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by gavazzy 11y ago
You can use an initializer list ctor for point: drawline({x0,x1}, {x2,x3})
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by gavazzy 11y ago
I think this will create a damped feedback loop. Over time, the delay caused by "don't chase surge" will mean that the prices remain higher longer . Drivers will realize that the surge doesn't instantly vanish. As a res
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by gavazzy 11y ago
Do employers look at certificates at all?
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by gavazzy 11y ago
Mirror (down at 4:54EST 8/17/2015) http://pastebin.com/8t0BquQg
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by gavazzy 11y ago
Cash
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by gavazzy 11y ago
Interested in more articles like this? Here's the recipe: 2 parts Buzzfeed 1 part technology Dash of bitter Mix until homogeneous, then garnish with elitism.
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by gavazzy 11y ago
> chess lacks an element of imperfect information To airframeng: if you are interested in games with imperfect information, consider: * bridge * poker * Twilight Struggle board game These games hide competitor's positions and force
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by gavazzy 11y ago
> corporate finance is simple enough ... Chess is simple enough for a kid to learn. But the level of mastery varies greatly among people. Worse, inexperienced players are unable to recognize their own weaknesses or to recognize skill in
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by gavazzy 11y ago
And people couldn't communicate before email.
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by gavazzy 11y ago
But the questions is: what are the specific differentiating features and will people always pay for them?
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by gavazzy 11y ago
I was really hoping that the article would have in-depth reporting and fact checking. Tweets are not a very effective means of communication, and anyone can tweet anything without editorial review, so it's hard for an outsider like me
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by gavazzy 11y ago
Not OP, but RAII provides deterministic destruction. That is, it is provable exactly when the object will be deleted. From wikipedia: "Object destruction varies, however – in some languages, notably C++, automatic and dynamic objects a
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by gavazzy 11y ago
Sure, in the same way you can look at the ingredients of an M&M's bag and replicate the chocolate candy.
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by gavazzy 11y ago
This analysis ignores both the (1) base rate, and (2) practice effect. The problem with using gender-neutral percentiles is that the proportion of males and females may not be 1:1. So, even if the percentage of women in the 99th percentile
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by gavazzy 11y ago
Posts like these are somewhere in the middle of the Evolution.
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by gavazzy 11y ago
Low volume is one of the reasons that arbitrage was so difficult with Bitcoin. While an individual could be somewhat profitable, it just couldn't provide adequate returns for a medium or large organization.
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by gavazzy 11y ago
Whoa, he should submit his results to Nature!
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by gavazzy 11y ago
But does life end at 38?
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by gavazzy 11y ago
You want $1,000,000 to get the report of life span experiments?
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by gavazzy 11y ago
EconTalk has a great episode on this. "ryan Caplan of George Mason University and blogger at EconLog talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the value of a college education. Caplan argues that the extra amount that college graduates
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by gavazzy 11y ago
A corollary is: "Where does a tree get most of its mass?" A good number of people will say "the ground", but the answer is actually "the air". The tree converts CO2 into energy and carbon-based molecules using
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by gavazzy 12y ago
> The biggest issue with using Bitcoin is the price volatility. In the time between when Robin sends Joseph payment for goods in Bitcoin and they arrive in Kenya, the price can fluctuate wildly and cause losses for Joseph. To eliminate t
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by gavazzy 12y ago
It probably doesn't have a tangible effect on your life. But it would and does have an effect on: celebrities, political figures, people of non-Christian faiths, people who pissed off someone in the wrong department. The less securit
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by gavazzy 12y ago
That doesn't prevent opera from storing data in HTML5.
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by gavazzy 12y ago
The problem is one of feedback. One who is extremely bad at conversation would likely be too socially unaware to recognize s/he is.
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by gavazzy 12y ago
If it weren't for patents, they likely wouldn't have spent $40million developing it. Someone would reverse engineer it and then launch a Kickstarter and sell it without having to spend the R&D cost.