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by sparky_z 9y ago
I think what he's getting at is that the "inverse function"[0] of sqrt(x) is just x^2. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse_function
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by sparky_z 9y ago
Multiplicative inverse.
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by sparky_z 9y ago
Feel free to get specific.
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by sparky_z 9y ago
Not a rocket scientist, nor do I have any hard numbers, but off the top of my head the Moon has a much smaller gravity well than Mars or Venus. On Mars, you would waste much more fuel just getting back into orbit. And Venus is just comicall
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by sparky_z 9y ago
Isn't it generally reserved for important figures in the history of computing/the tech industry? I don't think it takes away from the magnitude of her accomplishments or the tragedy of her early death to say that she was a gi
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by sparky_z 9y ago
Well, in some sense that's true of most businesses, right? Some customer interactions take up more overhead and resources than others. The trick is to aggregate that uncertainty over your customer base and come up with a price that inc
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by sparky_z 9y ago
How does that explain Amazon ads? They should actually want to make a sale, right?
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by sparky_z 9y ago
> In other words, beating of wives was historically an acceptable practice under English Common law You're assuming "moderate correction" means wife beating. In fact, if you look at the source Wikipedia cites for that phra
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by sparky_z 9y ago
Speaking of bothering to look, you just have to check Wikipedia to know that this is a myth. http://csswashtenaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Rule_of_T... https://books.google.com/books
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by sparky_z 9y ago
Which is why they claim you're the one that ran into them. Hence the need for dash cams.
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by sparky_z 9y ago
It doesn't say that the warning came at Gates's request. Could've been a mid-level manager acting on their own.
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by sparky_z 9y ago
Agreed. That should be the headline. That's my point. (I've edited my original comment a bit to make this clearer.)
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by sparky_z 9y ago
Headline seems almost meaningless, and doesn't do justice to the importance of the story. It would be like saying "World population has another record year". What sort of disaster would have to befall the industry for the num
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by sparky_z 9y ago
It's not silly because the number changes over time. It could make the difference between an upward trend and a downward trend. (Whether that difference matters is up to you, but it is a difference.)
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by sparky_z 9y ago
Blows past the previous record by 65 ft. The Spruce Goose[0] had a wingspan of 320 ft. (It's possible the article has been updated since you saw it to correct that.) [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes_H-4_H
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by sparky_z 9y ago
By itself, that's not in contradiction with it being a rare event.
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by sparky_z 9y ago
> And they couldn't sell anything in addition to books? They do that. In the bookselling business, these are called "sidelines". Borderlands has several, including postcards, greeting cards, small gifts, journals, local ar
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by sparky_z 9y ago
Not just hanging on, it appears to be stabilizing. At the end of March, they had actually sold a handful of more sponsorships in year 3 than they had by the same time in year 2. The goal now is to use the additional funds to purchase a buil
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by sparky_z 10y ago
Hence why the price goes down until someone does.
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by sparky_z 10y ago
Is it just me, or does this essay seem to be missing an introduction, like someone accidentally deleted the first few paragraphs? I initially assumed I had been linked to "page 2" and went looking for a link back to the beginning.
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by sparky_z 10y ago
To be fair, she didn't support Brexit so it's not a personal hypocrisy on her part.
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by sparky_z 10y ago
This service seems short-sighted to me. It might trick a few representatives the first time around, but if it actually succeeds in bringing in a high volume of low-effort responses it will only devalue itself the way email is currently deva
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by sparky_z 10y ago
> I got a tracking number from USPS shipped from Maryland or whatever. So... what arrived from Maryland? Was it just an empty box? Or is there a way to fake a tracking number without an associated package?
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by sparky_z 10y ago
But that hasn't been common knowledge until relatively recently.
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by sparky_z 10y ago
That's the point fav_collector and I are making. What competitors? xatan_dark seems to think they have some.
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by sparky_z 10y ago
Those aren't really competitors, though. At least not in the spirit of the op comment. > I haven't found Genius to be significantly better at annotating lyrics than any of it's competitors So again, what competitors are
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by sparky_z 10y ago
Even if that's a vaild approach (I have no idea if it is) I suspect that such a system would be hilariously impractical for any real-world day-to-day usage. Therefore there would be no reason for a layman to even learn about it in the
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by sparky_z 10y ago
It's named after a Catholic saint, so I kind of doubt it's a public school.
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by sparky_z 10y ago
It took me quite a while to figure out that this was a service for renters , not a property management service for absentee landlords. The home page text reinforces this because at first glance "Rent your Home through Tenence" re
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by sparky_z 10y ago
How can that be true if no one can agree on the definition of the word "spiritual"?

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