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by waqf 10y ago
I guess nobody ever invests in index funds, then.
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by waqf 10y ago
Isn't CO₂ poisoning in humans supposed to cause a panic reaction which would serve as a defence? Why didn't that happen here?
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by waqf 10y ago
I think you'll find Mercury is a solid at room temperature. You're probably thinking of mercury.
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by waqf 10y ago
I don't know how they actually do it, but this would work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_factorization#Complete_g...
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by waqf 10y ago
You might as well argue that the SENPAI paper implies that people who aren't comfortable with homomorphic encryption shouldn't get to date.
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by waqf 10y ago
I don't see what knowing these abbreviations has to do with knowing Latin. They are, to all intents and purposes, English words used in English writing, and people who have had the opportunity to develop a good English vocabulary in o
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by waqf 10y ago
I agree that that is a sane system, but it's not correct to call the payment an "insurance cost" if it is calculated according to means, not according to expected future treatment costs. That's what was causing the confu
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by waqf 10y ago
Flagged for being a bot dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12161992 .
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by waqf 10y ago
Your math(s) is hard to follow. Could you just put all the numbers in USD instead of "x salary" (for two different salaries) and "x expenditure"?
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by waqf 10y ago
One of you is answering the question "What should the country collectively [i.e. the government and people, negotiating and communicating with each other through elections and media] do about the destruction caused by terrorism?".
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by waqf 10y ago
> buys you bear and coffee You give bribe, I buy you bear. You give no bribe, I buy you two bears. (Or insert any other joke here, they write themselves.)
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by waqf 10y ago
Misleading title: the tagline asks the question but the article does not attempt to answer it. I think we should in this case use the original title "Why Do So Many […]?" instead of rephrasing it to be an indirect question.
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by waqf 10y ago
If only we'd known back in 2001 that we were living in the bad old days when governments were irresponsible! At the time, we thought the new, shiny future had arrived! Of course, we don't need to worry about this today, because t
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by waqf 10y ago
Ironic since "van" means the front, as in vanguard .
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by waqf 10y ago
English uses "how" too: it's correct to say "how X looks", with no "like". "what … like" is synonymous with "how".
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by waqf 10y ago
Oh Wikipedia, wrong in the very first sentence. "Mise" can indeed mean "placed", but here it's a kind of gerund and means "placing". (I looked for a Wikipedia reference to describe how this aspect of Fre
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by waqf 10y ago
Being a Brit who believes I know more about the EU than the median Briton does, but less about it than Wikipedia does, why should I be ashamed to google "What is the EU?"
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by waqf 10y ago
But they don't scan everything or even ILL everything, so it's pretty lost by contemporary standards.
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by waqf 10y ago
Well, but which do you prefer, that or irreversibly damaging British economy? Also, Scenario 1 (or any other way that involves showing that the UK can't leave) doesn't really damage democracy, it just destroys Cameron's cre
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by waqf 10y ago
Usually in this situation the university becomes the landlord and the inhabitants are protected just under the usual tenancy and eviction laws.
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by waqf 10y ago
What makes you think that the interpretation of pictographic arrows is universal?
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by waqf 10y ago
Nice, it took me a while to find the fallacy. (I really hope you did that deliberately, it's masterly.) What you have done is a variant of the observation that within any family the sisters have more brothers than the boys, except
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by waqf 11y ago
This is definitely true — 9×9 is too small for a real game. But 13×13 is a much better compromise and I would recommend that to players who have outgrown the 9×9 but still don't need to sit through a two-hour game before they learn fro
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by waqf 11y ago
Au contraire , there are infinitely many bases in which "10" is prime. However, "100" is an example of a digit string which is not prime in any base. Another is "1001" (it's always divisible by "11&
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by waqf 11y ago
If he had credited the original authors appropriately, your position would be quite tenable.
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by waqf 11y ago
There is an established business model for doing this. I think it was more viable 20 years ago than it is today. Here's a summary of how it works/doesn't work: http://wikitravel.org/en/Air_courier
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by waqf 11y ago
Now that you mention it, Google should work on an AI to play championship-standard Seven Minutes In Heaven.
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by waqf 11y ago
> Say 1 in 500 police interaction is bad (terrorizing innocents at gunpoint) and 1 in 10 000 is, well, criminal (police maiming or killing someone innocent). I'm pretty sure that terrorizing innocents at gunpoint is, in fact, a cr
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by waqf 11y ago
Thanks for that pointer. I agree with GP's criticism, though, at least the way the article is written. I was trying to understand it through the lens of the nuclear analogy and failing drastically, because whereas those scientists we
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by waqf 11y ago
To understand this story it helps to realize that in the olden days there was something called "tenure".

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