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by thwest 14y ago
We don't have to ascribe all faults to individuals rather than systems through which they work. Incompetent individuals can easily facilitate a malicious system of inputs and outcomes.
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by thwest 14y ago
Maximally might have been a better word choice, or just dropping the adjective. Absolutism never survives scrutiny⸮
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by thwest 14y ago
Therefore, we should preemptively invade Mali/Iraq/etc? Do we have to strike first, and violently manage other countries just to maintain our defenses? I am not arguing for pacifism. I put the 'need to wage war' into the original moral calc
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by thwest 14y ago
No one is invading France.
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by thwest 14y ago
Illegal status of material should be adjudicated by a court of law, not by a civil servant in a covert agency.
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by thwest 14y ago
I disagree simply because I feel the obligation for a completely transparent government outweighs the need to wage war. How selfish must one be to insist we wage these conflicts where the deaths of many are a certainty.
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by thwest 14y ago
Yes, Silicon sensors are not photosensitive past ~900nm. The IR filter is only there to block "near infrared" 700-900nm which is not human visible but silicon sensitive.
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by thwest 14y ago
Both MSVC and g++ have some C++ language extensions enabled by default. Examples include msvc allowing you to drop 'typename' where the compiler can deduce that a token is actually a type, and g++ allowing variable length arrays. Visual Stu
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by thwest 14y ago
Is any serious scammer going to be deterred by needing to obtain a facebook account with 50 friends?
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by thwest 14y ago
Note that DBL_DIG is the number of decimal digits that can be a 9. If the max integral value storable in a double is 4,000,000, DBL_DIG would only be 6. It is a conservative limit.
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by thwest 14y ago
Your first example works just fine with increased output precision. https://ideone.com/GtMDit A slightly larger number shows the discrepancy: https://ideone.com/WPtpX4
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by thwest 14y ago
That weight over time graph should really be a bar graph and not a line graph.
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by thwest 14y ago
Here that means freedom for the business owner to fire you.
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by thwest 14y ago
Shoutout to everyone on freenode's #emberjs that has helped me work through these troubles.
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by thwest 14y ago
70s? Don't forget the Suffragettes!
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by thwest 14y ago
Your comment is wrong and rude. Oh look, I just did some social janitorial work. Was your comment somehow deleted by my act? Should I presume that Convo provides no moderation mechanisms because they would constitute censorship?
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by thwest 14y ago
Being disingenuous or dishonest would require knowledge on her part that she was misrepresenting. Given that the event description originally included Alexis, and the obvious chain of miscommunication above, is it not a reasonable assumptio
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by thwest 14y ago
You are inferring a motive in SkepChick that isn't apparent to me. Care to elaborate? Do you have reason to believe that she isn't actually concerned about bigotry and child porn perpetuating on reddit? If she was after page views, wouldn't
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by thwest 14y ago
Why do you imply that the members of this panel are being disingenuous? - Yes you never agreed to the panel, but how does this email chain not reflect an honest invitation? - Of course the debate was framed; it is impossible for an event to
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by thwest 14y ago
His father was killed several days prior. Yemen is not a war zone; the US is not at war with Yemen. Sins of the father do not pass to the son.
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by thwest 14y ago
"In-theater military target" is a lazy set of adjectives and nouns for addressing this situation. The "theater" in the Global War on Terror is the entire globe. The United States is not at war with Yemen. Abdulrahman was not even alleged to
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by thwest 14y ago
Democracy looks a lot more like direct action than petition writing and voting. Look at the fight against the Keystone XL. All the campaigning in the world couldn't beat the fossil fuel lobby. But a few days of direct action in east Texas h
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by thwest 14y ago
How is a C implementation of std::shared_ptr safer?
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by thwest 14y ago
The project aims to build not just the tokenizer, but a complete compiler and standard library. None of GCC, Clang, Microsoft or Intel can provide a complete, bug free C++11 implementation. If you hang out in freenode's ##c++, you'll see pe
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by thwest 14y ago
No compiler vendor (gcc, clang, msvc, intelcc) has produced a bug-free implementation of C++11 so I would contend that no one has already done it.
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by thwest 14y ago
Why do you imply that the Human Genome Project was a scam?
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by thwest 14y ago
I want computer vision's culture to not be a subset of cultures that are sexually open. I'm not personally offended, but I don't think we should risk turning away the contributions to computer vision from people who are slighted by the use
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by thwest 14y ago
I am pleased to hear that Lenna is personally OK with the situation, however I am more concerned with the thousands of young women attempting to enter the boys club of computer science. These women are being coerced to deal with pornography
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by thwest 14y ago
> Imagine that no one 'fought the natives for it'. Instead the land was a vacant waste with no one living there and nothing growing there. Dear Randian, These statements imply that you consider the native people "no one" and native veg
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by thwest 14y ago
Am I the only one that is dissatisfied with all of the Lena references in the computer vision community? For a few years I was righteously indignant about the gender issues involved but now it's just trite. Makes us seem like adolescents th

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