Kristine1975

That's not enough. The FBI has to completely operate within the framework of the law, just like any other law enforcement agency.

Isn't that the classic "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to worry about" argument?

And maybe you do communicate with terrorist supporters: Are you absolutely sure none of the people you communicate with support terrorism?

Depends on how much state you need to pass between A, B1, B2 and C.

I don't think that's what Sanders is saying at all. I think he is saying that those programs were derided as "socialism".

That's all Occam's Razor is, really: A rule of thumb to help decide where to look next.

What about Nick Farr's story? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11842301

Voxels would be another possibility.

I doubt the layperson can understand how that technology works, and that is required for the voting to be democratic: Every voter has to be able to verify that there was no fraud. Not only mathematicians.

There are other countries without electronic voting, but also without the problems of US elections. But since these problems are not seen as bugs, but as features by those in power, I doubt things will change in the future. With or without technology.

(Zeromeaner is a fork of NullpoMino since the latter hasn't been updated for several years.)

It uses explicit regions instead of garbage collection.

Explicit regions are both very simple and very fast, but how far can one get with them? I want to find out, so I am developing this interpreter.

So we've come full circle.

Also how am I supposed to vote with my feet when doing so requires a space ship etc, i.e. quite a bit of resources?

Since the demo was originally entered in the 4K competition at the Breakpoint 2009 demo party, it had to run on the computer designated to run the competition's entries. So it's not like it could require an arbitrarily powerful GPU.

Although the compo computer was pretty beefy for the time: https://breakpoint.untergrund.net/2009/compos_pc.php

It would be impossible since pixel shaders didn't exist until the 2000's ;-)

As for software rendering: Since a pixel shader is essentially a program executed for every pixel, it's trivially portable to the CPU: Just turn it into a function and call it for every pixel on the screen. Making it fast is another matter altogether though.

The .exe is 4K (it has been compressed using Crinkler), not the application's RAM requirements. The game .kkrieger for example is a 96K .exe, but uses several hundred MB of RAM when run.

Also, the strict size requirements can interfere with execution speed. From the .nfo again:

   believe it or not, this was running at 30 fps in a gefoce 7900 at some
   point, but size optimizations forced us to ask you for a pretty decent
   graphics card, like a geforce 8800gtx or hd4850. please, make sure you
   have d3d9_33.dll somewhere there. also, you only need windows xp.

It does just about everything on the GPU. All the CPU does is repeatedly render two triangles and play music: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8070879

Here it has been adapted to WebGL: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/MdX3Rr

Edit: I'm wrong about the two triangles. From the .nfo-file:

  for those wondering, this a (too) low density flat mesh displaced with
  a procedural vertex shader. there arent any texturemaps for texturing,
  instead texturing (and shading) is defferred and computed procedurally
  in a full screen quad. this means there is zero overdraw for the quite
  expensive material at the cost of a single geometry pass. then another
  second full screen quad computes the motion blur. camera movements are 
  computed by a shader too and not in the cpu, as only the gpu knows the
  procedural definition of the landscape.

What is the emoji for "you're full of shit"?

Or better: Lobby for laws that make it illegal to store the data necessary for facial recognition unless absolutely required e.g. for security.

This one does though:

>As for Gawker, it disseminated a sex tape of a retired pro wrestler. Let’s not pretend that the website did it as part of a great journalistic mission. Gawker did it to lure eyes to its website while smugly saying the First Amendment sheltered it.

The author's beef isn't with Thiel using his money to help sue Gawker, but with him considering this to be philanthropic:

>The problem isn’t the way Thiel used his money. It’s his pretensions about it.

But this is fucked up:

>According to the Times, most of the A-Team can only endure about 12 months of the work because it’s so taxing. The low pay also means many of them take second jobs. Basically, they don’t sleep so that Huffington can

So she knows how important sleep is (even wrote a book about it), but she doesn't pay her employees enough so they can get a good night's sleep, too?

>"Now, forty years later, we have photorealistic, 3D simulations with millions of people playing simultaneously and it's getting better every year. Soon we'll have virtual reality, augmented reality."

That's not an argument for reality being a simulation.