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by mehwoot 11y ago
Assuming you are given a single number and you test it and is_prime says it is prime. If on the other hand you are looking for a number that is_prime says is prime, and you are iterating through candidates, you need to know how likely it is
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The poor would love to have newer cars, consume more services, have nicer homes, etc. So then how are we producing more than we need? People regularly die from starvation, but the world produces more than enough food to feed everyone. It
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There isn't an idea that alone "capital drives growth," that's an idea How is it not an idea and an idea simultaneously
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In the country I live in, if you are in possession of stolen goods and the owner can prove they were stolen, they are entitled to the goods back. Doesn't matter how many transactions it went through or how hard you tried to determine
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But what is the reward of content creation? This is actually one of the reasons I like it- it is deliberately counter to a lot of social media. There is no like button, no retweet count, no permanent record- just ephemeral little moments
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For each individual measurement yes, but given repeated measurements on a path statistically you'll almost always end up with an overestimation.
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Even if they don't sanction it, can they actually stop you from doing as you please with an asteroid Well they could fine you / put you in Jail here on earth. The state can't physically prevent you from murdering people in
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Well it's pretty easy to donate money when it isn't yours, and it was much easier to anonymously donate the winning piece than it was to organise someone you knew to take it and get a cut.
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Especially since the rise of heart disease, diabetes, and chronic obesity have only become a problem during the same time period Right, because we can't think of a single other factor that has changed during that time period apart fr
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Right, but that just means they have made a design that suits what is being displayed on their website.
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from South Wales New South Wales is a state of Australia, fyi.
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Have what? Over consumed cannabis? Probably not.
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That was a game where the object was to get there by clicking any link in the article.
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It makes airbnb seem petty and misguided... why the hell would you go after libraries anyone? Like they wouldn't want to offer a better service if they had better funding? It also makes you wonder if this is the best argument they hav
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Maybe the cause and effect is reversed- every place may start off like this, and then they get robbed, so they put up security. The ones that randomly have never been robbed end up with no security.
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Which feels like the ratings are manipulated during the marketing period. I always assumed this was because the people most enthusiastic about a movie see it first, and then everybody else.
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"this is not spam, because we've targeted you for a particular reason" Indeed. Not sure about your country, but in mine, any non solicited commercial offer via email is spam and is illegal.
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It mostly means cyclists also die from other causes than head injury Because it's compulsory to wear helmets.
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First three links and fifth are all talking about ice, not liquid flowing water. Fourth link isn't conclusive These results are the closest scientists have come to finding evidence of liquid water on the planet's surface today.
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I doubt that the level of life succeeding enough to damage our ability to determine if there was already life there is on the same order as "terraforming a planet". I doubt there would be much upside.
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Seems to vastly overestimate the chance of underdogs winning- for example it has Uruguay at a 20% chance to beat Australia, but on betting markets it is <1%. Ditto Namibia is 10% chance to beat New Zealand, but it's around 0.1% on b
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Yes, but with a half life of 500 years, the amount of information you have halves every 500 years you go back. At some point there just isn't enough information to go viably go back further.
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Read the article.
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The entire bull case for AMZN is always "Amazon reinvests all their cash flow into the business" and "Bezos is focused on the long term". Why are they calling it quits already? Because they are investing their cash in
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The tradeoff is development speed. Sure, there is a whole lot of software written these days that isn't world class (In terms of anything really, not just execution speed) but at the same time a lot of it is software that is written a
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I think we're less than ten years away from completely generative pop, vocals, sound design, and all. I highly doubt this, because of the vocals. Generating coherent appealing lyrics and synthesizing voice to sound natural isn'
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where only rhythm and timbre are important. The problem is, the fewer elements you have, the higher importance each is and the higher quality that is needed to sound "good". When you look at electronic music genres that focus
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Either you didn't read the article, or you know something I don't... Europe has similar laws, but the European Union has a “passport” system that allows a registered payments company in one E.U. country to get permission to do bu
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It's simply incorrect to say that private companies cannot engage in censorship. If they have enough control over a medium to effectively suppress speech, then yes. The argument is whether that is the case here. The definition of c
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Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication or other information The argument is it isn't suppression because as a private company, people can still choose to engage in that speech elsewhere. The government can act

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