billforsternz

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   by billforsternz 16y ago

   I don't see anything misleading. The problem is the lack of attribution. The title clearly indicates that.
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   by billforsternz 16y ago

   I am guessing that there are dozens or maybe hundreds of assertion type errors like this buried in the code. Only a small fraction of them turn out to be real errors that actually occur in the field. So presumably the guy who coded the orig
3. 873.▲
   by billforsternz 16y ago

   By decent I mean "worthwhile" or "significant". I specifically didn't say "enough to replace the income of a comfortably placed person in a first world country". 2% pa yields what, $1600 per month ? Don't you think that would be worthwhile
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   by billforsternz 16y ago

   He could choose a way of managing the money that was optimized for simplicity. For example putting it all in a one low risk low return income generating instrument. It's hard for me to believe that the stress involved in picking up a decent
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   by billforsternz 17y ago

   > And thus, approximately: v = 0.9999999999999999999999951 c Okay. >So taking 3×108 metres per second as the speed of light, we find that the particle was traveling 2.9999999999999999999999853×108 metres per second, Oh dear, that's