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by waqf 9y ago
"@airline1 @airline2 @airline3 Which of you can sell me a seat from XXX to YYY that's large enough for an adult male?"
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by waqf 9y ago
It's a trap! Roughly speaking, the ones on the right are those. The ones on the left are different and they correspond historically to something like сь, чь, зь (though the pronunciation is rather different from standard Russian pronun
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by waqf 9y ago
Yes, Polish is the worst. Serbian has ć—č and the voiced equivalent spelled đ—ǆ, but it doesn't have ś—š and it doesn't have nasals.
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by waqf 9y ago
*"ogonki"
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by waqf 9y ago
Could have done what Serbian (and formerly Serbo-Croat) does: freely added letters to the Latin alphabet to match the required set of phonemes, so that there's a one-to-one correspondence between the Latin orthography and the Cyrillic
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by waqf 9y ago
Don't forget panini!
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by waqf 9y ago
You never could: any "consensus" you see, the media consensus, the Google search consensus, the Facebook consensus, the Youtube consensus, the consensus of people on the street in your hometown, all have their own biases (social,
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by waqf 9y ago
Fairytales and religion wouldn't be so popular if people didn't already have an innate desire to believe in good and bad people.
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by waqf 9y ago
If an election were flipped in such a way, it would be noticeable because the candidate would lose the popular vote (since the popular vote is a robust statistic and can't be flipped without a large number of hacked machines) but would
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by waqf 9y ago
Doesn't pretty much any kind of mail-in option* already have that limitation, and don't most jurisdictions already have some kind of mail-in option? *(maybe not ones where you actually have to product a documented reason why you c
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by waqf 9y ago
How fortunate, then, that browsers never have security bugs.
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by waqf 9y ago
All great art violates some existing genre conventions — if it doesn't, then by definition it's generic art.
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by waqf 9y ago
Yes, this feature had negative value for me. A common use case is that I'm copying keywords from search result snippets back into the search bar to make a more refined followup search, and Instant Search snatches the result away while
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by waqf 9y ago
What could replace it is a sufficiently advanced delegative democracy such as LiquidFeedback. The idea is that parties self-organize when sufficiently many votes are delegated to a single person or entity, but they can dissolve and reform a
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by waqf 9y ago
True. My assumption is that there's a complete lack of the usual consumer protections because (a) no ability to shop around and (b) no political will to fix it because most bills go to insurance companies who (i) are expert at question
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by waqf 9y ago
Yes, the pilot made a mistake, but no, the cause of the accident isn't pilot error. From the point of view of preventing similar accidents in future, the cause of the accident is whatever caused the pilot to make the mistake.
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by waqf 9y ago
To quote from my own comment when we discussed this six months ago (replying to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13325022 ): "[…] there's adverse selection. The hospitals that make errors in the client's f
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by waqf 9y ago
Maybe you would be better served by a less confrontational way of making your own point, perhaps something like "I think your otherwise valid point would be made more effectively if it were couched in less emotionally abrasive language
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by waqf 9y ago
With this kind of task, how do you verify that you didn't just overfit and start reproducing the input data?
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by waqf 9y ago
> It’s really easy to test, just view your site in greyscale. This is misinformation: some common forms of color-blindness (protan) affect perceived luminance. Use the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Yes, they are constraining. Y
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by waqf 9y ago
That doesn't necessarily mean it would have been a problem with middle-eastern airlines. They knew that the entire profitability of their US routes depended on well-off business travellers continuing to trust them — and unlike the TS
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by waqf 9y ago
So now all a terrorist needs to do is carry a thermal printer!
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by waqf 9y ago
You are right but I don't think the audience here (people trying to learn Galois theory for the first time) will understand your comment either. The original paper didn't even make clear that a_i are the coefficients and x_i are t
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by waqf 9y ago
What?! What happened when you made an international call, did you have to subtract 1 from all the digits?
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by waqf 9y ago
> so they have no standing to sue Is that true? If Zillow doesn't own the copyright, presumably they have some kind of license. Perhaps it has clauses like "we, Zillow, won't allow/abet/facilitate the use of th
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by waqf 9y ago
In what sense do Bing and DDG not matter in search? They have less market share, true, because Google has a better product. Your argument seems to be that Google doesn't bother to have a better product (in search), because Google has a
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by waqf 9y ago
Maybe because they are in a competitive industry and they like having market share?
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by waqf 9y ago
Doesn't the same argument apply to the existence of business class? Since to a very large extent, what you're paying for in business class is the extra square feet of cabin space.
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by waqf 9y ago
This; but it disappoints me that the market is so winner-takes-all (skewed towards the top). I wish — for artistic reasons, not socialistic ones — that the money that is making a few companies very profitable were instead making 10x as many
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by waqf 9y ago
You still missed one, because there are four canonical math fruit jokes: http://www.stoneswww.academickids.com/encyclopedia/index.php...

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