jabagawee

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by jabagawee 12y ago
In a way, it's like investing in YC startups then. Give a sizable but not unbearably so amount of money to a large set, hope that statistically these companies have a chance to experience hockey stick growth, and have that one black sw
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by jabagawee 12y ago
IIRC, aren't you supposed to calculate your owed taxes for your state and then pay when you filed? Of course not many people do this, and the IRS (or state equivalent) has no hope of enforcing this.
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by jabagawee 12y ago
Donald Knuth no longer writes personal checks for finding errors in his books and code, though he still issues a credit for the correct amount at the (pretty sure it's fictional) Bank of San Serriffe [0]. The page I linked to also ment
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by jabagawee 12y ago
Just as a note, the code is greyed out and hard to read when Javascript is disabled.
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by jabagawee 12y ago
The next question is: is that a tradeoff that is worth it?
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by jabagawee 12y ago
There are approximately 115M households in the US [1], so does this mean that two of every three households is affected by this data breach? If so, why isn't there more panic? [1]: http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/
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by jabagawee 12y ago
Debt collectors usually do not have the ability to target specific people's debt in the debt packages that they buy.
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by jabagawee 12y ago
In case you wanted to read it again, here's a Wayback Machine link [1]. [1]: http://web.archive.org/web/20101006104124/http://blog.okcupi...
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by jabagawee 12y ago
I think buying food in lieu of giving money ignores the fact that money is fairly fungible. A dollar saved on food expenses is a dollar that can be spent on the vices that the donor is trying to prevent. As for my answer to the question, I
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by jabagawee 12y ago
Oh! So `go` is a function that's defined within `shift`. That's the crucial part I was missing. Why is it named "go"? EDIT: While I have your attention, do you mind also pointing me to some resources to learn about this
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by jabagawee 12y ago
I noticed that your blog post differed from the actual code in your git repository. In the blog post, you defined `shift` to be: shift v = pad (map Just (concatMap add (group (catMaybes v))))) Nothing (length v) where
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by jabagawee 12y ago
In any sane code, you'd have the open and close brackets anyways, so all this code does is trade a few '\n' characters for a few parentheses characters. I'd opt for the former still.
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by jabagawee 12y ago
Reminds me of Gary Bernhardt's selecta [1]. [1] https://github.com/garybernhardt/selecta
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by jabagawee 12y ago
Uber could potentially expand the taxi/limo market though. Anecdotally, I know that my friends and I are willing to use Uber for trips where we would not consider a taxi.
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by jabagawee 12y ago
I reject the argument that Valve had it coming since they didn't take the time to secure their network beforehand. There are almost always going to be holes in the security of any system, especially digital ones (since they have a larg
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by jabagawee 12y ago
Assuming "Joe" represents the entire userbase of Mt. Gox, which deposited its own money into the system: Start : (Markus: $0) (Joe: 1BTC, $200) Step 1: (Markus: $1200 ) (Joe: 1BTC, $200) Step 2: (Markus: 1BTC) (Joe: $200 + 1200
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by jabagawee 12y ago
A 1% chance to get a 99x payout still has a negative expected value, no? 99 x 0.01 x original bet = 0.99 x original bet
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by jabagawee 13y ago
If you enjoyed reading this article, xkcd's Randall Munroe publishes "what if" analyses on a sporadic basis at http://whatif.xkcd.com/ .
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by jabagawee 13y ago
To be fair, that could also mean that the market for financial services is extremely high margin or has an extremely large potential size rather than being an indictment of Sony's product lines.
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by jabagawee 13y ago
I've just spent the morning implementing various "faster" median algorithms, and it seems that constant factors, function call overhead (for recursive quickselects), etc make all alternative approaches quite slow. The sort-th
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by jabagawee 13y ago
I find it weird that HDBaseT can only support 100BaseT Ethernet when it uses Cat5e - Cat7 cables. The article assures us that this is enough, but >100 Mbps Internet connections are slowly becoming a reality here in the United States and