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by jacquesm 7mo ago
Great article. You really start to appreciate floating point when you have to squeeze some arbitrary level of performance out of an underpowered (say embedded) CPU and you decide to use fixed point. Suddenly all those nasty little edge ca
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
At least we have answers to the question of how World War II started. All it takes is a couple of idiots that think they are all powerful and the stage is set.
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
Non proliferation is over and done with. Every country that can afford it and has the capability will have the bomb. There is no way this genie will go back in the bottle. And that means that a future nuclear war - if not today - is all but
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
Europe has one 'weapon' they can use but they can use it just once: dump the bonds. The problem with that is that you need a reason big enough that by the time you're going to do it it will likely be too late to be effective
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
It's a bit late. I wouldn't call that good news until it is over and done with.
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
You need to get to November first.
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
> I don't see this de-escalating soon unless Europe shows more teeth. Can you describe what you have in mind?
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
That's all fine and good as long as you keep your trash indoors. Iran is halfway around the world and the title here should make anybody feel ashamed, not just those from the country that proposes this. It's a failure of humanity,
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
I know that clip without clicking. But yes, you're right. If there is an issue with BART it has 500 upvotes and stays on the homepage for at least a day.
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
No, this is now America's war. Israel has a part in it but the US is the main belligerent at this point and if Trump follows through on his threats he all but guarantees the downfall of the United States. This has gone way too far alre
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
Country wide strike would be a nice start.
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
Another thread that got 'buried': https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47674286
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
Enough to flag this thread.
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
Of course they do.
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
If they don't realize it now they never will.
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
> I have learned to never take him literally at his word. So far his words seem to have been pretty good predictors for his future actions. Maybe not always in the same order and/or with the intended effect. But the list of stuff he
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
Explain to me how you will 'kill a civilization' without including civili ans. It's sort of in the name.
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
> we don’t need to fake arguments here Indeed we don't. So why make them?
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
Yes, you are spot on. I've seen this many times in practice and it really never ceases to amaze me.
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
Then they're complete and utter idiots.
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
I thought I heard a cork pop somewhere East of me.
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
It was on page #11 last I checked, past 330.
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16008239
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
We can flag those comments just fine.
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
That's not how that works. War crimes are war crimes, just like crimes are crimes whether the laws that define them are enforced or not is not relevant. Morality starts with definition, and there are other ways to deal with these thing
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
Absolutely. I posted it a while ago but - predictably - it got flagged. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47674286 The interesting thing is that people do seem to find it.
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
You can believe whatever you want but I actually don't believe that Iran would use that bomb offensively even if they have been threatening to do so. In that sense they would be no different than all but two other nuclear powers. Only
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
I am under no illusion that they would do something if they were not on vacation.
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
Likewise. Trump 1 caused my long term sleeping disorder to re-appear and Trump 2 is having me wonder why I thought it was a great idea to have kids. It is complete insanity that someone like this should be holding the Presidency of the USA.
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
No, obviously it is not, but, Trump is for bad or for worse the US government in persona so this is somewhat political. Since I posted the link above I'm obviously of the impression that this is something that might interest us but app

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