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by zimablue 9y ago
also hiccup in clojureland, https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup which has an abandoned looking python port: https://github.com/pascience/pyhiccup Thanks, I hadn't seen Breve! I was looking
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by zimablue 9y ago
I have never really used org-mode in anger but it's markdown in the context of an editor to which you have access to the primitives of in lisp with lots of attached features. For example a calendar and a simple spreadsheet.
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by zimablue 9y ago
Yeah some runnable code, not much at the moment but hopefully more as time goes on. Most of my notes are to do with data or programming, and a lot are just script fragments on how to do something, I want to run them. In theory I could hack
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by zimablue 9y ago
I've spend a long time trying different methods of doing this. I briefly investigated tiddlywiki, used OneNote heavily for a while. Currently I'm migrating to using JupyterLab notebooks on an ec2 instance with IP whitelisting. It
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by zimablue 9y ago
Can I ask the same question but focus on datalog not immutability. I really wanted to use datomic for a sideproject because what I wanted to do seemed to fit really neatly with the tuple and query language of datomic, other than datascript
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by zimablue 9y ago
You've mixed up two things here I think. Returns vs Cost of buying a house. The point is that the government subsidies make the profits on buying real estate high, which leads to high prices. So both are true: "high cost of buying
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by zimablue 9y ago
I don't subscribe to the philosophy that I think underlies this article but I can see that from their perspective slut shaming has advantages. If you assume that society accepting more sex leads mostly to more sex and sexual partners f
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by zimablue 9y ago
"compiler as framework" This really does sound like we're slowly reinventing lisp
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by zimablue 9y ago
To be fair, the Tesco I use most has found some really irritating middle ground where the bags are held by a specific employee that you go and ask for a bag from, slowing everything up massively. Every time I go in I have the same thought t
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by zimablue 9y ago
This is just empirically false, I'm wondering where they made the error. Are they excluding the way that the algorithm matches people? So that if you're in the bottom X% men you're eventually only shown to corresponding botto
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by zimablue 9y ago
40 hours a week plus a commute leaves you weekends and late evenings, which you won't enjoy because you're tired. And a lot of these people are trapped by a mortgage, and spent a lot of their energy and health worrying about bills
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by zimablue 9y ago
Those were just examples, in reality it's more free time to do absolutely anything. If you take the health side, I think Rockefeller would have had a higher life expectancy than me. I could be wrong but if you account for the higher li
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by zimablue 9y ago
Ironically, reading the comments it seems that this is written from some right wing perspective of "everyone should be happy with their lot". But counting wealth in terms of nice things you can eat and cosmetic surgery itself betr
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by zimablue 9y ago
This is stupid, there is one thing I value which hasn't changed much between now and then - my time. If I owned my time I could spend it reading, talking to friends, thinking. These things haven't changed much between now and then
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by zimablue 9y ago
Can you provide more sources from this? Friedman as far as I understand economics represents an outlier in the free market US school of economics, which I thought was on the retreat in recent years?
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by zimablue 9y ago
I think this is just a very visible specific case of assets becoming worth more relative to wages
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by zimablue 9y ago
I'm not familiar with the wider thesis you seem to be advocating, (could we get a link?) but calling porn a "cult" seems like a stretch, it's not something that has been created by a group and spread through brainwashing
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by zimablue 9y ago
I see your point but even on that - there are alternative blockchains, we could all just swap to litecoins and send it to zero. If it were the only feasible crypto it would have some sort of floor I agree but factor in altcoins and it actua
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by zimablue 9y ago
Gold has a floor value though, sure it has a value above that based on being used as a store of wealth but the whole thing is predicated on the fact that gold is actually useful and has thousands of years of human history of being valued.
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by zimablue 9y ago
I don't use this but you could argue that it's useful to have a standard encapsulation of failure/missing that isn't null? Where some situation means that null already has a meaning, the alternative is to create a wrappe
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by zimablue 9y ago
Not a physicist but I did study a degree in it. Spin is absolutely a direction and absolutely related to angular momentum, since it's basically the angular momentum that you get when all the angular momentum we understand is removed. T
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by zimablue 9y ago
You can't ban any statistical reasoning about humans because it's sometimes wrong. "We stopped testing the medicine because even though it cured 99% of cases those that weren't cured were offended by the possibility that
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by zimablue 9y ago
Counterpoint in the UK, making defamatory statements makes you personally liable and in court the burden of proof is on you, you need to prove your claims. In the US, you'd have to prove that they are lying which is obviously impossibl
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by zimablue 9y ago
In my opinion, the interesting decision at a news site (and determining the politics of a news site) is what gets printed/promoted. It's fundamentally different to an encyclopedia because an online encyclopedia can pretty much inc
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by zimablue 9y ago
Abolished but it's never going to get close to being that gross. They'll have plenty of spin and perspective that I disagree with but the rest of our media is absolutely festering. Anything that isn't owned by an 80 year old
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by zimablue 9y ago
I'll pay a fee all day to have some fraction of the population getting less of their news from the Daily Mail etc. Let's triple the fee and get some state newspapers and advertising.
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I think that there's an implicit assumption that there's a massive injustice, and that those things are most defined by race/gender and not, for example, parental income. In my limited personal experience of social justice me
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by zimablue 9y ago
But you say "going with what's in the pipeline", that basically means "hiring on average the best/mean candidates according to their metrics that apply". To say that they shouldn't do that you basically ha
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by zimablue 9y ago
Readability might be a fair criticism but syntactic sugar is a weird one, there's not a lot of syntax at all. Multiple ways to do something is a feature, and there's definitely multiple ways to do things in python: metaclass vs cl
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by zimablue 9y ago
Also no macros, no parallelism

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