ! [1] Also, the boss is doing an AMA. [2] [1] http://www.spacex.com/news/2014/12/16/x-marks-spot-falcon-9-... [2] http:/&#x2F
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by waps 12y ago
I can't believe how they're actually using "Built-in generic types, i.e. the current Go approach (generic types map/chan/slice)" as an argument AGAINST generics. I mean this is unbelievable. Of course that list
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by waps 12y ago
That purpose may be "kill the old to make sure the world keeps changing, make sure new genetic experiements (ie. kids/offspring) get a chance". As we hopefully all know, nature isn't afraid to kill off a few people to ge
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by waps 12y ago
Didn't Netflix have what every other service was missing ? Netflix had a deal that they could stream whatever they had on DVDs for a fixed price. So they had boatloads of streamable content, which was the major stumbling block of every
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by waps 12y ago
> About your first point : yes, go has exceptions, the so-called panics, but they are here for truly exceptional situations, those you can't recover for, 1) I recover from such errors in Java all the time. It's easy : execute f
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by waps 12y ago
Go has inheritance, including confusing method resolution orders and everything : http://golang.org/ref/spec#Struct_types ("AnonymousField" is the name they give to it. But it's inheritance. Badly execut
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by waps 12y ago
Because most real applications don't model very well as a dataflow system at all. If you're thinking of linux utilities, I'm sure you see everything "works fine" as a dataflow system. Now imagine writing a complex a
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by waps 12y ago
The difference between OO and most other approaches is that OO very strongly encourages you to raise the abstraction level of your code. Hackers hate this, because small segments of code that look near-identical can do vastly different or c
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by waps 12y ago
Object orientation works because it worked for windows (and other UI toolkits, even today) when computers were switching to graphical user interface toolkits. And frankly, object-oriented UI toolkits work a lot better than webdev even today
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by waps 12y ago
First except of course for the corner cases that Go thinks should not be accounted for. These include serious system failures (e.g. gc fails for some reason), memory allocation failures, and of course anything that calls panic. Other errors
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by waps 12y ago
Somebody realizing that the key to AGI is to duplicate the human brain's efforts. The human brain is a copy machine, it duplicates behaviors it sees. We should have more research into behavior duplication algorithms.
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by waps 12y ago
If they wanted to make sure everybody and their grandmother starts doing this on a regular basis ... well done !
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by waps 12y ago
First of all, you're making the enterprise java argument. Which is valid, but drives me to suicide. Furthermore ... Go ... succinct ... elegant ... using reflection as an alternative to generics ... In my experience Go is neither succi
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by waps 12y ago
Application in Haskell is left associative so its ((Map String) Any) You seem to have stumbled on the exact conflict. Anybody who's seen the theory of lambda calculus will recognize the significance of what you've writt
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by waps 12y ago
Java's problem is a problem that Go won't escape from. Java is a language with baggage tacked on. It's standard library is bytecode-compatible with java1 classes. With a small wrapper class the applet that I wrote in my intro
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by waps 12y ago
It's just a technology cycle. Microservices have serious disadvantages as well, which will cause their elimination in, oh, 5 years if they're lucky. 1) They're not really simple. If you take essential functions like a key-val
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by waps 12y ago
Does the economy exist for society or does society exist for the economy ? > We're talking about macro issues here. We want as many companies as possible to succeed. This is a "society exists for the economy" answer to the
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by waps 12y ago
Reminds me of my older efforts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsVmEr9G-NQ
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by waps 12y ago
2) is in fact pretty obvious. If you check the behaviour of people in the west before terrorism became well known (halfway through the 90s or so) and after you can see that a lot of terrorist demands have in fact been met. From this perspec
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by waps 12y ago
There are over 300 different kinds of "law" in the US. FCC rules are one of them, and it's broadly classified as an executive ordinance. The same sort of thing as any local government regulation. Just because it doesn't

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