Nice false equivalence argument, but I'm afraid it's going to fall on deaf ears.
Funny how many Russian apologists are here all of a sudden.
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Funny how many Russian apologists are here all of a sudden.
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wrong.
this is, in extension, saying it's okay to take money from a currently sanctioned state actor. as long as they want to pay cash and half-ass obfuscated the state actors behind the paycheck you're so concerned about.
I ended up finding this easier to understand than I expected, and a great read.
I love explanations like these, with a visual breakdown. It really helps it "click."
as long as I glazed over the math formulas and didn't let the numbers overwhelm me.
This is what I took away: the exponent "reaches" out to the max value of the [0,1] [2,4] etc, and the number represented tends to be like 51-53% of the way down the line of the mantissa.
It "clicked" a bit for me, see? Am I way off?
This is the way I always learned math the best in school, an alternate explanation that helps it "click."
Very good explanation, from my point of view, of how floating point numbers work and what they even are.
That's a nice feeling for someone like me who is pretty bad at math and finds formulas like the one shown in the article to be, frankly, indecipherable.
But now I (sort of) understand how floating point numbers work, (sort of) what they are, why they are important, and what role they play.
Could I program anything using one? No. But, I could learn someday, and explanations like these give me some hope that I just might be able to learn a programming language if I put the effort in. That I could learn the math required of me, even!
Content worth consuming.
Content worth subscribing to consume.
A production pipeline that can put out enough enjoyable premium content for users. If its good, people will subscribe just to get access to a certain feature or series ala Giantbomb.
Giantbomb has this down pat- but it's taken years of content creation, and a CBS buyout to keep the doors open.
What it can do is make you pretty damn appealing when you go up for sale, if you have the active, paying subscriber base.
That's why Giantbomb is still around and is seemingly surrounded by the of corpses of those who tried the subscription model, but simply couldnt keep subscribers subscribing.
Last month it was 3 dollars and change. I'm thankful it was slightly more reasonable.
I might use an alt coin for awhile to save on fees.
Fair point on the law.
They were strict when I first came to help them about not smoking and driving, which I of course respected.
However once Grandma was smoking daily she realized its really a non-issue. Even for her. She's 66 btw.
As long as you have a tolerance. That is the key here.
If you do not:
then you shouldn't drive until you have a shower, some snacks and a light nap.
If not, you're all being targeted so you should grab a new career before you get feds at the door.
How does a person accused of development and direct distribution of malware qualify as a white hat? Because he pulled the plug on some ransomware and put his name in global households?
There are a lot of logic jumps here that you have simply glossed over.
Josiah could have said whos it was as well, but we were both silent. The problem is not that friends aren't tattling over a fucking weed pipe, but that officers deferred blame to the black kid and not the white adult or the two white kids.
No, we didn't stop being friends over that, in fact we became better friends.
Jeez. You guys really think any of us would have told the cops whos pipe it was?
I can't help but read your comments as sarcasm because of their ignorance to basic street code.
You don't point fingers or speak names, even if you take a bullshit charge.
If they deferred blame to me, I'd have quietly gone as well.
I'm calling your bluff on this one, because I think you're simply parroting things and have no sources, examples, or proof.
Your silence would only serve to prove me right, please don't pretend you haven't read this like you have with every other reply.
This happened about 10 years ago in Arizona while I was in high school. As I sat in the back of a police car with my black friend, the officer asked whos pipe it was. Our silence got him automatically assigned blame.
I'll never forget the pudgy officer who took in our silence, looked directly at Josiah and said "well, you will probably be blamed for it." He then closed the door and shortly afterwards I was uncuffed and Josiah was taken away on bullshit charges none of us had the balls to take the rap for.
The deck is stacked. In my new town with new black friends they cannot believe that police don't even look at the car when I'm driving.
Regardless of the occupants or color of the occupants, a car with a handicap plate with a young white man driving is apparently not in the profiling training.
The extra 5 or 6 mins helps a lot, nothing feels rushed to a conclusion like US reality TV.
Another good one was Gordon's Great Escape. Documentary style reality tv works so much better IMO.
C.R.E.A.M
Dolla dolla bill ya'll, indeed.
Working at Costco sounds like a dream in direct comparison. Benefits, decent pay, etc. Hell, they have an entire wall dedicated to employees of the month that go way back. It's funny how a little goodwill towards your workers seems to have a ripple effect, making shopping at Costco a lot less stressful since the workers are relaxed and happy, willing to small talk while they ring ya up, the managment is roaming around managing, etc.
Being treated like a suspect for visiting the pharmacy without a membership card is my big gripe with Costco. However we just transferred my grandparents stuff to a better, more competent pharmacy. Now I have no gripes.
Instead, I found a new perspective that helped me to see that this isn't about opiate abuse at all. It's about cashing checks.
The current approach of prosecution of doctors, or throwing up miles of red tape between a doctor and a patient has no affect on abusers.
Instead, it directly affects people like my grandparents, who rely on quite a bit of opiates for their quality of life.
It's almost like DRM for video games. The DRM has no affect on pirates (abusers), instead it only really affects legit customers (my grandparents)
You can burn fields of poppies. Prosecute every doctor with a prescription pad, seize and raid to your hearts content and nothing will change.
If prescription opiate pills vanished wholesale tomorrow, people would simply switch to heroin, which is more widely available and cheaper than any pill on the black market.
The more they tighten the grip, the more things will slip through the cracks. The people who stand to be crushed in the metaphorical palm are people like my grandparents, not the abusers.
Until some key changes are made, for example, less red tape between a doctor, an addict seeking treatment, and suboxone therapy, things aren't going to improve.
Methadone clinics need to be welcomed into cities and towns with open arms nationwide. A harm reduction attitude has to prevail over persecution and prohibition.
Maintenance therapy has problems of its own, making the inevitable withdrawl last months instead of a week or two. Simply due to the longer half-life.
Sometimes, folks switch back to heroin to get off of methadone because of this.
She laughed. Big fucking deal. She could have said "suck a cock you suit wearing cunts." for all I care. That is not grounds for arrest- this isn't 1927. Besides, the hearing was probably hilarious.
Don't get me started on the reporter. A disturbance by yelling questions lol. What the fuck do you think reporters do? Politely whisper questions?