faragon

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by faragon 9y ago
You "love" immigration, but you endorse the monolingual Catalan school, despite being the language of a minority of the citizens in the region. Great "democracy" example (democracy is not just "voting" -many di
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by faragon 9y ago
The US made a war against the "White Separatism" (Confederate States of America), in order to protect the US Constitution and citizen rights. Even in more recent times, e.g. in 1955 the US Constitution protected Rosa Parks against
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by faragon 9y ago
You can twist the words whatever you want, if that makes you happy. The self-determination right is only for very specific cases according the UN, and the Catalan region does not qualify for that. Also, the EU representatives have been very
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by faragon 9y ago
You can believe in whatever you want, have aversion to symbols, think how special you are vs other co-citizens, etc.: your free-speech is protected by the Spanish Constitution, the UE, and the UN. Mine is protected, too, and in my opinion t
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by faragon 9y ago
How billing for socket/CPU could matter anymore with 16 core CPUs (32 SMT) with many DDR4 memory channels going to hit the market during this summer [1]? [1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/antonyleather/2017&#x2
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by faragon 9y ago
The page is not loading. 25 years ago, a response could be: you don't need a pen, you need a 3000 USD IBM-compatible PC! :-)
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by faragon 9y ago
In my opinion, Brave New World is still groundbreaking now. Not because of the writing style, but because of the ideas and messages of warning for the Mankind. From my point of view, being both great novels, Brave New World is very differen
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by faragon 9y ago
You're a Spanish citizen, as there is no such thing as per-city citizenship in Spain. BTW, you can twist the words at your convenience, if that makes you happy.
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by faragon 9y ago
I love McDonald's.
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by faragon 9y ago
Eye-opening/shocking books: "Science et Méthode" (Henri Poincaré, 1908) "The Conquest of Happiness" (Bertrand Russell, 1930) "The Revolt of the Masses" (José Ortega y Gasset, 1930) "Brave New World&qu
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by faragon 9y ago
TL;DR: nihilist programmers should be fired as soon as possible.
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by faragon 9y ago
Buffalo milk cheese is amazing for pizzas (after you have the pizza cooked, put a bit of buffalo milk cheese on top).
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by faragon 9y ago
You're very welcome to visit Barcelona! Please excuse those radicals, they don't represent us :-)
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by faragon 9y ago
Any real argument, or your point is just to censor my opinion?
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by faragon 9y ago
No, because of tourist rentals are not enough for covering the local demand, the problem is 10x bigger. Regarding people needs, in my opinion the problem is that people in charge in local government (Barcelona city) is not focused in solvin
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by faragon 9y ago
Sure, sometimes it is not easy, e.g. using the metro ("underground") in Saturdays or Sundays is quite uncomfortable. However, that allows to avoid increasing ticket prices, because of optimal utilization. So in the end, a bit of d
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by faragon 9y ago
I hope not. In my opinion, the Catalan separatist movement is clearly not democratic (despite using agitprop equaling self-determination to democracy, which is a fallacy), and often, xenophobic ("Spain robs us"). I hope that once
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by faragon 9y ago
Yes, that was my concern: a small but radical movement willing to steal the voice of the majority. You're welcome :-)
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by faragon 9y ago
Anti-tourist movement in Barcelona is a minority, mainly from extreme-left parties and activists from Catalan nationalist parties. I live in Barcelona, and I'm ashamed of those xenophobic acts. My guess is that over 90% of Barcelona po
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by faragon 9y ago
Already discussed in HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12573886
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by faragon 9y ago
Is there any compiler using "machine learning" for SIMD optimization?
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by faragon 9y ago
English has many great things: - Easy to learn so you can speak like Tarzan and being understood. Pronouns, articles, and verbs, for a basic grammar, is quite easy. - Articles have no gender (e.g. "the moon" has an article that is
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by faragon 9y ago
My next home CPU will be an AMD Ryzen.
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by faragon 9y ago
"The printer doesn't know which code page to use, so makes a best guess." The printer probably use a default code page, and that's all. BTW, Unicode is not hard. The "hard" part is reading the device manual, an
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by faragon 9y ago
TL;DR: yet another massive chaos because some "smart" PHB doing "cost reduction" in IT.
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by faragon 9y ago
Apple partially offloading Siri from the cloud to client devices in order to reduce datacenter costs?
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by faragon 9y ago
One thing is using smart pointers "a la RAII", and another, "creative, a la dangerous, usage". E.g. some of the risks of using smart pointers from a previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/it
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by faragon 9y ago
People not understanding manual memory management should not write C++ at all, in my opinion.
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by faragon 9y ago
Well, I'm using C++ since 1993, so go figure.
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by faragon 9y ago
C++ "smart pointers" share with threads a common risk: most people using them should avoid using them.

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