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p-zombies are not conscious, by definition.

To clarify your comment for other readers: stock options and equity are not the same, and are handled differently upon termination.

Is the encryption/decryption code in WhatsApp open-source? I haven't been able to find it. My assumption was that they conform to the Signal encryption protocol, which is openly sp…

I believe that the article was talking about disagreement, critique, and debate. Being "noisy" and "boisterous" sounds like something else entirely. Productive debate ought to be c…

I don't believe that someone needs to have a solution in order to observe that there is a problem. The resources available to an individual for creating and reasoning are finite, a…

Surely the purpose of the LabStack example is to restrict the interface of a LinkedList to that of a Stack? Defining a new type to present a more restricted interface is not useles…

What confuses you about using Haskell for writing Web/Desktop/Mobile apps? System.IO exposes all the primitive input/output functionality one would expect in Swift, Python, or PHP,…

Yes. Haskell provides excellent facilities for cleanly managing side-effectful code, like the IO monad.

I don't know about those books, but in the case of these koans, it's intended to be entertaining. It's a joke. I think it's also intended to be irreverent.