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Haskell adherents revisit the language's tongue-in-cheek 'avoid success at all costs' mantra

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We are in a culture of optimization, which means we are in a culture of slop.

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This science-fiction movie plays with quantum physics, space travel, astrobiology and mass-to-energy conversion