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   by amai 8y ago

   Brainwashing your wife to vote for a republican president? Old News!
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   by amai 8y ago

   Admiral or just crackpot? https://motls.blogspot.com/2016/02/the-utter-insanity-of-woi...
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   by amai 8y ago

   "It is accepted as democratic when public offices are allocated by lot; and as oligarchic when they are filled by election." Aristotle, Politics 4.1294be see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition#Ancient_Ath
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   by amai 8y ago

   This doesn't seem to be so simple: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44761748/compiling-pytho... But some people had success nevertheless: http://droettboom.com/blog/2018/04/0
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   by amai 8y ago

   If web browsers would start to interpret python directly, then maybe. Otherwise I fear it will be Javascript.
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   by amai 8y ago

   That is why we have python type hints: https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html Not as good as a real static type system with compiler, but still helpful for documenting the code and tools for static code ana
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   by amai 8y ago

   I think they didn't answer an important question: Did runners switching back to other shoes get slower again?
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   by amai 8y ago

   Why are complex numbers not called duonions then?
9. 2199.▲
   by amai 8y ago

   That is about 300000 Dollar per Amazon Employee (assuming 500000 employees). Maybe it‘s time to pay Amazon employees some dividends?
10. 2200.▲
    by amai 8y ago

    The syntax for tables is awkward compared to CSV (This is actually also true for XML, JSON, YAML).
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    by amai 8y ago

    Hotz always reminds me of those kids using Adderall in the TV series Silicon Valley.
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    by amai 8y ago

    Maybe software developers should create a union or something like that? Maybe the fact that unions have been destroyed since the 1970s has something to do with the wages not increasing that much anymore?
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    by amai 8y ago

    Python is the worst programming language, except for all the others I tried (Fortran, C++, Java, Scala, Clojure, PHP, Ruby, Mathematica, IDL). But seriously, the points raised by the author are valid. However despite this Python is still a
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    by amai 8y ago

    Not complete without some finite calculus: https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/dgleich/publications/Gleich%...
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    by amai 8y ago

    Russia did reinvent the wheel a long time ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afJ18eJeNgU
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    by amai 8y ago

    This was probably the most effective countermeasure: "Knowing that they would be hacked, the campaign forged emails and fake documents themselves to confuse the hackers with irrelevant and even deliberately ludicrous information. By pl
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    by amai 8y ago

    What is the speed of light? Aristo: http://aristo-demo.allenai.org/ask?q=What%20is%20the%20speed... Wolfram Alpha: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=what+is+the+speed+of+l...
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    by amai 8y ago

    Try Spirulina. It seems to increase white blood cell count: https://examine.com/supplements/spirulina/
19. 2209.▲
    by amai 8y ago

    https://reviewmeta.com/ is very useful to detect fake reviews on Amazon.
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    by amai 8y ago

    See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ER%3DEPR
21. 2211.▲
    by amai 9y ago

    What about Numba and Cython?
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    by amai 9y ago

    Having many social interactions can be a competitive disadvantage: "Army scientists recently found that the best, high-performing cybersecurity teams have relatively few interactions with their team-members and team captain." htt
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    by amai 9y ago

    see also https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/251460/were-genera...
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    by amai 9y ago

    Maybe the fact, that North Koreas nuclear test site has collapsed, has something to do with the progress in the negotiations: http://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/214...
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    by amai 9y ago

    Data Science
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    by amai 9y ago

    Isn't graph theory basically linear algebra, because every graph can be represented as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjacency_matrix ?
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    by amai 9y ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban works since 1947 at Toyota.
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    by amai 9y ago

    Only a brief list?
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    by amai 9y ago

    Stack Overflow (and the Stackexchange network as a whole) is the second most important website on the internet (after Wikipedia). Thank you Joel for this.
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    by amai 9y ago

    This is clearly a sign on how important the glymphatic system is for the brain: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nedergaard-how-th...