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Common Lisp actually has a core of a mere thirteen "special operators". You can think of everything else as standard library.

If Mozilla was a-political, Klabnik couldn't work there if Brendan couldn't. He can, and Mozilla isn't. Actually, the politicalization of Mozilla means that everything technical wi…

Expecting privacy (or privacy-preserving security) from Google products has always been folly. Mozilla used to be different. However, when Brendan was purged, first doubts may have…

If you combine that with the pain stim version into one device and give me the remote, I'll have you barking like a dog whenever I lift my little finger. The good news is that scho…

Just so people don't think there's no third way to think about your work: I get nothing but snake oil vibes from Urbit, but loved the blog, which, among other things, was the vener…

If you sum over all micro-insults suffered by victims of racists, caused by billions, possibly trillions of micro-aggressions, who knows how many death-equivalents you might get? A…

So this outfit, mSpy, sold to people the capability to track activities on one (1) other person's smartphone: Less than a nanogoogle! Why the outrage?

Japan is betting that automation means they don't need gazillions of workers to feed their old. If they're right, they'd win so big compared to "us" that in fact the biggest obstac…

Scheme has come up with the idea of pretending that an undelimited contination is a function, which is somewhat true-ish... in the degenerate sense of a function with empty domain.…

Maybe you know about usenet. Of course, usenet is dead. However, one of the last groups to die was comp.lang.lisp, which is an instructive example in this context. I submit that wh…

If you're in the west, KGB backdoors are less of a risk to you. Say you're in the west. NSA has backdoors into your US-designed hardware and your US-designed OS. NSA also, probably…

I've seen multiple sources showing reduced fertility in high-IQ females (across multiple countries.) The culprit, however, doesn't seem to be raw intelligence as such, but modern w…

I probably unconsciously undercount "legitimate" grey-outs, so... maybe. Still, you really can't have all three of these: (1) Votes to register (dis-)agreement and (2) very promine…

Under that assumption, upvote should not be a way to voice agreement, as that implies that downvote is disagreement. But downvote leads to graying-out and disappearance, which is j…

You're downvoted because your comment implies that "just following orders" at companies with morally questionable business models might reflect back on the one taking orders. For m…

You were supposed to compare --- not the forbidden things AS SUCH, but (a) the abstract fact that they're illegal, composed with (b) SANE ways your OWN country can react to the fac…

...and watch China flood the US with dollars (it has a few of those, y'know?), halt all Apple smartphone production and lobby hard and successfully to finally replace the petrodoll…

To play devil's advocate: If you had the choice between identifying all domestic users of GFW circumvention tools, rounding them up, and shooting them, or attacking some of the for…

Lower prestige? I think this is true. People may not be consciously aware of it, but due to the company's core business model, i.e. basically adware and spyware, non-billionaire em…

The registry is not very discoverable. However, once you discovered, a lot of customization can be had from running as little as a single registry script. As a trivial example, rem…

Clojure code is surprisingly hard to edit for a Lisp-like language. The gratuitous use of square brackets where a Lisp would just use parentheses is part of that. Omitting the pare…

There are some interesting similarities between Urbit and... the Church of Scientology. Like Yarvin, L.Ron Hubbard made up a lot of new terminology for things that had perfecly goo…

Haskell: ""We want a non-proprietary Miranda".

No, but my pain point as a user is that I want a fully charged phone right now. I don't care that the spares sit in a charging station for an hour or two; that's an uninteresting d…