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by q-big 5y ago
> This should reduce time complexity to O( (n - 1)^2 ) O((n-1)^2) = O(n^2).
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by q-big 5y ago
> Well only a decade ago Moore's law ensured that keeping any amount of stock on CPUs/GPU/memory would cost you a lot of money, as that would depreciate fast . This clearly holded for PC components, but rather not for, sa
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by q-big 5y ago
The problem of staying in academia is getting a tenured position ...
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by q-big 5y ago
> By analogy: insisting that property follows fire safety regulations doesn’t make governments responsible for arsonists. Rather: if Apple enforces a monopoly on selling fire extinguishers, these should better be really reliable.
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by q-big 5y ago
> Imagine you enter the train in New York at 8 pm, eat a nice meal, read or play a game, go to sleep and wake up at 8 am in San Francisco. According to Google, the road distance between New York and San Francisco is 4670.6 km. The travel
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by q-big 5y ago
> This can mean that children who turn 18 may need to leave the US and return to a country they have possibly never known. This is barbaric and inhumane; I would rather suggest to change > 3. H1B visas are for 3 years and can be renew
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by q-big 5y ago
> I think that makes any algorithmic “fix” much harder. Or perhaps even impossible. Optimize for another metric than engagement.
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by q-big 5y ago
An anti-aging serum works if it reduces or removed specific (or even most/all?) effects that are related to aging.
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by q-big 5y ago
> At least some of the control group will be in old age but still alive when we know it woris. The anti-aging serum could work (i.e. make you older), but have strong negative side effects.
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by q-big 5y ago
> The virus is like playing russian roulette without a vaccine in you. Some people love to gamble. There exist people who are risk averse, risk neutral, or risk loving (in an economic or psychologic sense): https://en.wikipedi
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by q-big 5y ago
> Nobody likes being in the control group of the first working anti-aging serum... You only know whether it works when the study has been completed. You also only know whether the drug has (potentially) disastrous consequences when the s
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by q-big 5y ago
> I don't think Microsoft is the real problem there, though. > [...] > So it was interesting when I heard things about "Windows on ARM" half a decade ago--and then the Surface RT. The RT was crap, but it did have re
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by q-big 5y ago
> Showing your ID to buy alcohol because the govenment has decided that under 18's cannot buy it. That's widely practiced and accepted without issue The situation is likely different in the United States, but in Germany the you
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by q-big 5y ago
If you seriously want to target classrooms (selling to the education sector is hard), target elite schools rather than poor public classrooms with underprivileged students. This way, at least potentially money could be made.
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by q-big 5y ago
> Null is equal to empty string. marcosdumay disagrees: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28484963 NULL and empty string are often equal, but sometimes not. Life would be boring otherwise.
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by q-big 5y ago
> The HN consensus has been that there is no shortage of labour as long as you can just pay more and get the labour. The problem with this argument (as a native German speaker) is that in German, there do exist two different concepts tha
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by q-big 5y ago
> If you really truly want an answer, it's relatablity. > If you ask the vast majority of Americans how many centimeters are in a foot, you'll get blank stares. If you ask them how long 30 centimeters are you'll get bla
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by q-big 5y ago
> The better the developer the quicker they’ll find a job. In my experience rather: The better the developer is at self-promotion, the quicker they’ll find a job.
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by q-big 5y ago
I just found out that the variant "arse antlers" actually seems to be used in Britain (source: https://deen.dict.cc/?s=Arschgeweih ).
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by q-big 5y ago
> Then the term "tramp stamp" caught on like wildfire and the practice came to an abrupt stop. In Germany, the same happened, but via the term "Arschgeweih" ["ass antler"]. For the readers who understand Ger
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by q-big 5y ago
> Passives are actually quite quick to produce. I think it's a good proof that a few giant distributors in China keep buying, and flushing them down the drain. What are these immense amounts of passives used for?
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by q-big 5y ago
> Perhaps the EU could adopt the Indian strategy of using a language that no national group claims, thus seemingly not favoring any one member group over another. Esperanto.
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by q-big 5y ago
Other examples are: * The Dream Machine * Lume * Lumino City
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by q-big 5y ago
> Back in the 1980s, there was a paper published[1] that compared a number of database systems, and Oracle felt this paper harmed them. This is rather an argument why the benchmark code should be made public so that other people can che
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by q-big 5y ago
> Well, you say that, but isn't that exactly why Netflix got rid of ratings? > All the documentaries were getting really high ratings, so would display highly in searches, but not many people actually watched them. This rather sh
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by q-big 5y ago
> XSLT is basically SQL for structured text. That is what XQuery is for.
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by q-big 5y ago
> Worker representation on boards is one example. Imagine if the board of public companies was 50% shareholders and 50% workers. You are free to found a company with such a board structure. You are also free to either bootstrap it or cr
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by q-big 5y ago
> The Poincaré-Perelman theorem seems more accurate now. Perelman proved a more general result: the geometrization conjecture that was initially stated by William Thurston: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometrizatio
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by q-big 5y ago
> When more users come more funding will come and you can hire someone who can repay the technical de[b]t chosen before. The problem is rather that the technical debt is often not repaid.
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by q-big 5y ago
> it's incredible - Microsoft could definitely charge for it - but they aren't even interested in doing that. Because the telemetry data is worth more to them.

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