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by erdos4d 5y ago
Buy a 10 year old cheap Honda and drive it until it dies. Buy it from a person. Flash the $90K you saved at the Tesla owners as you drive by.
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by erdos4d 5y ago
In university I ran into a lot of people who did this stuff to get grades. Many straight up acted like tweakers. Super fast speech, tiny pupils, twitchy, sweaty, etc. I didn't realize it was so popular until like 30% of my classmates w
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by erdos4d 5y ago
This sounds to me like the place is wacky for "culture fit" or whatever. If you go for remote gigs I can't imagine it gets beyond 2 or 3 interviews, mostly technical, since they won't ever hang out with you anyway.
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by erdos4d 5y ago
> I don’t think you should be able to tweet racist messages I just got kicked off the main lemmy.ml server because I had the audacity to challenge the current Ukraine invasion and say that the Russians were fuck ups who broke what they t
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by erdos4d 5y ago
Nail on head. This is the best take on these cases I've yet seen and it expresses my own feelings perfectly.
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by erdos4d 5y ago
I took a year of sociology in college. One bit of wisdom that out professor gave us was how arranged marriages happen in countries where there is immense pressure to conform to traditional gender roles. He literally described these societie
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by erdos4d 5y ago
> and the NSA doesn't like you using it. This is the best endorsement a crypto algorithm could have honestly.
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by erdos4d 5y ago
Doesn't a person get more EM radiation from living under high tension lines than from a phone anyway? If there are no cancer clusters around them, I don't see how this idea ever got legs in the first place.
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by erdos4d 5y ago
Not dumb at all, an area of open research actually. The answer is that this is not known and you will be math-famous if you figure it out.
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by erdos4d 5y ago
I think there is a subtlety here that makes this fail. Normal does not imply that any finite substring exists, just that the probability of such a string existing is uniformly distributed within the space of possible values. There isn'
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Letting police access Google location data can help solve crimes(washingtonpost.com)
6 points by erdos4d 5y ago|3 comments
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by erdos4d 5y ago
> for minimal effort/outlay. Could you explain this part? I've always seen internet publicity the same as traditional, its a pay to play game and rich people have it locked up.
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by erdos4d 5y ago
I dunno, I've met a lot of profs who take the attitude "if you want your name on crap, be my guest" when it comes to reviewing papers. They might check for glaring errors, but rarely does anyone work through the results for c
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by erdos4d 5y ago
Same here. I literally got a US PhD in math. Means NOTHING. But can I merge two sorted lists? Now we are talking serious money and benefits.
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by erdos4d 5y ago
Are you seriously suggesting that we not determine a candidate's ability to find all palindromes in a string for a Django gig? Fucking rebel you are.
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by erdos4d 5y ago
> nothing ever came close to what I had experienced that first time with MDMA. Same here, that stuff is magical the first time.
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by erdos4d 5y ago
Graph Theory is definitely a secret weapon I've used on numerous occasions. I would recommend Python's Networkx module if you find yourself staring at a graph problem.
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Ask HN: Where to Find Bad Developers?
2 points by erdos4d 5y ago|1 comments
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by erdos4d 5y ago
I'm not really following. How does the fact that Unix timestamps are in terms of UTC affect whether leap seconds get incorporated into the timestamp or not? Do leap seconds work differently in UTC or something?
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by erdos4d 5y ago
I did this drug in Europe when I lived there, it was quite popular with the club crowd. I can definitely see how it could be therapeutic for people with PTSD and other psychological traumas. Hopefully this will lead to effective treatments
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by erdos4d 5y ago
How does one get hold of $625 million in ETH in the first place? The sums that usually accompany these hacks are astounding.
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by erdos4d 5y ago
> That being said it's usually narcissistic parents with money who are looking for an easy solution. After reading this and the previous thread on these programs, I really get the impression that this is the fundamental driver behin
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by erdos4d 5y ago
> Physics perhaps hasn't quite joined the new era, yet. I dunno, I've noticed that most physicists I've met have the "ego is God" vibe pretty well cooked in, and they will definitely let you know it.
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by erdos4d 5y ago
I'm certain you can find teens who have such attitudes and behaviors, but I'd argue that every one of them was made that way through years of abuse and neglect. Does it help them to look at them as fucked up, irredeemable, etc? Ca
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by erdos4d 5y ago
I'm just saying that U Penn, being an Ivy, has as much "reputation" as MIT, CalTech, etc. Until someone pipes up with some sort of proof that it is actually better (which I doubt it is), then why should U Penn's reputati
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by erdos4d 5y ago
Well, Trump did it, that's one data point. Also, he did fine at U Penn, an Ivy, so why should we assume MIT is so awesome that another rich kid couldn't cheat his way through there?
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by erdos4d 5y ago
As a counterargument, a fake ID is all that a rich person needs to put a smart kid in their place at the testing center. Those places are usually huge, nobody knows anyone, and if you flash a legit looking ID, you will have no trouble sitti
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by erdos4d 5y ago
It's definitely not illegal in Ecuador, where I live, so no. More to the point, if they are getting the code they want, why should anyone care?
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by erdos4d 5y ago
Thanks!
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by erdos4d 5y ago
But can they pass muster with HR for a developer gig? I can pass their coding test for them, but will they ever even get one without some sort of degree or other that makes them look like a fit for the role? That's why I was thinking b

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