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What looks bad about the ClojureScript example? I'm obviously a bit slow, but I can't see any practical difference between the two. I do prefer the ClojureScript because I don't kn…

Is any bias towards one gender doing better in the workplace acceptable? If men and women perform equally and we balance outcomes as is a stated goal in many circles, how could a m…

Imagine the mucky world of politics; somebody is advocating or willing to consider almost any crazy idea. So any state of law is usually a balance between forces that want to move …

I'm struggling to think of any aspects of masculinity that I could safely class as 'healthy' in the current climate. For example, traditionally the view that males should be provid…

Guessing: Got to have a system that is resistant to single points of failure and where the costs of knocking out a communication node is high relative to the benefits the governmen…

I fully support the teachers doing this, but the response by employers is more likely to be to lower the workload than anything else. The only effective (read: doesn't cost anythin…

> You can redeploy the code scheme independently of the data scheme and set up permissions so that higher layers can only use objects from the code scheme and never touch the data.…

All sorts of things are possible but it misses a fantastic opportunity to compartmentalise the data away from the implementation. If it doesn't make sense to compartmentalise data …

I can't quite interpret what you are saying; so I'll say what I hope you are saying: If the x86 and x86_64 instruction sets became an open standard so that anyone could implement t…

> the pieces' powers [don't] mutate [in a Go game] That comment in particular suggests to me that you havn't spent a lot of time playing Go. The pieces' powers mutate quite spectac…

The classic issue here is the lack of evidence could mean it didn't happen or that that the evidence is expertly hidden. However the American spy network is large, well provisioned…

> Would you consider them trusthworthy in court, where lives are at stake? Probably. Human intelligence is extremely fallible - based on the statistics the only reason we trust hum…

Being bombarded in a trench for days and still being partially functional as a soldier is pretty much the gold standard for courage. Nevertheless 'water behind a dam you call on [w…

Cheerful concurrence. It is worth remembering that most of history and indeed the present can be described in very bleak terms given a little bit of effort. Humans have good reason…

Rich Hickey stands for good design. That means saying "no" to a lot if ideas that are good, but not part of the vision, and it means not running experiments on your users in the ma…

> You also can't expect exployees to stand up to a corporation because they may need the job desperately. If an employee thinks their job security is more important than the human …

The people who run water systems, food distribution networks, defense systems and similar should be people who would reasonably accept that their responsibility to the system comes…

In semi-rare cases, majorities organise against minorities. If that happens and the majority gets access to the data stored in something like Facebook's databases, it will be catas…

Also fairly critically; a mathematician can go from assuming that one exists as a concept to multiple ordinals of infinity with about 20 minutes of scribbling. The fact that 64 bit…

There is something interesting to be said about Bitcoin's ability to expose and correct market distortions so neatly. I personally quite like the idea of a quota system for access …

That is mischaracterising what I said in a very specific way. Humans are different from animals - not in some intrinsic way, but because you and I are humans and our success is mor…

> that unbalancing them disturbs our interests I've talked to farmers on trains, I've lived in cities, I've worked in mines. This doesn't reflect my experiences, we have shredded t…

Why do you think we mine things? Do you imagine the 1% have basements full of oil that they swim in and laugh about? We don't stockpile this stuff, we use it. :) These resources ar…

Pretty much any mine? I've seen proposed mines get shut down by that sort of environmental activism. Bar a bit of recycling, everything that is metal or stone and most of our energ…

I'm going to live a little dangerously here, partly because I have a job in mining, partly because of who I am. I don't have the foggiest idea why it is important to protect endang…