conistonwater

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by conistonwater 12y ago
You are being very optimistic. For example, as the article says: > Kalanick added that Uber would continue to experiment “aggressively” with lowering prices, in an attempt to boost demand and increase the number of trips drivers can make
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by conistonwater 12y ago
The whole "creating jobs" narrative is a bit odd. It's not like the people working for Uber would have just sat on their hands otherwise. They would have found something else to do.
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Codejam 2014 – Round 2(code.google.com)
1 points by conistonwater 12y ago|0 comments
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by conistonwater 12y ago
I think you misunderstood the Euclidean algorithm. The basic iteration is of the form gcd(a, b) = gcd(b, a mod b), and there is no need to compute mod with anything other than %.
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by conistonwater 12y ago
The commit message "Optimized performance of the GCD algorithm" piqued my interest. It's GCD, what's there to optimize? I noticed the following code: while (b !== 0) { if (a > b) { a -= b; } else { b -= a; } }
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by conistonwater 12y ago
I read the linked blog post, and found it somewhat unconvincing. I am equally surprised anyone is repeating the myth of consensus myth: http://www.salon.com/2014/05/28/wsjs_shameful_climate_denial...
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by conistonwater 12y ago
If the analogy with climate science works, then the inequality debate will be even worse than the climate change "debate". The straws on which climate change denialism rests are so small because the level of evidence one can reach
908.
by conistonwater 12y ago
In this age of metrics everywhere and big data, the data on inequality, a very important social issue, took Piketty and his collaborators, all professional economists, many years of research to assemble and publish. This data is not even bi
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by conistonwater 12y ago
Response in full (pdf): http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/capital21c/en/Piketty2014Tec...
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by conistonwater 12y ago
Piketty's response: http://blogs.ft.com/money-supply/2014/05/23/piketty-response... Note that, as mentioned in the comments there, it's not clear whether FT gave Piketty Giles's specific p
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Reuters investigates: Comrade Capitalism(reuters.com)
1 points by conistonwater 12y ago|0 comments
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by conistonwater 13y ago
This is wrong; in the definition it should be "<= some constant", and it should ideally also mention that r and f need to positive, or else take absolute values of them. As an example of a bug in your definition, consider &quot
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D-Link Router Backdoor(schneier.com)
3 points by conistonwater 13y ago|0 comments