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by jibiki 17y ago
According to the article, Norway has a mere three thousand prisoners out of a population of four million. I really don't think America (which incarcerates people at about ten times that rate) could afford Norwegian style prisons.
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by jibiki 17y ago
> (legal) Not in the de jure sense, surely? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=630032
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by jibiki 17y ago
> Once you're good enough, the tactics melt away and you just think about the strategy. That just isn't true. Remember the famous game where Kramnik got mated by the computer? It is impossible to play chess without ever searching the
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by jibiki 17y ago
"Everyone generalizes from one example. At least, I do." -- Steven Brust
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by jibiki 17y ago
Googling "journal of negative results" gives a few hits. I think it's probably possible to get negative results published, but I doubt that they look good on the resume.
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by jibiki 17y ago
Those definitions are quite different from each other!
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by jibiki 17y ago
It's not quite true, is it...? Av = cv v is an eigenvector, c the corresponding eigenvalue (A^-1)Av = (A^-1)cv v = c(A^-1)v (1/c)v = (A^-1)v So if c is an eigenvalue of A, then 1/c is an eigenvalue of (A^-1). (c can't b
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by jibiki 17y ago
You are doing a rotation in 3 dimensions. Surely the original example meant two dimensions. In 3 dimensions, the axis of rotation is indeed an eigenvector.
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by jibiki 17y ago
> The guy who founded girls gone wild produced far more of what people want than your useless social engineers. Pablo Escobar produced far more of what people want than our hypothetical porn producer. Feynmann produced far, far less.
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by jibiki 17y ago
> How could prevention possibly not reduce costs? Probably because it keeps people alive longer, so that they need more care. Smokers, allegedly, are much cheaper to care for in the long term than non-smokers, because they die early.
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by jibiki 17y ago
"Have you ever throttled a mountain lion with your bare hands?" I think you need to actually experience a story to use it as an icebreaker. Nobody likes a liar.
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by jibiki 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plentyoffish They aren't a new company. They have 11 million users.
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by jibiki 17y ago
It was obviously a joke. There is no way anyone could look at that massive laptop and say, "wow, that weighs less than I do."
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by jibiki 17y ago
I think there is some correlation. If you are an American IMO contestant, you have a much higher chance of doing good mathematical research than a randomly chosen American.
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by jibiki 17y ago
I think it's generally considered okay to submit your own blog here.
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by jibiki 17y ago
> This is an advantage that Go has over Chess, where removing pieces would just be silly. It used to be rather popular, actually, to play at pawn-and-move odds. If you search through old games, you'll eventually come across one where b
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by jibiki 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian_socialism
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by jibiki 17y ago
Perhaps, in environments where gay guys have lots of high status potential partners, they tend to hold out for more (so that it becomes harder for everyone to find a relationship.) But, uh, probably not.
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by jibiki 17y ago
Hm, we didn't learn about that stuff in chemistry. It was more about learning the names of different molecules and pouring stuff from one beaker into another. Maybe you were educated in a better school system?
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by jibiki 17y ago
"what is the next 8-digit date..."
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by jibiki 17y ago
Pretty sure you're right. Maybe you just texted in the wrong format or something.
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by jibiki 17y ago
Honest question: what is an economy?
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by jibiki 17y ago
So, is this an affiliate program/pyramid scheme mashup? That seems pretty clever.
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by jibiki 17y ago
"Point #3: The article mentions a number of negative police incidents, but really doesn't give much respect to the vast majority of officers who are doing a good job in hard work. I think that's a bad thing." Every time you criticize creati
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by jibiki 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spandrel_(biology) Not contradicting you, just saying there are shades of nuance to the verb "to cause".
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by jibiki 17y ago
> Saying a winner-takes-all contest is "zero sum" in any sense is utterly nonsensical I thought that zero sum just meant that the total score of all players is a constant, regardless of the strategies chosen?
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by jibiki 17y ago
This article mentions it in passing: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=533743 "We know roughly when and where farming began, because of the archæological evidence: domestication is a shock to the physiology of man and beast. The skeleto
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by jibiki 17y ago
> Were is this complicity in our own demise coming from. Are supporters of ai and the singularity misguided - by their own values - or do we have irreconcileable philosophies on the matter. This reminds me of an (unintentionally?) hilar
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by jibiki 17y ago
Sorry, can someone explain why this comment has been downmodded? The original article is quite ambiguous: the author saw the decline of marriage as both bad and good (or at least practical.) This is a common attitude to hold towards chang
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by jibiki 17y ago
> For example, if no one broke their windows, some of the glaziers may well go out of business, and engage in other, more socially beneficial (given the circumstances) courses of work Or they could go out of business and engage in less

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