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Destructuring is one of the things i love about Clojure!

I’m happy that js and python have also adopted it.

To everyone who keeps repeating the same energy-related arguments against BTC, I want you to read this:

https://www.forbes.com/forbes/1999/0531/6311070a.html

Source?

I wonder if the nocoiners here are aware that YCombinator is incubating a lot of crypto startups. Coinbase is a YCombinator company.

please tell me you're joking?

This has been done conclusively a long time ago.

Owning a Doink-it [0] is the only proof you're not a baby.

Why we are even discussing this is beyond me.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eb5sNjhItw

It's a problem with FOSS.

Microsoft, Apple, Google have lots of resources to incentivize h/w manufacturers.

Apple is even making its own chips now.

I'm not talking about scalping.

Woodstock was a legendary event.

The tickets would now be considered collectors items.

While this forum has lots of people who are into tech and finance inexplicably getting their panties in a bunch over crypto, YCombinator keeps incubating crypto startups and making big money...

I'm talking about it as a collectors item.

That's not why making an NFT out of the ticket is interesting.

It's interesting because I can, for example, resell my Woodstock ticket on an open market.

Weirdly captivating

Very interesting article, thanks for sharing!

I hope someone makes a 3D model of such a "minimilist" working Analytical Engine that we can play with.

Would be cool if we could enter a program and see it being processed.

Seeing AE in action - programs being run mechanically - would be so cool!

> “Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?” In one case a member of the Upper, and in the other a member of the Lower, House put this question. I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

This was the most memorable quote from his autobiography for me!

GIGO - Garbage In Garbage Out - was the first think taught to me in school in Computer Class.

I always used to think why they taught us that - it's common sense! Turns out people have been asking this question since the conception of programmable computers!

This is how to use jet fuel to get stains out of a yak:

Put some jet fuel on the stained yak... wait a bit... rub it in... and then put it through the washing machine. Hope it works!

> I prefer the cleaner Haskell syntax.

My God, this is written so matter-of-factly that it hurts.

To me, Lisp is awesome BECAUSE of its uniform syntax!

To me, Lisp is waaaaaay cleaner and always unambiguous!

I guess what I'm saying is that it's subjective.

that's... the whole point?

OMG, now I get why it's called YCombinator.

> Tabbed Finder windows are the most useless thing ever.

Hard disagree. I use them all the time.

I have been thinking about this a lot lately.

Immutable collections save the day!

Not only this, Satoshi had even predicted that the price would be very unstable and grow exponentially before it became stable.

Early Bitcoiners have known this and predicted it several times. See this post from a decade ago for reference:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1c5j46/you_people_...

That's pretty neat!

It's kinda spooky too - listening to the thoughts of an AI!

(I know that's a stretch, but still)

Like I said, I don't try to convince people to buy Bitcoin, because I remember how I used to respond to people talking about it.

I would mock them, call it a ponzi scheme, call them shills, etc.

I think Satoshi did it right. He said -

> If you don't believe me or don't get it, I don't have time to try to convince you, sorry.

He said this when Bitoin was still extremely niche and inexpensive.

But because you asked, I'm going to tell you what the personal event taught me - people are irrational.

Watch "Gods Must be Crazy" and try to understand the allegory of the bottle and what effect it has on the tribe.

That's what Bitcoin has achieved in cyberspace.

I used to hold similar views before life-changing events that now have me firmly on the side of BTC and crypto in general.

You can't convince them - in their mind, you are part of the "scam", and hence not trustworthy.

No point in debating, they will buy in when it clicks for them.

I have been using Brave Browser on mobile for accessing YouTube.

It blocks ads, allows playing music in the background, supports making offline YouTube playlists, etc.

Pretty neat, and I don't have to trust other vendors apart from the Brave team, who I already trust.

This app is pretty great too and the price is very reasonable. But still infinite% costlier than free!

In case you don't know, early compilers were developed under the hype term "automatic programming".

COBOL was designed to be used by business people.

Whether it is connecting wires, punching cards, typing in an IDE, connecting code blocks, or making flowcharts - it is all programming.

reminds me of a segment from HHGG in which a species started to make noise so they won't hear each others' thoughts.

> I get it’s not end to end encrypted

Even E2E encryption is supported via the Secret Chat feature!

Telegram is pretty good.

Which is?