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1. You got your signs messed up. They should subtract the observation from the total. 2. C correctly guesses 0 in your example.
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For the four people puzzle. Assign every suit a number 0-3. All four people guess differently what the sum of all the cards is modulo 4, meaning exactly one person will get it right. Using the sum and the view of the other cards the one who
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Existing torrent clients already support RSS.
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If the natural ways of removing toxins don't work... could it be done artificially? Engineer some kind of enzyme to break them down? Dialysis?
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This can be solved by proportional punishments. Then just not breaking the law, and just breaking the law gives similar outcomes (nothing vs slap on wrist)
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If you exaggerate the importance of practice, people will do more of it, and become better. But what is the opportunity cost?
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> Worrying too much about keeping cultures separated could be seen as a form of conservatism and nationalism. Worrying too little could be seen as colonialism.
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I miss one thing in that post: a discussion of people abusing words to manipulate. This is typically done by taking a word with the desired emotional charge, and misapply it to piggyback on those emotions. Allowed to fester, the spin-terror
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ISIS is committing genocide against Christian minorities right now .
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Mao: An unknown story (2005)
(theguardian.com)
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The thing with falling-of-roof deaths is that they are poisson distributed. If 25 people fell off roofs then maybe if we are unlucky 50 people will fall off roofs this year. But no amount of bad luck will ever make 10,000 fall off roofs the
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Wont using this be long term harmful to our nasal health, as bacteria acquire immunity?
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> Being written in 1995, the training set is independent of the test set There is an important bias effect in play. OF the books written in the past about the rise of tyranny, not all are brought up equally in discussions. It is easy to
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What about my super expensive potted plants that shrivel and die from the lack of sunshine?
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A titanic system.
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The Rust leadership tolerates harassment and threats as long as its against the right wing. One of Rust's top people wants to violently purge the tech community. https://archive.is/BtDaA
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tl;dr because of a marketing campaign by pharma companies.
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A non-blame culture way to look at it would be to ask why people fall asleep at the wheel and try to prevent it from happening. Can we make cars and roads that promote alertness? Can cars detect sleeping drivers and wake them up? Can they d
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You only get to shift blame to your predecessor if you predict and warn about the unavoidable problems and state your plan for how to handle it.
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The power vaccuum happened when the troops were withdrawn.
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You mean integer multiplication in Z_p?
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Reddit asked a very important question regarding that: So why is it being released then? And why now?
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ISIS' rise to prominence happened under Obama, a long time after the invasion of Iraq.
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Ok, so what if you type out int max manually? let a: Double = -(9223372036854775807) + - (9223372036854775807)
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Why does Swift use this weird constraint-based type resolution anyway? To me it seems like it, whenever it manages to found a non-trivial solution, would be one that is unexpected to the programmer and leads to unintended consequences. Anyo