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by zeth___ 8y ago
Who owns a calculator outside of schools? Everything can be done better and faster in a cas on a laptop.
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by zeth___ 8y ago
>I'm pretty sure that VPN's and Tor will explode in popularity if they ever manage to enforce this in any way beyond the most silly methods. VPNs do next to nothing and require a credit card. Tor will definitely benefit from th
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by zeth___ 8y ago
Imagine you elected Hilary Clinton to carry out Donald Trumps policies. That's what Theresa May is. Oh and Bernie Sanders is even more left wing and will probably win the next election.
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by zeth___ 8y ago
Huh til that rust isn't compillable by gcc.
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by zeth___ 8y ago
Not quite yet. But getting there.
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by zeth___ 8y ago
Javascript runs everywhere where there is a browser. Rust runs everywhere where there is a c compiler, which is funnily enough the sample places that C/C++ run.
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by zeth___ 8y ago
>“The old model of a general-purpose newspaper fit the industrial age when advertisers needed mass audiences to sell the products of mass production. But the marketplace no longer supports the model of a few messages to many people. Now
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by zeth___ 8y ago
And you think the algorithms made by racists aren't racist? This isn't a sorting algorithm where there is a simple provable solution, this is putting heuristics in a computer.
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by zeth___ 8y ago
>I would easily pay $10/m for a "personal" version and I know companies that would pay 2x - 3x that for enterprise deployment. Although to an extent - it's redundant now that we have phones with biometric authenticati
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by zeth___ 8y ago
Yet today we have a system that benefits the rich far more than the one in 1958. This is what I mean by the forms of democracy. We have even quantified it [0]. That we got the vote for blacks in the south isn't much of a win, from then
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by zeth___ 8y ago
Given post war history, can you say it would have been much worse than what we've had? The last 60 years have been a study in how to keep the forms of democracy while making a dictatorship of the billionaires.
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by zeth___ 8y ago
I'd buy one to carry my groceries.
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by zeth___ 8y ago
>I know this is somewhat SF utopian but I keep banging on about "MOOP" - massive open online psychology. the idea that we are monitored day in day out by our phones, listening to us and our interactions, the actual useful data
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by zeth___ 8y ago
It doubly interesting since python does not have types. It has builtin classes, unlike every other popular language out there.
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by zeth___ 8y ago
Python has not types. Let me repeat: Python has no types. It has built in classes that used to be types 15 years ago, but no types. [0] 90% of the holy war between strongly and weakly typed in python would be resolved if we just removed all
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by zeth___ 8y ago
>Especially when combined with good tooling and a good IDE. Quite a few people, myself included, don't use IDEs.
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by zeth___ 8y ago
Types make sense if you're not using OO, so for pure functional python I can see how they would be useful. In my projects I have dozen of classes that are nearly strings but add functionality not present in strings. Trying to type chec
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by zeth___ 8y ago
What I'm seeing here isn't that radiation is harmless, but that radiation is less harmful than humans, which is no great surprise considering we kill wolves in a few minutes with guns, but radiation can take up to half the lifespa
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by zeth___ 8y ago
The same is true for true and false. What meaning gets attached to Boolean values is immaterial to how they act. That null is implemented oddly doesn't negate the fact it's a meaningful and well defined mathematical construct. I d
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by zeth___ 8y ago
The last 100 years have been dealing with the fact that true and false are not enough to describe the world of computation. You also need undecidable, or null, for statements that can be proved to never terminate. It is very much still an o
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by zeth___ 8y ago
You can easily have n-valued logics. Saying they don't work because Aristotle didn't use them is like throwing out Newtons laws because Aristotle didn't use them. There have been whole schools of mathematics that reject the l
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by zeth___ 8y ago
So the decentralized solution to a centralized banking system needs a centralized totally not a banking system to work?
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by zeth___ 8y ago
I am curious, how were you doing any of these things 4 months ago when the average transaction fee was $40?
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by zeth___ 8y ago
Then the village chief said >You fucking idiots stop burying the money in the ground and use it as a medium of exchange. And lo, as everyone has more faith in the US treasury than the village tin roof hut a market was opened in the middl
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by zeth___ 8y ago
I'd like to know why you were downvoted.
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by zeth___ 8y ago
>Wonder why the above is being downvoted I have fans that follow me around the internet and downvote everything I say. In this account I'm smart enough to not reveal any true personal information so I can't get doxxed again. Bu
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by zeth___ 8y ago
Bad example. When the Roman empire fell the average life expectancy increased in all regions [0] and [1]. Turns out complex societies are used to funnel wealth to the richest at the expense of the poorest. Who would have thought, apart from
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by zeth___ 8y ago
In the new spirit of 'liberalism', or the tumblr version of it, mentioning a traumatic event is as bad as causing the traumatic event. You can't mention rape because it might trigger someone, it doesn't matter if you are
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by zeth___ 8y ago
RMS is pro voluntary pedophilia: https://www.stallman.org/archives/2006-may-aug.html#05%20Jun... If you don't know what libertarian means you're going to have a bad time trying to apply liberal labels to peop
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by zeth___ 8y ago
You are also assuming that the 4% of the worlds population in the US is representative of the world. Or imperial privilege as those of us who suffer from empire like to call it. That you push your social issues on us as well as your armies

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