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"Anatomy of the state" by Murray Rothbard.

Eye opener about overall politics and why the sheeple is what it is.

Absolutely, but search alone won't cut it no matter how smart it is. For profitability you need a whole ecosystem where ads is a major revenue source.

DuckDuckGo is a fine search engine and I believe they'd benefit a lot from services like ads, email, blogs, docs, shops, apps, social, etc.

Is it possible to include YAML in the response format?

    - [name, age, sex, phone]
    - [Taylor Swift, 27, female, 555-SWIFT]

I find YAML to be the best format for everything.

Dear minister, can I whisper in my wife's ear while having sex or do I have to get permission from government?

Why not using YAML for the UI definition? Easier, simpler and universal.

Siemens disagree

http://www.siemens.com/press/electric-aircraft

> If the experiment works out, we’ll expand what we offer to include things like access to proprietary datasets and computing infrastructure.

Datasets, that's the most important point in Machine Learning and exactly what Google has been collecting for the past decades.

I wanted to start a project about dermatological images but how would I get that information? Then decided to start an agricultural project but then again, how to get a million images to identify a thousand species? Birds? Legal documents? Human faces? Fashion? Speech? Translation? Everything needs a huge collection of datasets.

The tools are there, that's the easiest part.

War has ethics? That's new to me.

The fact that some "rules" are set so idiots follow them doesn't mean everybody does, specially when they are not seen. Abu ghraib anyone?

Wall street has a very clear ethics set on stone, profits no matter the loss.

Politician A: "Let a couple of nutjobs buy guns and we will use their killing sprees to ban guns"

Politician B: "You're a genius!"

Browsers won't process that request, so for the uninitiated like me:

$ curl gopher://gopher.frog.tips/0/JOB_OPENINGS

* My first ever gopher interaction.

Introducing politics is the best way to corrupt a system.

Call me old fashioned but I prefer my code naked, plain php and postgres, nothing else, not even JS. So for me, echo 'Hello world' is good enough.

I believe Medium is the next Wordpress because not only allows you to publish but also to consume in an elegant and productive way. The recommendation engine is quite good and the daily newsletter sent by email is good enough to make me want to check the stories right away. They make an extensive use of images that really adds to the user experience.

I used to be a Wordpress fan but now Medium has caught my attention.

So in essence it is not about the technical platform, it is about effective production and consumption, and Medium hits the nail on both.

Nice trick, you're only using six hours to show the time: four corners, horizontal and vertical. The rest is just random movement to make it look like a complex machine.

Kudos.

"It is by will alone I set my mind in motion".- Piter De Vries

Whenever the question of free will comes up, I remember that phrase and side on the camp of free willers.

That's exactly the point, why do that in Rust when it can be done without the need for compiling it? That's the explanation I want to hear. Having to recompile the whole app just to test changes in the template is absurd in my handbook.

> Because Askama will generate Rust code from your template files, the crate will need to be recompiled when your templates change.

Being Swift a compiled language just like Rust, why can we modify the templates (Stencil, Mustache) in Swift without recompiling the app but not in Rust?

Django/Jinja/Stencil should be the de facto standard for all templating systems so developers can port their work to any platform without sweat.

Kudos for porting Jinja to Rust.

For Swift on the server you only need an editor like Sublime, Atom, or whatever suits your fancy. That's it, nothing else. Get one of the most popular frameworks like Kitura, Vapor, Perfect, Zewo or the dozens of smaller ones and be ready to deploy to Heroku, Bluemix, AWS, Google Cloud, Digital Ocean in no time.

It is that simple, tested, proven, it works, it simply works. In just a couple of weeks I developed a couple of apps in Swift and they're up and running unattended:

http://swiftforums.herokuapp.com

http://pokerduel.herokuapp.com

Repos here:

https://github.com/kuyawa

And the fact that you can also develop for the desktop, mobile, tablets, watch, TV and IoT in one language is a huge advantage.

Swift is here to stay.

In Puerto Rico only?

Beautiful read, that's my line of thought. Thanks for the recommendation. There is also 'Three worlds collide' that deals with the prisoners dilemma of shooting first, another fantastic read albeit shorter.

We might be the first or the most advanced (somebody has to be), but that doesn't preclude other lower species in other planets from existing, yet we have found nothing. And as being the first and only, well that's a universillion times less probable.

Life is tasty and scarce, the rest is lifeless and abundant, and according to universal laws of supply and demand, that which is scarce (life) is more expensive and in higher demand, for whatever reasons unknown to us, yet.

Invisibility is a stage in life evolution. As predation dominates the universe, life evolves to become invisible from other predators. So we humans are in a stage of evolution that we can be seen, and I consider extremely stupid flashing our position to most advanced forms of life that will anihilate us in a heartbeat.

So our only hope is to find life that is barely advanced, just like algae in a watery planet, or find life that's more advanced than us and say goodbye to our existence. Just like aborigins from America flashing lights to european explorers. We would be extremely lucky to find life in the 100,000 year span that takes species to gain conciousness and develop invisibility. Not that we can't just that's extremely improbable, and dangeorous for there are also more advanced predators watching. That's why we can't find them, they're invisible.

That's my hypothesis.

What a coincidence, I am also working on a language that uses three letters for instructions and every single line starts with one, same concept as Uno:

    say 'hello world'
    let list = [1,2,3]
    for item in list: say item
    def add(x,y): ret x+y
    is? a=1 say 'ok' no? say 'wrong'

Easier for the compiler and for the human.

"Oh look, I found this tunnel under the border, I'll use it to feed the birds on the other side. I swear to god I'll never use it to smuggle drugs or people"

It is too bad people is using it for good causes but the hole has to be closed. Sorry guys.

I play language designer in my free time, I have like ten languages buried in folders with thousands of abandoned projects.

My recent endeavour was a language with only five constructs that would mimic mathematics in the way we program:

    = assign
    $ print
    @ loop
    ? condition ! else
    # definition/function

So print hello world would be like:

    $ 'Hello world'

Every single program in the whole universe can be easily translated to Uno: Universal Notation.

I thought developing a browser extension to allow Uno being run from the address bar for quick calculations would be an interesting project.

Absolutely. Hoppe is the greatest philosopher alive.

Wouldn't this be better served with defaults?

    // constructor
    func init (a, b, c) {
        if (!a) a = 0;
        if (!b) b = 0;
        if (!c) c = 0;
        x = a; y = b; z = c;
    }

Like

    func init (a=0, b=0, c=0) {
        x = a; y = b; z = c;
    }

- Anatomy of the State by Murray Rothbard

- What has government done to our money? by Murray Rothbard

- For a New Liberty by Murray Rothbard

- The Law by Frederick Bastiat

The world is a rotten place thanks to politicians, and at the same time the world is a beautiful place in spite of politicians.