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by pnako 6y ago
The mood is going entirely in the other direction in Europe though, i.e. they want platforms to police speech even more. That's certainly true in Germany, also in France, and I'm sure other European countries. There is no equivale
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by pnako 6y ago
Because he's the bloody president of the United States of America. This should be a well-known fact but some people still don't accept it, 4 years after he was elected (will 8 years do the trick?)
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by pnako 6y ago
In which country do you live? Shooting rubber bullets at rioters and looters is standard practice pretty much everywhere in democracies, and in non-democracies they tend to go straight to lethal ammo.
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by pnako 6y ago
He mentioned shooting at looters, not protesters. Maybe you didn't see that part because Twitter has hidden the tweet?
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by pnako 6y ago
I can't wait to find out what's going to break this time.
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by pnako 6y ago
According to this source (perhaps not completely credible) she called then French President Mitterrand and threatened to nuke Argentina if he did not give her the codes https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/nov&#x
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by pnako 6y ago
Than the Aztecs who used human skulls as construction material?
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by pnako 6y ago
That's not relevant to my argument. You could have pointed out to many other bad things done by the US, or the West. The fact remains that migration flows tell us where people actually want to live.
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by pnako 6y ago
There is a pretty simple test one can use to figure out which way to run a country is actually preferred by people: Some countries put border with barb wires, walls, armed guards, etc. to keep people out. Other countries did that to keep pe
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by pnako 6y ago
You have a point, to some extent. The way Popcorn Time is advertised makes it pretty clear: >No restrictions. Watch any movie or TV show as many times as you want. >Awesome catalogue. If the movie or TV show is out there, Po
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by pnako 6y ago
I'm pretty sure you are just wrong about this, and the true IFR is about 17.282%. "Believe Science(R). Wait, no, not this one!"
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by pnako 6y ago
Here we go again with this thread (dang was talking about HN cliches above)... My friend is an intern at Facegoogle and is making 800K a year, excluding bonus. But my friend working a prop trading shop, with two years experience, is making
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by pnako 6y ago
I too used to program in C++. Every Monday morning, it was the same routine: as I enter the office, the stench of decaying bodies is overwhelming. Yet I must gather my strength to collect and identify the people killed over the week-end by
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by pnako 6y ago
You missed my point entirely, I think. Yes, if you want to write a loop doing a single type of processing, numerical or string, you can typically write better code in C++, or a shader language. Most business applications don't follow t
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by pnako 6y ago
How does that help though? The memory management issues in my C++ programs (recently, real-time audio stuff) are where I explicitly decide not to use modern C++ / automated memory management, and write my own allocators that rely on ma
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by pnako 6y ago
Performance to do _what_? To do high-throughput transaction processing involving a mix of strings and numerical operations I'm pretty sure nothing actually beats Java, not even C++. Numerical computing is a different thing. Low-latency
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by pnako 6y ago
UBSan does some of what you are asking for.
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by pnako 6y ago
So-called "modern C++", using std::string, RAII, unique_ptr (and shared_ptr). It's not perfect but it's certainly a giant leap from old-school C. It's something I don't see Rust proponents address. It's ea
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by pnako 6y ago
I'm a nerd so I don't mind being in front of the computer all day (I do resent the loss of civil liberties though). But I have a friend already going through depression who is going through hell with this stupid lock down. It affe
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by pnako 6y ago
Where I live they closed the beach, and they "closed" the benches across the promenade around the beach, but you're still allowed to exercise. You're not allowed to sit down anywhere. So everyone is going back and forth
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by pnako 6y ago
>* H2: My company can't afford a database admin, so I embedded the database in our application (I have actually done this) I'm familiar with the variant, "InfoSec won't let us deploy a DB on the same host".
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by pnako 6y ago
It's like sending a picture of your neighbor's garden to the police, "asking for clarification" about what is permitted. You can do that, but at least call it what it is.
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by pnako 6y ago
Yes, and it must be stapled by the manager, senior executive vice-president and head of compliance. How very agile.
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by pnako 6y ago
I trust my BBQ more than any browser nowadays, so I would probably pick that.
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by pnako 6y ago
It's not that simple. In the west it's the "alt right" or similar that needs to bypass censorship. But in China, it's pro-democracy people. Even inside a country, it changes. Dissenters 50 years ago are not the same
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by pnako 6y ago
So "journalists" are now colluding with platforms to censor information. Brave new world.
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by pnako 6y ago
In France, you have special schools (classes préparatoires) where you spend 2 years after high school just to prepare the entrance exam of the most competitive schools. The entrance exam can last for a week, with two 4-hour exams a day, and
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by pnako 6y ago
Why not? It worked in Vietnam, it worked in Afghanistan. Guns work. "Political power comes out of the barrel of a gun", said Mao.
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by pnako 6y ago
There are successful visual programming languages, like GRAFCET. But it doesn't scale beyond simple problems. As others have pointed out, it's about information density; what can be shown on a single screen, and also inputting dat
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by pnako 6y ago
Why would that be a better arrangement than, say, universities? The main issue with corporate research is that it's not easy for them to capture the output; it very quickly leaks into the public domain, despite patents. So why bother?

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