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by iopq 10y ago
You could literally put it in the Bitcoin blockchain. This will be spread among thousands of machines with cryptographic proof.
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by iopq 10y ago
I am only responding because I didn't know what "the City" means because I don't work in the financial sector
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by iopq 10y ago
It also means "New York" if you're in New York. It also means "San Francisco" if you're in San Francisco.
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by iopq 10y ago
I didn't have lazer focus, in fact I spread myself over many different subjects. I studied zoogeography, physics, chemistry, history, etc. because I thought those things were interesting. This didn't stop me from finding calculus
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by iopq 10y ago
I was self-taught. It was actually very frustrating asking my mother for an explanation because what she told me was technically correct, but not useful in explaining why the textbook said what it did. What we both missed is that the textbo
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by iopq 10y ago
> anything - I bet you just don't know how little aptitude you have at things you didn't happen to spend time with. As compared to other people trying things for the first time I'm usually a very quick learner. I think bei
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by iopq 10y ago
Introverted means you feel tired after socializing, while extroverted people feel excited and energized. Both need to socialize, but the introvert needs to recharge alone. Only very weird people are asocial. This trait was very heavily sele
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by iopq 10y ago
Those weren't my studies. Those were my hobbies. Give me homework and I'll run away screaming. I used to HATE the language subjects. Now that I'm not being forced to do it, I enjoy linguistics.
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by iopq 10y ago
> There are many ungifted people who make their livings as mathematicians They're still well above average IQ.
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by iopq 10y ago
I'm an introverted nerd and I enjoy socialization. This is a bad example.
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by iopq 10y ago
My academic performance was average, but I did place first in a math Olympiad in my school. That said, I was competing with kids that didn't know algebra and I got basically every question right.
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by iopq 10y ago
I don't feel like that's true. I didn't expend any effort on my studies and it just came easily to me. Now, I'm not a genius, but there's a huge difference between my aptitude towards anything and the average person
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by iopq 10y ago
This is why Bitcoin is going to win - it is good enough for a lot of use cases and getting better. At the same time, it's the most widely accepted and the most secure. The network effect is too strong to overcome unless you offer somet
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by iopq 10y ago
No, an empty field represents "" - the empty string. NULL and "" are not the same thing.
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by iopq 10y ago
Until something gets stored as CSV at some point where there's no straight-forward way to store Null.
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by iopq 10y ago
No, it might be a conversion from a database to CSV that's doing it or something similar.
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by iopq 10y ago
You can't use induction to get to an infinite amount of nines, so induction doesn't work in this case because you never get there. The number of nines is not in the set of natural numbers, yet you're trying to use induction b
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by iopq 10y ago
While that's true, the whole key to the proof is that 0.999... * 10 = 9.999... Because "one less 9 than infinity is still infinity" it's what really closes the loop on the proof.
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by iopq 10y ago
"We have deleted eli's messages from HN because he made others felt uncomfortable."
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by iopq 10y ago
I learned English in my teens and I use "he" as the default pronoun because that's what everyone uses.
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by iopq 10y ago
The problem with this argument is it assumes you can get to infinity 9s by adding them one-by-one. It's like adding sides to a regular polygon to get to a circle. No matter how many sides you add, you still have a polygon. You can only
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by iopq 10y ago
I'm really talking about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-value Most people just look at the number of subjects in a study, but not the p-values
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by iopq 10y ago
I didn't understand anything on that page.
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by iopq 10y ago
It's not a reduction. If you try to find where to put 0.999... on the number line, it has to go exactly where 1 is. For one thing, 1 - 0.999... = 0.000... because you never get to have any remainder since 0.999... is infinite. Or here&
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by iopq 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantor%27s_diagonal_argument
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by iopq 10y ago
If the difference between samples is VERY large, you don't need a very large sample size. In other words, we're trying to find the chance that the result we got was due to chance. Let's say you have numbers like these: A: 11,
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by iopq 10y ago
Well, that's if they accept that an infinitely repeating number is actually EQUAL to the fraction. Some people just accept that a non-infinite number will never equal the fraction, but don't understand the concept of infinite repe
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by iopq 10y ago
I think society would be a lot better if BASIC math and statistics would be better understood. How many times do you see a study posted here with N=23 and people say "the sample size is too small" when it's clearly not? How m
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by iopq 10y ago
Android users have way more money in aggregate, but iPhone apps make more money. This is because iPhone users have a lot more disposable income, while Android users are cheap.
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by iopq 10y ago
qBittorrent is just as good and free, why pay for something that's maybe a few MB smaller? Do you really not have gigabytes of RAM on your machine? If you don't, I suggest spending that money on RAM.

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