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Clearly you are too much of a pedant to do anything useful in life, so why don't you build a time machine and interrupt your birthing process ? It should be easy ... you can build …

> Do the mental problems and drug addiction of a brilliant musician detract from his or her music? Do you yell "madman" at a painting by van Gogh? Yes. Completely ignore the degene…

I would not reply if not for the delicious irony the georoge cantor was a schizophrenic lunatic who died poor and homeless. I too am concerned about mentally ill lunatics who have …

Mathematicians who think infinity is real should be treated with the same disdain as Neptune worshiping astrologers. The internet makes it easy for pedantic losers to have a loud o…

I'm not insane ... you are just the type of person who will defend roman numerals. Maybe you just have OCD. 1. Socrates is mortal 2. Mortals die 3. Socrates dies Deduction is reall…

The way I see it ... Most mathematicians nowadays use mathematica or matlab or even python, proving my point. The notation is medieval ... and probably the only reason it survives …

Wow .. an expert in sarcasm. Amazing! I have so many questions! Do you have good dental insurance ?

1 + 1 = 10

I guess you missed the sarcasm. If you want me to s-p-e-l-l it out - maths is convention.

I'm guessing there was a physical intuition behind the theorem, if you can simulate it you will probably do something better than the proof. Now it's your turn to tell me why 1 + 1…

What I am trying to convey is writing software is better than writing maths, just like medieval music notation vs modern notation. Programming is better than proving because most p…

No one uses mathematical notation for practical purposes. This is just like the medival music notation which is neither practical nor what modern composers use, which is more visua…

`UNWIND-PROTECT` thats cool! What I meant with the promises was, If you could pass three closures ... like success, error, restart could you get some kinda condition system ?

Congrats on the book! If you are just going to use `TAGBODY` and `GO` to implement this ... in a goto based languages like C I don't think you would be needing a condition system. …

I believe in reform. 1 year exclusive copyright / patent at most and author always holds the copyright. Its ironic that the movie with the biggest budget is a pirate movie ;) https…

> So what ? I too can ignore every big budget predictable cliche and say so what. Lets ignore the successes of alternatives. Is Kanye West and Britney Spears the best you can do wi…

How about scene by scene commentary for cats on a youtube video. Sports have this and you can watch old sports matches on youtube. Right now youtube would block it and my use case …

The number of CEOs who think printing money is a good idea might make you wonder if they even know anything about money. Polluting air costs less money why not do it ? 80% movies d…

Diligence, Patience, and Humility https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/open-sources/1565925823...

The idea "exclusive monopolies" and transferable intellectual property rights for perpetuity is bullshit. The blunt fact of the matter is - A majority of the movies would gain more…

Is it possible to add proofs for phone, credit card ?

I don't think the author is trying to destroy anything. Even in maths you find people taking extremely arrogant positions on things. Newton vs Leibnitz, Intuitionism vs Logic ... I…

I found the argument to be profound as opposed to being manipulative. The amphetamine effect is something you can observe after a few drinks of coffee. Alcohol obviously and even s…

Not all purpose of communication is political. 1. Information dissemination 2. Coordination 3. Persuasion 4. Feedback gathering 5. Social grooming (jokes, status updates, needs ...…