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by thwest 12y ago
What? How is California's federal tax revenue relevant to the article? If California secedes these people will still argue that you shouldn't have a vote and the state should transition to monarchy.
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by thwest 12y ago
This is a good case for why MRAs are lumped in there. You're both myopic about a social dichotomy (men vs women or gifted rulers vs plebs), lack empathy for the other side of the dichotomy, and go through logical gymnastics to reach a
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by thwest 12y ago
Oh interesting. Thanks.
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by thwest 12y ago
Actually the member can still be declared `private:` and the `obj.a.name` would not be portable. It appears GCC's implementation to make these members `public:` is conforming to c++11 but do not rely on this behavior. I've been to
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by thwest 12y ago
bool b = x < y;
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by thwest 12y ago
Check out the code for the geordi bot that hangs out in freenode##c++. It uses some of the more advanced linux sandboxing features I've seen
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by thwest 13y ago
For worse, surely. As a startup employee and HN reader, I'm disgusted with the amoral money chasing culture we've grown. The attitude towards politics here reminds me of a child plugging his ears, squinting hard and shouting &quot
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by thwest 13y ago
You're making a deeply political claim here that individual morality should be secondary to business interests. Which unsurprisingly is a claim that will divide people. This attitude is a shining example of the consequences of the kind
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by thwest 13y ago
Would there have been a campaign to run without donors?
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by thwest 13y ago
I just hate NULL standing in for a boolean notion of existence, I'd rather see a separate boolean member indicating the validity of the other member (string middle_name; boolean has_middle_name;). Or in a strongly typed language an Opt
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by thwest 13y ago
Why though? I'm of the opinion that the error should be handled at the place that produces the first NULL/None. Objects should be valid.
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by thwest 13y ago
For me the problem is the argument formatting and dependency chasing for clang-osx and msvc/intelcc-windows
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by thwest 13y ago
Big enough to move their highend bicycle manufacturing (Orbea) to China.
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by thwest 13y ago
Clean, fast interface with nice keyboard shortcuts. No automated filtering besides basic spam detection, and creating sorting rules is straight forward.
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by thwest 13y ago
> For example, I like static data structures, especially in C. But in C++ they are unidiomatic. How do you statically initialize (in the rdata / rodata segment) an object graph (even as simple as a tree) with zero-copying at runtime
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by thwest 13y ago
A Fastmail account was the best technology purchase I made last year.
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by thwest 13y ago
A significant private finance sector present in the 1920s in the US did nothing to prevent the great depression, where millions of people starved.
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by thwest 13y ago
I use JSON and protobuf
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by thwest 13y ago
There's no accounting for taste I suppose. I'll happily wade through a mountain of bad puns, but scatology and sexual dimorphism jokes are just wearisome.
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by thwest 13y ago
It's for your job prospects that you avoid off color jokes? Not the comedic banality or actual disgust with sexism?
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by thwest 13y ago
Does it matter if the operator was an employee of Tazreen Fashion, or self employed tailor? It was just a regular human in a regular fire. Does it matter if the miner was an employee of International Coal Group, Inc, or if he was digging in
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by thwest 13y ago
Is this a claim that your colleagues in construction are the same housing activists your OP is demonizing?
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by thwest 13y ago
The bad behavior of techies isn't erased by the bad behavior of VCs. The bad behavior of VCs isn't erased by the bad behavior of Wall Street. The bad behavior of Wall Street isn't erased by genocidal and warmongering dictator
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by thwest 13y ago
Bay Area Techies are easy to demonize because they willfully handwave away all the problems they cause. Get real: we are the foot soldiers of global capital. Investors from all over the world are looking to leverage the cachet of the Bay Ar
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by thwest 13y ago
People there purchase commodities in great volume, surely.
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by thwest 13y ago
For me the difference between economic and ecological self-sufficiency is that the economic system is a societal output and is malleable to a greater degree than the ecological.
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by thwest 13y ago
Overpopulation can also result from simple trade. NYC and generally the entire US eastern seaboard are overpopulated by your definition.
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by thwest 13y ago
Asking for a better level of explanation is not at all similar to staking out room for an extra-material homunculus type consciousness. "Put enough protons, neutrons and electrons together, and bam, bread" is a poor explanation of
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by thwest 13y ago
You are getting downvotes because you didn't follow Bayesian reasoning, but there is some justification for your instincts here http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/unpublished/ph...
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by thwest 13y ago
> That's a bunch of needlessly cynical and completely ignorant bullshit. [...] It isn't something that's done at the point of a gun. Alan Greenspan is of the opinion that our Iraq wars were 'largely about oil' an

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