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> Imagine how open the highways would be if this was how everyone worked/lived. What does this even mean? If everyone worked away from the city, there would be no city to drive to.…

> And in any case, the market for lemons is a theoretical exercise. It does not actually happen in real markets, because there are various market mechanisms that emerge to address …

> Pinboard is great, but it never competed against Delicious. In fact it came out long timer after people stopped using Delicious. It got a HUGE boost when the announcement of Deli…

> You just did the thing I suggested was insubstantial and said hurts and I didn't like. Please stop. Also it's a logical error to judge a claim by the site it's on, or by the clai…

> It's a military AI that correctly interprets a command to kill a particular group of people, so effectively that its masters start thinking about the next group, and the next You…

Under a minute! How many times did you have to do it to get that fast? (I still can't do it in under ten.) It is a really wonderful video, and extremely effective teaching.

But at least he's still got some sweet Rick Owens jackets.

"but it's been pointed out repeatedly that he could have obtained an exit visa without a valid passport" But only by grace of some entity with the power to grant him such a visa, r…

> There is if you think the grain is a corrupt and unfair system that needs dismantling. The enemy of my enemy is my friend thing. No, there still isn't, because you seem to have m…

incidentally this is a good paper: https://www.princeton.edu/~tkelly/ftawil.pdf

There's nothing admirable about "going against the grain" in itself. Probably most people in the upper echelons of tech wealth don't think it's a great idea to deport Muslims, and …

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Why would they only be useful in strict languages? You don't need a macro to write `unless` in Haskell, but you do to (say) automatically generate typeclass membership given a data…

Wasn't Midori killed?

None of that strikes me as an explanation for the obtuse jargon in particular.

What people talk about category theory w/r/t Clojure? Since it has almost no type system to speak of, I'd be very curious to know what in the world they're on about. Macros and the…

Why is this newsworthy? It seems like the exact same points have been made hundreds of times.

The idea that The Glass Bees is "little-known" is ... curious. It was republished by New York Review Books, not exactly a small little press no one's ever heard of.

The above scenario was an example illustrating the concept of abuse de droit . No need to get hung up ont he precise specifics. > Laws that say "forget the law, anything we think i…

> But the variables which receive command line overrides should be set apart in some way for that purpose. Like by calling them "config" variables?

> Actually the "worst" trolls simply tell some uncomfortable truth (which isn't false or ignorant, and he who respects truth wouldn't dare call it harmful). Did you get to the part…

> Otherwise, how would the interpreter (or whatever execution environment is relevant) deduce what binary data was what? Via runtime tags, which are not the same as types.