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The short answer is probably "no". Another comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16231191 tried to even find the source of the number, more or less unsuccessfully. The purported origin of the statistic is
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In computational complexity, one typically ignores multiplicative constants, but in number theory, one often doesn't. The prime number theorem is of this stronger form, and it is in fact only the natural logarithm that makes the usual
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I don't have a horse in this race, but fyi, I found some fishing-related deaths here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/marine-accident-i...
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Can you provide a source for your quotation? I have legitimately spent fifteen minutes trying to find a source, but I haven't managed yet in Internet searches, lists of "ridiculous quotes" from McConnell, nor Wikiquote. Thank
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In case anyone was curious, I have collected some context from McDonald's 10-K filing on March 1, 2017 available at http://corporate.mcdonalds.com/mcd/investors/financial-infor... : At year-end 2016, McDonald
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> Trains that come every 90 seconds It's remarkably hard to get reliable numbers on train frequency in subway stations worldwide. However, it is generally believed that the only system in the world that gets headways smaller than 1
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> the Walton family alone will get 5% of the 1.5 trillion dollar tax break For some context, 5% of $1.5 trillion is $75 billion. This is ~45% of the current ~$170 billion total wealth of the Walton family. Walmart's net income wa
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-tobacco_movement_in_Nazi_...
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Name three?
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FYI, my comment wasn't intended as a correction. The limit of $200 is even more extreme than your stated $500, and the law even includes a minimum sentence of two years.
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In case anyone is curious, Virginia Code 18.2-108 states that "If any person buys or receives from another person, or aids in concealing, any stolen goods or other thing, knowing the same to have been stolen, he shall be deemed guilty
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The link has a stray forward slash ("/") at the end of the link, but otherwise has no problems. Slide 20 of the correct resource says (in graph form) that "81% of covered workers in firms with 200 or more workers are in
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To be concrete, the array in order 1235647 has the first six comparisons go the same way as in 1234657, but it doesn't end up sorted in one pass. Perhaps harry8 was thinking of the bubble sort implementation in the OP, which would inde
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> allows an individual to own almost an entire Hawaiian island I have collected some context about the largest private landowner on each of the Hawaiian islands, which I believe people may find interesting. They are sorted in (decreasin
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> While a small minority of graduate students may come from the lowest income backgrounds, on average they're highly educated and privileged. It's somewhat difficult to find high-quality statistics on graduate students in the U
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According to his death certificate, Steve Jobs died at 3pm PT on October 5, 2011. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/11/business/steve-jobss-cause... New York markets close at 4pm ET, which is 1pm PT.
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> When Steve Jobs died, which was obviously an event that would have an impact on Apple's shares, the quotation was suspended for a day, so that people could take their time to evaluate the significance of the event. Steve Jobs&#x27
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For some recent historical context, the New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/03/us/politics/top-posts-rema... reported in May 2013 that "John Kerry is practically home alone at the Sta
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This article http://acrwebsite.org/volumes/7610/volumes/v21/NA-21 claims that AAVE uses "theirselves". A quick search on Twitter suggests that "theirselves" is indeed used by people w
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> As for cleverness, I have seen that work. [...] But that's not low hanging fruit, he was a 40 year experienced chef who has probably forgotten more about food than I'll ever hope to know. Do you think you can say anything mor
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For some context in case anyone was curious, Wikipedia believes that both vi and Emacs were (originally) written in 1976, which is 41 years ago. Unix dates from ~1969--1973 depending on your definition, which is 44--48 years ago. According
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> Here basic profiling would tell me you are male, correct? Did you know people like you commit 99% of murder and violent crime? In case anyone was curious, the United States Bureau of Justice Statistics believes that men are responsible
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In case anyone else was confused about the reference, it appears to be to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Keeping_Up_Appearances... from the British sitcom "Keeping Up Appearances", written for the BBC
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In case anyone is interested, https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1994/12/04/... is the article in the Washington Post from December 4, 1994. While it is a popular slogan, West Virginia
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In case anyone is interested, Statistics Norway believes that the median after tax income for households consisting of persons living alone under 45 years old was 280,200 NOK/year in 2015. The exchange rate with the dollar varies of
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For context for those interested, Article 3 of the Spanish Constitution says the following (translated into English): "1. Castilian is the official Spanish language of the State. All Spaniards have the duty to know it and the right to
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For some context if anyone in interested, it appears that before WWII, the peak production of wheat in the United States was in 1915 with ~1 billion bushels/year. The expected production for 2017 is over ~1.7 billion bushels/year
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For some context, here is an article from the aftermath of that incident: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2013/sep/03/afl-st-kilda-d...
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It appears that 22 days ago user dwyerm posted about a recent flood at the West Point treatment plant in the Puget Sound area: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14914743 The article mentions "millions of gallons of
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For some context if anyone is curious: to my incredible surprise, the claims in this comment are not obviously made in exaggeration. In particular, many news articles quote the "10 times" claim, eg http://www.npr.org&#

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