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by ArchTypical 8y ago
The Chinese penal system is separate with an official count of over 1.5 million. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_system_in_China > I think providing a full perspective to those who are not as familiar with the t
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by ArchTypical 8y ago
People wonder how the Holocaust happened. > The number of people in the camps, which had fallen to 7,500, grew again to 21,000 by the start of World War II[8] and peaked at 715,000 in January 1945.[9] I'm sure people around the worl
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by ArchTypical 8y ago
"In calc when teaching the 'min surface area of a can with given vol, of which soln is diameter = ht, I wrote a cat food company telling them how much they'd save by making their cans taller. Got a letter from the marketing d
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by ArchTypical 8y ago
> A memory word interpreted as an integer has no meaningful null value. What a type is, depends on what the runtime operates on. You can make a runtime that just grabs random bits of data as a type and say "that's an integer&qu
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by ArchTypical 8y ago
> Not in all type systems I think this is inaccurate. We are talking about computer science, which is important and a constraint around the general type theory. A type system is different than how you interact with it, so dispensing with
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by ArchTypical 8y ago
Pareto explains the curve, but the monetary rewards are linear to where you are on that curve. Perhaps a small example will clarify. Pareto Curve (more or less) of Y values on index X: [1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,2,2,2,2,3,10,5
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by ArchTypical 8y ago
> because he was a journalist He was a columnist for The Washington Post. He was known for having interviewed Osama Bin Laden a couple times. News was slow and after the Chinese trade imbalance/conflict (finally someone stepped up t
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by ArchTypical 8y ago
> That's simply wrong. > Age has a definition. Relativity explains that this definition is subjective, experimentally. Astronauts experience time differentials and it will only get more obvious as we go farther. Again, the concep
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by ArchTypical 8y ago
> Scientists can prove someone's gender by looking at his/her chromosomes, can't they? Only in the vast majority of cases. There are XX, XY, YY, XXY, and even more esoteric versions!
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by ArchTypical 8y ago
69 years old (more or less on earth or in space) is no different than Male or Female (more or less). The difference is in relative subjective granularity.
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by ArchTypical 8y ago
> https://medium.com/@alexgolec/google-interview-questions-dec... I'm really frustrated when these kind of problems are presented as "whiteboard" problems. It's not constructive and discouraging
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by ArchTypical 8y ago
There are multiple youtubers who have gone into depth about the details of how twitch people get paid. From top end to bottom, it's fairly consistent (except for a little subscription margin step at a certain point). Youtube/Googl
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by ArchTypical 8y ago
> Exercises that try to mimic what the developer would be doing in the actual job as closely as possible. This one is critical. (the following is just inspired by your bullet) The job of a developer consists of problem solving something
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by ArchTypical 8y ago
So do individual killers...which is about as relevant. If the US government was threatened, the plan is the same as it always was. Lock everyone up who is tacitly related to the "others" eg American Indians, Japanese internment, M
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by ArchTypical 8y ago
Soft vs Hard inquiries. There is a problem with various credit apps doing hard inquiries without the user being fully aware - ie Did you read and fully understand the disclaimer? https://www.experian.com/blogs/ask-exper
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by ArchTypical 8y ago
> probably grad school. I was an undergrad, which still puts us both above the vast majority in education.
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by ArchTypical 8y ago
> I'm not sure how much of a "plot twist" this is I was taught differently in 1998. There was the press coverage of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_(Australopithecus) which was referenced in a sce
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by ArchTypical 8y ago
> No concurrency is a missing feature, That's an opinion that isn't very popular or useful. Ignoring the multithreaded PHP runtime and fork functionality, implementing every feature (whatever user X particularly wants) in every
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by ArchTypical 8y ago
Same world since Multics.
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by ArchTypical 8y ago
> The US is pretty much also the only country where suicides are increasing So the initial assertion was not compelling. > it is rate of change which has people concerned. Do you have any source about people being concerned (what peop
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by ArchTypical 8y ago
They posed that it may be one possible interpretation, which was the fair part. I think all totalitarian and contested land should be delisted, but this might be a "testing the waters" act.
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by ArchTypical 8y ago
"a company that has no qualms about renting apartments in dictatorships around the world and in places that have no relationship with human rights is singling out Israel. This can only be a result of anti-Semitism or surrendering to te
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by ArchTypical 8y ago
Your response isn't necessary, so what? The discussion is about dealing with the existing reality of devices utilizing an OS layer.
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by ArchTypical 8y ago
> The reason why candidates overanalyze stuff is because you left a wide gaping hole by providing no feedback. Moving the goalpost to more specific information, weakens the employer position. Now they are no longer interviewing potential
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by ArchTypical 8y ago
> At least Apple has a small semblance of privacy in China. No, they don't. China doesn't even let AWS operate in China without having all the network traffic filter and land in China. Nothing about the Apple network is differe
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by ArchTypical 8y ago
Those barefoot lego landmines are assholes.
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by ArchTypical 8y ago
> power of monopolies...in general is directly tied to the > There have been entire countries and regions purely run by private entities. I'm interested in an example of an entire country run by a private entity that was not a di
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by ArchTypical 8y ago
> Why would a memory enhancing drug only increase rememberance of negative memories and not the positive and loving ones? There's a psychological phenomenon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negativity_bias
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by ArchTypical 8y ago
> There have been entire countries and regions purely run by private entities. Dictatorships are monopolies. > by experience. I think you meant historically. What ever did you mean by "theoretically"? Theory is less useful i
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by ArchTypical 8y ago
> why was USA so inept in not making use of Wikileaks themselves? The USA is inept as an organization. In some areas, by design (eg Patent Office, various Courts, Gerrymandering). There are very few areas where it's not completely h

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