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by howling 7y ago
The best case scenario to a customer in a year is that he pays exactly 0, which happens with probability (0.9)^12.
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by howling 7y ago
A potential way to solve this is randomness. Instead of every customer paying $3 per month, every customer has a 10% chance of paying $30 per month.
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by howling 7y ago
I think people are arguing that to be fair, time spent on raising children should be shared equally between father and mother.
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GNU Mcron(gnu.org)
113 points by howling 8y ago|146 comments
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by howling 8y ago
All these discussions of "=" are missing the point. The notation "x = x + 1" is awful because at lhs x denotes a reference to an integer while at rhs x denotes the value hold by the reference. If you know C, it is simila
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Merging and Patches (2017)(jneem.github.io)
2 points by howling 9y ago|0 comments
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The reclusive hedge fund tycoon behind Trump's presidency(newyorker.com)
2 points by howling 10y ago|0 comments
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by howling 10y ago
If you have to force yourself not to name and play animals to be able to kill them eventually, it is probably wrong to kill them. Disclaimer: I am a vegetarian.
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by howling 11y ago
More like a bulged spiral. http://www.av8n.com/physics/periodic-table.htm
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by howling 11y ago
First thing I do after reading this story: search online to make sure this is not itself a hoax. Seems legitimate though, or somebody has planned the hoax since 2009. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=I,_Libert
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by howling 11y ago
From what I see it is pretty similar to Haskell besides some minor syntax differences, strict evaluation by default, and dynamic typing. So why should I use this over Haskell?
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by howling 11y ago
I always wonder why people feel so upset over millions of animals being experimented every year when we kill and eat billions of animals every day.
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by howling 11y ago
There are 2 types of matrix multiplications which should not be confused with each other. The first type is a change of basis where the columns of the matrix are the old basis represented in the new basis. The second type is a linear functi
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by howling 12y ago
How about just having no grades at all? The companies/universities get to decide which applicants to choose by their own methods.
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by howling 12y ago
How does one cheat in IMO? Is your high school teacher your country's IMO team leader?
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by howling 12y ago
This [1] may seem sexist, but is it true? Basically the article claims that while girls have a slightly higher average IQ than boys, boys have greater variance in IQ than girls. So while there is not much difference in average boys' an