anonymoushn

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1. 3181.▲
   by anonymoushn 15y ago

   The ability to decline to sign budgets seems, to me, quite powerful.
2. 3182.▲
   by anonymoushn 15y ago

   While this is likely, it is nearly impossible to get the people who are kept in power only by FPTP to vote against FPTP. The movement's goals seem somewhat more achievable. Also, we would hardly do worse by electing a Republican instead o
3. 3183.▲
   by anonymoushn 15y ago

   Just to clarify, would you say that you cannot solve optimal matrix chain multiplication using dynamic programming, because each state depends on a non-constant number of other states? If so, what is the proper name for the commonly known
4. 3184.▲
   by anonymoushn 15y ago

   Thanks. I enjoyed reading this and found it sufficiently detailed that I could understand it despite being previously unfamiliar with some of it. I don't quite understand why this solution is preferable to a solution which simply evaluates
5. 3185.▲
   by anonymoushn 15y ago

   Could you tell me about this solution? I have a solution that works in O(n lg n) time, but I haven't put any thought into convexity.
6. 3186.▲
   by anonymoushn 15y ago

   The article actually includes a solution that uses memoization, which is equivalent to DP.
7. 3187.▲
   by anonymoushn 15y ago

   I don't think there are any comments saying things like that :)
8. 3188.▲
   by anonymoushn 15y ago

   Are you sure? I'm fairly certain that if I accumulate savings in the form of some non-debt-backed currency and keep it buried in a box it won't be the same as debt. If we still want to regard that as debt, I could instead buy commodities a
9. 3189.▲
   by anonymoushn 15y ago

   That's correct. On both of these sites, I may use C, C++, C#, Java, Python, PHP, Ruby, or Perl. On Interviewstreet I may also use Haskell. On Codility I may also use Javascript, Pascal, or VB.NET. "The language of your choice" would pro
10. 3190.▲
    by anonymoushn 15y ago

    I don't know how people manage to get "decades of industry experience designing and implementing very complex systems" without being able to program. I have only run into a couple such people, but I suspect that is because we get very few
11. 3191.▲
    by anonymoushn 15y ago

    All of the companies I have applied to have asked that I spend several hours solving programming problems before giving me an offer. And why shouldn't they? My experience as an interviewer has been that such great things as "decades of in
12. 3192.▲
    by anonymoushn 15y ago

    When you delete your facebook, all you friends who were using this will no longer know your phone number.
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    by anonymoushn 15y ago

    Neither of these sites allows you to do the tests in the language of your choice =/
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    by anonymoushn 15y ago

    It is the DRM that is selling these products. Most Warcraft III players have never bought a license and play on Garena. Any of those people who want to play StarCraft II will now have to give Blizzard money. These people greatly outnumbe
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    by anonymoushn 15y ago

    SC2 has an offline mode as long as you log in once every month and don't want to play any custom maps or play with anyone else. For an RTS, that is a lot like not having an offline mode.
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    by anonymoushn 15y ago

    Starcraft II has thus far survived, and I have never seen a private WoW server in which all of the raid content works correctly (or indeed, even all of the raid content that's at least 2 years old). What's important to Blizzard isn't that n
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    by anonymoushn 15y ago

    I don't think it's strange to think that there are many devs that could work for Google, Facebook, or Twitter but choose not to. All the companies I've applied to consist mostly of such people.
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    by anonymoushn 15y ago

    Have any ratings agencies threatened a downgrade based on a failure to reach an agreement? S&P has threatened a downgrade if we raise the debt ceiling without taking action to reduce the deficit significantly. However, assuming that w
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    by anonymoushn 15y ago

    I said that there was no risk of sovereign default. Our tax revenue exceeds the cost of our debt service by a factor of more than 10. Do you anticipate that our blended interest rate will increase by a factor of 10 in the near future? We
20. 3200.▲
    by anonymoushn 15y ago

    I don't think anyone is doing that. There is precisely no risk of sovereign default, even if we don't raise the debt ceiling for a couple years.
21. 3201.▲
    by anonymoushn 15y ago

    We've already printed and spent quite a bit of money, and while it has produced increases in commodity prices it has not produced hyperinflation. Replacing debt-backed money with debt-free money, while leaving the amount of money more or l
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    by anonymoushn 15y ago

    You've written this in such a way that any reader will either think he or she is familiar with the your ideas or have no clue what your ideas are. Could you elaborate?
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    by anonymoushn 15y ago

    It was my impression that the person called Commander-in-Chief of the United States Armed Forces had the power to give orders to the United States Armed Forces. Unless I am mistaken, any US war that is not occurring within the borders of t
24. 3204.▲
    by anonymoushn 15y ago

    Oh, certainly. I remain confused as to why we would cut payroll tax by 2% while running deficits of 10% of GDP, or extend any portion of Bush's tax cuts, or refuse to discuss cuts to entitlement programs when our tax revenue is not enough
25. 3205.▲
    by anonymoushn 15y ago

    I would not say that he had to do that, or that it was a particularly good idea.
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    by anonymoushn 15y ago

    Is there any reason to expect the US to default? Currently we can easily pay for our debt service using our tax revenue.
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    by anonymoushn 15y ago

    Negative. Did you somehow miss the 20% haircut?
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    by anonymoushn 15y ago

    I wouldn't call a 20% haircut a bailout. I would call it a default.
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    by anonymoushn 15y ago

    I don't think so. While many people have put forth proposals and claimed that they would cut half or more of the deficit, the largest cut in any of these proposals is less than $400 billion. We would need four times that to balance the bu
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    by anonymoushn 15y ago

    Even if they don't raise the debt limit ever, there's no reason for us to default. Our tax revenues can pay for much more than our debt service.