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by ewjordan 16y ago
Put another way, the right angles approximation as N->infinity puts a countable infinity of points exactly on the line. The true line has an uncountable infinity of points on the line, and the difference between an uncountable infinity
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by ewjordan 16y ago
Your entire chain of argument sounds religious in nature, and at no point did it touch at all on why anything having to do with rights would affect economic output in any way. You've neither pointed out a specific flaw in nerfhammer's argu
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by ewjordan 16y ago
Path On The Surface Of The Earth is a neat one, took a while to realize why there were multiple answers. SPOILER: Obviously the North Pole is one answer, because if you're 1 km south of the pole then it doesn't matter what longitude you're
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by ewjordan 16y ago
Cutting cheese (start with a 3x3x3 cube of cheese and a knife, how many straight cuts at minimum are needed to turn it into 27 1x1x1 cubes?): The obvious answer is 6, by cutting it the obvious way (2 parallel slices along each dimension at
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by ewjordan 16y ago
Huh, interesting - looks like HN's dupe detection considers a trailing slashes in the URL enough for the two URLs to be different. Should be easy enough to fix, and I doubt it would flag many, if any, incorrect dupes.
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by ewjordan 16y ago
One thing I was wondering was whether or not, for instance, Google would be prohibited from returning a direct IP address link to (say) the Pirate Bay in response to a search for "pirate bay". The text in the bill says: `(i) a service prov
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by ewjordan 16y ago
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=draw+a+red+filled+circl...
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by ewjordan 16y ago
From what I understand they're not targeting die hard email users, they are targeting a much younger demographic, probably ideally around age 17 and heading off to University. This is a dangerous game, targeting the youth - they're not ve
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Right; there are practical usability problems with allowing willy-nilly access to your contact list. Some of your contacts have now given your email address to a company with which you never wanted to have a relationship. This is a red he
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Every other piece of information that Facebook has on me is allowed to be exposed to my friends' apps without me personally connecting with the app. The motivation here is crystal clear: e-mail addresses function as (essentially) UIDs on
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What does Facebook's motives have to do with anything? The question under discussion is whether a random stranger who can convince one of my friends to sign up for a virtual pet should suddenly be able to spam me. That is, indeed, the que
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by ewjordan 16y ago
User choice is the problem here - I should be able to choose whether or not apps that my friends use can access my contact information, not Facebook. And in fact, there already is an extremely fine grained control panel managing what kind
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by ewjordan 16y ago
Huh. I guess that's true, for some reason I've never noticed it before. I usually keep my left hand on my "home keys" when browsing (Firefox user here), in order from pinky to thumb, q-w-e-f-⌘, of which I use w, f, and ⌘ on a regular basis
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by ewjordan 16y ago
I think speed has a lot to do with it, last time I checked Groovy was more than an order of magnitude slower than Java, whereas Scala (which has many of the same benefits as Groovy) was much closer. A 2x speed hit might not be a problem, bu
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by ewjordan 16y ago
That makes no sense at all. Arguments are meaningless because they are used too much? Utterly illogical, have I misunderstood something here? Maybe I didn't make my point very clearly, and you're right, as stated that's not really what I
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by ewjordan 16y ago
Here is someone providing no thought and adding nothing to the discussion, by definition, he is providing noise. No. In theory, he's responding to noise by providing signal that addresses it. There's a big difference there, though whet
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by ewjordan 16y ago
Replacing yourself with a chat bot is just like arguing in person, except that it doesn't try your patience or waste your time, only the other guy's, and it doesn't give you any opportunity to learn or be exposed to novel ideas. I don't s
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by ewjordan 16y ago
Works great -- as long as you're omniscient. Not at all - to set people straight on common talking points doesn't require omniscience, it merely requires that those specific talking points have been satisfactorily refuted before, clearly
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by ewjordan 16y ago
Here's the problem: while I would tend to agree with you if your claim was that global warming is not as clear cut an issue as the mainstream makes it out to be, that's not how your post comes across. The real problem with the way you're ar
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Furthermore, the totality of all nuclear accidents in the world has caused less deaths than coal soot alone. This is where the current environmentalist movement has really failed: "Don't burn shit, it's bad for the environment and it's ba
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by ewjordan 16y ago
Is it possible they really meant "over 10,000 status updates" that include one of the phrases in question? Broken down yearly, 10,000 samples is an average of somewhere around 25 samples a day, and I'd imagine that on average far less than
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by ewjordan 16y ago
Again, it might work very well, I just think that some sort of tree-based approach might be faster and more efficient. While this is true in general, sometimes the nice thing about genetic methods is that pretty much all you have to do is
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Puppygames Pricing Experiment: 3 Games for the Price of 1/4(puppygames.net)
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Gene patents have not been a "problem" in the same way as software patents. I'd argue that the "problem" is that the entire idea that ownership, even temporary, can be claimed on a pre-existing string of bits (and not just some particular
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by ewjordan 16y ago
Do I understand correctly that just physically extracting a certain piece of DNA from a cell ("purifying" it) makes it patentable? That seems silly. Yeah, it's ludicrous - imagine that I tried to file for a patent on using a random (but u
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by ewjordan 16y ago
Bah. Long division is a rather unenlightening algorithm that doesn't teach most people anything at all about how numbers interact. That's assuming they even remember how the algorithm works. Which they don't, as a rule. ROI-wise, there
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by ewjordan 16y ago
One of my first programming projects, a physics game done with Processing: http://www.ewjordan.com/RGBApplet/ (warning, that link is a Java applet, don't blame me if your browser crashes!) Buggy as hell (won't work if you reload the page,
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Poker Copilot ( http://pokercopilot.com/ - a hand history database/HUD for online poker) is one example, and actually a good example of a business approach that many people here would doubtless love to follow (one guy, making a reasonable
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by ewjordan 16y ago
First off, I think it's worth noting that the current system of motivation, based on grades, is hardly better than straight up bribery, it's just that the theoretical rewards of the "bribe" (good college, great career, etc.) are so far in t
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Just to be clear: I'm not necessarily suggesting that full multivariate A/B testing is the best thing to shoot for, I realize very well that especially in site design, different splits cannot be composed together. However, related to a disc

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