nandemo

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by nandemo 10y ago
I might be wrong, but I feel you gave a lower-level (more detailed) description of "the idea here is that you instead privately give the transaction to only your favoured miner".
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by nandemo 10y ago
> Wouldn't the world be flush with Portugal's product in both industries rather than only in wine? In short, yes. But that's merely an extreme case, not an counterexample to the principle. Starting with the no-trade situ
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by nandemo 11y ago
Right. And function types aren't containers either. So much for "plain English".
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by nandemo 11y ago
Nobody lives there anymore, it's too crowded .
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by nandemo 11y ago
> Let's say the angel could only move in two directions. It would seem intuitively that this would still leave enough room to avoid traps. Nope. Even if you restrict the angel to 3 directions (up, left, right), the devil has a winni
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by nandemo 11y ago
> Did those "scientists" even know what they were testing ? They thought they did. Check out the original paper. They found that many animals needed higher (relative) dosages to get affected, administered up to 1mg/kg to
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by nandemo 11y ago
> or we could move to a sensible model, where software delivers on its promise and allows people to work anywhere If people really figure out how to consistently develop any kind of software remotely, with any team size and with average
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by nandemo 11y ago
Are we in the same thread? I conceded that things like minmax can also be considered brute force. I also gave a (very liberal) estimate of how much the tree is pruned. Why still call it "extremely nitpicky"?
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by nandemo 11y ago
Nope, brute force means exhaustive search by definition . One could arguably claim that something like minmax is brute force, since you only prune subtrees that are provably sub-optimal. But a search algorithm or heuristic that prunes over
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by nandemo 11y ago
See The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance by Ericsson. The data supports your hypothesis.
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by nandemo 11y ago
> Games like chess and GO are games of complete information. Its just a matter of brute processing power, even if currently computers don't have the processing power to "solve" them. That's like saying public-key encr
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by nandemo 11y ago
My writing was sloppy, let me rephrase it: in a pro match, whatever is the estimated score when the game goes into the endgame, that will likely be the final score. Where I wrote that a pro will blunder "now and then" I should hav
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by nandemo 11y ago
I don't think so. Pros are already pretty good at the endgame. Yeah, they make blunders now and then, so it's possible that AlphaGo would gain a few points in the endgame in some games, but not enough to overcome a significant lea
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by nandemo 11y ago
Come on, people. Why so many people ITT automatically associating this with "spying" (really?) or even overreach? Our government aren't making requests secretly. They aren't requesting data in bulk. They aren't aski
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by nandemo 11y ago
No need to fire anyone. They should hire a legal team that either 1) makes sure the company is able to provide data requested by the Brazilian justice system requests, 2) enables the company to legally refuse such requests. Though maybe y
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by nandemo 11y ago
The odd thing is, there are so many ways you can avoid an arrest legally in Brazil as long you have the legal resources. They could have thrown a liminar (injunction?) to avoid handing the data or, as a last resort, an habeas corpus to
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by nandemo 11y ago
First, > For many people, privacy is a fundamental right - they see no reason why a government should be meddling in my affairs without a more specific reason than a blanket search for possible terrorism. ... this is not about blanket
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by nandemo 11y ago
Incidentally, Yahoo Japan's version of Answers is quite useful and mostly troll-free.
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by nandemo 11y ago
Here's a more informative account, hosted on Board Game Geek: https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/166814/senet-review-version... Excerpt: > Everyone seems to agree that play moved back and forth down the 30
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by nandemo 11y ago
Not all women want to have kids.
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by nandemo 11y ago
Perhaps you mean they are Muslims . Islamism is an ideology -- or arguably a catch-all term for a number of ideologies -- that want to force Islam into the government, law and everything. http://www.danielpipes.org/954&#x2F
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by nandemo 11y ago
There are many related indicators that you can't easily "fudge". Actors who have a stake in China's growth (or lack thereof) aren't simply looking at a PDF posted by the Chinese government. For example, China is now
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by nandemo 11y ago
Indeed, China's GDP per capita in 2013 is comparable to Japan's in the late 1970s, well before the Japanese "bubble". http://www.indexmundi.com/facts/indicators/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD/co... Also,
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by nandemo 11y ago
> If you just want the things you list, you can go somewhere much cheaper than Tokyo (e.g. central US, northern/western Europe - as you say, any large city in a developed country will do) Right, I'm not claiming Tokyo is the
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by nandemo 11y ago
Point taken (though no snark was intended).
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by nandemo 11y ago
Exaggerate much? Tokyo might not have the SV's startup "scene" but apart from funding, it has pretty much all infrastructure a software startup needs, just like any large city in a developed country does: fast, reliable inter
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by nandemo 11y ago
Presumably, the implication is that the government must first excise taxes from the public, thereby depressing demand. The alternative is to borrow money by issuing bonds, but that's just a way of postponing the problem, eventually the
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by nandemo 11y ago
While you're right the wealthy people don't usually hold all most of their cash in their mattresses or checking accounts, that's not the definition of "hoarding cash" in the context of the story posted here. In co
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by nandemo 11y ago
Not sure what link OP meant, but try this one: http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/2013/07/28/01016-201...
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by nandemo 11y ago
Managing to execute that heist is pretty amazing, but it's debatable whether they "got away" with it. One alleged mastermind was kidnapped and murdered, even though his family paid the ransom. Another was arrested. Many other

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