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by shaki-dora 7y ago
A lot of problems on sequences are amendable to dynamic programming. Two other famous ones are Smith-Waterman and Needleman-Wunsch for finding optimal global and local alignments of sequences–a typical problem in genetics.
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
At $10/month it's really worth it, although you have to remember to cancel and resubscribe after a year. They do an awful lot of important investigative journalism, and I don't want to see what a society without such work loo
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
Contracts to insure against legal fines are considered immoral and therefore unenforceable. You can get liability insurance, but that's different (not legal fines but civil law damages).
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
From the article: The letter came together in the last two weeks. Eighteen individuals, spread among 11 families, added their names. All are active in progressive research and political organizations, some of which are pointedly focused on
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
It says tax us , not tax me . The difference is the core principle of taxation: very few people would voluntarily pay 30% of income or so, but a clear majority supports the requirement for everyone , including themselves, to do so. Put a
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
Slavery was legal, interning Japanese-Americans during WW2 was legal, Apartheid was legal etc. Legality often lags morality. The Civil Rights Movement also stepped on a few lawns it wasn't supposed to.
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
"It" did actually happen, shortly after the post, and was therefore both imminent and likely. This was also the second such incident within just a few weeks. Knowledge about Christchurch should maybe have informed these "shit
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
The "oh it was ironic " defense sounds especially weak when OP subsequently shoots up a synagogue. Guess he didn't get the irony? And neither did the Christchurch incel a few weeks earlier? That incident should have maybe in
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
Because "The Solar System travels through the Galaxy, creating cycles" is meaningless drivel.
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
Needs a [2011] and some scepticism: Many people have tried Magnesium because it is cheap and available without prescription. If it were as effective as "success in 220 out of 250 cases" claims, that would show up. The 220 of 250 c
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
Forecasts have improved dramatically. A 7-day forecast is now somewhat useful when deciding to have your party indoors or outdoors, whereas in the 90s next-day forecasts could hardly compete with the naive assumption of "the weather
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Clean Up Lead Before It Wrecks More American Lives(bloomberg.com)
1 points by shaki-dora 7y ago|0 comments
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
Crime, especially violent crime, is lower today in all those "soft" western countries than ever before, so we can't be doing everything wrong. Among them, the murder rate is about five times as much in the only country still
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
It's a bit cynical to call homelessness "risk free" in any sense of the term. You seem to be arguing for criminalising poverty. That's going to work just as well as criminalising stupidity, short-sightedness, death, or l
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
The US has 500,000 homeless people. Let's say it would cost about $1,500 per month to provide them with basic lodging and basic needs. That's $9 billion per year, or about $30 per citizen. As a comparison: The F-35 fighter program
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
"all their data" is a bit much, isn't it? ReCAPTCHA gives Google exactly one datum, namely the user's visit to the one page it is on. And I would even hazard a guess that the TOS specify that Google will not retain/
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Facebook and YouTube's 'Platform' Excuse Is Dying(theatlantic.com)
34 points by shaki-dora 7y ago|3 comments
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
That's a pretty amazing slide even with that error(? see below). 15 of the top 25 tech companies had 1st or 2nd gen immigrant (co-)founders. As to booking.com: from reading the Wikipedia entry I gather the original dutch-founded bookin
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
One man's pedantry is another blind man's attention to detail. Or ability to participate in society.
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
One answer reveals itself by just switching two lines around: > Why were tables declared evil? > Granted, we develop for a fixed screen width. Personally, I was always more disturbed by the anti-semanticism of the layout use of tables
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
The issue isn’t so much any anti-competitive misbehavior. Even though there are some specific practices that have landed FAANG in hot waters, those aren’t really different from any other companies’ of similar size. Monopolization just happe
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
Even the EU does not have the power to tax. It’s practically impossible that a rather informal forum like the G20 would be granted such authority.
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
I also looked there first and was surprised that they apparently do not publish their financial reports themselves. It's not a major issue, since the data is disclosed on the government side, but it's just bad service and leaves a
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
It's just a state of extreme bliss, plus (and distinct) an appreciation for all sorts of suddenly very beautiful things: music, landscapes, people, etc. Sound especially feels incredibly precise and 3-dimensional. Long term, the effect
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
$37 million for salaries, $32 million "other expenses", and $12 million that weren't spent. see https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/460... (I planned to make a smart-ass comment
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
I suffer from severe depression. The surprise with LSD was actually that it made me happy. I had expected (and got) weird colors etc, but I thought its emotional impact was somewhere from neutral to negative. In about 8 trips over as many y
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
The recent interest in Ketamine/MDMA/psychedelics is long overdue. But I can't help feeling the optimism is somewhat too high? I would encourage everyone to try LSD at some point in their lives. There are just vast parts of c
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
"One study found that not using pesticides reduced crop yields by about 10%"[0] That's not terribly bad. There are also communities of organic farmers working on methods to improve yields without pesticides. There is a lot
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
> The overwhelming majority of modern ads serve a singular purpose: to drive sales. You don't say! > absolutely nothing to improve the quality of purchasing decisions. They do communicate the existence of competing products, a
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
> Not to excuse the behavior of your drivers, but...

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