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It makes you a paradoxer if you stopped after the step of finding the consequence that feels absurd.

It's true that Trader Joe's in Manhattan are jammed with lines going out the door and shopping there is mayhem regardless of whether there's an ongoing pandemic.

In Go, there's a lot of common terminology reflecting the concept of "evaluate your own move independently of your opponent's move", from direct terms like "tenuki" ( https://en.wi…

Plants can be weirdly resilient to smashing -- various bits of plant fragments can decide to grow new roots.

the requirements are easy to meet - you just need to be able to time operations at a suitable precision. The exploits are possible in Javascript running in a browser.

Fair enough. In this case, "Road Neutrality" protects the consumer's access to a restaurant or bank. However, in reality there are civil rights laws that in turn forbid those resta…

If only Net Neutrality went both ways...

There's this great book on a similar topic, "The Origin of Species," if you're interested in the phenomenon.

Sadly, the machines I don't want people running commands on happen to be also the machines I don't want to rm -rf everything on as well.

If it makes you feel any better, silk is still the preferred standard for smoothness, and even baby bottoms are slightly more smooth than butter: https://trends.google.la/trends/ex…

I wasn't convinced about the value of Paul Graham's recent "General idea, small delta" essay until I noticed how easily you can just use those 4 words to justify these things. Even…

Learning math isn't "really, really hard", but it is unforgiving in a particular kind of way: you're basically required to internalize a concept fully before going on to later conc…

You comply if you think the request is reasonable and lawful, otherwise you don't. Maybe you get your nose broken and United allegedly pays you $140 million in damages. Maybe the i…

Compared to say Python, it does act a bit like importing free functions without explicitly naming them, but you do get the bonus of type-based dispatch and overloading. using Syste…

The value of a high-throughput network interconnect slot from your peers is tied to the current value of all the cryptocurrencies the DHT routes, not just the cost of running the s…

My apologies for the machina ex machina. I needed a clean end to the post and got lazy.

The year is 2050. You are reading this comment from a compatibility layer in your open-source browser that translates HTML from the 2010s into Thought-Interface Language 3.2, which…

The first class IDE for F# is VS Code + Ionide. The language service backend for F# is also very well supported for emacs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idem

http://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-2015-reading-list/ http://blog.ycombinator.com/ycs-winter-reading-list/

> can I use this for 'real life' code as part of an existing C# desktop application .. without tons of hassle Yes. Your standard OOP features like inheriting from C# classes, imple…

In some competitive games like Dota and LoL, the random distribution for critical hits is weighted so that it ramps up over time, resetting after a successful crit. ( http://dota2.…

This kind of 3D is a lot more accessible (via Tilt Brush) than mesh-based 3D.