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by wz1000 10y ago
Try just staring at yourself in the mirror for 10-20 minutes. It is a very strange, disorienting experience, almost like a dissociative drug.
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The Anarchists vs. The Islamic State(rollingstone.com)
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by wz1000 10y ago
Homage to Catalonia deserves a mention here. https://libcom.org/files/Homage%20to%20Catalonia%20-%20Georg...
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> Wonder when the current AI summer will come to an end... Are we really closer to AI in a significant way today? Chomsky makes an interesting argument to the contrary. He points out that any physical system, say the motion of falling bo
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by wz1000 10y ago
Most countries today will give you citizenship if you pay enough.
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When Chomsky wept (2012)(salon.com)
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Iraq has assets important to the functioning of the US and world economy. The war in Iraq and Afghanistan was also the first time there were major anti-war protests before US entry since WW1 If you want to talk about carpet bombing, look at
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by wz1000 10y ago
The US isn't concerned with civilian casualties. Of course, it wouldn't go out of its way to inflict them, but it simply pays no regard to them, no matter what their scale. Look at US actions in Laos, Cambodia, and Libya for direc
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by wz1000 10y ago
With regards to domestic policy, the US was miles better than the USSR. With regards to foreign policy, the distinction isnt anywhere near that clear. The US has supported mass murders in Guatemala, Iran, Nicaragua, Pakistan/Bangladesh
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Yes, I would prefer a US hegemony over an ISIS hegemony. The comparison itself is ridiculous. But saying that the US has not used its military strength for its own benefit and at the expense of the people of other countries is ridiculous. T
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FBI Has Quietly Investigated White Supremacist Infiltration of Law Enforcement(theintercept.com)
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KDE Plasma 5.9 release video(youtube.com)
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by wz1000 10y ago
> So Trump isn't so crazy on this whole wall issue .... A wall can't stop fentanyl. A single gram of fentanyl is good enough for somewhere on the order of 10^5 doses. It is a trivial matter to smuggle a few grams of substance
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by wz1000 10y ago
As long as there is any structure or internal logic to what the program does, it can be reflected in its types. For your example of a server, look at the Servant library in haskell. It allows you to define type safe routes and links, ensuri
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_economics Like I said, mathematical models of economics are a simplification, and this fact is widely accepted by most economists. This is not by any means a dismissal, a
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by wz1000 10y ago
Analysis of the famines in Bangladesh and the role of speculation in them has been done by Nobel prize winning economist Amartya Sen, and the examples I've given are taken from his work Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and
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by wz1000 10y ago
The part you miss is that products, land, buildings and services mostly aren't targeted towards people in general. They are targeted towards the section of the population who will result in the most profit for the capitalism. Out of th
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by wz1000 10y ago
> given an unfair initial distribution of scarce resources, capitalism has the most fair outcome Doesn't that go against the fundamental principle of capital accumulation? Those with the most capital are the ones who earn the most p
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by wz1000 10y ago
How can capitalism be fair if the initial distribution of scarce resources are widely recognized to be unfair? The current distribution of resources and capital have arisen as a result of hundreds of years of human history and unfair practi
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> The only way to kill capitalism is by the state. The only way capitalism in its current form exists is through the support and use of state power. Private and intellectual property are entirely dependent on state recognition and are p
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by wz1000 10y ago
> It's one of the few truly purely functional languages around. No IO monads or whatsit. The IO monad, as in Haskell, can be viewed as an entirely pure construct. Its implementation is impure purely because of performance reasons. Y
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by wz1000 10y ago
IIRC, even the architecture VimFX is built on is planned to be obsolete by the end of the year.
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by wz1000 10y ago
I've been using firefox exclusively for the last 5 years, and have been extremely happy with it. Sadly, I think my time with it is about to come to an end. With e10s, extensions that have been crucial to my daily needs, namely vimperat
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by wz1000 10y ago
> It amazes me that Haskell takes my Python hack and actually allows it to be expressed quite naturally! This isn't an accident. Python's list comprehensions were modeled on Haskell's list comprehensions, which were in tur
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by wz1000 10y ago
I don't know. To me, sum $ map (^2) Is pretty clear as a sum of squares is a quite common mathematical idiom. The zipWith part could probably be avoided. guard $ (6 ==) $ sum $ map (^2) [(a%k),...]
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by wz1000 10y ago
Just for fun, guard $ (a % k)^2 + (b % n)^2 + (d % xi)^2 + (e % pi)^2 + (et % mu)^2 + (i % s)^2 == 6 can be written as guard $ (6 ==) $ sum $ map (^2) $ zipWith (%) [a ,b ,d ,e ,et,i ]
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by wz1000 10y ago
>Not very readable to put that after every use of u. This is easier to read > where u = [1..26] do This isn't valid Haskell, but this is let u = [1..26] in do ... Also ($) is just sugar to avoid parenthesis. Ins
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by wz1000 10y ago
Exactly. I initially thought it was satire. A dozen external libraries and a special package manager to build something that can be written with equivalent functionality in 10 lines of bash. I don't exactly get why this is posted here.
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We are discussing morality and ethics here. Almost all such scenarios can be explained and accounted for by the unsymmetrical distribution of power, including that of the spying of US agencies on American citizens. Indeed, it is completely
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by wz1000 10y ago
It's the same with drone strikes. If you look at the recent controversies about the drone program in the US, it's all about how Obama authorized drone strikes on an American. Illegally assassinating non Americans without any form

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