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by wayn3 9y ago
i believe that happy customers would count as valid evidence. when i use google or amazon, im usually pretty happy with the service they provide. when i have to stand at a walmart cashier for half an hour while the lady has to yell for the
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by wayn3 9y ago
> Are you delusional? you are delusional. i want a ride. when i want a ride, i want a ride. what i dont want is to sit in a queue. uber provides that service by pricing people who are less well off out of taking a ride that they can give
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by wayn3 9y ago
and no sane person would write it that way. whatever it is that its trying to do. i agree that i misinterpreted the codes intention.
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by wayn3 9y ago
python does this to be consistent with C, not the other way around.
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by wayn3 9y ago
i dont know if thats better. but both solutions are a lot better than a statement that contains about half a dozen implied negations.
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by wayn3 9y ago
if taxi protectionism led to better drivers, id agree. but it does not. taxi drivers are mega sketchy, to the point where id be very worried if my gf or future children had to deal with them. beyond their sketchyness, they act entitled to a
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by wayn3 9y ago
this is what happens when people who "dont need math to program" write code. if you want to sum over even numbers, just do: sum([j*2 for j in range(0, end_range/2)]) and yes, brackets supercede pythons "whitespace is syn
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by wayn3 9y ago
if you lead a company, and dont do whats in the best interest of your shareholders, youre getting sued and then you go to prison. unless you get the law changed, companies absolutely have to put their financial gains first.
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by wayn3 9y ago
You have no BATNA, nobody is going to give you "what youre worth" (they literally do exactly that)
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by wayn3 9y ago
"competently"
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by wayn3 9y ago
laws that are obvious bullshit need to be broken
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by wayn3 9y ago
lul yea, if you just blatantly resell an aldi brand, they can totally wreck your shit. google cases of people selling as little as 5 items of "esprit" clothing. if you resell brands and youre not an authorized vendor, youre not go
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Ask HN: How do you operate an SV startup as a foreigner?
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by wayn3 9y ago
and about a dozen other asset classes that you dont even take into account because youre stuck in startup land. if you have the cash, go to switzerland and talk to the people instead of yammering on about how its not possible. 10% YoY on a
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by wayn3 9y ago
Private banking, in said jurisdiction, is a line of work with centuries of tradition. And they just don't have any fucking reason to fuck over their clients. Protection? If you are a billionaire and your banker fucks you over, I think
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by wayn3 9y ago
you go to a private banker in a jurisdiction whose sole job it is to do private banking and get that shit private banked. dont pretend you dont know which country im talking about. thats a really simple problem with a known solution. its ju
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by wayn3 9y ago
youd think that its incredibly easy for a terrorist to regain lost credibility. duh? remember what happened last time nobody took them seriously? a generation of conspiracy nutters was born.
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by wayn3 9y ago
watch the recode lady interview any one of her favourite nerds.
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by wayn3 9y ago
They could already do that for random accidents not actually caused by them. Why don't they? Why not try to claim they made the malaysian air flight disappear? I'm not sure, but it doesnt seem to be on their agenda. Terrorist code
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by wayn3 9y ago
because the goal of terrorism is awareness that there are evil assholes out there. they want to get caught. the casualties are a means to an end. if you just kill a bunch of people without anyone noticing it, nothings been gained in terms o
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by wayn3 9y ago
Are differential equations your specialty?
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by wayn3 9y ago
"which is designed to police developers of harmful thoughts" anyone remember thoughts being free?
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by wayn3 9y ago
"Hamilton created a list of possible singularities that could form but he was concerned that some singularities might lead to difficulties. He wanted to cut the manifold at the singularities and paste in caps, and then run the Ricci fl
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by wayn3 9y ago
there is usually an easy way down the other side. or you have to abseil.
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by wayn3 9y ago
that money back guarantee is going to hurt :(
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by wayn3 9y ago
sure, but proofs can involve all kinds of things. remember that millenium problem solved by perelman? its a problem in topology, but the proof is expressed in terms of elliptic curves which lives in the number theory space, and so far, we h
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by wayn3 9y ago
that is correct
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by wayn3 9y ago
muricans dont even admit that "computer science" is a sub-field of mathematics. but thats ok. mathematics is way too powerful to care about mainstream fame.
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by wayn3 9y ago
im not saying that proving the riemann conjecture doesnt do anything for mathematics. it does a whole lot. but the world itself isnt going to change. i mean the 5 pm news world. heres the thing. we already kind of assume the riemann conject
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by wayn3 9y ago
there are a lot of very interesting math things with cool names. heres the problem. mathematicians dont build expensive shit. theres no math lhc that cost the equivalent of feeding bangladesh for a century that econ minded folks could whine

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