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by will4274 6y ago
The patent on FAT is well known and no secret. I believe the main thing that changed was the patents expired.
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by will4274 6y ago
Are India's high court precedents not binding? It's certainly how law works in the United States that when the high court rules that a law violates the constitution, that law is struck.
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by will4274 6y ago
It wasn't a dissenting view, it was the court opinion. And citing events from before that precedent isn't so relevant to today's laws.
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by will4274 6y ago
You may want to check out the Indian supreme court opinion on the topic. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech_laws_in_India
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by will4274 6y ago
This may feel like a no true scotsman, but it really isn't - those that oppose free speech are not true liberals. The heart of liberalism is individual freedom, responsibility, and culpability. True liberals believe that speech that do
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by will4274 6y ago
> Most democratic countries on this earth, except for the US, not only ban holocaust denial on private platforms, which is insidious historical revisionism, but punishes it by law. Pretty much only Germany and bordering countries actuall
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by will4274 6y ago
Free speech includes hate speech. > since there are laws against hate speech Not in the United States. See e.g. this unanimous high court decision https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/20
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by will4274 6y ago
In this case, down-voting without commenting is ok - your comment didn't contain any rationale so no rationale is required to dismiss it - consider e.g. if you had said "I like Firefox better than Chrome" instead of that you
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by will4274 6y ago
> some sort of camera that is able to know what day of the year it is without knowing the year! Which due to things like leap years is impossible. Just a small note, as we're talking about assumptions, but this is clearly untrue. Co
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by will4274 6y ago
This topic really hits home for me. I went to a 'magnet' middle school on the other side of the river from TJ. I don't know that a more nerdy group of 300 students existed anywhere - or that any other group of people aged 11-
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by will4274 6y ago
> How are those “concentration camps” any different than ICE detention camps, where forced sterilization is occurring? Let's see.. in the US, force sterilization leads to an investigation and the relevant doctor being fired and puni
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by will4274 6y ago
All the links I posted are relevant to your last sentence which said: > Pretty peaceful overall for people who have a reputation for being barbarians.
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by will4274 6y ago
No evidence cited, far fetched claims, and a political bent. Quite simply, that isn't how it (history) works. Mass immigration of different cultures always comes with at least a little violence and everybody doesn't pack up and le
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by will4274 6y ago
> they would absolutely not have ignored the precedent they set and did the opposite thing now The same Democrats who filibustered other federal judges for years under Bush and then removed the filibuster under Obama to prevent Republica
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by will4274 6y ago
Do you really believe that the entire Republican party leadership publicly stated that black people are not worthy of life?
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by will4274 6y ago
Modules contain an optimization (less include leaking) and a pessimization (more serialized build graph). Only the former applies to CPU time, so modules should lead to less cpu time , but it's unclear exactly how that translates to w
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by will4274 6y ago
I read the article. The author noticed that MSVC's STL has slower iterators in debug mode, because it does extra checks. Instead of reading the manual and turning off the extra checks and/or reading the manual and turning on some
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by will4274 6y ago
> some of the harshest criticisms from others I have seen of C are not from expert practitioners in C. But were they expert practitioners of C in the past? My experience is that most of the harshest criticisms of C come from former C e
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by will4274 6y ago
> In nature, prey animals will sometimes jump when they spot a predator[1]. One of the explanations is that this is the animal communicating to the predator that it is a healthy prey animal that would be hard to catch and therefore the p
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by will4274 6y ago
Amazon doesn't pay the 30% fee and violates the same terms by providing alternative payment providers in app. It's just that Apple is too scared to de-platform Amazon. Remote activation is an irrelevant detail. Apps routinely acti
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by will4274 6y ago
A single household salary from one of the tech companies named in the article, many of whom pay starting employees six figures? I think 100% of the country could survive on $100,000/year, if they adjusted their lifestyle to match. What
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by will4274 6y ago
This article is about tech firms. The companies named in the article are Facebook, Apple, Uber, Microsoft, Dell, Twitter, and Yelp. Salaries for new employees at these companies are often above $100,000. Do you really believe that both pare
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by will4274 6y ago
> move half-way across the country You don't have to move half-way across the country. Pick any high rent location in the United States, there's a lower rent location 30 minutes away. SV included.
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by will4274 6y ago
> today's kids We have too many of them. It's not polite to say, but ultimately many of the problems faced by the human race (like global warming) are a result of over-population. We don't want the replacement rate to drop
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by will4274 6y ago
The universal declaration of human rights declares the right to self determination. I don't think it's hypocritical for the United States to preach principles of human rights.
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by will4274 6y ago
> 0.001% How did you come up with this number? You took 100,000 samples and 99,999 of them agreed? I don't personally know 100,000 mathematicians.
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by will4274 6y ago
Literally incorrect. You can't verify the jwt prior to reading the header, because you don't know which of the advertised keys was used to sign the jwt. Check out e.g. auth0's doc. https://auth0.com/docs/
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by will4274 6y ago
Not quite. It's normal to decide the header to find the right key. Yes, you can also do this as a callback, but callbacks make for confusion code flow. It's fine for jwt.decode to exist and be public - if it only decodes the heade
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by will4274 6y ago
> Important life decisions (like cancelling a project) are better made based on deep personal values, not as reactions to emotions. I haven't read Rosenberg's Nonviolent Communication. However, from the Wikipedia page, I find &
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by will4274 6y ago
And there's a ballot measure in November that would allow Berkeley to discriminate based on race again.

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