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Comment This Is Inhumane and Chauvenist! (Score 1) 566

The individualist culture of the United States is being intolerant of other cultures centered on the extended family. We should refuse to tear these households apart in the name of nationalism. Extended families are the norm in the most populous cultures and, indeed, extend to the size that we might think of as an entire country. So let's just invite the entirety of Asia into the US and admit that this land was made for you and me!

Comment Re:That's Racist (Score 1) 69

Race: "Race is a classification system used to categorize humans into large and distinct populations or groups by anatomical, cultural, ethnic, genetic, geographical, historical, linguistic, religious, and/or social affiliation."

This study is enabling not only genetic but geographical distinctions. The connective "and/or" is synonymous with the logic connective "or" which is inclusive.

Racist: "Some definitions consider that any assumption that a person's behavior would be influenced by their racial categorization is inherently racist, regardless of whether the action is intentionally harmful or pejorative, because stereotyping necessarily subordinates individual identity to group identity."

While it is true that, in itself, mere genetic distinctions do not imply any distinctions in behavior, it is also true that if one finds genes influence behavior (which one can clearly see in the distinctions between species) then one can reasonably impute that there will be statistically significant distinctions in behavioral predispositions between genetically distinguishable groups. This "reasonable imputation" does not have to be proven or shown to be the case to be applicable in practical everyday life for the average person -- it merely needs to be not disproven to that average person.

Comment Wow! 25 Year Old Performance! (Score 1) 209

In 1989 I was doing billions of connections per second on DataCube finite impulse response filter hardware to do the weighted sums, and hardware look up table for the sigmoid mapping for trainable multisource image segmentation for around $40,000 in off-the-shelf VME bus hardware, but that was in 1989 dollars, so I guess there has been some advancement.

Comment Re:"Technically Feasible" (Score 2) 224

The reason I promoted Forth as a graphics communications protocol alternative to NAPLPS is the Western Electric Videotex terminals for the Viewtron service were so limited in RAM and ROM (far more limited than the first 4.77MHz IBM PC) that it needed a highly compressed representation of the firmware for decent graphics performance. Forth provided that and it would have further allowed dynamically downloading tokenized Forth stack functions (called 'words'). I talked about this with the guys at PARC late 1982 (prior to PostScript spinning off). Forth was lousy as a high level language but great as a macro-assembler for a hardware Forth chip -- a macro-assembler in which implementing the Smalltalk -- or Simula -- as an OS user interface would have had a very small memory footprint compared to a full-blown Smalltalk environment. Performance wise, the NOVIX chip was 16,000 transistors and was a full 16-bit wide FORTH hardware machine running at 24MIPS whereas the 8088 was 29,000 transistors but had an 8 bit bus running at about 2-3MIPS. Both were 3um technology. This initial implementation wouldn't have had enough memory to allow the full optimizations, such as type inference w/JIT etc that were then known possible and are now realized in the V8 JS interpreter, but it would have been at least as fast as BASIC as well as providing a clear migration path to vastly superior software development. As for price, well, Tesler was at PARC and had published on type inference -- and Jobs got him away. There's no particular reason something like small Simula core couldn't have been quickly implemented atop the Forth machine and Chuck Moore's low level drivers etc. In any event, IBM could have gone to Xerox and offered to buy PARC from them and Xerox would probably have sold it cheap. Xerox undervalued the work at PARC.

Comment Re:No, it wasn't. (Score 2) 224

No doubt BASIC was the path of least resistance, but if you click through my link to 1983, you'll notice that Smalltalk was positioned to execute on a FORTH stack VM which was then reduced to hardware in the Novix chop. Moreover, the technology you see in the Javascript V8 engine had already been published in relation to Smalltalk in 1983.

This was technically feasible at that time. The fact that it wasn't the path of least resistance hardly qualifies BASIC for the credit accorded it by the title of this article.

Comment No, it wasn't. (Score 2) 224

If IBM had gone to Chuck Moore instead of Bill Gates (or rather, his mom) for their 4.77MHz 8088 PC, your title might have been "50 years of FORTH, the Language That Made Computers Personal".

But, then again, if IBM had done that, the personal computer era might have been bypassed entirely with the network computer launching the equivalent of the WWW in 1983.

Comment Re:It's crap (Score 1) 1633

Let me put it like this: When the plantation owners refused to let slaves leave them, was it "genocide" for guys in Maine to march down to the South and kill off the plantation owners wholesale until the slaves were freed?

Ah, but you are conflating -- hence confusing -- two entirely different circumstances:

1) People trying to escape you.
2) People trying to expel people like you from their territory, once they have escaped you supremacist government.

It is in your nature, as a parasite, to conflate these two circumstances because it is in your nature, as a parasite to confuse perception. Without confused perception you would not be able to continue to sap the life out of your victims.

In the circumstance when people are trying to escape you and you are using every trick in the book, including confusing use of words, to prevent them from doing so, you forfeit your rights as a human. You are a force of nature and will be treated accordingly.

In the circumstance when people have successfully seceded, along with enough territory that they are not de facto refugees, the subsequent assortative migrations have relocation expenses that must be borne by the governments from which people are trying to escape. That means when determining the territory to secede, the secessionists and the accessionists should carefully consider the relocation expenses for which they will be liable.

That means if you get stuck among the secessionists, they would have to not only provide fair market value for your properties that you cannot relocate, but they must provide moving expenses for your properties that you can relocate. The flip side of that is that the defeated accessionist government would have to provide similar compensations for those relocating to the ceded territory.

Of course, if, during the struggle to free themselves from you -- circumstance #1 --you persisted in your supremacist work, you would be treated as a force of nature and quite possibly killed without a moment's remorse.

Comment Re:It's crap (Score 1) 1633

Its easy to point to all kinds of disasters and genocides throughout history -- more actually due to accession than secession.

Look, I know you don't want people to escape people like you. You're a parasite. I got that. Just be aware that your parasitic nature entails dependence and if those upon which you depend are determined enough, they can and will simply cut you off and you will die. They don't need to attack you personally.

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