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Show HN: Onionfutures.com: transferable contracts for future delivery of onions

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Show HN: A Lisp where each function call runs a Docker container

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a11ce
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Sure! In 1955, two traders very aggressively cornered then shorted the onion futures market, bankrupting a bunch of onion farmers. This led to the passing of the Onion Futures Act[1], banning the sale of onion futures. This has become something of a financial meme.

OnionFutures.com sells 'private, transferable contracts for the future physical delivery of onions'. This, by my reading of the Onion Futures Act, is legal! So the site is a joke about the OFA (hence the first FAQ question being 'Is this legal?') but also you can actually buy a contract for the future delivery of an onion (and receive a UUID that you can privately resell).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_Futures_Act
a11ce
·3 bulan yang lalu·discuss
See also: https://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/futarchy.html
a11ce
·5 bulan yang lalu·discuss
This loses the "feature" of being able to write builtins in different languages/operating systems/whatever. Either way, I think a serious version of this would use threads. Concurrency is the real potential benefit imo.

I was getting warnings without that line and don't know how else to fix it (this is my first time using Docker). A PR would be welcome if there's a better way.
a11ce
·5 bulan yang lalu·discuss
It does allow for a pretty clean parallel map builtin...