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by sbmassey 9y ago
EC membership, not EU - from the perspective of the British, they voted for membership of a trading block, which then morphed into a new megastate wannabe without any vote taking place to legitimise it.
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by sbmassey 10y ago
Pish-posh, the cotton gin was invented at the end of the 18th century.
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by sbmassey 10y ago
Complexity in a programming language is fine if it is just you, but a group of developers working together with different ideas of what to use can make for cacophony.
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by sbmassey 10y ago
I'd guess it would be more of a question-and-answer session between the computer and the designer rather than attempting to describe the algorithm up front.
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by sbmassey 10y ago
Perhaps there's something wrong with me, but even if the image quality was great I can't really see why looking at sex in VR is all that much different to watching a video. Are we imagining some kind of scary tactile peripherals?
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C++ proposals please(meetingcpp.com)
1 points by sbmassey 10y ago|1 comments
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The Trouble with Experts(stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com)
1 points by sbmassey 10y ago|0 comments
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by sbmassey 10y ago
Well of course that is going to leak, but you could instead do std::vector<Person> v; Person p(10); v.emplace_back(p); and be safe
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by sbmassey 10y ago
Well indeed, as per Turing on the Entscheidungsproblem one cannot know what some abstract bit of code does without running it, but one can sometimes put limits on its behaviour - your snippet will never do anything but print out numbers, fo
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by sbmassey 10y ago
It will eventually terminate, if only because the machine it is running on will eventually be shut down.
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by sbmassey 10y ago
I don't get the analogy - as I understand it, Feudalism is about subletting military/political power because the central government is too weak to control things directly, which doesn't seem to have much in common with the al
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by sbmassey 10y ago
When.
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by sbmassey 10y ago
"But you'll be hearing from me baby, long after I'm gone I'll be speaking to you sweetly from a window in the Tower of Song" One of the greats.
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by sbmassey 10y ago
A lot of anti-Islamism is not based on youtube clips, but on direct observation of what happens when Muslims take over areas and make them their own.
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by sbmassey 10y ago
Why inefficient? Easing the burden of centralised government on all interstate trade should be more efficient, I would think
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by sbmassey 10y ago
I was vaguely under the impression that Elm was more an ML style language than a Haskell style language, so it ought to have modules and functors rather than typeclassss.
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by sbmassey 10y ago
The civic that allowed you to do that was explicity called Slavery though.
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by sbmassey 10y ago
The term Dark Age is still legitimately applied to the 1200 BC ish Eastern Mediterranean cultural collapse though, is it not?
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by sbmassey 10y ago
Wouldn't measures like just keeping the names and images of the people involved out of the press be sufficient?
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by sbmassey 10y ago
How is an absence of reporting meant to protect children?
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by sbmassey 10y ago
Does the intent matter? Even if it was just a career-long run of incompetence, "getting out of science" would seem a reasonable starting point.
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by sbmassey 10y ago
Any media with a sufficiently large number of consumers is indistinguishable from propaganda.
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by sbmassey 10y ago
It's not so much the "progressive elite" as a general fact of human politics that in Federal systems power inexorably moves to the center as anything going wrong in the provinces will be taken over by the centralised state, b
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by sbmassey 10y ago
Socrates would have been less than 1 year old in 470 BC, so I guess he was speaking about himself and his pals.
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by sbmassey 10y ago
If that is the case, we should consider splitting the country up into more homogenous chunks
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by sbmassey 10y ago
There are a bunch downstairs in the food area, if you count that
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by sbmassey 10y ago
Northern Ireland was a more complex situation than being just a province where most want to secede
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The Age of Designer Plagues(the-american-interest.com)
1 points by sbmassey 10y ago|0 comments
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by sbmassey 10y ago
Some day a real rain will come and wash all the scum off the streets
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by sbmassey 10y ago
I wonder if they'll have underwater pokemon

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