I completely agree with you. That's why publicly saying "you are wrong" is so powerful (and so dangerous). The powerful are not used to be challenged in public. They typically respond by a combination of - reframing,…
Praise in public, criticize in private In my (considerable) experience of working in large organisation (private and public), whether this works or not depends strongly on the power differential between…
Classical music is fine as it is, no need to change. Why should being based on improvisation and unique personal expression be the be-all-and-end-all of analysis? Not everybody wants to play / hear improvised music.
To paraphrase Brecht: Who fights for XYZ must be able to fight and not to fight, to say the truth and not to say the truth, to render and to deny service, to keep a promise and to break a promise, to go into danger and…
There is an interesting related paper "Copy and Paste Redeemed" [1] that is based on the assumption that a lot of copy/paste happens (and discusses why this is not necessarily a bad thing). [1] investigates how…
Interesting. Have you got an 'official' link for Calacanis' proposal?
I'm curious: why and how do you think Exterior Algebra will have such an impact on programming in general? What programming constructs that EA capture that are currently not well-abstracted (apart from graphics/linear…
Might this criticism have been politically motivated? For a while she actively campaigned against DNA being a double helix, see e.g. her 'obiturary' for the double helix [1] which preceeds Watson and Crick’s paper.…
And child support mainly takes into account who's the parent of whom Actually it mainly takes into account the woman's wishes. If the woman states that X is the father and for some reason the X doesn't contest, he's in…
you promised to take care of your wife It's not an unconditional promise. The promise assumes that the partner does the same. Yet only men are being punished (via taking their children, houses, monies), a clearcut…
Safe havens are about saving babies’ lives, not their parents. No, they are about women's convenience. Also, no one can force anyone into parenthood You are kidding, right. Sperm theft and rape of the father are…
Sinn, Hans-Werner, "The Greek Tragedy", CESifo Forum 16 Special Issue 2015 (June), 2015, 5-35, downloadable from https://www.cesifo-group.de/de/ifoHome/publications/docbase/...
I wonder what the EU expected. The EU didn't think it through. The Euro was primarily a (french) political project to weaken Germany following reunification. This is strongly reflected on the ECB's board, where Germany…
Your money went mainly to your Banks, via Greece. And if we send bread to feed the poor, you'd book that under "your money went mainly to your bakeries". It's just dishonest. Moreover, it's even factually false that the…
You are not addressing the issue. We are discussing whether men or women have more rights. The ability that women have to force men into parenthood is a clearcut example of women having more rights than men, regardless…
Vasectomy is not 100% reliable. Even after a successful vasectomy about 1 in 2,000 men will become fertile again at some point in the future. Moreover, having to engage in genital mutilation so as to avoid being…
soundness question when considering variance What is this question? Have you got a reference?
This is not quite true. There is SPJ's famous "The implementation of functional programming languages" [1]. Then there is lots of material on various abstract machines, like the SECD machine, the CAM, the many variants…
The lack of side-effects and equational reasoning in functional languages let you get a lot of details out of your way. Actually ... You (kind-of/sort-of) need side effects when implementing a language with higher-order…
Why is programming way easier in Ocaml than in C? I've written vast amounts of Ocaml and C/C++, certainly over 100K LoCs in each. Programming in ML dialects is so much easier than C/C++, it's not funny. I'd estimate it…
You are well intentioned but politically naive. The false claims of harassment and more generally victimhood are integral part of the corruption (and detrimental to dealing with real harassment).
We are quite on topic as I'm giving a performative demonstration of just how a small minority uses censorship as a form of harassment in the service of their own struggle for power. We saw this from the likes of Stalin,…
You demonstrate this groupthink to an extreme degree in the complete absence of nuance of your description of a well-known anti-corruption movement. So maybe you should reflect on the conditions that have duped you into…
Why do you draw a false analogy between a racist group and a distributed online movement that has been extremely successful at exposing corruption in games journalism?
Not to mention Belgian colonialism.
I completely agree with you. That's why publicly saying "you are wrong" is so powerful (and so dangerous). The powerful are not used to be challenged in public. They typically respond by a combination of - reframing,…
Praise in public, criticize in private In my (considerable) experience of working in large organisation (private and public), whether this works or not depends strongly on the power differential between…
Classical music is fine as it is, no need to change. Why should being based on improvisation and unique personal expression be the be-all-and-end-all of analysis? Not everybody wants to play / hear improvised music.
To paraphrase Brecht: Who fights for XYZ must be able to fight and not to fight, to say the truth and not to say the truth, to render and to deny service, to keep a promise and to break a promise, to go into danger and…
There is an interesting related paper "Copy and Paste Redeemed" [1] that is based on the assumption that a lot of copy/paste happens (and discusses why this is not necessarily a bad thing). [1] investigates how…
Interesting. Have you got an 'official' link for Calacanis' proposal?
I'm curious: why and how do you think Exterior Algebra will have such an impact on programming in general? What programming constructs that EA capture that are currently not well-abstracted (apart from graphics/linear…
Might this criticism have been politically motivated? For a while she actively campaigned against DNA being a double helix, see e.g. her 'obiturary' for the double helix [1] which preceeds Watson and Crick’s paper.…
And child support mainly takes into account who's the parent of whom Actually it mainly takes into account the woman's wishes. If the woman states that X is the father and for some reason the X doesn't contest, he's in…
you promised to take care of your wife It's not an unconditional promise. The promise assumes that the partner does the same. Yet only men are being punished (via taking their children, houses, monies), a clearcut…
Safe havens are about saving babies’ lives, not their parents. No, they are about women's convenience. Also, no one can force anyone into parenthood You are kidding, right. Sperm theft and rape of the father are…
Sinn, Hans-Werner, "The Greek Tragedy", CESifo Forum 16 Special Issue 2015 (June), 2015, 5-35, downloadable from https://www.cesifo-group.de/de/ifoHome/publications/docbase/...
I wonder what the EU expected. The EU didn't think it through. The Euro was primarily a (french) political project to weaken Germany following reunification. This is strongly reflected on the ECB's board, where Germany…
Your money went mainly to your Banks, via Greece. And if we send bread to feed the poor, you'd book that under "your money went mainly to your bakeries". It's just dishonest. Moreover, it's even factually false that the…
You are not addressing the issue. We are discussing whether men or women have more rights. The ability that women have to force men into parenthood is a clearcut example of women having more rights than men, regardless…
Vasectomy is not 100% reliable. Even after a successful vasectomy about 1 in 2,000 men will become fertile again at some point in the future. Moreover, having to engage in genital mutilation so as to avoid being…
soundness question when considering variance What is this question? Have you got a reference?
This is not quite true. There is SPJ's famous "The implementation of functional programming languages" [1]. Then there is lots of material on various abstract machines, like the SECD machine, the CAM, the many variants…
The lack of side-effects and equational reasoning in functional languages let you get a lot of details out of your way. Actually ... You (kind-of/sort-of) need side effects when implementing a language with higher-order…
Why is programming way easier in Ocaml than in C? I've written vast amounts of Ocaml and C/C++, certainly over 100K LoCs in each. Programming in ML dialects is so much easier than C/C++, it's not funny. I'd estimate it…
You are well intentioned but politically naive. The false claims of harassment and more generally victimhood are integral part of the corruption (and detrimental to dealing with real harassment).
We are quite on topic as I'm giving a performative demonstration of just how a small minority uses censorship as a form of harassment in the service of their own struggle for power. We saw this from the likes of Stalin,…
You demonstrate this groupthink to an extreme degree in the complete absence of nuance of your description of a well-known anti-corruption movement. So maybe you should reflect on the conditions that have duped you into…
Why do you draw a false analogy between a racist group and a distributed online movement that has been extremely successful at exposing corruption in games journalism?
Not to mention Belgian colonialism.