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by powera 11y ago
Wait, really? I would have guessed it referred to Galileo
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by powera 11y ago
I'm going to take a contrary point of view: Class action lawsuits (where a group of customers sue a company that they purchased a product from) are almost always pointless and expensive wastes of money, and we should encourage contract
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by powera 11y ago
I think "It would’ve saved taxpayers about $175,000" was the reason he wanted to be sentenced to "the comfort of his own home". And you also seem to be assuming that everyone else's prison sentence is 100% perfect a
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by powera 11y ago
So is this just a miniature version of how most government contract bids work? Somebody bids something stupidly low, and then tries to deal with that problem later?
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by powera 11y ago
I call bullshit on the "potentially cost 80 people their jobs". For any "old-school insurance company", I'm confident there's a hell of a lot higher standard for firing 80 people than some program "at lea
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by powera 11y ago
What is it about? (other than the statement "there are no rules in math" which I think is so outrageously wrong I can't even argue against it here)
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by powera 11y ago
That problem is actually very easy to solve. If you number the cells in binary, patterns fall out enough that it's easy to convert back and forth from the original numbering to the final numbering. If he wants to just work it out by h
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by powera 11y ago
TLDR: you kids get off my lawn. I mean the author admits this multiple times, that he's nostalgic for "1960s California" out of nostalgia rather than any actual reasons it was better.
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by powera 11y ago
It is performance art. Any language that brags that addition is O(n^2) is pure performance art.
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by powera 11y ago
I'm claiming I do have an idea. Let's say you have a model that will predict earthquakes based on the number of salmon. I take that model, I see what will happen if I kill or don't kill a salmon, and how that impacts the ear
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by powera 11y ago
The row is 1 4 6 4 1, but these are the closest 5-cent approximations to the 1/16th that add to 1.
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by powera 11y ago
... are you seriously claiming that you theoretically could predict earthquakes based solely on the salmon population? I'm not sure it's worth arguing with you either way.
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by powera 11y ago
It's almost as if the metric system was designed to be useful to ordinary people rather than to fit a nice-looking model of units. Most people use a ruler or their hands to measure things, not dial calipers. And most people don&#x27
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by powera 11y ago
I'm claiming that to measure the salmon population well enough to predict earthquakes, you would have to violate the uncertainty principle.
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by powera 11y ago
If you have a theory that invalidates the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, go for it. Otherwise, I'm going to consider all of that pure science fiction.
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by powera 11y ago
In complex analysis, this is generally true; in particular for any function on the real numbers, there is exactly one differentiable function on the entire complex plane that has the same value. https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by powera 11y ago
On the other hand, Facebook and Google were both founded as "default alive" - the startup part didn't happen until the founders were certain they had something so good they should drop out of school to do it.
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by powera 11y ago
Claiming that a flat tire is because you emailed about visiting a datacenter, and that there are invisible black helicopters guarding the datacenter, and spending an entire crazed weekend looking for exactly what you want to see and then de
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by powera 11y ago
Actually, this guy is paranoid and crazy. It doesn't mean he isn't right, but by any definition he is both paranoid and crazy.
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by powera 11y ago
In what universe will it be more effective to use "cargo drone routes" than it is to use rivers? Also, if this is so miraculous, why do the future images look like poor Africans living next to a robot building?
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by powera 11y ago
I think he's claiming that the official election results are blatantly not true, since they claim "99% of voters voted", but over 10% of the population claims to be voters that did not vote in the election.
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by powera 11y ago
"Continental Europe" is cherry-picking. Great Britain has effectively the same government. Post-Ataturk Turkey has effectively the same government. And Russia is no more in Continental Europe than either of those are. (the fact
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by powera 11y ago
Technically the Soviet Union was one of the allies, and if you asked the Soviet Union they would say they "liberated" Poland. If you remember, there was a large conflict between the US and the Soviets for much of the 20th century
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by powera 11y ago
This article is a hypothesis looking for evidence. And ignoring evidence blatantly when it doesn't fit his hypothesis. And I'm not even sure what his hypothesis is apart from the statement that we're not inventing electrici
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by powera 11y ago
My (not-so-charitable) interpretation of their position: Sometimes being a jerk and helping a little is the best way to help people. Therefore, you can always be a jerk and only help people a little. I'm obviously committing a logical
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by powera 11y ago
I assume he was being sarcastic. But as a general rule HN doesn't do sarcasm.
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by powera 11y ago
The TLDR is "Don't carry thousands of dollars of physical cash unless you want to risk the police [or some criminal] stealing it". Which is an awful thing to say about the police, but is probably reasonable advice to give.
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by powera 11y ago
Honestly, the only one of these that doesn't seem weird is the Cuba trip (and carrying large amounts of cash across international borders has its own laws). Most of the rest are either "possibly criminal activity" or "l
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This page is a direct copy of https://gigaom.com/2015/10/09/why-unikernels-will-kill-conta... , fix the link?
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by powera 11y ago
Presumably at some point in the future, the company will make money and pay dividends. The 409A valuation is supposed to be an approximation of the valuation based on the likelihood of future dividends (I believe using Generally Accepted A

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