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by thwest 14y ago
Yeah, many banks gave out loans and then couldn't pay their other debts. America's answer? The home owners are evil and banks should be propped up and shielded from the risks they took. It doesn't really teach responsibility.
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by thwest 14y ago
{ int x = 1 / 0; } is valid c++ that results in a runtime error.
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by thwest 14y ago
Not quite as simple as that. Terahertz != Short Wave Infrared != Midwave Infrared != Longwave Infrared ("thermal"). These all require different photosensitive elements in your detector. They also have extremely different atmospheric absorpt
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by thwest 14y ago
I love C++11 but it still doesn't get me lazy evaluation
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by thwest 14y ago
Assumptions assumptions new poster. Several cities in the US get significant percentage of power from renewables thanks to the power of local politics.
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by thwest 14y ago
> Yes, that may have cost them some $$$, but probably not as much as you think, Why didn't you report this number?
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by thwest 14y ago
Accumulation of wealth creates difficult economic climates.
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by thwest 14y ago
I want democracy to be about human to human negotiation. I don't want the basic unit of our society to be as abstract as one that would include corporations and unions (and computer programs? and other, smaller governments?). Corporations a
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by thwest 14y ago
Yeah so keep the useful senses of the definition and not the harmful senses (unlimited political speech). This is not paradox inducing.
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They apply so far as we willingly ignore the distinction between moving and copying.
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by thwest 14y ago
In the sample programs there is even a brainfuck interpreter! http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet/samples.html
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by thwest 14y ago
Encarta 95 was really great. Really set the tone for my decade later wikipedia browsing habit.
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by thwest 14y ago
I believe they would have to leave the Euro and return to a national currency. But that is certainly a better prospect than the austerity project Germany and France are wishing upon them.
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by thwest 14y ago
Argentina is also a fine case study for telling creditors to take a hike.
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by thwest 14y ago
Agreed, because religion, like technology, is a pure force for good that could not possibly be exploited for nefarious purposes. I bet if you asked a WBC member they would actually be uncertain and confused about their faith! It's not like
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Crowdsourced Cinema: Now You Can Pick What Plays at Your Local Theater(wired.com)
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by thwest 14y ago
> claiming that highly intelligent AI couldn't solve the upload problem. Solving the upload problem possibly requires imaging / scanning at a level of detail that might be outside what is possible within the constraints of physics. If i
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by thwest 14y ago
The claim that ideology is separate from fact is an ideological position, so I don't think you are saying much. Do you care to make a claim about why you feel its acceptable to confuse sex and gender?
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by thwest 14y ago
You seem to be claiming that intelligence can overcome fundamental limits of physics and signal processing.
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by thwest 14y ago
That's interesting, can you elaborate? The dialectic is troublesome, especially from the perspective of Deleuze's multitide, but I don't immediately see how it is tied to a claim of novel configuration. In my experience with Marx, the diale
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by thwest 14y ago
It reifies the teleology and savior complex that make monotheistic religions troublesome. It ignores morality and aesthetics in favor of an unknowable, uncontrollable machine logic.
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by thwest 14y ago
Check out Wayne McGregor's Random Dance. http://ias.umn.edu/2009/09/10/mcgregor-wayne/
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by thwest 14y ago
Sales reps with nice season tickets for Local Sports Team, probably.
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by thwest 14y ago
Sex is determined genetically; Gender is determined socially and psychologically.
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by thwest 14y ago
Are they bringing back health care, pensions, and a 40 hour work week with them?
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by thwest 14y ago
> Content is a $100Bn industry. I'm supposed to care... why? Horse buggies, beanie babies, etc.
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by thwest 14y ago
I totally agree. Amstel Light is obviously in the same category as Keystone and PBR. Adjunct light beers are adjunct light beers. Something without rice in it would be a good start.
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by thwest 14y ago
Herb Stutter heads the C++ standards committee and credits his employer Microsoft [1]. Is C++11 or C++17 "Microsoft's"? [1] http://isocpp.org/std/the-committee
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by thwest 14y ago
"Apple's Module proposal..." Is Apple really who deserves credit here? Is there something I missed about Apple's management driving this, and not Gregor or the C++ standards committee?
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by thwest 14y ago
Sometimes the institutions technologists create really do reflect the less than ideal social and economic history that technological progress has been embedded in. If someone calls you out on that, think about how you can grow something dif

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