tehjoker

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   by tehjoker 8y ago

   I suggest you should read up on the far more recent case of Fred Hampton and COINTELPRO regarding US "protection of dissent". American institutions protect the status quo and allow "safe" dissent (meaning bounded (e.g. N
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   by tehjoker 8y ago

   Just a reminder that tech companies will do anything to make more certain predictions for the sake of an ever expanding circle of clients: https://theintercept.com/2019/02/02/shoshana-zuboff-age-of-s...
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   by tehjoker 8y ago

   I would point out that if the US is already spending more money on arms than the next several countries combined, I don't think this is the relevant issue. If another power was strong enough to threaten our defenses, that would be one
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   by tehjoker 8y ago

   Ah defense. It's just common sense that we should pour money into the military. We're just out to make money, there's definitely not an entire political viewpoint entangled in this "market opportunity". Those crazy
5. 2825.▲
   by tehjoker 8y ago

   Thanks for the tip.
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   by tehjoker 8y ago

   Right, of course it's not free, but it would be cheap to provide and a universal good for all US residents. I also don't really mind the taxes they can come from the rich anyway. So long as the views expressed don't cross the
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   by tehjoker 8y ago

   That's not an argument that it won't work fwiw.
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   by tehjoker 8y ago

   Hosting blogs is cheap and everyone should be able to have one. However, if we leave it to the corporate sector, they'll either need a subscription or ads, neither of which are conducive to public discussion. Since serving blogs is so
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   by tehjoker 8y ago

   Fwiw, in my code, I got to write "-0" explicitly and the method for checking is std::signbit(x)
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    by tehjoker 8y ago

    If you have uBlock Origin, you can just "zap" those elements without opting in.
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    by tehjoker 8y ago

    I recently implemented dijkstra's shortest path using nearest neighbor nodes on a 3D image problem. While IEEE-745 is usually just a pain for me, in this case it was pretty cool. Instead of allocating a separate boolean array of "