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by thwest 13y ago
Anonymous data is not.
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by thwest 13y ago
Ah, this reminds me to go use the new std::chrono classes to strongly type my time unit variables.
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by thwest 13y ago
grep is nice. its gnarly in template heavy c++, but so are all the tools. intellisense can't reliably provide navigation among all of the possible instantiations in your project. (esc;qgrep -rn thing .) is faster for me than reaching f
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by thwest 13y ago
The man did found the EPA.
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by thwest 13y ago
You know that Walmart aggressively optimizes to reduce the amount it pays its workers: keeping everyone at 39.5 hours to avoid paying benefits and using social norms as an excuse to consistently pay women less than men? And you think it is
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by thwest 13y ago
We have cars that can drive us to the central protest location, and Brasilia is only the fourth largest city in Brasil.
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by thwest 13y ago
Main problem being explaining it concisely so all the journalists at E3 understand.
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by thwest 13y ago
Worse: 'Can you even imagine doing Y?' Yes dear, I have a healthy imagination.
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by thwest 13y ago
Sit on your porch with a shotgun more.
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by thwest 13y ago
The US aggressively peruses "Free Trade" agreements on behalf of our manufacturing corporations, with the deliberate policy of only allowing tariff-free imports from nations who implement these criminal actions. (e.g. the NAFTA su
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by thwest 13y ago
On what basis? Personality?
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by thwest 13y ago
The Authorization for Use of Military Force declared the Global War on Terror. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorization_for_Use_of_Milita...
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by thwest 13y ago
The Authorization for Use of Military Force was still passed by Congress.
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by thwest 13y ago
I don't care what you think the preferable apartheid to live under would be, much like I don't care if you'd rather be a Roman or an American slave. The morality of the political structures at play here does not depend on win
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by thwest 13y ago
It might be useful to compare the political structures, sure. "Cheapens the struggle of" is not a statement about political structures, it is a statement about personal experiences. I don't think it is fruitful to reduce the
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by thwest 13y ago
These are different kinds of statements that require different kinds of knowledge. Israel clearly has two categories of citizens within its borders defined by tribal distinctions (race/religion). Whether this is formally 'aparthei
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by thwest 13y ago
>> To say "Israel has apartheid" really cheapens the struggle of Black South Africans. Is this something a Black South African who suffered under apartheid and is intimately familiar with the current occupied Palestine told
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by thwest 13y ago
Don't take this as a pithy, light comment. There are lawyers that are currently in jail for serving as council to some middle eastern organizations that were trying to become legitimate and work within the system. http://en.
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by thwest 13y ago
There will be a special place in history for the likes of Snowden, Manning and Ellsburg. I hope Snowden does not face the same torture Manning has been subject to.
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by thwest 13y ago
There is a useful distinction to be found between creation and enabling: permitting someone to toil your field is significantly different than actually doing the toiling. Capital infrastructure is one input among many to any industrial proc
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by thwest 13y ago
We could use a political shakedown or two for the Mexican cartels.
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by thwest 13y ago
>>> If these laws are violated, the state authorities have the power to take legal actions to enforce them. Nowhere is there any express private right of action that gives any private citizen the right to file suit complaining a
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by thwest 13y ago
> That's a very modern application of those words. It follows from your argument that because our ancestors didn't share an evolutionary perspective, modern humans describing our ancestors in evolutionary terms is less meaningful. Put a
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by thwest 13y ago
Airliners have almost none of the problems the OP mentioned. The displays are several feet away from the movement of the eye. Movement of the sensors is slow and smooth. The target distance is near infinity in optical focus. The overlayed t
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by thwest 13y ago
Difficult, but not really a significant part of the challenges for delivering closed source binaries across platforms. On linux, you have to build distribution specific binaries that match the shared library versions in the package manager.
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by thwest 13y ago
Return Value Optimization is a generally implemented optimization technique that makes most value returns equivalent to reference passing and is allowed by the standard.
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by thwest 13y ago
STL is ambiguous. You mean standard library or stdlib if it must be shortened. Helpless pedantry I know but freenode's #c++ has beat this into me.
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by thwest 14y ago
Yes, Capital Vol. 1 should really be required reading. We're never going to resolve that tension until we can talk about it clearly.
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by thwest 14y ago
Driving down labor costs is evil until we transition to a post-scarcity economy where profits from reducing labor inputs aren't strictly returned to Capital.
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by thwest 14y ago
Yes, Don't Mess With Texas is an anti-littering campaign. I hope Elon wasn't littering.

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