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by waqf 11y ago
What makes you think males are less likely to be detained and arrested? Personally my money is on upper-middle-class old ladies.
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by waqf 11y ago
The idiot who, in railway carriages, Scribbles on window panes, We only suffer To ride on a buffer In Parliamentary trains. — W. S. Gilbert, "The Mikado"
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by waqf 11y ago
Go terminology used in the West is all from Japanese. The reason can be traced back to the first organized Western interest in Go, from a German engineer who visited Japan in the 1880s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H
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by waqf 11y ago
just in case we have readers to whom TPF isn't a household name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transaction_Processing_Facilit...
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by waqf 11y ago
Hmm, I wouldn't try that again. Prosecutor: In Officer Wiggum's evidence he stated that you said you had a "pretty good idea" why he pulled you over. Is that correct? You: I guess. Prosecutor: And what was tha
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by waqf 11y ago
No, no it's not. The word "burgle" is back-formed from "burglar". Were it otherwise, we would write "burgler".
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by waqf 11y ago
You're missing the fact that the leaderboard dataset is not made available to the contestants, so they cannot memorize it. The only way they can determine anything about the leaderboard dataset is by submitting a model, at which point
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by waqf 11y ago
Your question is answered in the design doc at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RNHkx_VvKWyWg6Lr8SZ-saqs... tl;dr minimizing latency, particularly in establishing a connection, is an important design objective.
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by waqf 11y ago
Do you have data on whether those additional email addresses actually resulted in more sales than you lost from people who hate popups?
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by waqf 11y ago
""Humans are descended from monkeys" / "The Earth goes round the Sun" / … is a pretty extraordinary claim, and extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." Dismissing as "extraordinary&q
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by waqf 11y ago
If your preferred book isn't available for free, it usually means you haven't tried at Library Genesis.
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by waqf 11y ago
In that post you didn't advertise that the "pay"wall can be circumvented just by Googling. It's possible HN perceives an ethical difference between that and a paywall where you actually have to pay.
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by waqf 11y ago
Apparently this is KIM-1 code ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KIM-1 ).
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by waqf 11y ago
If there's an item of American culture you may be missing, it's probably that American restaurants can be very cheap.
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by waqf 11y ago
Shared right of way is pretty clearly "deprecated" in Boston these days (considered unpractical, they'll never build another one and they'd be glad to get rid of the one they have). The two tram routes which have been cu
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by waqf 11y ago
To be fair, though, by the time of German reunification, most of the West Berlin trams had been removed just as in other Western European countries. (West Berlin still had public transport, notably the U-Bahn, but not trams specifically.)
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by waqf 11y ago
Why are you so sure that the 15-year-old Tumblrinas are not the true Scotsmen? I mean, it's clear that you're defending a more reasonable version of the claim and GP is attacking a more unreasonable one, but it's not clear to
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by waqf 11y ago
And even then she avoids connecting it with the word "privilege". You can almost see the cognitive dissonance in those sentences.
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by waqf 12y ago
Probably just as many as Americans who memorize what Red #40 is.
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by waqf 12y ago
Don't forget the tightly-held media pumping out propaganda to remind The People that the status quo in America is the best in the world, is perfectly democratic and is exactly in line with how it was conceived by 18th-century philosoph
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by waqf 12y ago
You're a false dilemma. Raising a child bilingual in English and Mandarin, good. Raising a child bilingual in Gaelic and Navajo, not so good.
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by waqf 12y ago
Should a dying language be "saved"? Preserving cultural heritage is all very well, but expending a child's language-acquisitive resources on a language which won't connect them to the rest of contemporary humanity seems
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by waqf 12y ago
If your model for the torus is the unit square with edges identified together, then the metric is the usual Euclidean metric, dx² + dy². (Alternatively, the metric induced from the embedding into Euclidean 4-space, with a parameterization
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by waqf 12y ago
I'm a strong proponent of thinking about interesting geometries and physicses like this in games, but I'm reluctant to describe this physics as more correct than the original. The original had correct physics for the simplest poss
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by waqf 12y ago
> Not only is the expectation of privacy less at the border than in the interior ... Begging the question, wouldn't you say? The only reason there is less expectation of privacy at the border is because of government policies, li
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by waqf 12y ago
Your username intrigues me (in the context of a discussion about sex determination). Are you by any chance a monotreme?
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by waqf 12y ago
Wow, I had always assumed that the time-stretching was done server-side. I'm such a dinosaur.
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by waqf 12y ago
Do you remember when we used to say the same about people with cellphones?
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by waqf 12y ago
Oh, God, yes: the only similar example that I see abused as much is callus vs callous .
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by waqf 12y ago
That's true of phosphorous acid (where the name distinguishes it from phosphoric acid), but otherwise English chemical names use the noun form of the positive ion (e.g. phosphorus pentoxide).

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