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I'd ask you to explain how all libertarians are Nazis but then I guess I'd be taking the bait.
You'd be taking the bait if you actually made a donation to Terry.
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You'd be taking the bait if you actually made a donation to Terry.
Plenty of people have made donations to Terry, so I'm not sure what you're getting at.
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Let's not romanticize mental illnesses and lack of responsibility and guidance.
Why not? What is so bad about reminding people of the good that could come from this, if it were not for the missing pieces.
Mental illness often causes struggles in other parts of life. How much more effort could an artist (or engineer, anyone can build and create), devote to their work if they didn't have those struggles in other life scenarios?
He has a donate button on his homepage. I wonder if that brings in something? Anybody here who ever used a donate button on their website and can tell something about it? How does one even receive 'donations'? Is that like getting paid? Do they have to create an invoice for tax reasons? How is it taxed? It would be nice if there was a number, how much is donated per month. I can imagine donating something. Depending…
Not instant, but looking directly at the Patreon would be closer.
And yes, normally you'd report as taxable.
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Art in Swedish is "konst" which is the base for the word "konstig" which means, literally, weird or odd. I'm pretty sure there's a reason for that etymology.
in Danish Kunstig main meaning is artificial or synthetic, secondary meaning - does not seem real, natural, or authentic (of upright standing) http://ordnet.dk/ddo/ordbog?query=kunstig so I don't know that I would say there is a reason for the etymology that relates in any direct way with artists are weird.
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Saying that JS has roots in Scheme is like saying English has roots in Chinese.
Would be, if English had been designed by people fluent in Mandarin. If you know Scheme and imagine a curly C-style alternative syntax for it, you basically end up with early Javascript.
Except without guaranteed TCO, macros, homoiconicity, continuations...you know, the things that make Scheme unique
TempleOS has no process isolation, so it's completely unaffected by Spectre and Meltdown. I'm starting to think there's a lot of wisdom in its design. Complexity of modern computer systems keeps increasing but the value I get from that complexity isn't increasing nearly as fast. Spectre and Meltdown are just recent examples of some of the cost of that complexity. Do we really need an OS too complex for any one person…
As far as I can tell, Terry Davis has been given multiple chances to get well. He chooses to be sick. It's tragic, but you can only lead a horse to water, you can't make it drink. I've been on the side of trying to help a family member get better. It's impossible to help someone who doesn't want help. And it's one of the hardest things in the world to give up on someone who doesn't want help. You question your decisi…