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A decade is nothing. If issues will be worked through a decade from now, that means the best time to think about opportunities/coonsequences related to that is now.
I thought college is expensive in the US. This is the first time I learned that a random, unverified person can EARN money from going to a college.
Cool site! You’d find this wiki a fun read: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Button_(Reddit)
That’s very cool! Does it use the source code at all? Or does it just use README and directory tree?
I don’t understand how this works. I know someone who founded successful startup based on art-painting robots. But why will anyone buy such art not attached to fame? Unlike bitcoin, the supply of such art is not limited. It’s still infinitely reproducible through the robot.
The Chinese government had built the infrastructure for the Great Firewall, allowing them to block whoever they want. The US does not have this capability.
US and Canada should invest more in finding a treatment for opioid addiction. A drug that cures heroin addiction would save so many lives and helps people reach their true potential.
A beer is not as addictive as Heroin. Drinking a beer is not going to ruin your life.
Microsoft Publisher was great for making banners and posters for small businesses. It’s basically free for people with Office. Anyone knows a suitable replacement? Is it all Canva from now on?
His sentencing is in February. According to the plea deal, he waives his right to appeal any sentence not more than 18 months, so he might still be in jail for a short period.
Yes, and 2/3 of the households in Canada are home owners.
I just do not understand how the blog writers are expected to come up with money to defend their case.
According to the Twitter thread linked, at the beginning there were only 30 items, so using bubblesort didn't matter. The number of items has since grown to a thousand.
I don't think this is SPP. SPP highlights in the difference between the mathematically optimal choice and the choice chosen in practice. It is a difference between theory and practice. The problem proposed in this article occurs even in theory alone. Non-ergodicity means there is a mismatch between "the average of all possibilities in the next time-step" and "the long-term trend of one datapoint".
If we put bounds on the bank in SPP, the first coin toss would still have positive EV. In the new ergodicity problem, even with bounds on the bank, it is unclear whether the "first" coin toss is worth taking.
fun fact: an average "policy debate" speaker speaks 350 words per minute and is completely unintelligible to an average person. They speak faster than auctioneers. A "policy debate" is not your average debate and is more like its own sport. The goal is to cram so many arguments into the limited time that your opponents cannot address them all.
Watch these and you definitely cannot understand them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FPsEwWT6K0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrTYHn1Am0c&list=PLHaG-zIzA-...
Even the Onion could not have written a better skit.
This is very good. Are the summaries manually curated?
The article was extremely on point. We didn't dare to try. Life is much too complicated, and many retreat to the safety of the familiar. I agree with others this problem is not at all unique to Ivy League. Instead, it is rather the futility of trying, the absence of a visible goal, and the lack of direction in life that, perhaps, made an Ivy League student feel for the first time in his life that maybe there is some meaning in the non-pursuit of happiness after all.
What you showed are the advertisements of the homes, but these are not the instructions that Sears sold. I assume the instructions would include a bill of materials and the step-by-step assembly process.
It is amazing to me that people used to spend one month full time on their own to build their own house using the instructions provided by Sears. Does anyone know whether any instruction booklets have survived? And whether it is possible for someone today to follow the same instructions and build their own house?
The video is not available for me on Youtube. Alternative working link: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/titanic-visiting-the-most-famou...
This feature is not public, right? Not on my Edge installation. It's only on canary.
Data-wise, what additional data does this include compared to Reddit's default export?
Why did your startup fail?
QR code menus are extremely popular in countries that have wide digital payment adoptions, such as China. Each QR code is linked to a table number. You take out your phone, turn on the camera with one click, scan the code, select the items you want to order, then click “pay”. It will take you to your digital payment provider (in China it’s often WeChat), which already has your payment info. Enter your PIN, and you’re done.
Exactly. It also would not be difficult for website operators to embed hidden user info in their served pages, thereby finding out the archive.is account. This approach seems risky for archive.is.
You mean the pages are crowdsourced? I don’t think so because many pages are archived only upon request. If I ask to archive a new page, archive.is provides it very quickly. This is not possible if the archive is built from crowdsourced data.
I was going to mention “sanction”. Happy to learn more words like that!
I was interested in the proof of this ("if x is a rational number, and x raised to the power of an integer is an integer, then x is an integer"), so I asked the new Bing. It actually gave a correct proof (despite no relevant links found in Google)!
------BELOW IS BING'S OUTPUT
This statement is true. If x is a rational number and x raised to the power of an integer is an integer, then x is an integer. This statement is called the rational root theorem. The proof of this theorem is based on the fact that if x is not an integer, then it can be expressed as a fraction p/q where p and q are integers and q ≠ 0. Then, x raised to the power of an integer can be expressed as (p/q)^n which can be simplified to p^n/q^n. Since p^n and q^n are integers, p^n/q^n is a rational number. If x raised to the power of an integer is an integer, then q^n must divide p^n. Since p and q are relatively prime, this implies that q = 1. Therefore, x is an integer.
I got this: defmodule Fibonacci do
def fib(0), do: 0
def fib(1), do: 1
def fib(n), do: fib(n - 1) + fib(n - 2)