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by jhart3333 13y ago
chailatte, your comment is dead. I think it triggered the beautiful prose filter.
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by jhart3333 13y ago
It's been a while since I studied this stuff and I screwed up a crucial part of the argument. The larger number isn't guaranteed to be prime. It's either prime or composite. In either case you end up with a prime not in the finite list of p
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by jhart3333 13y ago
There is no largest prime. In fact the classic proof that there are infinitely many primes starts with the assumption that there is a largest prime and proceeds to use this number to construct a larger number which is also prime. This is a
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by jhart3333 13y ago
Not really hard. Just move your money to a local bank or credit union. Easy. Edit: Not really hard to do that part either. Just do your grocery shopping at a locally owned market or farmers market instead of a nationwide chain. No need to a
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by jhart3333 13y ago
Lots of people voting with a few dollars each adds up and will get their attention.
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by jhart3333 13y ago
This site is my quick and dirty start: http://dontbuytheircrap.com But I haven't gotten around to building the tool yet. The idea is to have a mobile friendly web app that leverages social networking to help with this very problem. I didn
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by jhart3333 14y ago
Upvoted for explaining what is really going on here.
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by jhart3333 14y ago
Ad Hominem. You might try responding to the statements she made. For a retired judge to step into the public arena like this is quite out of the ordinary and it indicates to me that the behavior she witnessed in Ortiz was so egregious that
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by jhart3333 14y ago
> The charges weren't ridiculous They were according to a retired federal judge: http://www.wbur.org/2013/01/16/gertner-criticizes-ortiz-swar... from the article: "She says she was troubled by much of what she learned and saw from the
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by jhart3333 14y ago
Not sure this is correct. I just skimmed the article. http://www.insinuator.net/2013/01/rails-yaml/ From the comments: "From what i’ve see here is that versions below 2.0 should not be affected by this issue as they do not support xml par
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by jhart3333 14y ago
Older than 2.3? http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/
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by jhart3333 14y ago
IIRC, In "The Emperors New Mind" Penrose mentions that Godel employed Cantor's "Method of Diagonalization" to show that within a system such as the natural numbers there can be true statements(uncountably infinite) not on the list of provab