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by waps 10mo ago
In Iran the cause of the water shortage is at least 99.9% the current government's policies. If global warming accelerated matters it was by days or weeks probably. But you have to admit it would be very funny if a theocracy was forced
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by waps 11y ago
My opinion doesn't matter. Anyone who is the least bit capitalist would certainly not see it as abandoning them, of course. It is the opinion of those individuals that matters, and they certainly see things this way. It is not just not
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by waps 11y ago
True, of course, but some texts can't reasonably be interpreted not to be violent. About the quran we can have reasonable arguments about who one is supposed to be violent against, when and under what conditions, but you can't rea
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by waps 11y ago
It is generally accepted that Lucas, Matthew, Luke and John were educated Greeks (a publican, student,and a physician), who were educated in the philosophy of reason. So was the council that collected these works into the New Testament. In
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by waps 11y ago
> You take some ignorant bigot who has distorted a religious text to create something that most adherants to that religion do not recognise. Not at all. Here's what I claim : 1) these islamic "holy" texts do indeed say to
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by waps 11y ago
> His marriage to her was never based on a contract How many times do I need to point out references to the "agreement" in the text that is constantly talked about ? > it is sufficient to know that she had already been engag
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by waps 11y ago
Exactly. PHP has been "embraced and extended". The essential features of PHP I would say are easy database connectivity, and a built-in templating language. Both of these features are now present in pretty much every server-side f
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by waps 11y ago
> It goes without saying that what ISIS is doing is against the teachings of Islam. Yes and so is everything else muslims do. For instance, there is a death penalty for muslims who choose not to live under islamic rule. And the only thi
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by waps 11y ago
It is incredible. The reason they could kill so many is that they were at it for several hundred years and attacked different regions. So the population had some time to replenish before the next series of genocides started. Individual camp
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by waps 11y ago
I think the contention is that this does not matter - it is an intolerable situation. I think the contention is that having a subgroup in society with 1% of their people willing to kill cannot possibly be contained by a police force, and ca
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by waps 11y ago
Turkey is ruled by what a number of people call a Sunni extremist, who has, for example, on occasion said he wants the position of caliph. The way he sells himself to Turkey's population is fundamentally religious in nature. He has pus
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by waps 11y ago
This story is remniscent of the 1948 Israel war of independance which was also full of stories about neighbours suddenly being given the change to rape, steal and pillage. One can only hope it ends in exactly the same way : 5 more Israels i
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by waps 11y ago
From reading the reviews, these things are basically tupperware with computer components in it. Do not buy.
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by waps 11y ago
Templates are the main thing in C++ that you can easily use everywhere with zero costs in compatibility. And they certainly beat C's "equivalent", macros.
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by waps 11y ago
Here is one of the smallest useful (ie. turing complete) language's full specification : > Subtract and branch if not equal to zero[edit] > The SBNZ a,b,c,d instruction ("Subtract and Branch if Not equal to Zero") subtr
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by waps 11y ago
Really ? I thought it was limited to something like a fixed number of megabytes increase per call.
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by waps 11y ago
Well the problem is that carriers would never agree to such a deal. It would, for instance, make generalized instant-messaging work and destroy their SMS revenue. It would also eat into their "real internet" revenues. I doubt the
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by waps 11y ago
> When and how will it end? The situation is caused by the government attempting to control lending cost. This has happened before and it will happen again. Essentially governments are currently attempting to create a massive wealth tran
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by waps 11y ago
No it doesn't. The proof for amortized O(1) only works if you double the array size on every expansion, which only happens until a "ceiling" gets hit and then the slice expands by less. This results in O(n) complexity. And th
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by waps 11y ago
Have you thought of making it a bit more hacker friendly ? Having some available GPIO's somehow exposed and documented. A small (optional ?) component to point the camera forward. Something to mount these phones onto a frame in a solid
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by waps 11y ago
I can't understand what you wrote. Append is linear time. It could have been amortized O(1), but the Go authors decided that used too much memory so it's O(n) instead, with amortized O(1) behaviour for short slices. Amortized mean
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by waps 11y ago
Then try this one on for size. Very similar, ... but not quite : package main import "fmt" func main() { // Create a slice of length 1 and capacity 2. Note: try changing this to make([]int, 1, 1) ... a :=
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by waps 11y ago
Large animals that live long lives don't have any real information in their DNA. Essentially every species runs it's own genetic algorithm. Large animals have a generational gap of, let's say 5-10 years, and have numbers in t
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by waps 11y ago
Is it so difficult to see that attitudes toward mocking political/moral systems are simply part of those political/moral systems ? For instance, communism takes a very dim view of mocking communism. This is extremely well known, a
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by waps 11y ago
I would recognize that this is effectively restating one of the basic precepts of Christianity (do unto others ...). Islam, and any other religion, are very different (as you would expect, it's a different religion after all). The Isla
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by waps 11y ago
The thing about the central limit theorem is that violating it's assumptions doesn't really make it no longer apply. There's simply a few pathological cases where it totally breaks down, which violate that assumption and are
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by waps 11y ago
How exactly does paying come into the picture here. I'd bet that, for example, FoundationDB's customers would disagree with you.
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by waps 11y ago
Exactly. If they're willing to do this, why would an embassy provide protection ? As several recent incidents illustrated, it is in fact quite possible for armed men to walk into an embassy and do whatever the hell they want inside. Wo
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by waps 11y ago
> What are the independent and identically distributed random variables that are being averaged in this case? The random variable is simply whether you answered question N on the test correctly or not. For every question there is a proba
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by waps 11y ago
Here's the thing about IQ curves. Let's assume, for the moment, that we create a new "WQ" (waps quotient). It is 1000 random questions that you either know or don't know, which have absolutely nothing to do with eac

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