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Conservation of Information: Software's Hidden Clockwork? [pdf](leshatton.org)
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by xrange 10y ago
>Are there any deep earthscrapers Not exactly what you are looking for, but you might enjoy _Wool_ by Hugh Howey: http://www.amazon.com/Wool-Hugh-Howey/dp/1476735115/
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by xrange 10y ago
This may not be the ATS you are looking for, but http://www.ats-lang.org/ ...is fairly performant: https://web.archive.org/web/20121218042116/http://shootout.a... It might help to narrow
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by xrange 11y ago
>I don't think you can do small scale experiments What if you started everyone out at $50/month, and increased it slowly over the course of say 10 years or 20 years, or 100 years to whatever target you liked? Or do you think a
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by xrange 11y ago
Here's something I like to see some discussion on from Basic Income proponents. Does BI need to be rolled out everywhere-all-at-once, or is it possible to do small scale experiments to look at the effects? If you think it is possible
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by xrange 11y ago
I've always wanted to hear a Swedish perspective on the Wallenberg family. Who apparently "In the 1990s indirectly controlled a third of Swedish GNP." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallenberg_family
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by xrange 11y ago
In Prolog you have the ability to create new postfix operators. Of course Prolog being a logic language and not a functional language, along with '!' being used for 'cut' opens up another can of worms. http:/&#x2F
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by xrange 11y ago
If you substitute APL or Smalltalk into what you've written, I don't see a majority of APL and Smalltalk users disagreeing with it.
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by xrange 11y ago
>What language allows you... SML allows you to have an infix function named "P", and Haskell allows something similar, although you have to quote it with backticks and can't use a capital letter to start a function name...
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by xrange 11y ago
c = sqrt(a*a + b*b) (set! c (sqrt (+ (* a a) (* b b))))
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by xrange 11y ago
I wonder why there is all the anguish around why Lisp hasn't flourished, and seemingly less anguish around APL, or even Smalltalk. Is there a reason it engenders so much loyalty? Is it the idea that macros allow you to extend the lan
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by xrange 11y ago
A better question: "What impressive programs are written in Lisp?". Or "Why isn't there a Squeak-like Lisp machine environment, where 'compatibility' doesn't have to matter?". If a language is incre
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by xrange 11y ago
Anyone have recommendation for good books on game theory or prisoner's deilemma's? I could see lots of variations on a theme, where you have: * Precisely finite games (for example, exactly 100 games). * Finite games where the num
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by xrange 11y ago
Some further links: Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma contains strategies that dominate any evolutionary opponent https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22615375 Extortion and cooperation in the Prisoner’s Dilemma http:/&
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by xrange 11y ago
Thanks for reposting this, quite interesting.
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by xrange 11y ago
She has written a few books: http://www.amazon.com/Tina-Seelig/e/B00MAPL7P0 ...and has a blog: http://creativityrulz.blogspot.com/ ...and here are some video lectures: http://ecorner.st
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by xrange 11y ago
Could testosterone be a factor? http://healthland.time.com/2011/09/13/why-do-dads-have-lower...
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by xrange 11y ago
I've always wanted to hear a Swedish perspective on the Wallenberg family. Who apparently "In the 1990s indirectly controlled a third of Swedish GNP." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallenberg_family
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by xrange 11y ago
>* There would be no superconductive magnets. Can you expand upon this? I'm unclear as to which of Einstein's theories you are referencing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_superconductivity
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by xrange 11y ago
Yes, speaking of experiments, I don't see why the U.S. doesn't run a large scale experiment to see what the effects of a basic income are. Select a small but not insignificant demographic. Pay them a not-means-tested monthly sti
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by xrange 11y ago
Here's a great opportunity for a little informal HN poll. When was the last time you used the postal service to send a letter? Sure, I've got a box that gets junk mail every day, but the only time I send anything are one-off bil
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by xrange 11y ago
I wonder if anyone has thoughts on the book "The Games People Play", and more specifically the "Alcoholic" game: http://www.ericberne.com/games-people-play/alcoholic/ https://archive
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by xrange 11y ago
I'd say the "source code" for your designs is hand-crafted, but the material coming off the CNC machine is not. It may not be mass manufacturing, but if additional copies are essentially a button-push away, I'd say that
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by xrange 11y ago
So I guess once we get time machines, we'll have to worry about immigration from the past?
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by xrange 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churnalism
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by xrange 11y ago
>People with 1990 skills now are not employable today in many/most fields. Citation or clarification or examples needed. If you started a job in 1990 at 25 years old, you'd only be 50 years old today. I don't think unemp
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by xrange 11y ago
Am I missing something? It seems like all those transactions are merely exchanges, and no wealth has actually been created (i.e. new ipads, hepatitis treatments, Taylor Swift concert tickets, food grown, etc.).
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by xrange 11y ago
>I think it's pretty normal to be extremely idealistic when you're raised in a middle class, educated bubble like I was. So if you have kids someday, would you hope to raise them to be "worldly" or to have lived in a
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by xrange 11y ago
From "A Short History of Cataract Surgery": "Cataract surgery in its simplest form is at least 4000 years old. Couching for cataract was the earliest method at about 2000 BC, and even then was evidently practiced in the Tigri
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by xrange 11y ago
>The young people of today are different... "They have exalted notions, because they have not yet been humbled by life or learnt its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to gre

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