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by waqf 12y ago
I have always sworn by Borceux' Handbook of Categorical Algebra . It progresses smoothly all the way from first principles up to (if you buy all three volumes) sheaves and topoi, but it is kind of expensive.
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by waqf 12y ago
It's not surprising, but it's not logically inevitable. Suppose every couple divorced exactly on their 50th anniversary if they were both still alive. Then a couple that has been married 49 years is almost certain to divorce, whe
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by waqf 12y ago
There is no absolute velocity, but there is absolute acceleration. And the mountaintop is accelerating more because it's in circular motion with a larger radius. However, the effect of gravity is much more significant (if it weren&#x2
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by waqf 12y ago
Some libgen sites may be blocking IP addresses from certain countries. If so, try another mirror, or use a proxy.
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by waqf 12y ago
Books are small enough that this has pretty much already happened (search for "library genesis").
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by waqf 12y ago
You mean to imply that being double-taxed after your first $100k is fair and reasonable?
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by waqf 12y ago
Or, y'know, a cubic Bezier interpolation.
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by waqf 12y ago
> too many It was http://xkcd.com/1338/ that made it clear to me that if we didn't want cats and dogs, we wouldn't have them.
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by waqf 12y ago
Had I downvoted (I didn't) it would have been because I didn't see any shock in her article, real or feigned. It was clear that the effect she found was the one she was looking for.
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by waqf 12y ago
Is having an opinion the same as having a bias?
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by waqf 12y ago
You didn't read lisper's link, did you?
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by waqf 12y ago
I don't believe that C++ would have had undecidable grammar if it hadn't aimed for source compatibility with C.
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by waqf 12y ago
I guess you don't live in Boston: http://tech.mit.edu/V127/N40/simpson.html
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by waqf 12y ago
Confusingly, though, German does render Latin æ, œ as ä, ö ( ästhetisch , ökonomisch )
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by waqf 12y ago
Right, the US's real House of Lords is the Supreme Court, which likewise is a panel of life appointees with the power to strike down laws written by the elected legislature. (Indeed, until 2009 the House of Lords was also the UK's
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by waqf 12y ago
Sure, technological advances have allowed search engines to keep pace with the expanding web. But it seems an odd leap to get from there to suddenly blaming them for discoverability * of content. Besides, I don't think advances like
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by waqf 12y ago
"Google has now […]?" Search engines were doing that 20 years ago, before Google even existed. The only thing that has changed is the amount of information that is posted on the web to be indexed — and the amount of time per week
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by waqf 12y ago
Right, I don't understand why so many legislatures go to the trouble of having a bicameral system, and then make both houses elected which means that both are subject to the same pressures.
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by waqf 12y ago
Non-paywalled version: http://stream.wsj.com/story/latest-headlines/SS-2-63399/SS-2...
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by waqf 12y ago
But you can get to infinite temperature from either direction. So it's more a curiosity of notation: instead of temperature T, the more natural thermodynamic concept is β = 1/T. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T
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by waqf 12y ago
Not necessarily — if you require the user to type in "old password" and "new password" when they change their password then you have both passwords in cleartext at once and can check for similarity. You wouldn't be
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by waqf 12y ago
Clarification: over 40% of young men in the US have been arrested. (It is ambiguous whether "youths" refers to both sexes.) (It is also possible to interpret the headline as saying that 40% of all youths worldwide have been in
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by waqf 12y ago
Right, since it has side effects this should be a POST action.
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by waqf 12y ago
Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:TSTwSFH...
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by waqf 12y ago
What exactly is your application (and your budget)? For videoconferencing, musical-instrument-playing (as in your example), or multiplayer video games with less latency than the speed of light appears to allow, you could take advantage of L
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by waqf 12y ago
I'm not convinced that this is necessarily caused by people losing attention while they write the last line due to anticipation of finishing the task. Other possible theories I can think of: * People make mistakes in any line, but the
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by waqf 12y ago
Here's an "ammeter" website for you: ammeters.compare99.com
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by waqf 12y ago
I don't 100% support the idea of robbing banks, but I understand the need to obtain money quickly. It's a mere strategy for fast profits, a sort of compromise that the defendant chose to do. My hope is that this will just be the
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by waqf 12y ago
> tracks have different widths To be clear, the tunnels have different dimensions, but the actual track gauges are the same (standard gauge … unlike BART).
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by waqf 12y ago
I'm sorry that for you reading a book in pyjamas is not a good day. Wait, actually I'm envious of how many days you must have that are even better than reading a book in pyjamas.

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