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by waqf 9y ago
Yeah, a non-self-intersecting map cannot, but OP didn't specify that, only "epimorphic" which certainly can. Moreover OP's argument specifically proves too much, because space-filling curves (as described in the articl
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by waqf 9y ago
> there exists no continuous epimorphism f: R^n -> R^m, where m > n Really? Then what is a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-filling_curve ?
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by waqf 9y ago
Hi, I downvoted you because you appear to lack reading comprehension ("girly" is not HN's word or even the article author's word: HN is quoting the author and the author is quoting his critics). Either that, or you have
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by waqf 9y ago
Yeah, there is no way they should be allowed to bill the estate which they themselves are administrating. In a normal country with a social welfare program, the guardian would have to bill the government — if the government doesn't agr
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by waqf 9y ago
Free rein *. The analogy is to horses, not to kingdoms, although I have heard that the one can be exchanged for the other.
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by waqf 9y ago
It doesn't seem fair to use the rate of injury during an emergency evacuation as a measure of what could be achieved with the same slides under non-emergency conditions.
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by waqf 9y ago
There's some suggestion that it was over Greenland: https://twitter.com/flightradar24/status/914197103026622464 .
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by waqf 9y ago
*samosas
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by waqf 9y ago
> the base word Is it really the same word? holistic comes from Greek ὅλος , whereas whole is a word of Germanic origin. Of course that doesn't mean they aren't from the same Indo-European root — after all, whole certa
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by waqf 9y ago
There's a statistics problem here. Firstly, by Bayes's rule, absence of evidence is evidence of absence: if you didn't find any evidence of harm from piracy when you looked for it , that increases your posterior probabilit
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by waqf 9y ago
Yes, that explains why it's correct to first order. But the mystery is that experimentally it's more correct than that. Why does it seem to join up with itself exactly after 360°, and not spiral slightly inward or outward due to a
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by waqf 9y ago
> the world The United States. I assure you that even though other countries have credit reporting, they do not use SSNs. > will have no choice but to finally switch to a new system. Really? I think they will just carry on unless
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by waqf 9y ago
I know, but I disagree and, moreover, I consider that a harmful belief. The problem isn't that not every citizen of a democracy will agree with the majority preference (I think people understand that caveat), it's that even the ma
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by waqf 9y ago
I cannot understand why Americans say "we" in statements like this. I'm not out of mine (at least not with respect to this issue) and you're quite likely not out of yours. It's not noble to take responsibility for t
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by waqf 9y ago
You say everything that they say applies to men too — but that seems like a reason that they will lose. To win, they have to prove that they could reasonably have been paid more but weren't because they were female . If they show that
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by waqf 9y ago
> dont have the talent/drive etc Don't have the talent/drive/connections/hustle/luck …. There are more possibilities than just sexism vs. meritocracy. Edit: hey downvoters, I'm talking about why a rando
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by waqf 9y ago
No, iamlucaswolf is correct, describing a countable dense set (the dyadic rational points) and an uncountable dense set.
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by waqf 9y ago
This was actually not an "overbooking" incident in the usual sense. United wanted the seats to move some of their own crew members (reference: http://viewfromthewing.boardingarea.com/2017/04/11/real-
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by waqf 9y ago
It wasn't United staff who assaulted a customer, it was airport security staff. The article doesn't say the US won't punish O'Hare Airport over the incident.
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by waqf 9y ago
That is true but it's an error in the unproblematic direction: fixing it makes the argument even stronger. That is, if the probability for each city flooding is 0.002 but the different cities are positively correlated, then the probabi
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by waqf 9y ago
Good point, but the chance of a given city having a 500-year flood in three given successive years is only (0.002)³ = 8 × 10⁻⁹. So even if we allowed for 100 U.S. cities, 10 different natural disasters and 10 different three-year periods w
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by waqf 9y ago
Looking at the BTS statistics: https://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/sites/rita.dot.gov.bts/files/pu... you can see that 95% of railroad fatalities are classified as either "Trespassers" or "Highwa
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by waqf 9y ago
Although bear in mind that class-action law suits, which are the focus of this article, are typically not a right you have in the EU in the first place ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class_action#Class_actions_out... ).
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by waqf 9y ago
I don't get it. If you're seriously going to go with the story "I dropped her off ashore, something else must have happened to her" then you don't want to attract attention to yourself, so you definitely don't
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by waqf 9y ago
You can't blame TSA on the lack of competition, since it's effectively state mandated anyway. (Strictly speaking, airports aren't required to use TSA staff, but they're required to have the same intrusive security protoc
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by waqf 9y ago
It's trading off the false positive vs. false negative rate in the hiring signal. The question is what your assumptions are about the sources of error in that signal. If you assume that the variance consists exclusively of false negati
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by waqf 9y ago
Suppose that fifteen of them were pissed off and one was not. Would the sixteenth have felt psychologically comfortable in your team expressing the fact that she was not pissed off?
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by waqf 9y ago
How do you know it doesn't just draw out a capacity to think that you already have, and that you could equally well have drawn out by studying or working at something else?
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by waqf 9y ago
> hard > messy Yes, but that's why we entrust it to a half-trillion-dollar company. If it were realistic for everyone and their dog to set up a trustworthy marketplace on their Wordpress site, that's what we'd have.
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by waqf 9y ago
This one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb5UIPeFClM

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