To understand terminal capitalism, first you must understand recursion.

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[–] 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Not to be pedantic, and I do appreciate the humor, but that's not recursion either :3 Recursion doesn't need to be endless. Recursive functions can absolutely have logical termination.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    What does capitalism do but logically terminate resources?

    But note taken. I just think the comparison is inspiring.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Logically terminating resources does not imply a terminating logic loop. Clever wordplay, though.

    Recursion has a specific definition. It means solving a problem by breaking a process down into smaller and smaller self-similar pieces until reaching the "base case". In programming, it (almost) always means a function that calls itself as part of its internal logic. Depending on what the function does and the conditions for returning a value from the function, it may do that one time, many times, or not at all. A classic example is the Boggle solver.

    I did say I was being pedantic :P

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