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mortehu
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It has nothing to do with readline, but is a feature of the TTY (i.e. implemented inside the kernel) when in canonical mode. It will work for anything that exits in reaction to read(STDIN_FILENO, ...) returning zero.
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I think you mean amortized constant complexity, or O(1).
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If the teachers make $24/hr, that means they're working 11.25 hours per day, assuming a 185 day work year. Since a school day is just around 6.5 hours, that seems like a lot of after hours work. If we assume they make all their s
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Yet electronic stability control[1] works far better than human control on snow, wet roads, or ice. If you don't believe it, try an obstacle course on an ice track with and without it sometime (a required part of driver's ed in N
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Nasdaq Inc (as opposed to the NASDAQ Stock Market it owns and operats) has more than a few subsidiaries, and operates many markets around the world: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1120193/0001193
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You can't set an upper limit for what can be lost unless you force other traders to buy what a short seller is covering. Non-deliverable futures markets with no shorts are not possible, and it isn't practical to make every future
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CME has a simple web tool to see the market’s expectations about future rates, for those interested: https://www.cmegroup.com/trading/interest-rates/countdown-to... E.g. a September rate hike is expected with a 99
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To clarify, in US even debit cards are primarily Visa or Mastercard, whereas in Europe they're not. E.g. Norway uses BankAxept: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BankAxept
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Because a week had elapsed since the batch became broadly available. Epic is missing a way to push out updates, so they wanted more time.
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It's much more likely to have reached maximum concurrency than maximum throughput. When the site is accessed by a general audience, many will access it through a 3G connection or worse, and their slow speeds will cause the number of c
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The closing auction signifies the end of regular trading hours (where more rules are in effect) but not the end of all trading. US stocks now trade 24/5 on at least one market, and well beyond 4pm ET on many more.
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The unemployment rate is one example: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/UNRATE As I understand it, the theory basically goes like this: Low unemployment leads to higher labor costs, which leads to wealthier workers an
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Judging from their username, tslathrowaway31, this could be an insider who knows more than what's in the memo. Regardless, I think configuration should be treated as code (use version control and reviews, write tests), since the damage
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Because the word "tracking" can include request monitoring for DDoS mitigation and scraping detection, or storing information purposefully uploaded by other people (e.g. photos and contact list), saying anything about "tracki
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Your question suggests their goal is to win when sued. That can be expensive. The goal is not to be sued in the first place.
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> The idea is to take in the best Is that really the purpose of the family-reunification program ?
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I think the point is to run the two models on the same data, either simultaneously in everyone's cars, or using recorded sensor data from the past (maybe in the car while parked after a drive for privacy reasons). Initially, only the
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For me it's that they're software patent abusers, and I won't send them any money because of that. However, all I did was switch from the paid tier to the free tier, and move my private repositories to my own server. Example
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Note: When converting void* to T* you can use use static_cast, which is well-defined. For example int* x = static_cast<int*>(malloc(sizeof(int)));
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The question isn't whether you can produce absurd example models where "What [vanderZwan says] would only be true if character traits and socioeconomic background were uncorrelated", it's whether it holds in general.
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For those who haven't tried MS Windows recently, it now comes with tons of ads you have to opt out of. The settings to opt out are scattered around and unclear ("pipe up thoughts", "show suggestions", "show me
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If the relationship is `y=x₀+x₁+𝓝`, then x₀ is more strongly correlated to `y-x₁` than it is to `y` alone. This holds even if x₀ and x₁ are strongly correlated, as long as they're not 100% correlated.
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The Scandinavian countries have something like this, called leveling seats: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leveling_seat
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The lack of proportional representation is a feature of single winner districts, as opposed to multi-winner districts, not national vs federal.
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The mistake would be attributing any outcome to the placebo intervention. The mistake isn't in the construction of the experiment, but in the interpretation of its results.
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If a randomized controlled trial includes just two groups, one which gets a treatment and another which gets placebo, it cannot attribute any results to the placebo, because it's missing a control for the placebo, i.e. a group which ge
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I can only find sources that contradict you. Do you have a source for that?
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Google's main ad products, AdWords and AdSense, are content based. For many advertisers, this has always been the best type of targeting. E.g. some hotel in Toronto may advertise on the search engine results page when you search for
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This type of complaint nearly always means you're listening to a surround track on a stereo system, without proper "downmixing". This means you're missing the center channel, and instead only hear the front left and fro
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You can disable Google's ad targeting at any time: https://adssettings.google.com/ You don't have to pay anything. What you get instead is untargeted ads, like ads for cars, potato chips, and shampoo, just like
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