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Interesting. Thanks!

Why isn't the US economy a runner up?

We should have a peer-to-peer DNS driven by some consensus system like blockchain. Why do we allow critical pieces of internet infrastructure to be centralized?

Do you see how labeling a slap with the larger class of physical violence, which encompasses all sorts grievous acts, makes the rather innocent crime seem much more severe? This is a huge problem. It's a slap. Not a vicious beat down. It's violence, but there are degrees of violence. Should those degrees of violence not be reflected in our perception of the act?

Why don't you make a free speech religion? Has anyone ever tried this?

People aren't perfect. I don't think anyone commits a crime after performing a full calculation of the consequences. I think you demonstrate an important trend with your comment. The desire to label things and ignore circumstances. It appears to me that people don't want to think about the nuances of things; they just want to simplify all thought to some label level where conclusions are easily made.

Yes, there has always been a social layer to regulating behavior. In this sense, the world has almost become one village where you cannot escape your social offences, no matter where you go on earth. Also, a video or archive of a tweet doesn't fade. So I would say the visibility, reach, and permanence of one's offences is something new, or at least has reached a new unprecedented level.

In addition to government interference in free speech, all actions/words that offend have potentially life devastating consequences in this age of the digital permanent record. Suppose you slap someone in a moment of uncontrolled anger. If someone records that, posts it on the internet, and it goes viral, you then become the mad slapper in the eyes of the world. If someone googles your name, they will see you slapping someone. Even a single slap can potentially destroy your life. Not only do we have draconian laws, but also draconian self-regulation fueled by a vicious mob that demands political correctness.

People are angry. Everyone that steps out of line is now a target for that anger. It's a sad and scary state of affairs.

Amazon's stock has fluctuated with political focus on the company. It dropped for a whole month this year I believe -- I don't have the figures on hand. You are right that many Americans have a greedy consumer mindset, but also many Americans don't feel like they have a choice. With 70% of Americans living paycheck to paycheck, that doesn't leave room for wallet activism. While what you are saying is principled, I think the full circumstances of the economy and consumer conditions prevent them from expressing their sentiment in the market as you suggest.

Do you have data to support your claims?

I'm sure you're the type of person that thinks poems are written to solve some sort of problem. Not all human communication is about expressing some solution to a problem. We can communicate sentiment and points of view as well.

Drama? What about the epidemic suicides and drug overdoses happening in this country? What about the absolute destruction of rural communities by monopolies emboldened by the lack of antitrust enforcement? The people of this country are being abused in so many ways and nothing is being done for them. Laws aren't going to help this situation, it's our stinking attitude that's the problem. It's our complete disregard for human life that's the problem.

We were warned not to feed man to the machine, yet that's exactly what we did. I guess everyone that died fighting for this country did so to create a bunch of billionaires and slaves to serve them. Our nation was paid for by the blood of its people, but somehow this debt is always forgotten. The people, by the right of sacrifice, deserve better than this.

It's a good warning. I would only consider that condescending if I had some insecurity about my abilities.

Reminds me of http://www.rosettacode.org/wiki/Rosetta_Code

Let's be honest, what aren't they complicit in?

I quit social media and after a while I couldn't even make sense of why I was there to begin with. "There was no value lost... what the hell was I doing on there all this time?" I never had any "glowing" experience on social media, no memories, yet so much time wasted. People just aren't that interesting. It's all the same stuff over and over again. And if you do get into something interesting, you end up with an exchange of 20+ comments which just seems out of place... especially on FB.

one of these days

More like one of these months/years. It's not just a language, but a philosophy of computation.

It's amazing. No one could ever do something like this with an imperative language!

Amazing, thanks! It always amazes me how natural Haskell is for some people. Some seem to see the simplest solution with so little effort while I still struggle with almost embarrassingly simple things. I wish I would have picked up Haskell as my first language, instead my mind was poisoned by C...

It's just mind boggling how universal these concepts are and how they show up in surprising ways. As a recent example, I've been learning the basics of composing music in Haskell with Euterpea[1] and wanted to make a function which played several notes over a list of octaves to make chords. It turns out the applicative operator was exactly the function I need to do this! It would be hard to go into the details in just a little blurb here... but here is a piece I made with with it[2]. And here's the line of code with the applicative operator:

notePlayer notes octs dur = musicSeq $ (uncurry <$> notes) <*> ((, dur) <$> octs)

Won't make much sense without context, but it's there!

[1] http://www.euterpea.com/

[2] https://soundcloud.com/a-mathematical-way/not-enough-time-to...

Edward Snowden being treated like a criminal instead of a hero really opened my eyes. He's a patriot who tried to warn us about a government agency reaching far beyond the powers granted to it by the people...and he is called a traitor? It's the most outrageous thing I've ever witnessed in this country. We need Snowden back. He put his life on the line for the people of this country. I can't say I know anyone in Washington with an equal commitment to the people.

I do the same, but it's not a protest, it's because I literally can't pay. They have sued me though, and they won, but nothing happened after the lawsuit closed. This country is headed towards mad max territory.Yippee ki yay boys, I'll see you on the road.

He was against writing... in 370 BC. Although, having seen the blank faces of students in lecture halls mindlessly taking notes, I know there's some truth to it. When a good professor lectures, there's a lot of information expressed as pace, stress, and so on. It's like when I read Shakespeare's plays for the first time and thought the world was really crazy to put such high value on seemingly nonsensical words, but then I saw an actor speak them and the performance added the additional emotional overtones which decoded how the words were meant to be understood. That extra layer on top of words is surprisingly neglected.

Thanks for the paper! I just learned the basics of Parsec[1] in Haskell and was shocked how effortlessly I could construct a parser. Learning Haskell made me fall in love with programming again.

[1] https://www.cnblogs.com/ncore/p/6892500.html

People felt the same way about Einstein's cosmic intuition. Things evolve in stages, from intuition and anecdotes to more formal developments or refutations. I didn't say handwriting analysis is a fully legitimate area. I said as a writer I see how my writing changes and don't find the concept as absurd as many here do because of my anecdotal experience. You may hand wave that away because I don't have a statistical analysis here that is peer reviewed, and that's fine, but to me saying something is nonsense without a proof that it's nonsense is equally bad. Everything that isn't completely rigorous isn't nonsense. It's not good science, but not necessarily nonsense.

I write a lot. I can tell from my own experience that what I'm feeling when I write translates into my handwriting in subtle ways. You may object to some particular method that I'm unaware of, but I don't think "handwriting analysis" in general is absurd. It's data and so there are models of it and inferences.

Billions of neurons and we think we can reduce the nuances of our complex system into words such as "knowledge" and "understanding." To me, those terms are so vague, they don't mean anything.

Yes. Clan involvement. If you just play alone, you won't get as hooked.

but why haven't the government collapsed after so many years if there were no people supporting them?

Totalitarianism?