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Comment · 6 years ago
I'm at a loss how my good faith reply gets immediately downvoted away. The game has broken our collective ability to make sense of anything. The wrong scent gets pushed away without any authentic attempt to cohere.
Comment · 6 years ago
Isn't one country paying the bill the definition of a non cooperative game? It's one player repeatedly 'tit' without any corresponding 'tat'
Comment · 6 years ago
Why is the US apparently responsibile for this financially in the first place? For the future, will other countries join financially to up our global defenses against future outbreaks?

It sounds like the US took up a global cause on its own and when the clock ran out they didn't renew because that emergency had subsided.

Is this what was being pinned as Trump's "fault" in recent press and social media?

Comment · 6 years ago
Low level optimization (assembly) is mostly only useful with algorithms which have instruction level parallelism. Modern compilers are incredibly good at optimizing serial algorithms.

Making use of compile time branch reduction can be massive. For example template parameters which are evaluated at compile time skipping lots of work at runtime.

Comment · 6 years ago
It's crazy to think, if human civilization were to shut down the earth would fairly rapidly become much better off. Other species would flourish again, plants would slowly take over our cities. There'd be less bickering. Hm.
Comment · 6 years ago
Consider if your trading algorithm simply searched the history for that sliding window of data and then presented the following data as it's "prediction" -- it's utterly useless. This is the function of a compressor rather than a predictor.
Comment · 6 years ago
Relax, I'm a time traveler from the future. By 3030 fart is the only acceptable word. I've taken great risk by typing this message.
Comment · 6 years ago
I'm in a similar boat, being rather uneducated here. But I thought it wasn't completely unusual for countries to prod each other's air space. It seems really dangerous for Iran to just auto fire at an encroaching aircraft, potentially starting off a war. In that sense it may be lucky it wasn't a US fighter.
Comment · 6 years ago
But when you order the Death by Chocolate, it doesn't actually contain any chocolate.

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