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"All interesting questions are causal." I like that punchline !

This seems to me like Ideology disguised as Tautology. "Saving = Investment" is an accounting identity and not a causal law. He shifts by implying that 'saving' drives 'investment'…

No wonder he returned: he can focus on meaningful work without direct financial pressure, with full access to people, decisions, and resources. If only we all had a time in life to…

Thanks for this punchline which starts better than a long an laborious argumentation.

free doesn't imply that the service/product has no costs, only that your transaction has no costs. Google is also free but it has costs (mostly paid by ads which are then included …

Indeed, I copy-pasted in emacs but not in vim, my bad...

How do I see those invisible characters in emacs or vim ? In emacs I thought that whitespace-mode would do the trick but apparently it doesn't.

Could you provide more precisions / examples of this C code-style ?

Those are only for fun, but real stuff are designed to be deliberately inconvenient (e.g. against homeless people): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostile_architecture

I would kill to have this module in the batteries included…

I didn't know the last one. Nevertheless I find the mix of functions with no arguments, function values and optionnal parenthesis quite confusing syntax wise.

What about the end of life of solar panels ? Did they manage to build recyclable ones ?

There is a gray scale of "entrepreneurs" and "companies" based on the means they use to gain power and influence, so this is rather natural,just as people already read Machiavel or…

Yes, thanks for reminding this essay. I think though that de-duplication is a lawyer oriented smoke-screen. It is based on a complete misunderstanding of Colour because Colour trac…

Many things are "externalized" in the process and we are pretty naive about risk. Do we count the cost of side-effects like wars and oppression in our energy ? Think about Libya fo…

Haskell's Data.Typeable kind of does this. ( http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/Data-... ). It does not feel like python though…

Interesting article, clear explanation. One minus : in the conclusion it is assumed that the problem of pursuing nuclear power is about risk assessment on nuclear plants. This is p…

No problem : play and further autoplay could be authorized on a per app basis.

Give me easy audio but no autoplay and I will be happy. The same applies for video. In fact, in unicorn-land I would like it also for heavy animations. At least one advantage with …

Agreed, but precisely only through the mirror of our own desires and fears :)

Aah, economy on HN… : ready, fight! More seriously, as Einstein put it quite briefly, economy is not a science because it is not testable. I would even add, following some philosop…

Interesting, even though i'm not suprised knowing Einstein's affinity for Spinoza : he must have carefully read Marx and other materialist philosophers.

This gives some hope, especially the Gini graph. I'll wait for more information to have a more definitive opinion though as autonomy is not always well captured in those quantitati…

For the server itself or for permanant storage ?

Is it possible to run a web server like, say, Snap, directly on top of it ?