Gunax

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by Gunax 7y ago
and uber drivers.
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by Gunax 7y ago
I am long on VR. It really does look good. I think everyone's experience has been ruined by crappy. The 90s had a VR far but they sucked. Of you're putting a phone across your face, it sucks. The market was spoiled by crappy imita
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by Gunax 7y ago
> This is why, in my ideal world, I’d like there to be some kind of additional checks in place on the use of nuclear weapons. I am quite curious what he thinks. I just don't see how there is time. 15 minutes. That's the time yo
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by Gunax 7y ago
Really incredible idea! Cannot wait to see what puzzles people will come up with.
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by Gunax 7y ago
I am not a mathematician, but the problem seems easier to intuit. Like a lot of math problems, a formal proof is annoying but I definitely think a regular joe can convince himself why this works. Start at i,j with heights h_i < h_j. Then
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by Gunax 7y ago
Mostly writing this for myself... why would you read predictions from an idiot like me? 1. Bitcoin will never have surpassed double their 2017 high in real terms. 2. Apple will not be in the top 5 of publicly traded US companies by market c
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by Gunax 7y ago
I think there is still value in coding questions, although i agree the value may have diminished. They may be another case of 'as soon as it becomes a metric it's useless as a metric'.
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by Gunax 7y ago
Get. Your laws. Out. Of. My. Body.
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by Gunax 7y ago
And if you're humble then you won't be perceived as confident. "If you can't tell me why you are better than all of the other 100 applicants, then fuck you. No hire." Maybe the head of talent and I just have a diffe
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by Gunax 7y ago
I have always been shocked how accurate altimeters are. Although I understand the math and physics, I am intuitively shocked that a device can measure differences of 10 meters.
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by Gunax 7y ago
Is this real or just hype? We have been so inundated with promises I don't know what to believe.
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by Gunax 7y ago
The USA is such a vast country, there are so many nice areas. We don't need to cram all of one industry into a single city. I vote Denver, Seattle, or Pittsburgh.
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by Gunax 7y ago
Can't happen. It would instantly be racist--it turns out the people with kids who can do math are the kinds of people who did not need the money. An instant wealth transfer to the well-off. It is interesting as a thought experiment onl
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by Gunax 7y ago
I would not suggest applying logic to most political positions. Views are formed in the gut, not the brain. People are against prostitution because they find it disgusting. Their justifications are all ex post facto. And this applies to mos
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by Gunax 7y ago
Sure, just like I hope you never see a real slave. I am serious about this. It's horrifying. By the way, what do you call a well-treated slave?
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by Gunax 7y ago
They probably do some of the time. To the hackers, it's likely a cost of business.
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by Gunax 7y ago
News organisations should not be legally bound to take the moral high ground. While we can debate about what they should have done (and I agree with you in this case) it's difficult to write laws to define what constitutes a moral vs
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by Gunax 7y ago
I don't think the argument is that deepfakes won't matter. It's that they don't represent a new paradigm, but are instead just an additional medium (video) which must be more scrutinized than before. Long have documents
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by Gunax 7y ago
I sympathize, but this is going to be hard to show. It sounds like they were preparing to commit a violent robbery. And we all know that if the initial contact is x race, he will most likely bring along co conapirators of x as well. So the
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by Gunax 7y ago
This makes me a bit cynical. Are we to believe women are too delicate to receive a 85% or less? I can't seem to read the paper, so I don't know. I find the gender debates on HN mostly pointless... so trying to avoid that here.
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by Gunax 7y ago
I don't quite understand the appeal of investing via phone app. Investing my life savings (any any amount really) is one of the few things I would absolutely not want to do on a phone touchscreen. When I heard of Robinhood I thought
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by Gunax 7y ago
I whole-heartedly agree. But it's politically untenable, and not just because of unions and sports fans. Any limit to university education in the US butts up with class (read: race) and inequality issues. I would love to close all of t
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by Gunax 7y ago
Does 'US government' include states? I am too lazy to look up stats, but I imagine most education costs are borne by states in the US.
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by Gunax 7y ago
I think this is the most concise view of the problem I had read. I am going to use your comment as an analogy.
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by Gunax 7y ago
I do not see how infrastructure projects today are any more complicated than 50 or 100 years ago.
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by Gunax 7y ago
The US military's stance is that this is war. Certainly there's no rule that during war one has to know the name of someone before killing them. We are entering a new era and no one knows what the rules are.
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by Gunax 7y ago
It's not really possible to correct errors like this without being a pretentious ass. It's possible that the apostrophe rules we have today we become outdated a-la the who/whom distinction.
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by Gunax 7y ago
If learning about Shakespearean sonnets is actually about building writing and reading skills, then I would say the same for Laplace transforms: they are about building logic and math skills and not about actual laplace transforms per se. I
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by Gunax 7y ago
> If math knowledge is limited to “when I see this sort of problem, I do that” it’s inflexible; if problems are phrased just a little differently, the student is often stumped. And once students hit algebra, math increasingly demands thi
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by Gunax 7y ago
This is a consequence of refusing to acknowledge math as a required course. Teachers and schools loathe to fail a student--especially one who is actually displaying effort and is otherwise a good student. My high school had an elaborate sys

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