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by gertef 9y ago
"God created the integers, all else is the work of man." - Leopold Kronecker
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by gertef 9y ago
Rationals are conintuous, but not a continuum. you don't need real numbers to have continuous functions. http://math.stackexchange.com/a/672151
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by gertef 9y ago
The number you are paraphrasing cannot be precisely identified in finite time.
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by gertef 9y ago
"the real numbers are not countable" is a different statement from "the real numbers are constructible"
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by gertef 9y ago
Lawrence Spector (professor at CUNY, Manhattan) on this topic: http://www.themathpage.com/acalc/anumber.htm
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by gertef 10y ago
"Mitchell & Webb Sound - Identity Theft" : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9ptA3Ya9E
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by gertef 10y ago
https://developer.android.com/reference/android/speech/Recog...
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by gertef 10y ago
That wasn't "free", that was payment for working in the military for several years.
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by gertef 10y ago
The most important problem with advertising is that it is competive waste: If firms A and B can create a product a cost $X that sells for $X+$Y firm B can create the same product for $X, then A and B will waste $Y on advertising in an atte
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by gertef 10y ago
Gaza is not a state, it has no stable government and peace treaty with its neighbors. There's no simplistic 1-line solution here. Take a look around the other Middle Eastern states that have lost their governments recently.
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by gertef 10y ago
This comment fails to distinguish clearly the differing situations and attitudes in re West Bank vs Gaza. Israel (including Likud) is far along a path of disengagement from Gaza https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_dis
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by gertef 10y ago
I've never heard of a "depressed artist". I've heard of a tortured artist, someone who struggles with mental health.
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by gertef 10y ago
This is called "existential angst", and it comes up on HN every year or so. The best treatment is fill your life with distracting obligations.
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by gertef 10y ago
the boundary is fuzzy, but how much training does a barista require, and how much training is required to call a job unskilled? Even hauling rocks requires requires some training to perform safely and efficiently.
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by gertef 10y ago
Universities need foreign students to fund the school (including tuition subsidies for state residents) because state legislature won't.
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by gertef 10y ago
Drone cars! Why isn't remote control driving progressing apace with self-driving cars? Outsource Uber driving to lowest-wage drivers in India, Bangladesh, or Nigeria.
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by gertef 10y ago
If a car has trouble, it pull over to the shoulder or right lane. This is what people (should) do, and what cars will do. Yes, it can be annoying, the question is, is it orders of magnitude MORE or LESS likely to happen in an automated car.
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by gertef 10y ago
The exact value is near impossible to pinpoint, but you can find it by gradient methods. One thing for certain is that it's lower than the rate I currently pay. ;-)
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by gertef 10y ago
They won't leave if it costs them access to the hugely profitable domestic market that makes them rich.
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by gertef 10y ago
money is fungible, and SS benefits are extremely extremely loosely proportional to how much taxes you paid.
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by gertef 10y ago
Is "occifer" a pun or just a mangling of "officer"?
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by gertef 10y ago
and people also became afraid to express themselves candidly. the solution is moderation and leadership, not forcing identity. but that is expensive, so owners don't want it.
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by gertef 10y ago
Humans play for a large lead because they don't have enough memory/power to accurately estimate the value of their positions, so they play for a buffer -- AlphaGo has higher confidence in its valuation, so it can play it closer --
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by gertef 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter-verified_paper_audit_tra...
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by gertef 10y ago
what's the minimum bet? 25% of 0.01p isn't bad
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by gertef 10y ago
Pardon my moralizing, but I strain to find a situation where someone's life is improved by easier access to slot machines or blackjack games, even provably fair ones.
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by gertef 10y ago
sort of like following ones own footprints.
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by gertef 10y ago
No idea if Kapersky is a black hat in white haberdashery, but the behavior you describe is 100% Kremlin modus operandi. That's how they do propaganda too -- a bunch of real news with some fake news mixed in. It's a good idea for
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by gertef 10y ago
You should treat stupidity the same way you treat malice, because it's just as dangerous. The fire doesn't care who set it or why.
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by gertef 10y ago
Better why?

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