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by Chinjut 11y ago
Indeed, what we discover is this: Suppose we are interested in the function f(N) such that a cell which originally has N squares to its left ends up with f(N) squares under it. To calculate f(N), write N out in binary with K + 1 bits [where
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by Chinjut 11y ago
How many of the people pursuing any career would do it if it weren't for the salary? (If it bothers you that salaries play a role in how people choose their majors, advocate for an economic system that allows people to pursue their ide
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by Chinjut 11y ago
How is it off-topic? The comment Zikes was originally replying to is about users' trust in Facebook, and Zikes' comment is a notable (albeit long ago) quote from the founder of Facebook about users' trust in Facebook.
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by Chinjut 11y ago
I'm Team Salviati.
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by Chinjut 11y ago
Why do you say this is quite different from symbolic differentiation? It seems every function (including addition, multiplication, etc.) is simply augmented with a description of its total derivative, and these derivatives are combined via
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by Chinjut 11y ago
History remembers everyone. But the layperson has never heard of most of these folks. The choice between such low-level fame vs. billions in fortune (along with its own low-level fame) is, well, not a very evenly-matched one.
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by Chinjut 11y ago
That quiz at the end makes it almost impossible not to be classified as math anxious to some extent; answering even a single question (out of ten) with anything other than "Not anxious at all" (on its five point scale) gets one cl
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by Chinjut 11y ago
I, too, find running bureaucracies to be rather boring, but your last sentence isn't all that stinging: except for the money, there are very few jobs most people would want.
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by Chinjut 11y ago
A sphere is also four-colorable, functioning equivalently to a plane for such purposes; consider stereographically projecting the sphere (minus a point) onto a plane.
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by Chinjut 11y ago
Who wants to line up at the senior center at all? But you're more likely to do it on a day when you have free time than a day when you're harried and exhausted.
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by Chinjut 11y ago
You inspired me to look up the origin of that quote, which was actually quite an interesting (albeit inconclusive) investigation; see http://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/06/18/cleveland/
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by Chinjut 11y ago
From the link: "History remembers Upton Sinclair's The Jungle as a vivid exposé on literal and figurative sausage making, a piece that shocked the nation and led to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act. But all that happens i
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by Chinjut 11y ago
The mind it may be trying to change is that of the people who not only optimize their own lives to avoid "farting around" but furthermore cast aspersions on others who enjoy and indulge in it.
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by Chinjut 11y ago
I think that is the point: that Americans universally spend time learning about morally minor damage to an American building, but do not so commonly devote curricular time to truly considering the awfulness of the large-scale bombing of Jap
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by Chinjut 11y ago
For what it's worth, the historical Luddites also were protecting their own interests, rather than fundamentally motivated to resist progress. (I mention this with no judgement one way or another of their actions)
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by Chinjut 11y ago
Also not worth it: spending so much time at work that you're not home a lot.
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Millenial Men Aren't the Dads They Thought They'd Be(nytimes.com)
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by Chinjut 11y ago
Paul Graham notes "I could see myself—can see myself—making at least 4 of these 5 mistakes". I wonder which is the only one he doesn't easily see himself making? (Presumably, either #1 or #3, though his public persona is such
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by Chinjut 11y ago
One supposes what they'd really like is to be able to enjoy both flexible hours and typical benefits and worker protections. Unfortunately, we've set up our stupid system so that these are somehow exclusive.
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by Chinjut 11y ago
Oh, no, not that awful hellscape Manhattan ! What a fate to be avoided...
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by Chinjut 11y ago
What is the social value of having negotiation skills be a large determinant of one's salary? Why not diminish this cause of variance (perhaps relatively disadvantaging those who currently have anomalously good negotiation skills, but
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by Chinjut 11y ago
Stop drawing revenue, and the graph _will_ eventually stop going to the right...
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by Chinjut 11y ago
If you want to toss some bucks my way on a whim, and/or I want to toss some labor your way out of the goodness of my heart, no one objects. It's when you draw up an employment contract and expect the government to enforce it that,
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by Chinjut 11y ago
For clarification, what is the distinction between the household usage and real meaning of "depressed"?
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by Chinjut 11y ago
The idea isn't that Germans have incurred a special moral responsibility (which they otherwise would not have) because Germany received debt forgiveness 60 years ago. Rather, the idea is that the debt forgiveness Germany received 60 ye
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by Chinjut 11y ago
Where did the grandparent commenter say anything about "mak[ing] everyone but the retired look for work or be in education etc."? Their comment seems to describe basic income just fine to me.
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by Chinjut 11y ago
That was some jump from $90k to $490k! (How'd you pull that off?)
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by Chinjut 11y ago
Marriage is not primarily a religious institution. Many non-religious people get married, and see no incongruity in it.
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by Chinjut 11y ago
You are right; I don't know bko was not around in the 1950s. I should clarify, however, that comparing adult life in the 2010s and adult life in the 1950s is different from comparing adult life in the 2010s and child life in the 1950s.
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by Chinjut 11y ago
Of course you'd rather live in the present than in the past; you grew up in contemporary times and are accustomed to them. Everything else is foreign and thus intimidating. The fellow who grew up in the 1950s might symmetrically prefer

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