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by frig 17y ago
This is in der Spiegel b/c there's much more basic income advocacy in Germany (especially on the part of eg Gotz Werner, mentioned early in the article); that this experiment is being run in Namibia is likely due to Namibia's links with Ger
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by frig 17y ago
Your redheads example is either terrible or disingenuous or you're just innumerate; you're comparing 10k traffic accidents / annum with redheads , of whom there's several millions. If you're going to try and have an honest debate you ought
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by frig 17y ago
I'd stick with the serious point; it's not unique to politics and bureaucracies, though: just about anything can be justified by appealing to increasing shareholder value: - paying generously above market rates? argue it is a morale-booster
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by frig 17y ago
You're being silly: under your scenario the 'minimal force necessary' would be about what's necessary to prevent drivers from being distracted by random glimpses of penis: - general knowledge that "hey, there's a law against indecent exposu
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by frig 17y ago
I'm not trying to claim the "internal representation" is somehow more correct or even prior-to the real #s, etc.; I do think (though admit I haven't proven) that a great many common examples of innumeracy can be explained by assuming the in
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by frig 17y ago
And if you did 'solve' X = (.9... + 1)/2 using the standard 'algorithms' for doing it by hand you will wind up with X = .9... + .0...1 (more on this in a sec); you get there by noticing 1.9... / 2 looks like it ought to be .9..., but "of co
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by frig 17y ago
The kid is full of win. A+++, I bow to you.
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by frig 17y ago
Thanks.
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by frig 17y ago
Missed the edit interval, so: def findPossibleSolutions(querytext): for result in GoogleCodeSearch(query=querytext): yield result def tryOutPossibleSolution(candidate): output = None with SafeSandboxedEvaluatorF
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by frig 17y ago
See, what's so awesome about that answer is it allows the idiocy to keep rolling. Here goes: Proof: assume .9... < 1 (b/c lol I know this ); then: X = (1+.9...)/2 => 2X = 1 + .9... => - 2X < 1 + 1 = 2 x 1 (b/c 1 > .9...
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by frig 17y ago
Yeah, and in point of fact now that it seems too late to edit my original post I am going to clarify here: this ad definitely works. I wasn't specifically intending to make fun of the guy's appearance; he looks like a normal 20-something, d
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by frig 17y ago
Nice work including the axiom of choice in there. FWIW it's hard to imagine the mind that wouldn't believe in the axiom of choice but would believe in .999 == 1 being a good phrase to use; that person would probably say - 'I have a procedur
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by frig 17y ago
Someone once trolled an objectivist form with something like this: how do you square 'A==A' with '.9999...=1'?
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by frig 17y ago
Additionally: in the spirit of good natured fun, here's my (clearly non-serious) entry: '' def findPossibleSolutions(querytext): for result in GoogleCodeSearch(query=querytext): yield result def tryOutPossibleSolution(candidate): ou
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by frig 17y ago
Is there anything in the ad that isn't already encouraging its readers to make decisions based on appearance (in this case, that of a fun and elite group of people)? In what possible way is 'send us the coolest "hello world" you've got, a
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by frig 17y ago
You missed a few, try going frame-by-frame. Remember there's 5+ ninjas there.
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by frig 17y ago
Does this guy look like a ninja to you: http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/3b4ddb8b9c296ecf6a7cc338da508... ? Because: that is who posted the ad; Stephen Blum, 'lead ninja engineer @ trusted opinion, inc'. http://www.linkedin.com/in/stephenl
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by frig 17y ago
For there to be money in 'inventing stuff' -- at least in the form of an incentive -- potential inventors have to believe there's enough possibility of there being money in 'inventing stuff' that 'inventing stuff' is worthwhile. It's entire
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by frig 17y ago
There's a lot of reznor-sound in 'they don't care about us also', at least to my ears.
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by frig 17y ago
That's useful, thanks. Also thanks for this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=134834 It's a wonderfully useful statement, and gets at what I was trying to get at much better than I could. I stand by SMC being a better fit for simple fi
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by frig 17y ago
Actually: I think you meant what I'm saying in the earlier version of this comment. But yes: if "P==NP is undecidable" holds then for any provably-polynomial sat-"solver" the following possibilities hold: - you'd be able to find a proof i
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by frig 17y ago
You're really moving the goalposts here: if it's already proven that P==NP is undecidable (your supposition) then of course you couldn't prove that the algorithm, say, solved arbitrary instances of SAT in time polynomial in their size; such
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by frig 17y ago
I wouldn't be so sure that P=NP not provable <=> de facto P!=NP. It's at least not obviously inconceivable that one might stumble upon an algorithm for SAT or traveling salesman whose running time on all known inputs appears to b
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by frig 17y ago
In my experience SMC ("state machine compiler", tres original no?) is better-suited than ragel for working with state machines that're easily specified as "state charts". The difference is that ragel is oriented around consuming a stream-of
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by frig 17y ago
You'd naively calculate per-player requirements at 720p to be 1,000,000 pixels/frame x 30 frames/sec x 10x rays/pixel == per-player you need 3 giga-rays / sec (+ video compression hardware). Maybe the video compression blurs stuff enough th
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by frig 17y ago
Unreal are doing fine for themselves. So are Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony, more-or-less. The sales pitch for this stuff is you can sell high-end games to people who don't have consoles or high-end gaming pcs; eg, play whatever on your ipho
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by frig 17y ago
otoy was more open earlier; they've since locked it down a bit, but with some googling you can dig it out (eg: http://raytracey.blogspot.com/2008/08/otoy-transformers-and-... , links-> http://ompf.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=88
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by frig 17y ago
Reportedly the underlying tech at otoy (not the competitor, just otoy) is essentially a legitimate breakthrough in real-time gpu-assisted raytracing. The significant advantage raytracing brings to this space is that compared to typical rend
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by frig 17y ago
A wag other than myself once summarized EY's other site as "wallowing in bias", which summarization did seem apt every time I overcame that tl;dr feeling and tried to wade through; I'll happily admit the possibility that there really is som
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by frig 17y ago
It's not even precedence per-se. Ad networks are abusable products: there's tons of ways someone could be making use of the service in a fraudulent fashion. You can't know someone's fraudulently using the service until they actually frau

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