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p-zombies are not conscious, by definition.

To clarify your comment for other readers: stock options and equity are not the same, and are handled differently upon termination.

Is the encryption/decryption code in WhatsApp open-source? I haven't been able to find it. My assumption was that they conform to the Signal encryption protocol, which is openly specified, but that the code they use to do so is not open-source.

I believe that the article was talking about disagreement, critique, and debate. Being "noisy" and "boisterous" sounds like something else entirely. Productive debate ought to be calm, civil, rational, and without inflated egos.

I don't believe that someone needs to have a solution in order to observe that there is a problem.

The resources available to an individual for creating and reasoning are finite, and as long as one is able to give good reasons why they know that there is a better way, "there is a problem" may still be valuable information.

Surely the purpose of the LabStack example is to restrict the interface of a LinkedList to that of a Stack? Defining a new type to present a more restricted interface is not useless... it helps one reason about what has or hasn't been done to an object.

What confuses you about using Haskell for writing Web/Desktop/Mobile apps? System.IO exposes all the primitive input/output functionality one would expect in Swift, Python, or PHP, and there is an abundance of higher-level libraries for networking, parsing, graphics, etc. Haskell even has a fairly usable C FFI.

Haskell is a general purpose programming language.

Yes. Haskell provides excellent facilities for cleanly managing side-effectful code, like the IO monad.

I don't know about those books, but in the case of these koans, it's intended to be entertaining. It's a joke. I think it's also intended to be irreverent.