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I hope you don’t really believe that’s a fair comparison.

I strongly disagree with this view. We don’t even know if such material can exist, and the intersected odds of it 1) existing 2) naturally and 3) us stumbling into it in the short term are astronomically low.

Not saying space exploration is not important, but the reason you cite for it is about at the bottom of the list.

That's a rather creative expectation to form from that sentence.

How so?

1) The stretch in the comment I replied to was referring to calling the area below the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul as belonging to Eurasia. I simply pointed out there is no stretch in there, since it does objectively belong to Eurasia, which unlike Middle-East is far of a more settled geographical definition.

2) In my other comment you are probably referring to, I simply pointed out that the definition of "Middle East" is not set in stone, and it might include the area in question. You can double check, if you don't believe me. I never came up with my own definition of it, and I definitely would not have tossed Indonesia in there.

I don’t see why that would be a stretch at all.

The definition of “Middle East” is a rather flexible one, and can definitely include continentally European Turkey. It’s a political concept at least as much as a geographical one.

So you're saying that "fat people eat too much" is a statistically inaccurate statement?

I haven't suggested anything.

What did you mean when you said that "we already know children aren't being affected"?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunosuppression

  Non-deliberate immunosuppression can occur in, for example, ataxia–telangiectasia, complement deficiencies, many types of cancer, and certain chronic infections such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

Children are susceptible to infection, and long term consequences are not clear.

Am I mistaken or there is no support for bookmarks / table of contents in the pdf reader? This makes reading a lot more difficult.

conflict of interest?

Saving millIons! ;)

Thanks a lot for the feedback!

Can I ask you which model you did buy? I am in the process of doing precisely the same and wondering if their acrylic models are isolating enough. Silicon apparently isolates better but requires more maintenance, makes them more difficult to insert and remove, and I'm not fully convinced I should go for a Music Two sound-wise. Thanks a bunch!

I perceived it more as an "ad hominem" attack to a competitor than as a service to the backers, go figure...

Turns out the Arduino guys were well aware of the issue a month ago: http://smartduino.com/arduinotmtrademark-intimated-us-to-clo....

So I guess the unresponsiveness is on their side...

First post on HN, but after reading about 50 pages of this book since morning I feel it really deserves a praise. I'm a student working on a metaheuristic focused MSc thesis, and I find this book as an invaluable summary of most methods presented in literature.

I do not agree at all with remarks about code samples, pseudo code is all the topic needs. Real code would just make things more complex (and not understandable to a reader not familiar with the programming language of choice), without much of an added benefit.

Not sure about exercises either, given the focus of the book. I really think the book is very clearly written, but I must admit I already have a somewhat decent background in the main topic.

Anyways, thanks!