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by nmyk 8y ago
First thought was that this is unnecessary because enough people will always keep a local cache of Wikipedia or whatever handy. Second thought was a conversation between an electrical engineering professor I had in college and one of my cla
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by nmyk 8y ago
In what way does this review obfuscate information? I found it lively, descriptive, and detailed with plenty of evidence from the text.
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by nmyk 8y ago
Strictly speaking, it's not the case that 17 = 1 (mod 4) but rather 17 ≅ 1 (mod 4) i.e. "17 is congruent to 1 mod 4", not "equal", though congruency mod n is an equivalence relation.
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by nmyk 8y ago
Agreed re: strange world. But $100k is far below the market rate, which is what’s really being scoffed at.
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by nmyk 8y ago
From the context I think the author meant something like "useful for every task" rather than "commonly found everywhere" i.e. ubiquitous.
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by nmyk 8y ago
> Python is viewed as a ubiquitous programming language; however, its design limits its potential as a reliable and high performance systems language. Unfortunately, not every developer is aware of its limitations. Hammer is viewed as a
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by nmyk 8y ago
I've struggled with this too, and one thing I found really helpful was to start keeping a diary--in particular, of the hypothetical situations you're worried about. I found that after a while, when I would go back and read what I
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Ask HN: Why did you choose to have children?
74 points by nmyk 9y ago|106 comments
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by nmyk 9y ago
You left out the most quantitative measure of all: 525,600 minutes.
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by nmyk 9y ago
Cigarettes produce value! They take the edge off.
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by nmyk 9y ago
True, but MoneyGram is piloting xRapid, which is Ripple's product that uses XRP.
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by nmyk 9y ago
Yep, as one of my fiction instructors once said: The more you do it, the more you do it.
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by nmyk 9y ago
Make it so while you're retraining for a new job, your basic needs are all met.
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by nmyk 9y ago
Guns for everyone!
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by nmyk 11y ago
Hey The Truth! I've acted in a couple episodes of that. Thanks for listening.
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by nmyk 11y ago
Do you have any data showing that religious people deviate only slightly from non-religious people?
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by nmyk 11y ago
>> Something also tells me that if this guy wasn't absolutely stinking rich but was just a regular grumpy 70-something, there would be significantly fewer people fawning over his egotistical temperament. You're forgetting th
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by nmyk 11y ago
Right. The various interpretations are not so much science as philosophy. At best , they're scientific hypotheses, and that's only if they turn out to be falsifiable.
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by nmyk 11y ago
It's a shame when physics is presented as how reality works! Rather than what it is: our best model.
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by nmyk 11y ago
Reading is a skill, like anything else. If you're good at it, there's nothing inconvenient about the format at all. Consider that a command-line interface is an extremely inconvenient way for most people to use a computer but perf
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by nmyk 11y ago
Yeah, I agree. Whatever the causes are, the best thing we can do is make the tech culture such that as many people as possible feel included as long they choose to be a part of it, so the decision to pursue it or not comes down to personal
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by nmyk 11y ago
> Everyone should be given an equal chance with no prejudice, Agreed. But the way it tends to work is that if (say) 60% of all engineers are men and the rest are women, then a man more closely fits the idea of an engineer that those peop
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by nmyk 11y ago
Seems like this would just help create the exact same situation as in academia: way too many people (i.e. Ph.D.s) are qualified for way too few jobs. Else, a whole bunch of bullshit jobs would be pulled out of nowhere, and we'd have te
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by nmyk 11y ago
"If money is all that you love, then that's what you'll receive." - Leia
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by nmyk 11y ago
"Unreasonable Effectiveness Considered Harmful"
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by nmyk 11y ago
Off topic, but this headline is a good example of a crash blossom: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntactic_ambiguity#In_headline...
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by nmyk 11y ago
It is common in the U.S. White men fetishize Asian women like crazy. Though, what's even more common is cultural appropriation of material goods. E.g.: http://whitegirlsandindianheaddresses.tumblr.com/ This isn't
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by nmyk 11y ago
In fact, the three of them don't even agree on what the problem is. Priest: We're frustrated. Ophthalmologist: The firefighters are blind. Engineer: The golf course is running inefficiently.
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by nmyk 11y ago
"Yell something responsible. Yellly is why you'll never yell the same way again. 'One of the biggest challenges we faced after we hit our early goals was how do we stay top-of-mind and keep our users engaged? Enter Yellly. Pr
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by nmyk 11y ago
Love the random C-level positions.

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