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While in principle I agree with you, in practice N was most of the time equal to 65k, with the exception of the dot-com bubble (years 1999-2003, so 80% of the time; program was add…

As someone who got "rejected" in the H1B random lottery - yes, the system needs an overhaul. Perhaps an auction system would be appropriate, where companies bid on visas, then top …

I think the complexity of the problem actually speaks in favour of Varnish. The Unix philosophy of writing software is based on the principle of doing one, possibly small thing ver…

Welcome to a new era, one where negative interest rates have no lower bound.

In the step 2. you write that you "Ask everyone to accept proposal i", but to satisfy the safety property of Paxos you can only accept proposals from round "i" if you were a partic…

The original IP address can also speed up the prosecution process, at least in Europe, where many privacy violations are a criminal offense.

I do not think spam accounts are ever deleted, just flagged. Maybe those created in some absurd numbers. After all they make a valuable training data for spam detection algorithms.…

My thoughts exactly: which one is true? A) Amazon is a kind of narcissistic codependency/Stockholm syndrome environment; B) the "horror" stories are exaggerated; C) the job is so c…

Honest question: do you think that only Amazon has interesting problems to solve? I do not know much about the company internally, but there exist other companies that compensate a…

German EUR bonds have the second lowest yields globally, with Switzerland being the leader. Also their ratings are higher than f. eg. the US bonds. So the German government does no…

Nitpick: you need a potentially unbounded number of alternations between existential and universal quantifiers to get PSPACE. Otherwise it is just somewhere in the polynomial hiera…

Why the assumption that Ellen Pao was not fired? It felt like one of these cases when an employee has a lengthy talk with her supervisors, after which she is given an option to qui…

Sure, it is certainly possible that mathematics can be automated, but mathematics is also over 2000 years old. We are not much closer to automating it than the Greeks were. P=NP do…

And the Gaussian distribution is an eigenvector of the Fourier transform. Not surprisingly both of these facts correlate with how fundamental is the exponents function to solving l…

Well, to be fair, the QE program has been stopped, and S&P 500 is still skyrocketing.

There's not that many countries with immigration problems like the US. The majority of governments don't care much.

There is a movie about post-war Warsaw [1], based on Russian airplane photo shoots. The part of the city that looks almost perfectly flat is the former Jewish ghetto. Nowadays, thi…

Warsaw was devastated after the WWII. It is estimated that about 85% of the buildings were destroyed, and only about one thousand people lived in the ruins, compared to more than o…