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by waqf 11y ago
You could also have used the fact that S² is homeomorphic to the 2-fold sum of S².
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by waqf 11y ago
I went unaccompanied minor on BA once (I'm pretty sure it didn't cost money in those days). I was 15 and would have been fine without, but it turned out to be a great way to skip the queue at immigration at Sheremetyevo.
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by waqf 11y ago
Amazon mandates that they charge exactly $3.99 for S+H, because previously when everyone set their own charges for S+H, it was difficult for the consumer to compare prices from different vendors, and the vendors were incentivized to inflate
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by waqf 11y ago
"Dark pattern" is a phrase that's only been applied to web design, whereas Thaler's definition of "nudge" is much broader (he certainly applies it to offline design, and I think also to direct financial incenti
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by waqf 11y ago
We didn't solve this type of thing for the adversarial case. If contracts became easily electronically diffable, then companies who didn't want their diffs comprehensible would randomly move sentences around and substitute words i
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by waqf 11y ago
They are generally legally enforceable contracts but sometimes not: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_of_adhesion .
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by waqf 11y ago
I don't, as a consumer, sign these things because I think they're reasonable. I sign them because I don't have the negotiating power to get a better contract, and the market isn't frictionless enough to offer my preferre
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by waqf 11y ago
I have eaten the webpage that was on the server and which you were probably hoping to retrieve Forgive me it was juicy and tart on my tongue. Similarly, I wish people would stop writing third-rate parodies.
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by waqf 11y ago
They share ½. Half-siblings share ¼ dna, because of exactly what you said. Full siblings share half of the half they got from their father, plus half of the half they got from their mother, for a total of ½. An uncle and nephew, as in the
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by waqf 11y ago
Women tend to have reliable first-hand information as to whether they gave birth to a particular child, so maternity tests occur in different social and legal contexts and have different consequences. (Admittedly giving birth to a given ch
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by waqf 11y ago
Can a 5-year-old do a rigorous security analysis of a conventional paper ballot as conducted by modern nation-states? If not, then the appropriate standard for comparison is "Could this system fool a 5-year-old?".
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by waqf 11y ago
I would argue that "two decades" can stand alone with the meaning "for two decades". However, your criticism's still justified because it's a garden-path construction.
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by waqf 11y ago
Do you understand why some paintings have greater value than others?
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by waqf 11y ago
There's a big difference between drugs (which did legitimately cost someone at some point many millions to research and prove effective and safe) and music (which anyone with a modicum of talent can make in their garage and which costs
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by waqf 11y ago
Here's another semi-plausible explanation: they used machine learning to optimize engine parameters to fit the objective "maximize engine performance" subject to the condition "pass the emissions test". If the optim
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by waqf 11y ago
And relatedly, what is the point in the existence of multiple markets, if not that you can choose which market to trade on for your own technical–logistic reasons?
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by waqf 11y ago
Second Law of Thermodynamics, to call that "human" seems like unjustified exceptionalism.
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by waqf 11y ago
> You have two choices. Isolation or death. Or psychiatric treatment.
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by waqf 11y ago
Google determines whether or not the determination is First Click Free-compliant, no? So they could make incognito-mode-based bypasses required … or forbidden …
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by waqf 11y ago
How about solar-powered planes? I would assume not having to carry an energy source (except for emergency use) is a huge efficiency win. And it's always sunny in the stratosphere (well, not at night).
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by waqf 11y ago
[A]part from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
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by waqf 11y ago
I don't have a perfect solution, but using syntax highlighting together with a bold font weight goes a long way to make typos apparent.
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by waqf 11y ago
In most languages there's not really much need to display source code in monospace, except to the extent that a previous programmer formatted code with that assumption. When you're trying to align lines of a block, you only need t
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by waqf 11y ago
*honorific (even in Commonwealth spelling) http://www.collinsdictionary.com/spellcheck/english?q=honour...
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by waqf 11y ago
And even the bacon phenomenon was marketing-driven: http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2014-10-06/bacon-why-am...
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by waqf 11y ago
If something goes wrong I want it to email me. I have pulled out and disassembled two generations of landlord-installed smoke/CO detectors, because waking me up at the random moment they decide their battery is low is just not OK.
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by waqf 11y ago
But Monaco is not. So NL is the most dense [macroscopic] EU state, and England is more dense than the second most dense such state, Belgium.
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by waqf 11y ago
Sorry, I omitted the qualifier ("major" in the original I was criticising) that was meant to exclude the tiny states which really are not a fair comparison (100 times smaller).
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by waqf 11y ago
Right, Belgium is the second most dense ["major"] EU country and NL is the first ... because as stated upthread, England isn't a country.
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by waqf 11y ago
England is more than four times the area of the second most dense EU country (Belgium) and nevertheless has higher population density. So the wording is imprecise but I don't think the comparison is unfair.

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