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> writing imperative code in functional languages almost invariably sucks. I don't agree at all! Haskell is extremely pleasant for imperative programming. There's a learning curve …

I don't think this is accurate at all. Debugging in a strict FP language is pretty much exactly like debugging in an imperative language. Debugging in a lazy FP language requires s…

Functional programming doesn't actually compete with imperative programming. In practice, functional programming is a way of organizing imperative programs. Kind of like how OO is …

Billions of people in this world would agree unreservedly with the sentiment in question. Only a very specific class of people would have a negative reaction to this. If you don't …

I find this phrase "Automatic Currying" that people are using in this thread to be very strange. It implies that `(add 3)` is being magically converted into `(\x -> (add 3 x))` by …

Compiling functional languages to other high-level language s generally has pretty awful performance compared to simple native compilation. Even compiling to C has it's limitations…

Smoking decreases appetite. A lot of people who quit smoking gain significant weight.

You have been intensely socialized to behave like a robot in person. To wear a mask and not do anything that stands out. People expect this, so doing anything "off script" around o…

I don't have a big-picture answer for you, but I'll point out that there are a lot of performance-relevant details that are different between the two protocols. A torrent is basica…

> just to make a few white crypto bros happy. Causal racism

Of course there are a cultural leanings at every "place". What kind of people frequent that place? HN is no different. Anyone can come here and make any argument.

My personal view on Transgenderism is that it should be seen in basically the same way as drug addiction. Drugs also occur naturally and many people dabble in them without much har…

> but it seems like a fairly trivial one to me. I don't see the difference as trivial. The reality is that, across many cultures, there are men that have a strong desire to abandon…

The Thais have similar concept as well (third gender), but it isn't the same as the western Transgenderism construct. > I find it all rather fascinating and hard to reduce down to …

Since there is no DM feature, I'm going to rail on this a bit more here. You feel alone. - What is your relationship like with your parents and siblings? - What is your relationshi…

I have no interest in arguing against any of these points here. All I am claiming is that they are a form of dogma. These beliefs look very silly to everyone outside of this cultur…

There are tons of things like this outside of religion. Almost every coherent group of people believes in some sort of nonsense for political reasons, and as a form of identity sig…

People are telling you that you are too judgmental. People are telling you that you need to accept your situation. People are telling you to move to a huge city. Instead, you need …

The reason we are dealing with lots of little echo chambers is because we are in the middle of a war. Our echo-chamber-keepers were replaced, and the new ones are leading us to our…

But you were born in an echo chamber. There is no "exit from" echo chambers. There is no outside. Your echo chamber is the source all of the stories and symbols that you use to mak…

There is something implied by that dataset that we are not allowed to notice or talk about. The text doesn't say it, but the commenter is suspect because they should know better th…