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721.
by shasta 16y ago
Doesn't litigation come to an end when justice has been served? You mean once justice has taken its cut, right?
722.
by shasta 16y ago
You're putting words into my mouth -- I didn't say anything about what regulation I favor. First and foremost, I was just pointing out that whether there was price fixing is independent of how widespread the price fixing was, or whether th
723.
by shasta 16y ago
Price fixing is when parties coordinate to set the prices of their items. It doesn't matter that you're able to sell your books at any price -- if two or more publishers got together and agreed not to cut prices below a certain point, then
724.
by shasta 16y ago
I haven't watched the video yet, but will be shocked if it contains ideas that it would take 52 minutes to absorb in written form.
725.
by shasta 16y ago
It's much easier to remember and apply the corresponding finite state machine, where you just keep track of the remainder mod 7 that you've seen thus far. Example: 48193. What's the remainder mod 7? 48 mod 7 = 6 -- First two digits 61
726.
by shasta 16y ago
Compute time, measured in ops performed, hasn't exactly stayed constant, though.
727.
by shasta 16y ago
Yes, big audacious ideas that can be implemented and proven successful by a couple of guys in four months.
728.
by shasta 16y ago
Needs more lemur
729.
by shasta 16y ago
Presumably the desired condition is that gcd(n,m) = 1 (the number of teeth be relatively prime) so that each tooth of one gear meets with each tooth of the second gear, cyclically. If there are variations/defects in teeth, this might help
730.
by shasta 16y ago
"and when the phone rings, the Xbox pauses automatically." That sounds terrible.
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by shasta 16y ago
Ya, it looks like I bungled the logic. Let 'Pr X' means 'X is provable'. Let A be your A. Really what I wanted to say is that: Pr A -> (~Pr ~Pr A) and thus, Pr a -> Pr ~Pr ~Pr A. Hence, ~Pr ~Pr ~Pr A -> ~Pr A Taking A to be ~Pr
732.
by shasta 16y ago
I disagree. Logs and streams are very different kinds of output. For number one, streams are usually more fluid, and I tend to have a higher volume of stream output than logs. For number two, it's more important to produce logs at regul
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by shasta 16y ago
Suppose we could resolve (conclusively prove one way or the other) whether P=NP. Then we could also prove that we could resolve whether P=NP. Thus, if we can prove that you cannot prove that you can resolve P=NP, then we have also proven
734.
by shasta 16y ago
I don't know that this technique is a big win for this kind of memorization. For example, multiplication of digits probably needs to be in L1 cache. You don't want to have to search for the result in your memory palace, which seems more l
735.
by shasta 16y ago
What?? This patently frivolous litigation went on for TWO YEARS and cost over a HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS and you think this is proof that the legal system is reasonable?
736.
by shasta 16y ago
It would be more interesting to limit the comparison to those who die of causes other than, say, gunshot wounds. It would also be interesting to see a comparison of health, rather than just length of life.
737.
by shasta 16y ago
Why do you associate commuting to work with exercise? Not commuting means extra time for exercise.
738.
by shasta 16y ago
Converse
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by shasta 16y ago
> Good luck, and may the sun shine on your backs. But wear sunscreen
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by shasta 16y ago
The funny ones?
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by shasta 16y ago
Just adopt a convention and have someone start posting comments to every thread with searchable tags: HNTAGcplusplus HNTAGsquirrels. I nominate the giraffe rider. No griefing, guys.
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by shasta 16y ago
I thought the article was terrible, but rather than contribute anything useful, I'm going to mock the title. "99% less open" is idiomatic and means "1/100 as open". It's a round number, conveying an order of magnitude. On the other hand,
743.
by shasta 16y ago
Working link to the hilarious slideshow, anyone?
744.
by shasta 16y ago
You're missing part of the Turing test - the humans involved need to have an incentive to prove they are human. A bot that's indistinguishable from a typical youtube commenter doesn't clear that bar.
745.
by shasta 16y ago
Hah! I didn't notice.
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by shasta 16y ago
You left out Solipsism - "I believe that the physical is all in my mind"
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by shasta 16y ago
I wasn't implying anything. I was linking to data that I found interesting. Black populations have been increasing (though have recently plateaued). It's the whites that have been decreasing since ~1950.
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by shasta 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_profile_of_Detroit
749.
by shasta 16y ago
No one will pay for Twitter. That's their problem.
750.
by shasta 16y ago
But isn't recursion depth the same as depth if each operation in your recursive function is constant time (except for the recursing bits)? Thus you can look at recursive depth as computing depth modulo the bits you compute in your function

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