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Childish Western philosophers. Not a single mention of Indian metaphysics which has deeply studied this problem. Not to be taken seriously.

Coding is transforming a set of problems into a particular level of abstraction. Higher levels of abstraction exist (team, business model, etc.) and it's perfectly fine to find the…

Biometric collection is always for specific purpose. General purpose, compulsory biometric ids exist only in Malaysia IIRC.

If the creator of this is reading this - can you please stop flipping the board every time we click 'Next move'? It makes it impossible to follow the game. Thanks

Try having a default value for a key in a JSON document that isn't null. In Go, this is pure torture. Then compare with the serde library for Rust. Go's lack of generics makes this…

so is not having women in STEM. Pick your poison.

The JQ stackoverflow community is VERY helpful.

Cannot accept user inputted script for json transform because Security nightmare! That's JQ's and JMESPath's secret sauce.

JMESPath is nowhere near us powerful. No unique(), for example, which is very important when munging JSON

The problem is not of small modules. The problem is lack of dependability. If the language patrons stand behind a set of modules and guarantee continuity and availability, it reall…

Correct. You can discharge any financial obligation with the legal tender and the recipient is obliged to accept it. We're saying the same thing.

Which one do you prefer? Alan Parson's sombre take ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNiie_zmSr8 ) or Judas Priest's angry laser-tinged screed ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1B…

Yes, all of these are reasons why gold got started. A gold backed system is perhaps not even possible anymore let alone desirable. Please see http://svs.io/post/69301254342/bitcoin…

Yes and at some point you need a token of value. Imagine the plight of the itinerant tradesman as he herds his chickens through the forest from village to village simply so he can …

The value of gold depends on the supply of it. The value of silver depends on the supply of it. The value of gold does not depend on the supply of silver. The two are separate curr…

Tungsten was first isolated in 18th century. Gold was already established by then.

because of those five properties of gold.

granted, but gold can be used as an ornament and money at the same time. use as an ornament does not detract from its use as money.

Yes, but not at the time gold rose to prominence as a currency. In those days people needed mostly swords and axes.

Paper money (fiat currency in particular) gets value because you can pay debts and taxes with it.

Sorry but this theory is completely wrong. Gold has value because it is a currency (medium of exchange) and money (store of value) due to the following properties: a) Indestructibl…

Quitting smoking is about practice. Keep quitting and do it sincerely. Eventually you will learn how to quit. The trick is to avoid the "F * it" mentality. After yet another failed…

Carpooling has fundamental challenges that are perhaps impossible to overcome. For one, dynamic routing for two or more people is always going to hurt the user experience. Imagine …

A friend of mine just got offered a top executive position at a tech startup and is in culture shock. In his own words "there are these rooms full of kids and I can't understand wh…

DPR Karpeles = DPRK = Democratic People's Republic of Korea = North Korea! I knew the North Koreans would be somehow involved!