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by sesqu 14y ago
It'd worth noting that the average registered user is quite a different thing from the average commenter. It's also worth noting that in many cases, age is a variable with high deviation.
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by sesqu 14y ago
and Final Cut, and a whole host of made-for-TV movies, depending on how much you're willing to relax the theme.
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by sesqu 14y ago
General espionage / covert surveillance should cover it better.
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by sesqu 14y ago
Increasing people's IQ is pretty straightforward. Just have them do a couple of IQ tests, and tell them what the right answers were afterwards. This can get you as much as 10 points of IQ.
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by sesqu 14y ago
You'll notice that the link you provided does not actually include an example of the usage you intended it to serve as a reference for. This is probably because the usage is nonstandard, which is probably why GP asked their question. It's r
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by sesqu 14y ago
Well, that depends on whether we're talking about banana republics or ideal republics.
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by sesqu 14y ago
I don't think it's reasonable to consider that a stereotypical HN reader - after all, the discussion started with an observation of how many people apparently do not read a paid Times subscription, on an iPad or otherwise. And I can only sp
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by sesqu 14y ago
Yes, but not as a multiplier. After all, the threshold for a fifth crime is not equal to the threshold for the first.
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by sesqu 14y ago
Harsh sentences don't "set an example" and deter crime. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deterrence_(legal)#Effectivene...
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by sesqu 14y ago
If you want to go that route, just don't offer your product for $0.
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by sesqu 14y ago
Not that odd. Isn't the whole point of the pay-whay-you-want model that some people don't want to pay the default price? I quite often decide against offers because I feel they are marked up 20%-200% over what I perceive them to be worth, b
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by sesqu 14y ago
It was fairly apparent to me that these quotes were exaggerated for comedic effect.
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by sesqu 14y ago
It was clear to me as a child of maybe 8. Granted, in this day and age it's much easier to come up with elementary math, but I would say that particular equation meets the obviousness criterion of patent law, based on the aforementioned his
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by sesqu 14y ago
"Starving the beast" reminds me of the rhetoric that's tied in with the fiscal cliff business. The left's answer to that has been that it appears the beast really likes toys, far more than it enjoys exercise or a healthy diet.
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by sesqu 14y ago
Hardly. It's a simple equation that has been independently discovered for as long as we've had algebra.
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by sesqu 14y ago
I've been told they ship a lot of water in.
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by sesqu 14y ago
#!/usr/bin/perl -s $f=$d?-1:1;$D=pack('C*',33..86);$p=shift; $p=~y/a-z/A-Z/;$U='$D=~s/(.*)U$/U$1/; $D=~s/U(.)/$1U/;';($V=$U)=~s/U/V/g; $p=~s/[A-Z]/$k=ord($&)-64,&e/eg;$k=0; while(<>){y/a-z/A-Z/;y/A-Z//dc;$o.=$
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by sesqu 14y ago
Well, body temperature has been linked to immune system performance. So wet towels can arguably worsen a pneumonia.
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by sesqu 14y ago
Your third example is often cited as an unintuitive result, so I wouldn't mind getting rid of it. The first and second are easy enough to consider collateral damage, which we already have plenty of in basic math. But the fourth one is harde
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by sesqu 14y ago
In the first example, which you quoted, they ended up allowing for greatly more variability than intended, leaving the regulator vulnerable for exploitation. The author speculated as to what sort of exploitation might have occurred, but did
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by sesqu 14y ago
Economically, the world has seen down years within one decade, depending on what we're measuring. The somewhat-loose-yet-quantified world gross product, for example, is certainly an economic indicator and decreased in 2009.
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by sesqu 14y ago
It's actually the prince. The once and forever king is timing. If you get pithy, insightful, argued, or just convenient comment in on a top story before it becomes a top story, you'll see an order of magnitude more points rolling your way t
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by sesqu 14y ago
As mentioned in another comment, it's not a typo, it's a translation error. It's actually 3500 billion SEK, which is roughly 500 billion USD.
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by sesqu 14y ago
For argument's sake, let's say the 'truth' is 5, you claim -1, and they claim 7.
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by sesqu 14y ago
1) According to previous news of this, the FBI did not explicitly tell MU to preserve the files, they simply told MU not to interfere. After the NinjaVideo case was closed, MU emailed the FBI about what to do with the evidence, but received
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by sesqu 14y ago
Reminds me of the best-selling parable of two mice and cheese, that I read before I had exposure to any real-world situations one might compare it with. I thought the story was moronic. The mice made stupid decisions based on available info
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by sesqu 14y ago
I'm sure this is a nice library, but it really needs a fallback better than "please get WebGL" for the many users who currently see only that error message.
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by sesqu 14y ago
World GDP has grown at an average annual rate of 3.5% over the last 100 years. That's not actually very relevant. According to DeLong[1], the rate of growth has been anything but constant over the last 100 years, nor has it always b
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by sesqu 14y ago
I've never understood the allure of red-black trees. One of the things I have on my agenda is to compare their performance with other, cooler, data structures, to see if perhaps there's a practical reason to favor them. If it's just the rot
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by sesqu 14y ago
Yes; just like they are now, just with bigger batteries and smaller screens.

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