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by shasta 11y ago
> But do you really learn anything by asking the candidate if they can recite the time complexity of a moving window average algorithm (as I was asked to do by an interviewer yesterday)? This is actually a trivially easy question that ge
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by shasta 11y ago
Since you're claiming that square root is "~N", the N here must be the number of digits. The number of multiplications required for the "optimization" you're proposing is exponential in this N.
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by shasta 11y ago
I think this is related to the importance of defaults. If a site charged $4 per year, and then, in an unrelated transaction a user could opt-in to advertising to cover that $4 fee, you'd see a tiny fraction of people expressing the &q
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by shasta 11y ago
There's a legal aspect, but that's still just a law codifying cultural norms. Why do people have to wear clothes in public? The libertarian abstraction of people as living in isolation from one another until they choose to inter
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by shasta 11y ago
I'm in favor of gay marriage, but this position seems widely held and it's a little baffling. Marriage is itself nothing more than a cultural tradition. If you don't agree, go work out a logical derivation of why the practi
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by shasta 11y ago
You've made the same error as the OP. The volume of a unit n-dimensional sphere decreases exponentially in n. But that doesn't mean you need to increase r exponentially to compensate - in the volume formula, the r also has an ex
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by shasta 11y ago
> A consequence is that, if you’re trying to cluster data points by looking at points within a fixed distance r of one point, you’ll have to make r exponentially large in the dimension. That does not follow ...
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by shasta 11y ago
If the OP allegation that just three companies control the insulin market is correct, then it doesn't seem appropriate to use the term "efficient" to describe the equilibrium condition that exists without the monopsony. Of
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by shasta 11y ago
This is like saying that the Windows codebase is incomprehensible and thus C / C++ must need better syntax.
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by shasta 11y ago
Go to definition (for symbols or notation) would certainly be helpful in reading a mathematical paper, but how is that related to choosing good notation? Do you have an example of mathematical notation that "fails in practice"?
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by shasta 11y ago
I agree, branding and style would be important. Having a celebrity or two use for their engagement wouldn't hurt, either. I think you'd want it to work kind of like a cashier's check. If you have the ring and your identifi
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by shasta 11y ago
Someone should sell an investment-backed artificial diamond ring. So, for example, you could take a $500 ring and back it with a $10K investment that's tied to the ring. The only reason anyone buys a real diamond ring is to avoid the
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by shasta 11y ago
Could you expound upon your definitely-not-sloppy thoughts on why boys obviously couldn't be predisposed to playing with weapons?
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by shasta 11y ago
But all we have to do is teach your half-baked "fewest, most stable dependencies" theory to the amateurs and then they'll be professionals, performing like 20 year veterans. Eye roll .
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by shasta 11y ago
Further confirmation of Poe's law...
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by shasta 11y ago
I expect they're going to branch out into physical storage. Prediction: by 2020, there will be thousands of DropBox locations where you can rent space ranging from a small locker to a large garage. If they're smart, they'll
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by shasta 11y ago
I didn't get the sense that we were discussing the helicopter threat in this subthread.
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by shasta 11y ago
The down-voted and deleted parent asked for evidence of the claim that "this is precisely what terrorists want." This post and the two others replying to it are playing word games. "Terrorists" is a term that's co
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by shasta 11y ago
I think the main point I disagreed with are the examples he gives of "good inequality", like Facebook and Google. Yes, these companies are producing value. That's how you make your first ten million. But to make billions,
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by shasta 11y ago
Your analysis is all wrong. Not all programming costs the same to make or license and not all people consume the same amount of programming. Your point basically boils down to "those people whose ESPN you are subsidizing are also sub
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by shasta 11y ago
Was it really just replacing each other letter with x? I can notice the string of x's with my peripheral vision. Also, the words must have been quite a bit farther apart than they are on my screen.
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by shasta 11y ago
3. I would love to sell you that insurance policy.
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by shasta 11y ago
Yeah, I already edited my post. I agree with you.
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by shasta 11y ago
From the article: The proof just given is conceptually even simpler than the original proof due to Euclid, since it does not use Eudoxus’s method of“reductio ad absurdum,” proof by contradiction. And unlike most other proofs of the theorem,
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by shasta 11y ago
> hire tens of thousands of employees they don't really need, in large part just to keep them out of the hands of a competitor. ... but the competitor does need them?
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by shasta 11y ago
They should still add "(while supplies last)" as a clue.
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by shasta 11y ago
> Anyone who made money from business has already created wealth and contributed to society, via the market. Let's not get carried away. This is how the market is supposed to work, and often it does work this way, but there are ple
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by shasta 11y ago
I wouldn't count ordinary participation in markets as lever pulling manipulation. And my point wasn't that the fed isn't useful in practice, but rather that its presence is a sign of broken fundamentals.
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by shasta 11y ago
Because we've got to have someone pulling levers to manipulate the economy...
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by shasta 11y ago
I don't know... maybe there could be another big competitor to Spotify. I can imagine the record labels would want one. The threat of there eventually being such a replacement probably puts a cap on how much leverage Spotify has. I

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