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Ask HN: Where are all the Gigster Freelancers?
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bring a kick-ass gameplan. applying is free.
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I see. What I'm talking about is mathematics for the sake of mathematics. Any training aimed at mathematicians needs to emphasize rigor. Otherwise, there will be a bunch of impotent mathematicians. Not what we want. I'm not oppose
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> is that necessarily absolutely true? i myself would take a deep breath before making such a wide-sweeping claim. first thing that pops into my mind is the axiom of choice and also godel's work. i am sure there are a ton more examp
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im not telling you how smart i am, im telling you how easy the test is. go on, be butthurt.
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It means a swift, unexpected death. No discomfort involved.
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Theres no elitism in math. We just require you to write proof in such a way that it is actually a proof, and not just some idea you've had. In order to do that, you need to study math. Not because we are elitists but because you need t
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Mr. Tao does, in fact, not understand prime numbers. That's not to say that he is stupid or hasn't done his reading. He probably understands them better than anyone else in the world, but he still doesn't understand them. Oth
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Probably hundreds, but I can't point a particularly great one out.
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I don't expect non-math people to relate or even care. If you open a textbook on algebraic topology and you've never studied even the most mundane calculus, you won't understand anything. Somehow, this infuriates people. The
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This is really really simple btw, for a grad school entrance exam. Anyone who has successfully studied mathematics for a year should be able to score 100% on this exam.
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Mathematical language is precise. Problem 1 of this problem sheet is expressed in precisely as many words and symbols as is required. You dont need any more language to fully understand the problem. Any less, and the problem would not be co
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blockchain is just a data structure, and its already being used by a bunch of financial institutions to do the distributed ledger thing.
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The fact that I can work remotely.
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if you dont want to say that you work for the military, just say what youre working on. Instead of "I'm working on stealth technology for unmanned carpet bombers" say "I work on next gen nanomaterials that can bend a bro
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I use my real name. My real name is distinct enough that when you search for it, you find results almost exclusively about the real me. When you search for my real name, you find almost exclusively accounts on sites like github, and a coupl
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its hard to stay in sync either way.
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my phone can be turned off. when it annoys me, I turn it off.
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no its not. its painful every day. when my alarm rings, i'd rather not get up and my brain comes up with a million reasons about why I should really not get up. just like everyone else. the trick is to accept that life is not about com
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Not the hosts race, the potential renters race. In order for Airbnb to say someone of race {race} got rejected, they have to know, or guess, their race. Whether they ask for that on the application or look at the pictures, its probably ille
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Maybe get a therapist and figure out what you actually want out of life first. How do I keep up with so much stuff? I learn to set boundaries. If my company slack goes off at weird times and I dont want to deal with it, I turn notifications
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in order to do that they would first have to profile their customers for race. thats not exactly legal either.
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Just reading the first couple replies to this thread, there seems to be some confusion regarding what code quality IS. Two broad categories: 1. Micro code quality. Looking at a single file, someone makes statements about code style - spacin
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This is a case of KYC. Paypal wants to get to know you. Just talk to them. This looks scary to people who dont deal with banks and entities that act like banks, but paypal is doing this because they need to protect themselves from aiding pe
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I'm going to contest that. Its absolutely ridiculous to claim that someone who makes any amount of money per month cant spare $45 of that. Maybe they use the $45 they COULD spare to buy slightly better food, which is a valid way to spe
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Except, you know, there's the law I could refer to. Or like two months ago when the guy who hired me wanted me to ship software that was clearly going to explode in production and I told him that I'm not interested in having that
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You might think that publicly revealing that may lead to some grief, especially since those events are a relatively recent development.
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Let's talk about the ethnic Koreans living in Japan first. They feel like second class citizens. Heavily discriminated against.
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Nations do not have rights granted to them the same way they grant rights to you. Nations are essentially sovereign. They can do whatever they want. If they piss off some other nation, that may lead to war, but there is no court that rules
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Do the first 50 problems on projecteuler. they're fairly easy (compared to the other problems). it'll take you a day or two. or maybe a week, if you're really weak at that kind of thing. afterwards, you will ace all the stupi

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