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by kmonsen 4y ago
There are actually corner cases here, although that’s not what usually comes up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex Just a reminder that often reality is more complicated than we think. Names, numbers and upper&#x2
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by kmonsen 4y ago
I wonder if there is some nuance to this. I think most people are killed by someone they know, which I guess is most likely to be by your own race. So of the people killed by strangers maybe the statistics are different?
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by kmonsen 4y ago
Facebook/Meta does not have owners, so any two people in the company can land a change.
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by kmonsen 4y ago
This is a decent video explaining the US position which is (by design) very confusing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cA8VoY3dUFU
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by kmonsen 4y ago
CCP wants Taiwan to claim to be China as then it is seen as an internal struggle between two Chinese factions. So the CCP takeover of the island becomes reunification. If Taiwan calls itself Taiwan and develops a separate identity at some p
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by kmonsen 4y ago
Actually no, not calling it republic of China would make the other China angry. Taiwan would like to call itself Taiwan.
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by kmonsen 4y ago
That's quite a coincidence, two of the genre defining games when I was growing up was made by two people with the same name :-)
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by kmonsen 4y ago
:-) Sorry for the mistake. I also love Fallout, but not so much the later ones. I played Fallout 1 and 2 a lot, but never enjoyed the recent ones so much. I guess I am too old to enjoy the latest trends.
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by kmonsen 4y ago
The argument is that due to the paradox new solar capacity only increases demand, and so will be an additional burden. I don't think this is true, if solar is truly cheaper than it will drive out the more expensive power plants, but I
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by kmonsen 4y ago
I'm old enough that Total Annihilation is my favorite game all time. Still remember the wonder of discovering that. Thank you for all the happy memories.
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by kmonsen 4y ago
I was going to make a general comment about this too. It’s a huge penalty for Java too and has no correlation for how well it performs outside of toy benchmarks
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by kmonsen 4y ago
I think the main argument is a bit different. If two characters played by Julia Roberts and Matt Damon are talking and someone walks over and says "wow you must be Julia Roberts!", why do they not also say "and man you look l
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by kmonsen 4y ago
I think legality still matters. But more importantly it is a joke to compare the situation in Catalonia with that of Hong Kong. It’s not like we see trains full of people on the way to torture in concentration camps leaving Barcelona.
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by kmonsen 4y ago
I support the Catalan movement as I believe in all people’s right to self determination but that is fundamentally different. Catalonia does not have a legal right to just break free from Spain. It would also be difficult for any country if
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by kmonsen 4y ago
That is conflating two types of good intentions. One is that the writers have did intentions for society (what the parents means) or that they are good for a little group who write them. I don’t think anyone believes tax cuts for the riches
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by kmonsen 4y ago
You said Europe (I think, can't read your comment anymore), and the UK is very much part of that.
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by kmonsen 4y ago
Deepmind is a British company (now owned by Google), and are for sure at the forefront of AI from anything I can understand. Covid vaccines were almost all done by European companies. Europe is different for sure, and incumbents often use r
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by kmonsen 4y ago
Yeah and everyone knew for months this day would come. After the stocks started falling in the spring there was no way he would not try to weasel out. In my mind this is an insane conspiracy theory that fails occam razor, he was high and sa
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by kmonsen 4y ago
Here is a video by Bjarne himself explaining this: https://youtu.be/YQs6IC-vgmo Note there is a use case for linked list, inserting/deleting one or few items once in a while. But in general you can just use vector for
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by kmonsen 4y ago
You are right and this is will know, but not only for the reason you state. Cache locality is so much better on an array/vector compared to linked list and that is really important.
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by kmonsen 4y ago
Yeah, the key issue is energy. If we have unlimited energy we can deal with climate change in so many ways. Unless there is a full energy accounting it is just useless at this point.
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by kmonsen 4y ago
You said you were a child at the time so I think it’s hard to understand the world before you. Everyone expected a hacked plane would land you the passengers would most likely be safe. From everything the passengers on the first plane knew
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by kmonsen 4y ago
I think parents comment is ok. I will evaluate it based on what it has today.
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by kmonsen 4y ago
Why does Canada not have private healthcare? I kind of like systems like uk or Norway where there is a free system providing the floor and a private system if you want better treatment. Both the Canadian and the U.S. system is a bit weird t
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by kmonsen 4y ago
You are right, and wrong. You cannot drive through Switzerland (I lived there for two years so have personal experience) without showing passport. It works some of the time, but they do checks. For me it has been perhaps 25% of the time ent
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by kmonsen 4y ago
I agree with him that it would be the best way forward (and as a Norwegian I think Norway should join). But it seem pretty clear this is not what people want at this time, so equally clearly it is not the right thing to do as democratic cou
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by kmonsen 4y ago
I think using == for strings is a mistake even if they are interned, except of course in some very controlled circumstances internally in a library if it gives a performance benefit. I don't want to look at my code and need to know if
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by kmonsen 4y ago
I have an iPhone and I like it. I have little need to update it even though it is almost 3 years old. I also agree it is far from perfect but pretty good. Used to be on android but it was easier to use the same devices as my wife.
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by kmonsen 4y ago
Isn't part of the reason people are spending on iPhone that they can signal wealth to friends? From what I remember Apple always sells more when then introduce new golden colors so people can show they have the new device.
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by kmonsen 4y ago
lol that’s true, I guess most men can get on grinder and find a partner if they just want sex

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