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by cdi 10y ago
Also the idiotic "Right to be forgotten".
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by cdi 11y ago
If it's a PhD in something like "Whiteness studies" or in multitude of similarly useful subjects, then gainful employment as a barista is a happy ending really.
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by cdi 11y ago
What this article ignores is that intelligence is at least 60% inheritable, and elite professionals are likely to merry other elite professionals. So wealth factor is not the only factor in this situation. There is probably an ongoing proce
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by cdi 12y ago
>He, like Thomas, would not follow the risen Christ unless he saw him himself An extraordinary statement without evidence. People today have all kinds of beliefs without evidence. People also could lie, be pressured into belief by confor
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by cdi 12y ago
>ten years earlier was not a US plot, yet nobody questions that. Are you joking? http://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/nov/26/ukraine.usa
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by cdi 12y ago
The Final boss fight was a little unintuitive for me. I thought it was completely a puzzle or a memory task, because you can't damage him right away. So I repeated his patterns with increasing difficulty, up to six beeps I think, waiti
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by cdi 12y ago
Making Cairo C API a C++ standard, through automatic conversion, looks all kinds of wrong to me. The result is not properly generified like Boost GIL, and it carries vaguely defined implementation details like for example font hinting style
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by cdi 12y ago
Thanks!
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by cdi 12y ago
Could you please list literature/papers that you found especially useful while making that renderer? I plan to do the same thing for education purposes.
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by cdi 12y ago
There are silent corruption bugs in storage drivers for example. Having that kind of competency in-house is too expensive for most companies.(Not Spotify in this case, but problem could be much harder to fix) http://labs.spotify.
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by cdi 12y ago
investment in C++ compiler technology has been shared in form of llvm with rust and other languages.
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Problems with OpenGL(richg42.blogspot.co.uk)
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by cdi 12y ago
Large photo of this motherboard: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ibmevents/14051347355/sizes/o/ They've masked all the chips with something black. Are they hiding chips they are using, or is this
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by cdi 13y ago
>One easy way to get kernel lockups is to use fglrx. Yup. Changed my GPU to nvidia, no more core lockups.
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by cdi 13y ago
>Otherwise sudden worry about taxpayers doesn't sound exactly genuine. I don't worry about taxpayers money. I'm saying that taxpayers money are never simply gifted to people, there is always certain rationale in how that m
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by cdi 13y ago
>That is very sinister, to finance NGOs that promote human rights and democracy. It's indeed sinister, when the government spends money of taxpayers, billions of dollars over years, on democracy in foreign states, especially consid
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by cdi 13y ago
>are the first to popularise Where did I say they are the first? Ghandi's struggle against colonialism, and I suppose Mohism are not about government coups, especially in modern context, and modern understanding of what the state is
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by cdi 13y ago
It's ~$200 million of official US support for NGOs per year. Quite a lot considering $100-400 average wage during this period.
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by cdi 13y ago
You are placing me in an uncomfortable position of spewing pro-Kremin propaganda. Ok. >Presenting this as if it is some sinister technique freshly invented Well, I didn't go into details, and I'm not an expert, but Color revolu
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by cdi 13y ago
>That's some pile of bullshit. Who are "we" that set up the riots? "We’ve invested over $5 billion to assist Ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic Ukraine." htt
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by cdi 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svoboda_%28political_party%29 The party that is a significant force behind the protests is definitely ultra-nationalist. You could see it from the statements about Russians and Jews, and fr
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by cdi 13y ago
This could also partially explain Russian unwillingness to smile. Most of Russians were born and raised in relatively big cities, not in suburbia where "friendliness to neighbor" cultural protocol makes sense. There are just too m
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by cdi 13y ago
Don't trust anything Russian state-owned media says. It went completely crazy in last 2 years. I recently watched a "Documentary" on this main "news" channel Rossiya 24, which speculated that the outbreak of Swine i
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by cdi 13y ago
>Which component? Cypress Semiconductor CY8C24794-24LTXI Programmable System-on-Chip
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by cdi 13y ago
Separate ARM SOC in Apple laptops always puzzled me. Does anyone know why it's there?
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by cdi 13y ago
Americans too have Zadornov type comedians http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_the_Cable_Guy for example. >but Americans don't typically believe that they were chosen by god as special people. very funny. That&#
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by cdi 13y ago
>actively attacking free and open source software And anti-competitive practices
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by cdi 13y ago
the red thingy on the right side, visible on the third picture looks like a stylus.
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by cdi 13y ago
>so there has to be a line somewhere. And that line is human consciousness. I empathize with humans and animals too(especially mammalian), of course. But I choose not to be swayed by feelings when I think about policy. Preservation of na
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by cdi 13y ago
Come on people. What about thousands and thousands of disease model lab rats, genetically engineered to suffer cancer and other horrible illnesses? Should we stop biological and drug research? Misery is electrons flying in the brain. Would

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