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by ksrm 13y ago
Extremely slow unfortunately.
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by ksrm 13y ago
Nevermind, I saw "we prove that there are infinitely often primes differing by 16 or less" but missed the caveat "assuming the Elliott-Halberstam conjecture".
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by ksrm 13y ago
Tao mentions in the post that H=16 has already been proven [1]. [1] http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0508185
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The Most Important Software Innovations, and Software Patents(dwheeler.com)
1 points by ksrm 13y ago|0 comments
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by ksrm 13y ago
Is there an API for extracting data from infoboxes?
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by ksrm 13y ago
Do this and then stretch your arms, or give someone a high-five. I wonder if they would do anything.
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by ksrm 13y ago
Not really that surprising. Similar research into self-perception and out-of-body experiences has been done before, see e.g. http://www.livescience.com/9526-body-experiences-simulated.h...
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by ksrm 13y ago
>hey UK, how are those surveillance cameras? The vast majority of CCTV cameras in the UK are privately owned, on private property. What is the problem here? I don't know where this "surveillance state" idea came from but i
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by ksrm 13y ago
Isn't that because psychological pain is much more common?
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by ksrm 13y ago
A land value tax would go a long way towards fixing this. You could decrease income and sales taxes as a result. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax
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by ksrm 13y ago
Why go all the way to space? Just head to the oceans: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasteading
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by ksrm 13y ago
The Arduino library provides a lot more flexibility compared to the bare AVR + libc, but at the expense of performance. Notably using digitalWrite() can be up to 50x slower than writing to the port registers directly.
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by ksrm 13y ago
> I like to think of myself as open-minded but I'm not ready for that just yet But...why? Is there any good reason, or is it just puritanism?
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by ksrm 13y ago
At least you have some degree of proportionality in your voting system though. It's something people have been campaigning for for decades in the UK and it hasn't happened. I fear it might never happen.
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by ksrm 13y ago
I love the optimism of this video. Sadly, it was never to be: "The Hamburg development coincided with a request by the American government for increased defence spending by the NATO allies, which resulted in a funding cut to all other
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Cabinentaxi personal rapid transit system (1975)(youtube.com)
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As mentioned in the paper, a simple solution if there is internet connectivity is to verify that the ephemeris is correct. This is how assisted GPS works in mobile phones and the like anyway (the ephemeris and almanac data are downloaded o
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by ksrm 13y ago
Selective enforcement of the law is often worse than having no law at all.
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by ksrm 13y ago
aka: you can't refactor code you haven't written yet.
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by ksrm 13y ago
It's accurate though, isn't it.
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Blueseed (startup community)(en.wikipedia.org)
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How do they do that?
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by ksrm 13y ago
I had never heard of Origin before this comment, thanks!
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reddit's AskScience[1] also suffered this fate. [1] http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience
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Cdecl: C gibberish ↔ English(cdecl.org)
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