shasta

44 ms·

361.
by shasta 14y ago
Even if you don't want the games to be able to refer to the last game you played, it looks like this is greatly convoluted. Why not just consider something simpler like the following? Game A: If you have an even number of chips, gain one.
362.
by shasta 14y ago
It looks like there's room to really stand out by drawing a graph that goes up and to the right, then down and to the right, and then up and to the right again.
363.
by shasta 14y ago
No really, this article was total nutso. "Another thing that made this situation complicated was that Kyle and I are recently engaged" was almost at the half way point. After reading about how she had received an email from "Kyle", one of
364.
by shasta 14y ago
I vote for a swarm of mini coopers carrying Assange look alikes.
365.
by shasta 14y ago
"By monitoring only 20% of the communities, we achieve an average error of less than 4 hops between the estimated source and the ﬁrst infected community", they say. Less than 4 hops?? I can get within 6 hops by claiming that Kevin Bacon wa
366.
by shasta 14y ago
> If users aren't willing to opt in to your data collection, then you're not offering something worth the trade. Facebook and Google rely on peoples ignorance to make money. "All data collection should be opt-in" is overly simplistic.
367.
by shasta 14y ago
At first the robot cars will take you to get frozen yogurt. Then they will begin to refuse, citing your weight and the three laws.
368.
by shasta 14y ago
I see what happened. Apple, attempting to mitigate the damage caused when drawings of their new incompatible screw design leaked, has found a couple of patsies to claim it was a hoax.
369.
by shasta 14y ago
It is dumb the way it's phrased. The easiest way to achieve it is to define a super language that all other languages can be shallowly encodes into. Describing this as ambitious is dumb.
370.
by shasta 14y ago
One nitpick is that he never answers his own question about how this doesn't violate conservation of angular momentum. The simple answer is that the angular momentum is zero before and after the cat flips over and is thus conserved. There
371.
by shasta 14y ago
The problem with such studies is that they don't demonstrate causation: does college make you successful or do most successful people just go to college?
372.
by shasta 14y ago
Half salary for 10 years would be 5x salary, nominally. Present value is probably around 4x salary.
373.
by shasta 14y ago
Right, refrigeration is one of the big practical problems with UAV grocery delivery... In the foreseeable future, I think you'd have better luck delivering groceries by catapult than by UAV.
374.
by shasta 14y ago
Yes, the intersection of a number of curves defining regions is color-able with two colors: any point covered by an odd number of regions is black and any point covered by an even number of regions is white (i.e. a checkerboard pattern). W
375.
by shasta 14y ago
Lots of possibilities, but the simplest way to modify our existing sysyem is probably to process requests in random order within a turn.
376.
by shasta 14y ago
Can someone explain why trades are done continuously in real time? Wouldn't it make more sense to have a turn-based exchange with a turn of one minute or an hour?
377.
by shasta 14y ago
Thanks. So, it's assets less debt. This is a huge flaw in the study. Even if everyone in the country had exactly the same income and savings rate, you'd still expect a triangle distribution of wealth because of differences in age (graded
378.
by shasta 14y ago
There are plenty of "summer countries" that win gold in the winter Olympics. I recall one year Jamaica won gold with its bobsledding team.
379.
by shasta 14y ago
What definition of wealth is being used here? If wealth just measures value of assets over debt, then there can be a huge difference in quality of life between two people who both have approximately zero wealth. My guess is that such a def
380.
by shasta 14y ago
I hope it at least gives me a couple of seconds warning to get my pants on.
381.
by shasta 14y ago
The word "steal" was in the original quote that Notch attributed to whoever that other guy was. This question of whether that word "steal" is used correctly is total non sequitur. The primary purpose of patents is to disallow use of an id
382.
by shasta 14y ago
After researching this briefly, it seems that the earliest "patents" in England weren't awarded to systematically encourage anything in particular, but were merely monopoly grants given by the monarch for whatever reason (e.g. as reward for
383.
by shasta 14y ago
The most general interpretation of that definition doesn't seem to match common usage of "steal". If I use your pen without permission, but without taking it, you're going to confuse a lot of people if you claim I stole it. Secondly, there
384.
by shasta 14y ago
Patents are there to stop people stealing a technology you invented Actually, that's exactly the purpose of patents. Patent legislation casts a wider net only because there's no effective way to assess the validity of someone's claim tha
385.
by shasta 14y ago
Why don't you go make an impassioned plea to the patent trolls? I'm sure you can solve this problem at its source.
386.
by shasta 14y ago
Can you see if the egg is broken without going down? I guess you're assuming so.
387.
by shasta 14y ago
He doesn't write down the math in the general case for the number of floors F(e,d) that you can check with e eggs and d drops: F(1,d) = d F(e,d) = sum k>0. F(e-1, d-k) The sum can given a closed form solution for e > 2, just like fo
388.
by shasta 14y ago
Then you need a special division to coordinate the anticompetitive behavior.
389.
by shasta 14y ago
Sounds like you want my "You do have pancreatic cancer" program, which is 100% accurate.
390.
by shasta 14y ago
AFAIK, the primary reasons are the ones that I gave. Synchronization of client and server can be achieved at scale -- just look at every multiplayer RTS -- it's just expensive to do on top of an FPS client-server architecture because you ha

More ›