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I disagree, it's inferior from your cultural perspective, but some cultures clearly didn't/don't value human life the same way you do.

For instance from my perspective a culture that doesn't allow gay marriage is clearly inferior, which is straight forward and logical.

I don't think the author grasps it either, especially when he uses morality as an outcome rather than just another cultural value. Assessing the quality of the outcome requires a cultural perspective itself, and even if from that cultures perspective the outcome is poor, the values that the culture would have to change may be worse.

If my culture does not accept that slavery is acceptable, but is aware that it will be wiped out by the cultures that do allow it, and chooses that fate, my culture is not inferior for doing so from my perspective.

It's illogical to make value judgements about cultures, there is no objective way to do it. What makes one culture "better" than another? Survival? Virality? Honor? Piousness? Lawfulness? Every culture values these things differently.

Calling it politically correct shows your own failing to comprehend something outside of your own cultural frame of reference.

Notably I could make the same point about morality as the author makes about honor, as it is just another social construct.

Morality holds individuals back from getting what they want, instead they go around accumulating morality points even when no one powerful is watching. Clearly anyone who respects morality as a cultural value is PC wuss.

Someone should make a discrete gpu with an arm cpu core or 50 sharing the same memory and maybe ssd. Then you have a really nice hierarchy of parallelism, 2 fast arm cores, 10 medium, 50 slow, then gpu.

Would be great for stuff like multigrid methods where you are balancing parallelism and latency:

https://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/high-performance-...

Yes, I was agreeing with you, I don't think down-voters read your comment properly.

I really don't think the outrage here on HN or the original post is in any way justified, legally the image may or may not be subject to copyright, but it is clearly of extremely low value. It's actually kind of funny to think the legal system is actually more pragmatic than the commenters here.

No they can't. They can "steal" my slavish picture of VHS, that's all this proves.

No that's not true. Facts for instance are usuallly not copyrightable, regardless of how much effort goes into gathering them.

Photographs of artworks that are in the public domain often aren't copyrightable for instance, if they are exact reproductions.

How much effort goes into pressing the button is completely irrelevant to copyright law, creating an uncopyrightable photograph is likely a great deal more strenuous than a copyrightable one.

I guess my thoughts are, why would you? The only time you would use VFX is if you can't do something in real life cheaper, and since it's extremely expensive that rules out filing the frame with mundane realistic objects. Aside from time and budget, art direction and production design often rules out a photorealistic look anyway, even if technology allows it.

I'd like to dig further into what you mean by photorealistic CG being fiction? There are still tricky areas that are actively being researched, but I've seen plenty of CG assets that are photorealistic.

What do you think is technically missing from CG video, that makes it lack realism?

Your criteria are unclear, what counts as real life footage? Captured bdrf? Photographic textures? Photogrammetry? Motion capture? Made by an artist equipped with lots of reference?

If you care about your audience, present your ideas sensitively. If you don't care about your audience, then don't bother presenting any ideas because you aren't going to convince anyone. The point of discussion isn't to score points.

Perhaps the woman in your example was offended because she has been harrased or assualted personally. The fact that you felt the need to minimize it by saying the language was "mild" says a lot, who cares if it was mild? Go as hard as you want, free speech is absolute, contextless, consequence free. Anyone hurt by what you say is just trying to score political points by pretending to be offended. My advice would be to listen to the women on this topic before indulging them in your pure axiomatic philosophical opinions of what they have experienced.

The whole idea of someone being "crucified" or "bullied" on social media is cowardly coming from a supposed free speech proponent. Man up, own your opinions.

A marketplace of ideas is fine, but no one is going to give you a fair shake if you are intentionally tactless, and that is your failing not your audiences.

By analogy, why don't we make planes that are flappy winged ornithopters? It works for birds.

It's not just the UK, this is the case for just about every western government, the US political system is definitely the eccentric here, if we are trying to find a global political centre, which is as close to an absolute as you are going to get.

OpenFX - http://openeffects.org

If Thiel was a direct supporter of David Duke for instance, then I think (hope?) most commentators here would be calling for him to be dissociated from ycombinator and "ruined" or marginalised to whatever degree was legal I'm sure.

Many people think Trump crossed a line at some point a while ago that points him in the same camp as extremist groups like white-nationalists, and outside of legitimate political discourse.

They are also lucky their parents met, so your point is?

Try:

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/show_plot.php?station=42058&meas=wd...

Are you proposing patching 3rd party binaries?

There's not much point in pinpointing bugs in closed source software if you are unable to fix them.

Would be smarter to just remove GST from goods that are commonly imported altogether.

Could offset the lost revenue with non-renewable energy taxes, land value taxes, capital gains taxes.

I'd be interested to see a break down based on industry and location, salaried vs hourly.

I could understand if self-employed people were included, as temporary staffing shortages are often covered by business owners.

I also wonder what the hours for office workers are like. I'm sure that most public sector employees work fairly regular hours.

Perhaps some people are temporary or "zero-hour" contractors with more than one gig?

The "improved" blue noise random points at the start would probably be more efficiently generated with Poisson disc sampling.

https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~rbridson/docs/bridson-siggraph07-pois...

Git is not great UX wise, but it's probably not as big of an issue as people like to make out, especially if you are already comfortable in a shell. The reason people find git hard is that concepts of distributed version control are hard.

There are plenty of nice git native GUI's and web apps, and mercurial offers a more consistent command line UX, but that doesn't change the fact that people need to understand a crap load of higher-level concepts before they can find their DVCS useful. Such as:

file-system folder structures

diffs/patches

commits/uncommited changes

branching

merging and conflict resolution.

remote vs local repositories

To me it's like how people complain about mathematical notation being complicated and inconsistent, but that's just the first superficial "alien" looking stuff that tells you that you don't understand the new concept. Once you understand the underlying concepts, the notation doesn't get much further thought.

Don't understand why it needs to make the phone unusable. Surely something that covers the cameras and microphones, but still lets you see and interact with the screen wouldn't be infeasible?

It just needs to be smarter about the context. If a video is loading in chrome, 90% of the time the intent is to turn down the volume of the video, it's broken that it waits for it to start playing.

Honestly, the most intuitive option for me would the audio controls should never touch the ringer, bury that behind a menu, rather than switching based on context.

I guess another way to think about it is that irrational fears remain irrational even if they turn out to be true. If you don't have a reasonable justification for your fears, then it is purely a coincidence that the fears happen to be true.

The way I'd calculate it is to decide on a target for emissions, and progressively raise the tax until that target is hit.

Because countries with public health care spend less on health care. Its fine if you have a moral disagreement with having a public sector, but the facts don't lie, the health insurance bureaucracy, misleading pharmaceutical marketing/sales etc, is way more inefficient than even the shittiest implementation of a public healthcare system.

My previous bank ( ASB ) used to truncate passwords. I found out because one day I was trying to enter my password and it kept refusing it until I left off the last two characters. It turns out that they had stopped truncating or perhaps just increased the length, and so my 10 character password was just an 8 character one all along. It kind of boggles my mind that a bank would do that.

Zero cost interoperability with your graphics API is a big one. Using CUDA for compute, and then mapping that data into OpenGL to draw it is way slower than it should be.

Why does it have to run on the customers vehicle? Why not just let customers opt in to sending telemetry, and test with that data. It seems like a pointless risk to run the tests live.

Gawker took themselves out by putting a sex tape on their website without the consent of the people appearing in it. Perhaps Theil helped the process along, but he wouldn't have been able to do so if they hadn't been so reckless.