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by random_comment 10y ago
Sorry I got your name wrong, I'm a unix guy, so 'mv' is the natural choice for a 2 letters starting with 'm' :) I didn't accuse you of anything. You may feel right now that you're under attack, but if you
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by random_comment 10y ago
Hello Mv, I don't know anything about you or your history here, so I can only comment on what I see in front of me. I hope you will treat this post as well-intended, even if you do not initially react to the content with a feeling of e
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by random_comment 10y ago
Correct, a narrowly bigger margin. I think if '52-48' is redefined as a 'big margin' then it becomes very hard to define 'a narrow margin' without running into the impact of statistical noise.
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by random_comment 10y ago
> If anything, Brexit was fuelled by impotent rage Ignorant rage, perhaps. https://www.google.com/search?q=daily+mail+eu&source=lnms&tb...
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by random_comment 10y ago
> we've understood that the feelings aren't mutual. 48% of Brits, 62% of Scots don't feel that way. And literally no one in the UK voted for what the government is currently doing or how shittily it is treating it's E
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by random_comment 10y ago
> It would have been untenable, however, for a government to defy the will of the people as expressed in the referendum. I may have missed something but at no point was anything resembling the current 'plan' ever put forward to
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by random_comment 10y ago
He didn't actually mention the Dutch ;-)
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by random_comment 10y ago
This is factually untrue. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36612308 Wales voted by a 52.5% to 47.5% margin to leave. There are very few countries in the world where a non-binding referendum with that
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by random_comment 10y ago
> Yes, CIG is absolutely the most transparent game studio of all time. I say this with over 13 years experience in and around the games industry. If that's the best you've seen, I would recommend you to Riot Games excellent ser
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by random_comment 10y ago
This forum has rules about how to talk to other people in the forum. I feel you are ignoring them in terms of how you talk about me and other HN users. Have you read the forum guidelines? "You're merely claiming hundreds of game d
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by random_comment 10y ago
Can you explain to me the difference in practice between 'a rewrite of an existing code base from language A to language B' versus 'Saying you will support language B as well, dropping language A after a while completely, the
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by random_comment 10y ago
Hello, thank you for your comment. I've followed the Vulkan/DX12 issue on and off over the last year for SC as I am an early backer. Given that they only first approached the question of Vulkan in 2016, and as recently as a few m
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by random_comment 10y ago
I personally think a more likely explanation of this move is that they are nowhere near completion and need a good 'technical excuse' for pushing deadlines way into the future. Then everyone begins debating the technical issues ra
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by random_comment 10y ago
I take the opposite view. "ln" isn't "link". It's ln. My brain has particular concepts bound onto the command 'ln', which are not the same as the concepts for 'link' in general use. "gr
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by random_comment 10y ago
http://www.multicorewareinc.com/news/multicoreware-demonstra... This is from 2015. We're almost into 2017. - A 4k frame is 3.2 x as much data as the 2160x1200 frame. - In this case, compression was achieved at 60f
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by random_comment 10y ago
I think anyone describing Chinese guanxi as simply 'tribal' should probably reflect on how the US elections look to an outsider. Option A) The wife of a former president vs. Option B) A former close friend & financial donor to
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by random_comment 10y ago
You could ask him - https://www.linkedin.com/in/yangdu I don't know what the final dissertation title/theme ended up as, but we talked a lot about guanxi vs other similar cultural behaviours while he was writ
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by random_comment 10y ago
I would say, only if you would also call an ordinary friendship or example of nepotism in Western culture 'tribalism'.
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by random_comment 10y ago
Some examples: - In the west we usually identify distinct types of influence. We even have special words for particular kinds of influence. Nepotism, cronyism, old boys networks, etc. These identify particular types of connection and partic