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by leohutson 9y ago
I disagree, it's inferior from your cultural perspective, but some cultures clearly didn't/don't value human life the same way you do. For instance from my perspective a culture that doesn't allow gay marriage is cl
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by leohutson 9y ago
I don't think the author grasps it either, especially when he uses morality as an outcome rather than just another cultural value. Assessing the quality of the outcome requires a cultural perspective itself, and even if from that cultu
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by leohutson 9y ago
It's illogical to make value judgements about cultures, there is no objective way to do it. What makes one culture "better" than another? Survival? Virality? Honor? Piousness? Lawfulness? Every culture values these things dif
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by leohutson 9y ago
Someone should make a discrete gpu with an arm cpu core or 50 sharing the same memory and maybe ssd. Then you have a really nice hierarchy of parallelism, 2 fast arm cores, 10 medium, 50 slow, then gpu. Would be great for stuff like multigr
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by leohutson 9y ago
Yes, I was agreeing with you, I don't think down-voters read your comment properly. I really don't think the outrage here on HN or the original post is in any way justified, legally the image may or may not be subject to copyright
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by leohutson 9y ago
No they can't. They can "steal" my slavish picture of VHS, that's all this proves.
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by leohutson 9y ago
No that's not true. Facts for instance are usuallly not copyrightable, regardless of how much effort goes into gathering them. Photographs of artworks that are in the public domain often aren't copyrightable for instance, if they
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by leohutson 9y ago
I guess my thoughts are, why would you? The only time you would use VFX is if you can't do something in real life cheaper, and since it's extremely expensive that rules out filing the frame with mundane realistic objects. Aside f
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by leohutson 9y ago
Your criteria are unclear, what counts as real life footage? Captured bdrf? Photographic textures? Photogrammetry? Motion capture? Made by an artist equipped with lots of reference?
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by leohutson 9y ago
If you care about your audience, present your ideas sensitively. If you don't care about your audience, then don't bother presenting any ideas because you aren't going to convince anyone. The point of discussion isn't to
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by leohutson 9y ago
By analogy, why don't we make planes that are flappy winged ornithopters? It works for birds.
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by leohutson 9y ago
It's not just the UK, this is the case for just about every western government, the US political system is definitely the eccentric here, if we are trying to find a global political centre, which is as close to an absolute as you are g
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by leohutson 9y ago
OpenFX - http://openeffects.org
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by leohutson 10y ago
If Thiel was a direct supporter of David Duke for instance, then I think (hope?) most commentators here would be calling for him to be dissociated from ycombinator and "ruined" or marginalised to whatever degree was legal I'm
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by leohutson 10y ago
They are also lucky their parents met, so your point is?
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by leohutson 10y ago
Try: http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/show_plot.php?station=42058&meas=wd...
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by leohutson 10y ago
Are you proposing patching 3rd party binaries? There's not much point in pinpointing bugs in closed source software if you are unable to fix them.
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by leohutson 10y ago
Would be smarter to just remove GST from goods that are commonly imported altogether. Could offset the lost revenue with non-renewable energy taxes, land value taxes, capital gains taxes.
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by leohutson 10y ago
I'd be interested to see a break down based on industry and location, salaried vs hourly. I could understand if self-employed people were included, as temporary staffing shortages are often covered by business owners. I also wonder wha
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by leohutson 10y ago
The "improved" blue noise random points at the start would probably be more efficiently generated with Poisson disc sampling. https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~rbridson/docs/bridson-siggraph07-pois...
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by leohutson 10y ago
Git is not great UX wise, but it's probably not as big of an issue as people like to make out, especially if you are already comfortable in a shell. The reason people find git hard is that concepts of distributed version control are ha
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by leohutson 10y ago
Don't understand why it needs to make the phone unusable. Surely something that covers the cameras and microphones, but still lets you see and interact with the screen wouldn't be infeasible?
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by leohutson 10y ago
It just needs to be smarter about the context. If a video is loading in chrome, 90% of the time the intent is to turn down the volume of the video, it's broken that it waits for it to start playing. Honestly, the most intuitive option
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by leohutson 10y ago
I guess another way to think about it is that irrational fears remain irrational even if they turn out to be true. If you don't have a reasonable justification for your fears, then it is purely a coincidence that the fears happen to be
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by leohutson 10y ago
The way I'd calculate it is to decide on a target for emissions, and progressively raise the tax until that target is hit.
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by leohutson 10y ago
Because countries with public health care spend less on health care. Its fine if you have a moral disagreement with having a public sector, but the facts don't lie, the health insurance bureaucracy, misleading pharmaceutical marketing&
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by leohutson 10y ago
My previous bank ( ASB ) used to truncate passwords. I found out because one day I was trying to enter my password and it kept refusing it until I left off the last two characters. It turns out that they had stopped truncating or perhaps ju
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by leohutson 10y ago
Zero cost interoperability with your graphics API is a big one. Using CUDA for compute, and then mapping that data into OpenGL to draw it is way slower than it should be.
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by leohutson 10y ago
Why does it have to run on the customers vehicle? Why not just let customers opt in to sending telemetry, and test with that data. It seems like a pointless risk to run the tests live.
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by leohutson 10y ago
Gawker took themselves out by putting a sex tape on their website without the consent of the people appearing in it. Perhaps Theil helped the process along, but he wouldn't have been able to do so if they hadn't been so reckless.

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