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I can detect my health is really improving a lot, because I am starting to get back the energy (and thus mental locomotion, intense focus, and clarity) to make research level insights again.

Research level insight first published on Rust’s forum by myself:

https://users.rust-lang.org/t/high-order-function-with-type-parameter/3112/30

(Don't know if anyone else made this point in the prior art, I presume probably yes)

P.S. I doubt Bitcoin core devs can do the above, because programming language typing is not their area of specialization (especially the number theorists/cryptographers). We have different talents and specializations, so we need to learn to respect each other.

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Okay this might be a good choice to consider after Hong Kong. I think a winter stay in Hong Kong would establish my gf to make it easier to qualify for the visas. Applying from Hong Kong instead of the Philippines, I think will give a better impression. Also hopefully JAMBOX is rolling by then as well.

I have just returned from a holiday around New Zealand, I highly recommend the North Island, north of Wellington the climate is very pleasant.

They also don't seem to be as strict with visas as Australia.

I was corrected and learned something new and very fundamentally important! Excellent:

https://users.rust-lang.org/t/most-coveted-rust-features/324/63

Please read the past few pages of the Martin Armstrong thread in the Economics forum. Also the Economic Totalitarianism thread there. I also contributed a lot to the Economic Devastation thread.

Sorry I don't have an more organized resource of my commentary to offer.

TPTB... a couple of questions I have just begun to read Martin Armstrong in conjuction with all the post you link him to.  I speculated that the US is headed for a financial crunch sooner then later.  It wasnt until I read your quote about rising interest rates and the in flow of dollars would be a contributing factor to the chaos, it makes the puzzle a bit more clear.  First, to you have a blog that you post to regularly that covers your economic thoughts as well as your idea to write your own coding language? 

Why the return to the US in 17-18 when things are projected to begin to decline?  Additionally would the launching of a new social platform be started out in jeporday if the economy is not able to support it because of its on going collapse?(you may ave covered this in your whitepaper, if so i can read it when it is issued)

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Singapore is too hot year round because it is too far south. I am looking for a cool climate (at least during winter) so I can work not in air conditioning. The past 2 days it has been cloudy and rainy in Davao and so much more pleasant for working (with the ceiling fan on).

I think also Australia, New Zealand, Chili (and maybe others) have special visa programs for those doing hi-tech startups. But I am looking for a short-term fix later this year. For the more permanent move out 2017ish, I'd like to consider getting out of overcrowded Asia.

I am not that worried about China impinging on me at this early juncture. Down the line it could be potentially be more risky since ostensibly China views open software as a threat to its control over propaganda.

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TPTB

Please keep us up to date on your decisions to move or not.

I only visited HK once (with my wife as tourists about 1994), so can offer no guidance.  We did enjoy our time there though.  At that time, and perhaps now, there was a lot of economic activity there.  It is next to (and part of) China though, which for me would be a drawback.

Have you looked into Singapore?  I have not been there, but read good things about the place.  Singapore, last I heard, was looking for talent, maybe work would be easy to get?  Ya know, if you want it...  LOL.

That is another choice to look into. That was the one some foreigner recommended to me a couple of years ago. Thanks for confirming you liked it and not so long ago.

Yeah I think Hong Kong is the easiest for me of my options for upgrading my environment later this year. I would return to the USA (and I might still do that), but then I can't bring my gf. I think it is unfair, she stuck with me when I was sick and I think she deserves to see something outside the Philippines. (it isn't like I can't find another female companion or date, for the trolls who will want to quote this)

I thought about Australia, given I know at least 3 guys there (2 from this forum and one old time friend from Philippines). I hear Australia is very expensive. And I don't think they will give her a visa, although I might consider Australia after Hong Kong (since might be more easy by that time to prove I am doing a real software startup and she is an employee).

Perhaps back to the USA in 2017 after Hong Kong. Probably can work out the visa for her by then, assuming my work plans succeed. And best for building a software company will be the USA.

I really liked Lamma Island when I visited there as a tourist many years ago.
Lots of expats not to developed and an easy ferry ride to Hong Kong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamma_Island

The main reason for wanting to get out of the Philippines, is the tropical sweltering climate makes it really difficult to work in the daytime in fresh air without airconditioning. Even with ceiling and floor standing fans, I am still sweating. I am well adjusted to the heat and can even jog in the midday heat, but this is not ideal for my concentration, athletics, and also I think it doesn't help me cure what ever chronic digestive tract infection I may have (fungal?).

Let's compare the climate of Davao:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davao_City#Climate

To the airport of Hong Kong (which is next to Lantau Island):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Hong_Kong#Statistics

The other reasons for wanting to leave the Philippines are the daily brownouts, frequent Internet connection problems, boredom with the lack of athletic and scenic outlets for leisure time activities, and the lack of international cuisine. Local cuisine is okay, but after 10 years I am tired of it.

Also the noise from neighbors (e.g. a piano played by kids loud enough that my earplugs aren't sufficient) and that for example the bathrooms and kitchens aren't well designed and appointed, e.g. the shower sprays onto the toilet and so after someone takes a shower I get to walk on a wet floor and sit on a wet toilet.

One thing that has kept me here other than not really having enough funds to move, is that I own a 2003 model diesel Isuzu SUV here.

I think Hong Kong is the most likely next destination for me, as soon as I can afford it. Looks like Mui Mo on Lantau Island is the best combination (for now, although massive development plans are promulgating now for community feedback) of rural environment, hiking/jogging trails, affordability, public transport access to Hong Kong island, quaint beach life, quaint restaurants with international cuisine, and modern apartments (with I assume reliable+fast Internet access).

http://defence.pk/threads/pictures-of-hongkong.46439/page-13

I even see basketball courts (this is a small neighboring island):

https://bluebalu.com/2013/08/18/hiking-discovery-bay-to-mui-wo-and-back/

I spend roughly $300 a month for my main house here in Davao in a nicer, walled security subdivision, and another $80 monthly for a crappy house up on the cooler hillsides, which I maintain so I have two Internet connections with the two major ISPs (Globe and Smart) in case one is offline then I can drive to the other. Ditto for the brownouts, since rarely brownout in both locations simultaneously. It is roughly a 15 - 20 min drive if no traffic (and I am often awake in the night for the cooler fresh and sleeping in day in aircon). That is not including the cost of my two Internet connections ($60), electricity for both locations ($80), water ($8), diesel ($50), and food ($300+).

For Mui Mo, I would need to spend roughly $1500 monthly to get something decent (although this might decrease by 2017 if the HKD peg breaks as Armstrong is predicting):

http://www.squarefoot.com.hk/search/?area=4;district=4;type=rent;layout=11;sort=pa
http://www.squarefoot.com.hk/property/21201623/
http://www.squarefoot.com.hk/property/21011775/

I am estimating my transportation and food would be at least double in Hong Kong.

So my base monthly expenses (not including other things such as $256 month child support in USA, credit card debt installments, Internet services such as Skype, $100 salary for my gf who does all the cooking & cleaning, etc) would increase from roughly $880 to $2250. And I'd probably keep the $80 or $300 rental in the Philippines to store my car and things. Overall I would increase my monthly expenditures from roughly $1400 to $2850. So roughly double my monthly expenses.

If the crowdfund is successful, I will probably make that upgrade to my environment  by about October or November, as Hong Kong starts to cool off. The summers in Hong Kong are nearly as hot as here in Davao, so no advantage.

I tried to think of other places where I could relocate such that my filipina gf could likely attain a visa with minimum fuss and would be as convenient and affordable and I can't think of any. Any suggestions?

Note it is likely (according to Martin Armstrong's model which I ascribe to) for the USD to become very strong in 2017, so the increase in expenses would be mitigated if my funding is coming in US dollars. Hopefully the coming global economic contagion might slowdown the plans to transform Lantau island from 100,000 to 1 million population.

I am not looking at Hong Kong as a permanent destination. Perhaps 6 months to a year until the next stage of JAMBOX is achieved. Perhaps maintain an office in HK if turns out there are game developers or other reasons to have an office there ongoing.

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The oregano oil is working great. Diarrhea appears to have abated. I am really hoping I am underway to being cured. I feel very hopeful with the way I can handle food and basically reverse any bad symptoms quite rapidly with high doses of the oregano oil.

I think it is time to get out of this sweltering climate. Need a change.

Not yet.

TPTB_need_war Do you have a twitter or something with updates to your projects?

I've pretty much nailed down my concept for a much more composable programming language design. It appears to me that by inverting the control over typing, that higher-kinded typing is actually an undesirable anti-pattern. If I am correct, I have just identified why Haskell is a suboptimal design:

https://users.rust-lang.org/t/most-coveted-rust-features/324/41

Looks like I have to create my own programming language! Which is too much work probably.

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After feeling strong yesterday and sleeping, I woke up with diarrhea. I've been high dosing with sublingual oregano oil since awakening roughly 4 hours ago. The oregano oil seems to be getting it under control although I still feel a bit under the weather (but not worse than a mild flu feeling). Actually my body feels strong with that food and I sleep very well.

So this is another confirmation that my 4 year chronic illness is an infectious agent impacting my digestive system, which makes sense given the chronic phase began 4 years ago after being hospitalized for an acute peptic ulcer and h.pylori infection.

I mentioned previously that the oregano oil seems to have greatly diminished the occurrences of the pimples on face or tongue that precede a chronic fatigue syndrome relapse in the past. As well cleared up the "70 year old" skin look on my shoulders and upper back. And my CFS episodes are much milder. And mostly I just need to sleep more whereas before so insomniac.

There are many lists of languages which compile to Javascript:

https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/list-of-languages-that-compile-to-js
http://www.infoworld.com/article/2606392/javascript/156855-X-languages-that-compile-to-JavaScript.html
http://smurfpandey.github.io/altjs/
http://www.slant.co/topics/101/~languages-that-compile-to-javascript

All those listed above seem to lack at least ad hoc polymorphism, except for the Haskell-to-Javascript variants (and perhaps the OCaml/ML-to-Javascript compilers although at least row polymorphism is not ad hoc polymorphism).

I have been studying PureScript, which is basically a Haskell clone without the memoization, lazy evaluation, and co-inductive type hierarchy. PureScript retains the desired ad hoc polymorphism.

PureScript's main feature that differentiates it from Haskell-to-Javascript compilers is that it is designed to compile to human comprehensible Javascript, which is fairly easy to correlate with the PureScript source code.

My complaints:

1. No first-class unions (aka disjunctions) and intersections (aka conjunctions), which I had explained (at the linked post quoted below) are necessary so ad hoc polymorphism isn't somewhat crippled. The alternative of Either enumerations are not first-class, thus aren't composable.


2. Pure functions are required everywhere, which those forces Haskells Monadic and Applicative side-effects abstractions, which are very non-intuitive for programmers coming from C, C++, Java, Javascript, PHP.

3. No async/await nor generators, and instead must use another of those Haskell higher-order monadic abstractions, the Continuation monad.

4. No unsigned integer (i.e. i >>> 0 in Javascript), and no sized integer types such as i32, u32, u8, etc..

5. Build system requires Node.js.


Other aspects I admire:

1. Tail recursion is optimized to a while loop.

2. Functions are curried by default, with a comprehensible representation in Javacscript.

3. Ad hoc polymorphism dictionaries are input in a curried function.

Someone asked my opinion on the Flow static type checking transpiler for Javascript.

I like the concept of optional typing, but I would need to think more about what if any corner cases that enables. For example, I think it makes it impossible that there are types which are not Nullable since null values can leak in from un(i)typed sections.

My complaints:

1. Objects always have to be destructured/extracted from the Nullable type before they can be accessed, i.e. I assume non-Nullable can't be enforced.
2. There are no sized integer and unsigned types such as i32, u32, etc..
3. Employs subclassing, which is an anti-pattern, instead of ad hoc polymorphism.

I like the first-class union (aka disjunction) and intersection (aka conjunction) types, the modules, and the variant types.

This is somewhat closer to what I want, but still not really adequate for the leap forward I want.

Edit: I also very much like that the transpiled Javascript is human comprehensible and reasonably easily correlated to the original source code. So this means we don't need extra tooling to for example using existing Javascript debuggers in the browsers. My vision is for a transpiled syntax that doesn't absolutely require an IDE, so I can continue to use any text editor if I want. I really hate the pain point of installing a complex development environment.

I am thinking we should stick with Javascript as the primary compile target, because it is mature on all devices.

Unofficial JAMBOX theme song:

Chinese Man - Skank in the Air

The Golden Buddha is smooth (@1:15min) hehe.