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This is funny because in this area the most valuable good is NOT knowledge, yet the dinosaurs behave like it was, protecting the wrong thing.

Yes – the "consciousness is an illusion" line often seems to fold back on itself: if it's an illusion, then there's still something it is like to experience that illusion, so we're…

Author here. This is an essay written in dialogue form about why "AI is/isn't conscious" debates often fail due to level confusion: we mix objective descriptions (models/behavior) …

Bankster is a money/currency toolkit (not a ledger, not market data). I needed one coherent model for ISO + custom + crypto currencies, and I wanted the semantics to be "data-first…

Hi HN, I built Bankster, a Clojure library for working with money and currencies, with explicit behavior contracts. It’s "money as data": Money = (Currency, BigDecimal amount), and…

Agreed! There are many things in IT industry that are prone to this kind of almost magical thinking, and "boundaries" / "tight coupling" is one of them. I realized that when tried …

IMHO it is completly doable to do a state transfer with HTML to a mobile device instead of writing a separate application using a separate technology. Then we can deal with couplin…

Even worse^2, client-side validation may differ from server-side validation and from database-side validation. I cannot imagine client-side checking for a validity of a phone numbe…

I remember writing about first official releases of Clojure around 2010 when I was an editor at heise online Poland. At the same time I was coding libraries in Ruby and one thing w…