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by thwest 13y ago
I think you are pretending that previous regimes were comically totalitarian, rather than meeting any realistic definition of the word. Even state sponsored Soviet art projects ended up funding pieces that had anti-Stalin and anti-state par
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by thwest 13y ago
But how does an armored vehicle counter or deter bombs or a lone gunman? Their purpose is generally to get a handful of soldiers into an adversarial environment. Lone gunman are taken down easily enough with standard squad car kit. I mean,
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by thwest 13y ago
Seriously declreftype would have been a much clearer way to signal intent here rather than making parenthesis significant.
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by thwest 13y ago
Because the slight of losing 0.001% of one's wealth in a non-violent manner is comparable to the loss of thousands of lives, right?
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by thwest 13y ago
The victim here is the masses of 19th century mine workers discarded in the production of her fortune.
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by thwest 13y ago
Consider my eye batted. I don't think Jesus was a huge proponent of slaves.
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by thwest 13y ago
Appropriately reflecting the cognitive impairment of bigotry
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by thwest 13y ago
`git submodule foreach` is capable using git alone.
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by thwest 13y ago
Many people prefer the error messages from clang
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by thwest 13y ago
There's some proposal people are calling concepts-lite that is more or less a cleaner enable_if. There won't be a static_if in 14 from what I hear.
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by thwest 13y ago
I really like this post, and I feel like the only incorrect response is to respond. (although 2nd thought is that Derrida's project is to show us that none of the recursive attempts to account for this phenomenon ("employing narra
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by thwest 13y ago
Sinc interpolation is usually also windowed with a dampening factor on the tails of your filter. I think the ringing on the left edge of the image shows the lack of windowing.
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by thwest 13y ago
One time I hacked chromium to skip the socket and send the HTTP directly to the embedded python wsgi app. In the end we couldn't use it because we needed some 64 bit only code running behind the wsgi and chromium only builds 32 bit on
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by thwest 13y ago
If a screenwriterly narrative is moving away from scientific history, how could we move closer? Simply publish historical data in table form? It seems like as soon as you employ verbs that imply causality you are subject to White's ana
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by thwest 13y ago
How does asking people to consider choices "make things harder or worse for those with privilege"?
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by thwest 13y ago
Show me where people are advocating anti-white and anti-cis policies.
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by thwest 13y ago
Perhaps the concepts of gender and race are so foreign that it is literally difficult to think about and therefore "debilitating".
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by thwest 13y ago
I really want to read the engineering details of what it takes to add a self destruct on bad RNA checksum feature to your bug. (I think your analogy hides the potential impact of a mutating virus. Fly by wire only puts air travel at risk.)
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by thwest 13y ago
The day we're ready for that virus to mutate in the wild and target RNA it wasn't designed for?
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by thwest 13y ago
For someone who opens complaining of teleology, your third paragraph relies heavily on the assumption that science will march forward. Where is the skepticism aimed at the assumption that we will be able to surgically genocide _all harmful
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by thwest 13y ago
That feeling of having to keep GBs of Visual Studio 2008 installed merely to be use the most recommended python XML library (lxml). Alternatively you can just add a 2MB egg to the repo. What is involved in getting a wheel file to pypi so th
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by thwest 13y ago
Recumbents aren't ever going to be popular racing bikes. Fighting aerodynamic drag is a huge source of tactics and race dynamics that the races would be quite boring without. Recumbents are also laughable going up hills.
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by thwest 13y ago
We use both C and C++. C for our kernel module, and 8051 code. C++ is preferred for network messages (zeromq + protobuf), configuration (from ui or file), and mostly for the heavy math that produces our output. We use value semantics almost
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by thwest 13y ago
const_cast is undefined behavior? Can you cite the spec?
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by thwest 13y ago
When you watch people lose jobs for sick time you tend to have that reaction.
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by thwest 13y ago
buy in to the koolaid, love your coworkers, and spend time with them before and after work too A nice term for this is Affective Labor.
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by thwest 13y ago
> Are we litigating modern capitalism through the lens of a tiny SF tech healthcare charity? The author completely failed to do any real scrutiny here. Neocolonialism isn't about how awkward one westerner feels looking at pictures o
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by thwest 13y ago
> every complex AND specialized adaptation The ones that stay around long enough to be studied perhaps.
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by thwest 13y ago
I meant what is at stake in the victimization olympics framework that I was responding to. Downplaying violence against minorities was not intended.
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by thwest 13y ago
No one is asking the government to censor Penny Arcade. Penny Arcade's own audience is asking Penny Arcade to stop being an asshole.

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