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by waps 12y ago
Well they pretty much got Crimea, don't they ?
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by waps 12y ago
Well, given that they presented this advantage as an incentive to buy a home, there better be an uproar. Many people based their decision to spend a huge amount of money on the presence of this benefit. And of course, what the government wo
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by waps 12y ago
The "not yet that many compromises" argument goes for the language as well.
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by waps 12y ago
Problem with that is that there is no "evil" there is only good and "amoral". I fully subscribe to one of the basic economic axioms. That people act out of self-interest (whether being a manager in a capitalist system or
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by waps 12y ago
Having been in both places, let me tell you it's different. I managed to dent a rental car into a local's car in Southern Italy though. That, that was similar. Although the threats there were implicit, rather than spelled out. The
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by waps 12y ago
> And you have to be sitting in the back of a Land Cruiser! (For the uninitiated the most popular car in the Gulf, far and large, is the Toyota Land Cruiser, in all of its carnations, and the Nissan Patrol in a distant second). That&#x27
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by waps 12y ago
And then they beat them up if it's the first one doing that that day, or kill them if not. Or riot and destroy the entire town, burning down any house from anyone who doesn't have the exact right tint on his skin ? No ? Then, sorr
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by waps 12y ago
The problem with a lot of liberal sentiment is that it can only ever work if you assume all religions are the same thing with slightly different colors and the same prayer said in a different language. If something, like, oh, say islam&#x27
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Chase plane filming falcon 9 reentry(youtube.com)
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by waps 12y ago
No people are exited about the plain and simple standard library, which is 2 years old, and thus currently relatively free of compromises (though more and more are coming to light like you'd expect, like recently on the mailing list th
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by waps 12y ago
I thoroughly agree with that. Go's channels are great for multiplexing (but not as great as real continuations), but for computation, promises beat the crap out of Go's channels. And data structures in Go, that's just plain p
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by waps 12y ago
Most of all, java was the first real commercial language with a (good) garbage collector. That was a real advantage.
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by waps 12y ago
What really helps is if the employees can 1) go online and see their "proposed" schedule months out, ideally with decent export options 2) can trade shifts, ideally online in some app (and have contact info for their colleagues) 3
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by waps 12y ago
> but given that other companies did the same without the same success, most notably Microsoft Microsoft failed to see what was coming when IBM/Sun/Oracle pushed java, true. But go back to a bank department today and take a loo
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by waps 12y ago
Why ?
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by waps 12y ago
And if you had a tree based lookup that requires 4 lookups, but the first 2 levels are in L1 cache (suppose you do a byte trie, that's only 64k + 256 bytes), then have the next levels in small, "cheap", separate memory ? If y
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by waps 12y ago
This is a tragedy of the commons argument. It's a nice sentiment, but Amazon doesn't need all that many merchants to sign up to get their data, so they will get the data on your shop, whether you sign up or not. If you sign up, it
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by waps 12y ago
> It is interesting that IP addresses are only 32 bits so you can provide a route for every individual IP address in a 16GB chunk of memory ... 130ns. 1) you'd need at least 1 byte to identify a next-hop, right. So we're talkin
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by waps 12y ago
You're assuming that just getting a massive opportunity for more de-aggregation won't cause de-aggregation out of shear laziness and convenience. It's much easier to de-aggregate than it is to aggregate. The maximum IPv4 de-a
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by waps 12y ago
This is a problem that every zeppelin faces too. They can't easily gain or lose height, because that would mean losing the gas they need to stay airborne. A vacuum ship that actually has a vacuum pump aboard would have the great advant
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by waps 12y ago
Have you looked at the example adds ? They're basically bringing back flash-based popups. I will, immediately, uninstall any app that shows an ad like this to me. Here come the "shoot the rabbit and win 100000$" ads ...
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by waps 12y ago
You're going to have a serious problem finding volunteers to work with needles on ebola patients, for obvious reasons. Then again there are quite a few convalescent health workers now.
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by waps 12y ago
Assuming: 1) every variable you calculate with follows the law of large numbers (also known as the central limit theorem) (this means amongst other things, that if you find correlation, you can't tell anyone involved in the variables,
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by waps 12y ago
The answer here is that you send different subsets of input pixels to different neurons. E.g. you have a 4x4 pixel image you want to feed in to the net and recognize. You subdivide it into 2x2 images (of which you'll have 9), and you s
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by waps 12y ago
This does not sound accurate. Memory access dominates in most current programs, and it dominates by a factor of several hundred (meaning one memory access takes more time than 100 L1 cache hits). If you use more memory, by necessity your ca
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by waps 12y ago
> why can't we allow people to freely sign employment contracts with the terms defined in advance? Because 1) What incentive would people have to abide by their deals ? (also known as : NEVER sign a contract with any royalty or any
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by waps 12y ago
Tanenbaum is an academic. The ivory tower got (and gets) the microkernel debate wrong. Microkernels are a "better architecture" and that, to them, justifies performance levels that are abysmal. It took them decades to get it worki
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by waps 12y ago
60fps won't matter one bit if it's 120fps for one second followed by 0fps for another second. That's why people are asking for pauseless.
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by waps 12y ago
thepiratebay ... and other sites that would expose themselves by using #3
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by waps 12y ago
> Gent and Brussels had connections to the Scheldt, but never were on the coast. That's true. Both Ghent and Brussels had harbours that were on the coast though. The Brussels one was less than 20km from the city center, the Ghent on

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