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by jackmott 9y ago
>Take the "black lives matter" movement. If we followed the OPs advice, they should just protest that "all lives matter" instead, That might have been more effective, even if it isn't as fair or correct. Hard to
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I know of at least one tesla owner who was definitely someone would would buy an S Class
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you blind people to it, and you can absolutely cause normal wine enthusiasts to not know which they are drinking. I believe one such demonstration of such was done on John Cleese's wine for the confused.
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The culture of being being mad at sexual harassment offenders even when they apologize is what is toxic in the tech community. ok
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by jackmott 9y ago
Something you should keep in mind is that a man is also affected if he has a child. Available time, sleep quality, stress levels are all disrupted, and it affects our cognitive abilities to extreme degrees often times. So just be sure to
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>But it will NEVER, and I repeat this, NEVER give us perfect understanding of the universe around us. How can you be sure? >or that perfect understanding would require that we become greater than the universe around (in effect raising
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nonsense
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>plants can increase biomass like gangbusters with extra CO2, as long as they have the sunshine and water. There might even be a measurable difference in certain crops. Not universally true, some plants will be negatively affected by the
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by jackmott 9y ago
I have to chuckle that the features here are 1. We promise it will work now 2. We will reduce the user's power over their machine
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by jackmott 9y ago
> extreme weather patterns cause Y billion dollars of damage We have no idea what global warming related Y is yet, so we can't give him that number. But Pruitt isn't someone who is going to listen to reason anyway, he is paid t
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delusional.
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until we then add even more people to the earth and arrive at the same problem. all these kinds of solutions need to be coupled with population management solutions.
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Toyota started preparing ahead of time for battery recyling years ago for the prius well before there was a need. Honda Tesla and other companies have also been proactively working on it. Lead acid batteries can be and are recycled very wel
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This is nonsense tautological reasoning. The written word isn't even consistent with itself. Grow up.
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ryujit does zero autovectorizing but net has a nifty simd library thst lets you do it by hand. big plus is you can write once run on sse or avx or avx512. big downside is only a tiny fraction of simd instructions are supported, though they
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denmark has few bike fatalaties per capita and nobody wears helmets. cars all roll stop signs too, its normal and fine usually.
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But this would amount to it being "math practice" rather than investigation into how the universe works.
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The whole idea that eating vegetarian will lead to a less muscular physique is just completely unfounded. There are elite athletes that are vegetarians who make no special effort to get protein. (citation: my wife was one). My build didn&#
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you can do the simd intrinsics explicitly as well
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or government protected at&t bell labs which invented everything we do!
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by jackmott 9y ago
>Can we agree to disagree Nope, sorry. This isn't a witch hunt on people who do not share my views. It is a witch hunt on a man unfit to hold the office, with detestable views, not just ones I don't share. I don't know wh
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by jackmott 9y ago
So you are making connections between gluttony and greed then? Innovative!
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handmade hero series of videos might be your best bet. prepare to put in a lot of time!
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the salary is absurd for any outcome. anyone getting paid that much is irresponsible, as is anyone paying then.
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it would be a compiler warning if you did, too.
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I like the idea but unfortunately almost nothing about modern society involve choices that only affect the people right around you. You can't build a modern car without spanning many miles of people. When you shit, it goes into everyon
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thank you
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That fact that we elected Trump indicates we have incredible control. What an awful mistake.
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they work fine when they are just rendering ubuntu's window manager yeah, but so would a cpu with avx2. That is a pretty low bar. those of us complaining are using them for gaming, or serious compute jobs.
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by jackmott 9y ago
>We've been writing SQL for decades without such complaints People have to do exactly the "State what I want done in another way to nudge the DB into a performant path" that he was talking about all the time in SQL. But SQ

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