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I don't understand your contradiction to the parent poster. All JavaScript functions are closures, including anonymous functions that don't reference any lexically-scoped variables, and even named functions at the top level, which
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Interestingly, based on the explanation at [1] round robin databases actually don't precisely solve the question as described in the article. It sacrifices precision for larger increments, and the author was looking for an exact algori
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"Magic does exist" could fairly be described as linkbaity.
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It is a meme that movies have all settled on using a blue/teal and orange color palette nowadays, but that doesn't seem to be the case here. There is one prominent movie in the middle which is almost entirely orange and blue, whic
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It just so happens there is! (Sort of.) A one time sum can be compared with recurring annual sums by calculating the present value of each, taking into account prevailing interest rates. The present value of an infinite series of annual pay
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I was going to post a link to an image of this font in vim, which looks quite funny, but then I realized that I don't know if I want everyone on the Internet to be able to copy my handwriting.
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I agree, but if this were for an airline as it proposes to be, at least they would presumably be able to access their own ticket prices quickly, or could upgrade their systems such that ticket prices can be available more quickly. Also, the
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Because player and position are records, the function could actually be written: moveRight :: Int -> Player -> Player moveRight n p@(Player {pos = curPos@(Position {x = curX})) = p {pos = curPos {x = curX + n}} I
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I believe his point about 'meh' style business is that there is a wide range of prices, but that hotels are largely similar at every given price range. They lack real differentiation that might make any of them particularly compel
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Heritability is precisely specified. It allows you to make predictions within its realm of validity. It's useful and so it is used. If you know my genome, and you know the broad social environment I live in, you can make more accurate
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The planning fallacy was named in 1979, so it's not exactly news that one's inside view estimate will be optimistic. I believe the poster you are are replying to is implicitly criticizing HP for publicly claiming commercialization
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If you wait until 5 cars are backed up behind you, you could be incredibly rude to 4 vehicles of people. You should be considerate and allow vehicles to pass after a reasonable amount of time (i.e. as dictated by courtesy and not the law) a
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I found this post to be an interesting description of Banach-Tarski, if anyone is as confused as I was: http://scientopia.org/blogs/goodmath/2012/01/06/the-banach-t...
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Using tDCS to Supercharge Language Learning(blog.cardsharp.ly)
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Not only that, but the company negotiates future salary increases knowing the bonus exists, so you can't be guaranteed that it will actually be on top of what you would otherwise get paid.
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A public company is not required to disclose its individual donations except insofar as they would be material to making an investment decision. The bar for that is tremendously high for a company like Apple or Sony relative to the size of
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Please don't use URL shorteners on Hacker News. It is contrary to established norms.
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PunditTracker is a pretty cool site that is trying to solve this problem: http://www.pundittracker.com/
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Yes, but protecting their trademark in this case is allowed to be, "Hello, we need you to license our trademark if you are going to use it. We won't charge you. Please e-sign this short and not overly lawyered document."
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Not to mention the fact that there are many people in this world who have become millionaires off bad content, so excoriating it isn't necessarily useful, depending on your goals.
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That is a true point for the first years that self-driving cars exist, but it is not true on the timescale of a couple decades. The first Tesla Roadster was delivered in July of 2009, and they are going to ship 20,000 cars this year (compar
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In the unknowable category, it seems like the availability of self-driving cars will drastically change the cost-benefits ratio of driving and could easily lead to a dramatic increase. Are you really going to want to fly from San Francisco
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Medical (and other) interventions that are effective on children are judged as more valuable than those that are effective on the extremely elderly due to the concept of "quality adjusted life years" (QALYs)[1]. Of course, people's emotiona
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It seems like a big win for science could be had by centralizing some aspects of research within academic and research institutions. There should be well-funded software czars and statistics czars at each university that facilitate the effo
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Real facts aren't political, and all facts taken together aren't political. But statistics are often biased or flat out incorrect because of political ends, and the selective dissemination of statistics is political.
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First, the quoted WSJ data is stated on an absolute basis (inflating/sensationalizing the numbers, obviously), while the graph in this article is stated on a relative basis. This still leaves an apparent discrepancy. Other real causes for t
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Probably because your statement didn't include any rationale for your disagreement, and specifically didn't address his direct claim, which is that each of these was better than the alternative at their genesis. In disruption as described b
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It depends on the specific case, since impact is used as both a noun and verb, while affect and effect in this sense are typically used as a verb and a noun respectively. In his two examples, one would be replaced with affect and one would
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I believe this is not a fully accurate picture, although the example you give in your second paragraph is definitely accurate. At a high level you aren't allowed to use "material, non-public information" for investment purposes, but informa
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The rumor would presumably help him because it would discourage his clients from committing crimes, because they would be under additional scrutiny from law enforcement. It seems unlikely that it would actually matter though, since law enfo

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