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Ah, this reminds me to go use the new std::chrono classes to strongly type my time unit variables.

grep is nice. its gnarly in template heavy c++, but so are all the tools. intellisense can't reliably provide navigation among all of the possible instantiations in your project.

(esc;qgrep -rn thing .) is faster for me than reaching for the mouse.

The man did found the EPA.

You know that Walmart aggressively optimizes to reduce the amount it pays its workers: keeping everyone at 39.5 hours to avoid paying benefits and using social norms as an excuse to consistently pay women less than men? And you think it is a bummer that people are resistant to those changes?

They are small business owners and you are asking them to trade in their autonomy for someone else's profits. Sounds like a decision they are capable of making on their own.

We have cars that can drive us to the central protest location, and Brasilia is only the fourth largest city in Brasil.

Main problem being explaining it concisely so all the journalists at E3 understand.

Worse: 'Can you even imagine doing Y?' Yes dear, I have a healthy imagination.

Sit on your porch with a shotgun more.

The US aggressively peruses "Free Trade" agreements on behalf of our manufacturing corporations, with the deliberate policy of only allowing tariff-free imports from nations who implement these criminal actions. (e.g. the NAFTA suit against California for banning that gasoline additive). Just trade policy would be opposite: large tariffs on countries who don't match our labor or environmental standards.

China is agreeing to play by the rules, but the US wrote the rules.

On what basis? Personality?

The Authorization for Use of Military Force declared the Global War on Terror. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorization_for_Use_of_Milita...

The Authorization for Use of Military Force was still passed by Congress.

I don't care what you think the preferable apartheid to live under would be, much like I don't care if you'd rather be a Roman or an American slave. The morality of the political structures at play here does not depend on winning a "shittiest conditions" competition.

I disagree that we are redefining apartheid.

It might be useful to compare the political structures, sure.

"Cheapens the struggle of" is not a statement about political structures, it is a statement about personal experiences. I don't think it is fruitful to reduce the experiential quality of living in an oppressive regime to some calculus of cheapness, wherein Having Supreme Court Judges counts as +$10.

These are different kinds of statements that require different kinds of knowledge.

Israel clearly has two categories of citizens within its borders defined by tribal distinctions (race/religion). Whether this is formally 'apartheid' is an arguement worth having, since we can look at the UN definition and Israel's actions and have a meaningful discussion from an external perspective.

Comparing the subjectivities of the lives lived under the two regimes necessitates experiential knowledge that is most likely lacking in this audience. I don't find oppression olympics arguments to be fruitful. The moral calculus of today's actions does not depend on the price paid in South Africa, The Congo, The American South, or in Revolutionary China.

>> To say "Israel has apartheid" really cheapens the struggle of Black South Africans.

Is this something a Black South African who suffered under apartheid and is intimately familiar with the current occupied Palestine told you, or are you the Black South African yourself?

Don't take this as a pithy, light comment. There are lawyers that are currently in jail for serving as council to some middle eastern organizations that were trying to become legitimate and work within the system. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynne_Stewart

There will be a special place in history for the likes of Snowden, Manning and Ellsburg. I hope Snowden does not face the same torture Manning has been subject to.

There is a useful distinction to be found between creation and enabling: permitting someone to toil your field is significantly different than actually doing the toiling.

Capital infrastructure is one input among many to any industrial process. I place about the same value upon it as the electrical and sewage infrastructure we build our businesses upon. No reason to revere it more than our other infrastructures.

I would deny both the sewage system and the capital system the verb "create" in this context.

We could use a political shakedown or two for the Mexican cartels.

>>> If these laws are violated, the state authorities have the power to take legal actions to enforce them. Nowhere is there any express private right of action that gives any private citizen the right to file suit complaining about alleged violations of these laws.

What? Why is this the case? Is this the same reason why citizens/competitors/the Sierra Club can not sue BP or Massey Energy for pollution or workplace safety violations? (If 50% of the damages came out of the EPA/OSHA chief regulator's salary I would get behind these suits.) Is there a distinction here between suing the violators than suing the government? Civil suits are for more than contract enforcement, right? What are the general legal terms I should be searching with to learn more?

> That's a very modern application of those words.

It follows from your argument that because our ancestors didn't share an evolutionary perspective, modern humans describing our ancestors in evolutionary terms is less meaningful.

Put another way, when modern humans describe the process of objectification, it matters not at all if the objectifier says to themselves "I sure am making an object out of this".

Airliners have almost none of the problems the OP mentioned. The displays are several feet away from the movement of the eye. Movement of the sensors is slow and smooth. The target distance is near infinity in optical focus. The overlayed target is a generally a giant flat rectangle. These are some delicious simplifying assumptions.

Difficult, but not really a significant part of the challenges for delivering closed source binaries across platforms.

On linux, you have to build distribution specific binaries that match the shared library versions in the package manager.

On Windows, you generally put all of your shared libraries in your application's folder, since there are plenty of bad actors who install DLLs without versions in the filename to system32. Leads to duplication on the system but its a generally accepted bad practice.

(Can't speak to shipping LGPL libs on OS X).

Return Value Optimization is a generally implemented optimization technique that makes most value returns equivalent to reference passing and is allowed by the standard.

STL is ambiguous. You mean standard library or stdlib if it must be shortened. Helpless pedantry I know but freenode's #c++ has beat this into me.

Yes, Capital Vol. 1 should really be required reading. We're never going to resolve that tension until we can talk about it clearly.

Driving down labor costs is evil until we transition to a post-scarcity economy where profits from reducing labor inputs aren't strictly returned to Capital.

Yes, Don't Mess With Texas is an anti-littering campaign. I hope Elon wasn't littering.

We don't have to ascribe all faults to individuals rather than systems through which they work. Incompetent individuals can easily facilitate a malicious system of inputs and outcomes.