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691.
by Drbble 15y ago
Your last question reads like a description of a giant insect, actually....
692.
by Drbble 15y ago
Huh. I clicked that link on my phone, and the mobile redirect got DNS hijacked by t-mobile and redirected to a tmobile/yahoo domainsquat spam page.
693.
by Drbble 15y ago
But how much of that spend is ad influenced?
694.
by Drbble 15y ago
"overstated", that is.
695.
by Drbble 15y ago
How is that debt denominated in non-national-currency? In shares of stock?
696.
by Drbble 15y ago
Real cash isn't peer to peer, is the point. Anyone can create bitcoin, without going to a bank. You can prefer a different term to p2p if you like, but parent's point was about the complete decentralization, not the word "p2p".
697.
by Drbble 15y ago
I was very excited but doubtful until I noticed "Tell" in the title.
698.
by Drbble 15y ago
This story was reported in 2010. Is there anything new in the 2012 NYT rehash, or other developments?
699.
by Drbble 15y ago
Sort of. It is more like every function in OCaml is in IO. There is just no purity guarantee anywhere.
700.
by Drbble 15y ago
Are OCaml or Haskell taught in CS51 these days? That would be wonderful. Neither language was used on the general (non-PL theory, except a bit in the compilers/languages area) CS track in the 90s. Also, OCaml is spelled "F#" in English.
701.
by Drbble 15y ago
Adopt out your dog and your kid, get a quiet apartment, hire a maid.
702.
by Drbble 15y ago
What about the problem of "I don't know how to do it"?
703.
by Drbble 15y ago
No? The point is to factor out the repeated check-for-None code into one place to reduce redundancy and unclutter the algorithmic code in f. Separation of Concerns.
704.
by Drbble 15y ago
Those organizations lend to local "bankers" who lend out at higher rates to customers. Payday shops charge reasonable fees per loan, the same fees that all vendors and governments charge for you hanging on to money they want from you. The
705.
by Drbble 15y ago
Pretty sure people who work for $1/hr don't want to spend it on mp3s.
706.
by Drbble 15y ago
Wall Street tried that, by destroying the real estate market.
707.
by Drbble 15y ago
Why lock them down? Why not just rent computers for $1/hr, like at a cyber cafe? That is a solved problem.
708.
by Drbble 15y ago
These exist in China and India.
709.
by Drbble 15y ago
Even if entered into voluntarily, without an opportunity to exit slavery is still the correct term.
710.
by Drbble 15y ago
There is a strong Randian thread in SV culture, as there is in most communities where overprivelege mixes with social awkwardness, but it doesn't dominate. Plenty of other folks believe in doing well by doing good.
711.
by Drbble 15y ago
Why do you think that looking is the same as wanting?
712.
by Drbble 15y ago
What if people band together into a sort of Union, and agree (in a binding way, with punishment for defectors) as a group (through some sort of majority vote, since consensus is impossible in a large group) to demand a certain wage? You'd h
713.
by Drbble 15y ago
It is more likely that the police would press their luck against a suspect who does not know his rights and cannot afford lawyer. A high socioeconomic class suspect is less interesting to the FBI.
714.
by Drbble 15y ago
Over the past 15 years, my RSI symptoms have been extremely well correlated to how much I read and hear about RSI. Now my wrist hurts.
715.
by Drbble 15y ago
Spoiler 2: They achieved the low cost by exploiting Kaggle's army of machine learning practitioner suckers/volunteers/competitors.
716.
by Drbble 15y ago
One problem is that it is yet to be proven whether a better textbook is the solution to improving math education. It is not at all obvious that for the average student any textbook is the road to learning.
717.
by Drbble 15y ago
Parent meant problems that were in the past of interest to research mathematicians. Someone(s) published the first papers exhibiting Catalan numbers underlying various counting problems. Obviously we don't expect elementary students to be a
718.
by Drbble 15y ago
Third World?
719.
by Drbble 15y ago
Compulsory standards are prohibited, to protect freedom in the several states. This is a good thing. Voluntary standards are not prohibited. Also, http://ck12.org for open textbooks.
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by Drbble 15y ago
The CEO is on a lot of corporate patent applications for contributing" to the invention. I have seen two CEOs on my applications for patents.

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