gill984

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   by gill984 11y ago

   Don't know if this is exactly why, but the situation certainly reminds me of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penney%27s_game
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   by gill984 11y ago

   My sister has an SP3 and likes it a lot. She's a student in college and I feel like this is a good niche for the hardware. The main draw to the Surface for her was the pen because of how well it worked compared to other options. She do
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   by gill984 11y ago

   Link to HN post? I can't find it searching for "Alrawi" or "ISIS encrypt".
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   by gill984 11y ago

   It's a Mersenne Prime, so it is 1 less than some power of 2. This results in all of its non-leading digits in binary being 1s.
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   by gill984 11y ago

   I don't think it's equivalent to 3-5 cigarettes. An 18% increase isn't the same when the incidence rate on colorectal cancer starts off so low compared to lung cancer. This article is one that got posted on HN a while back.