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> = P[ mal ] / P[ pos ] ~= 1.0 You didn't prove this. You can't swap subtraction for multiplication. It's not equivalent to > [ pos ] - P[ mal ] ~= 0 1e-100 - 1e-200 ~= 0, but 1e-200 / 1e-100 = 1e-100 That&#
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6y ago
It's a shame that the OP went to huge effort to make a mathematically perfect proof, and that wrote such a deceptive article about it. It's an ironic demonstration that we shouldn't trust prose. The author's implied thes
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6y ago
You went too far. Your title is wrong in the same way your research shows bloom filters are wrong. You chose relatable over correct. By gettnig the obvious stuff wrong right at the top, you shatter reader's trust that you got the non o
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6y ago
Jobs died before he got old enough to ge to that linguistic stage, thanks in part to his peculiar views on health science (another similarity to Trump)
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6y ago
Volume for surface area. Jobs loved to latch onto arbitrary trivia and pretend it was a superior product feature.
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6y ago
It's hard to enjoy tech made for USA's cruelly overlong prison sentences.
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6y ago
How to verify uniqueness?
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6y ago
What does any of that have to do with democracy? A democratic government can still kill people in various immoral ways. A democracy can have slaves, apparently! Why can't democratic civilians be violent?
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6y ago
You seem to be conflating "democracy" with "libertarian" or some flavor of anarchist or some vague notion of "good" Democracy means "the people rule"
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6y ago
What's wrong with economic reasons? What good is freedom and democracy if it doesn't give you enough to eat? Economic trouble is was causes totalitarianism.
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6y ago
> for pursuing your own social or charitable goals is not immoral. Assumption of facts not in evidence.
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6y ago
It's a consequence of consumers being so voraciously consumerist that they buy things they don't need so it doesn't matter if they get what they ordered.
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6y ago
It depends on how much the local DA wants to nail you. It's definitely criminal behavior, some kind of theft or fraud
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6y ago
The solution is don't buy expensive sensitive equipment at a flea market like Amazon.
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6y ago
It's a different SKU, but same product name.
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6y ago
That's a long way of saying that Walmart is complicit in the brand scam.
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6y ago
OTOH, getting 99 cards and 1 bad card for the price of 50 good cards is a good deal for the buyer.
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6y ago
Charging the card and not yet shipping is a scam.
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6y ago
You are conflating the pre-Malan intense weedout "I survived CS50" CS50 with Malan's kinder gentler easier more superficial CS50. Malan's innovation was to change "Intro to CS" from "let's see who kne
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6y ago
$22K 4K touchscreen. It has a niche appeal.
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6y ago
Summer school, winter break for you.
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6y ago
The kids can teach each other, as was done in small "one room" schools of the past.
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6y ago
Then how did moms get by when kids were in school not helping? I'm sure some parents or school studenta were illiterate, but not the majority. And families were larger, so they'd have multiple children to teach each other.
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6y ago
It's easy enough if you sign up with a DNS provider provider.
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6y ago
Yes, stealing money is bad, even if a corporation does it.
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6y ago
URIs can lack the information. Not necessarily.
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6y ago
I is Identifier. It's broader in the sense that every URL is a URI, but the converse is not true. URI somewhat nerdier because it's lesser known.
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6y ago
That test is terrible. He bombed the test because he didn't understand the format that the grid is a series of 3 geometric equations (one per row) like A XOR B = C
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6y ago
Reply to those autoreplies. Crash the mailboxes of people using broken autoresponders.
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6y ago
Fortunately, in US you can challenge those fraudulent debt collection attempts and they will be cancelled by default if no human fixes them, or else the collector pays fines to you.
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