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by wz1000 8y ago
Haskell has no problem with this(though its default Num hierarchy is sorely lacking) Prelude> a = 1 Prelude> a/2 0.5 Prelude> :t a/2 a/2 :: Fractional a => a Prelude> b = 1 :: Int
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by wz1000 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax
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by wz1000 8y ago
Linux can't change its license without getting permission from the (tens of) thousands of people who contributed to it, or throwing out their code.
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by wz1000 8y ago
Paul Cockshott has written a bunch of literature on this: http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/%7Ewpc/reports/index.html#econ
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by wz1000 8y ago
Gandhi didn't "succeed" in a vacuum, and especially not due to "British sensibilities". The British Empire as a whole was an unwieldy and increasing unprofitable venture(not in small part to the threat of revolt and
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Plasma 5.13 – Amazing Tux, How Sweet Plasma(ocsmag.com)
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by wz1000 8y ago
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Goldman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophia_Perovskaya https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constance_Markievicz https://en.
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by wz1000 8y ago
India has diversity(and population) comparable to the average continent. Of course, Indians who have the means and motivation to apply to emigrate to the US are a significantly less diverse group.
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by wz1000 8y ago
Xmonad has something called grid select, which works kind of like a combination of pie menus and a grid, while also being keyboard navigable(I use vim keybindings hjkl). http://maskray.me/static/xmonad-grid-select.jpg
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by wz1000 8y ago
> Aren't they important? They might be, but does enabling you to buy LSD over the internet really justify a $300 billion market cap?
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by wz1000 8y ago
Finally, after being non compliant with GPL for years.
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The point is that a large amount of waste produced by developed is dumped/exported to developing countries like China, India, Bangladesh and Vietnam. And a large amount of waste generated by these countries is done so in the production
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by wz1000 8y ago
This meme needs to die. Developed countries produce much more waste than developing countries. The disparity is even more striking if you look at the figures per capita. The US generates almost 3 times as much waste per capital as China. On
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by wz1000 8y ago
Yes, even I'm sympathetic to the anti-regulatory uses of cryptocurrency(donating to Wikileaks or safely buying drugs), but I haven't really seen a use case for blockchains or cryptocurrencies outside of these. From what I can see,
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Blockchains and Cryptocurrencies: Burn It with Fire [video](youtube.com)
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by wz1000 9y ago
Linear types support is coming along nicely, there is a fork of GHC with a prototype implementation. https://github.com/tweag/ghc/tree/linear-types However, to allow the compiler to optimise pure operations t
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by wz1000 9y ago
> They’ve done things like leak tapped phone calls to the press Yes, citizens knowing what their democratically elected government is doing is a terrible idea.
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by wz1000 9y ago
The Cambodians were even happier when the US dropped more ordinance(specifically cluster munitions) on their country than was dropped by the allies on Japan during WWII. Unexploded ordinance dropped by the US on Cambodia and Laos has render
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by wz1000 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_Papers#Role_of_the_Un... CHOMSKY: As far as the opinion makers are concerned, they have been doing exactly what it was obvious they would do. Every book that comes out, every arti
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by wz1000 9y ago
"Not only will America go to your country and kill all your people, but what's worse I think, is that they'll come back 20 years later and make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers feel sad. America makin
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The definitive explanation of why Bitcoin is stupid(jacobinmag.com)
6 points by wz1000 9y ago|0 comments
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by wz1000 9y ago
Of course, the condition of the Bitcoin market would have been much better if Satoshi had set a hard limit of 1 bitcoin instead of 21 million.
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by wz1000 9y ago
From the article: “There can be no ethical services provided by the government because they are facilitated through the power of the gun,” writes PARC, presumably while flipping the bird like in the top photo. “Don’t get us wrong, we believ
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by wz1000 9y ago
"Don't say that he's hypocritical Rather say that he's apolitical Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department, says says Werner von Braun" https://www.youtube.co
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by wz1000 9y ago
Plug in order is a terrible idea. With potentially every restart/power cycle, the cable would have to be unplugged and re-plugged into the receiver.
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by wz1000 9y ago
A major reason people use US dollars is because they want to buy stuff produced by the US. If the US doesn't produce anything, USD are pretty much useless.
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by wz1000 9y ago
> “The problem is that 30 years from now there will be a lot more retired people and proportionately fewer workers (that part’s right), and the Social Security trust fund will run out of money (as if number in a trust fund is an actual
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by wz1000 9y ago
> it seems so antithetical to capitalism to conjure up some laws to create scarcity. That is precisely what Enclosure(pretty much the birth of capitalism) was. Land was made artificially scarce by concentrating it into the hands of the f
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by wz1000 9y ago
Intellectual Property and patents are capitalism. Capitalism has always required exclusionary property rights to function, and these property rights have always been allocated and enforced by the government, starting right at the Enclosur
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by wz1000 9y ago
Haskell does have lazy side effects(unsafeInterleaveIO and its derivatives), which is a major source of complaints about the haskell standard library(lazy IO). There is a huge library ecosystem(conduit, pipes, streaming, machines, what have

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