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{ int x = 1 / 0; } is valid c++ that results in a runtime error.

Not quite as simple as that. Terahertz != Short Wave Infrared != Midwave Infrared != Longwave Infrared ("thermal"). These all require different photosensitive elements in your detector. They also have extremely different atmospheric absorptions. [1]

These particular sensors might indeed be passive, but it would limit their range and SNR. Be wary of manufacturers simply selling the emitter as a second SKU to garner the label passive on their detectors.

[1] I work at a company making SWIR/MWIR imagers.

I love C++11 but it still doesn't get me lazy evaluation

Assumptions assumptions new poster. Several cities in the US get significant percentage of power from renewables thanks to the power of local politics.

> Yes, that may have cost them some $$$, but probably not as much as you think,

Why didn't you report this number?

Accumulation of wealth creates difficult economic climates.

I want democracy to be about human to human negotiation. I don't want the basic unit of our society to be as abstract as one that would include corporations and unions (and computer programs? and other, smaller governments?). Corporations and unions exist to further human endeavors. To the extent that they aid individual humans, those humans will voice their support for higher-order structures. The higher-order structures should always be responsible to the entire field of individuals, and never granted moral status of their own.

Yeah so keep the useful senses of the definition and not the harmful senses (unlimited political speech). This is not paradox inducing.

They apply so far as we willingly ignore the distinction between moving and copying.

In the sample programs there is even a brainfuck interpreter! http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet/samples.html

Encarta 95 was really great. Really set the tone for my decade later wikipedia browsing habit.

I believe they would have to leave the Euro and return to a national currency. But that is certainly a better prospect than the austerity project Germany and France are wishing upon them.

Argentina is also a fine case study for telling creditors to take a hike.

Agreed, because religion, like technology, is a pure force for good that could not possibly be exploited for nefarious purposes. I bet if you asked a WBC member they would actually be uncertain and confused about their faith! It's not like the organization actually mirrors the power structure of pastor explaining a holy text to his flock.

(Sarcasm aside, its totally possible for a word like "religion" to contain contradictions and you aren't adding anything to the debate with a claim about who is "actually religious" and who is "guised as religious". If they claim it it's theirs.)

> claiming that highly intelligent AI couldn't solve the upload problem.

Solving the upload problem possibly requires imaging / scanning at a level of detail that might be outside what is possible within the constraints of physics. If it turns out we need atomic level information for the whole body, the project might be hosed from the beginning, something that better ideas or more thinking can't overcome.

The claim that ideology is separate from fact is an ideological position, so I don't think you are saying much. Do you care to make a claim about why you feel its acceptable to confuse sex and gender?

You seem to be claiming that intelligence can overcome fundamental limits of physics and signal processing.

That's interesting, can you elaborate? The dialectic is troublesome, especially from the perspective of Deleuze's multitide, but I don't immediately see how it is tied to a claim of novel configuration.

In my experience with Marx, the dialectic mostly let Marx approach Smith and Ricardo's works in a way that allowed for the inclusion of a wider conception of the conditions and consequences of capital. Whereas a WSJ oped might say "capital has benefits! the downsides are simply worth it", Marx takes a benefit and a downside, considers them 'an internal contradiction of capital', then uses a dialectical mode to reveal some hidden 3rd variable.

Are you referencing Das Kapital's inevitability of the rate of profit to decline? Or something in one of the more explicitly political texts about the inevitability of communism? I can only really discuss Das Kapital, which I feel is more of a historical reflection on political economy than the explicit party politics you might find in the Manifesto.

It reifies the teleology and savior complex that make monotheistic religions troublesome. It ignores morality and aesthetics in favor of an unknowable, uncontrollable machine logic.

Check out Wayne McGregor's Random Dance. http://ias.umn.edu/2009/09/10/mcgregor-wayne/

Sales reps with nice season tickets for Local Sports Team, probably.

Sex is determined genetically; Gender is determined socially and psychologically.

Are they bringing back health care, pensions, and a 40 hour work week with them?

> Content is a $100Bn industry.

I'm supposed to care... why? Horse buggies, beanie babies, etc.

I totally agree. Amstel Light is obviously in the same category as Keystone and PBR. Adjunct light beers are adjunct light beers. Something without rice in it would be a good start.

Herb Stutter heads the C++ standards committee and credits his employer Microsoft [1]. Is C++11 or C++17 "Microsoft's"?

[1] http://isocpp.org/std/the-committee

"Apple's Module proposal..." Is Apple really who deserves credit here? Is there something I missed about Apple's management driving this, and not Gregor or the C++ standards committee?

Sometimes the institutions technologists create really do reflect the less than ideal social and economic history that technological progress has been embedded in. If someone calls you out on that, think about how you can grow something different, don't just get defensive.

There are lots of creative ways to address the problem, and a conference dedicated to technological evangelism and celebration is a particularly great place to do it. Maybe the sponsors could purchase attendance for some interested high schoolers that maybe don't have the funding for the best IT/CS class.

This essay is pure defensive talisman. People use this hand waving to dismiss models with conclusions they don't like all the time. Yes, every engineering model makes simplifications about the universe, but so does every political policy. The responsible thing to do is to give models a proper analysis- what it solves, what it makes problematic, what it highlights and what it ignores. Yes, Engineers too often stop at the correctness of the model, and refuse to make moral or aesthetic judgements about the adequacy or appropriateness of it. That doesn't forgive the author's attempts to prevent scientific modelling of society.

Do Americans working or visiting, say, New Zealand have legal immunity from murder prosecution? Were they imposed by an invading army?