Lisp isn’t too difficult to learn. The syntax is off-putting to some people, but what helped me adapt to Lisp syntax quickly was my familiarity with RPN calculators; I used an HP graphing calculator in college and I regularly use dc in Unix. In my opinion, the best way to start is to learn Scheme and work through The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, which is a very nice read even for experienced programmers. Scheme is a nice small language, and many undergraduates have written Scheme interpreters in Scheme. After mastering Scheme I recommend moving on to Common Lisp, which is a large language with many features that are not common in more popular languages, such as conditions for error handling, the Common Lisp Object System and its support for multiple dispatch, the metaobject protocol, support for image-based development, and support for REPL-based development and debugging.
It's really not as weird or as esoteric as the memes would lead you to believe.
(Common) Lisp is multi paradigm so you can write code that looks very much like "C with the parenthesis in the wrong spot" and it'll work just fine until you evolve a more idiomatic/"lispy" style.
If you're proficient in C, Java, and Python you already have everything you need to be proficient in lisp. It's honestly not that difficult to learn.
I can't code in anything, and I'm using Emacs since a couple of years, know some basic Elisp, and have recently started doing Common Lisp. Still baby steps, but it's really very fun, and I don't find it so hard.
Doing the book "Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation" at the moment, it's lovely.
So that's all I wanted to say - there's no courage required. Just doing. Emacs is a joy, and there's no rush on these things.
You are not required to use emacs for the org mode. Org files can be edited with any flat-text editor (e.g., Vim, Atom, or Visual Studio Code), and many have plugins that help create and manage Org files.
Only thing that drives Ethereum application ecosystem to allow people to gain and ofcourse to lose money. If Ethereum was not attached to financial interest the project would not grow. I believe the ecosystem and everything, it's all a scam. The platform, new emerging projects, all ads are serving exchanges to liquadate people and gain money and destroy their lives.
The traditional financial system also allow people to gain and lose money, even the U.S. central bank prints money out of air to support wars and loan money to banks.
> Cynically, this makes sense to me as what he was buying was really lack of government oversight.
Yeah, I think a lot of people forget that for something like this he didn't need to actually get the government to do anything: simply delaying action gave him the chance to do hundreds of millions of dollars in fraud.
It's been coming out that he donated lots to them too so I guess we'll see. My impression overall though is that he will end up in jail, it's just going to take a while for everyone who received his money to come to terms with the scale of his fraud.
It's a dumb conspiracy in the first place -- he was a large donor to some congressional candidates, many of whom lost (over $10M of his 2022 funds went to a losing candidate in an Oregon primary). In any case, it's obvious he has zero money and zero future prospects to be politically useful so there's no reason that anyone in charge would go out of their way to "protect" him (contrary to someone like Corzine, Menendez or Rick Scott).
These theories are just weird HN conspiracies to add mystique to the very normal slow Federal justice process.
If you were a politician interested in getting more of that sweet fraudster money, tell me, what would you do to send a signal that you're open for business to the next batch of fraudsters, hang the guy that paid you, or help him out?
Sure, this may just be bullshit, we dont know, etc etc, but "he has no more money" is not a very good argument
