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davidnc

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    I was curious about this - if my Google results are accurate, it looks like the stock actually peaked in June 2007, the same month that the iphone was released. It seems that Black…

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    Comment #44951571

    This comment does a great job of clarifying the picture: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17106193 . It's effectively a visualization of gcd(x,y), and has almost nothing to do …

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    Comment #41700582

    The page for the novel mentions it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs._Frisby_and_the_Rats_of_...

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    Comment #38602117

    There's still a red clique. And changing any of those 3 to blue crates a blue clique.

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    Comment #36767639

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radix_economy The idea is that if it costs $r to store a base-r digit, then base 3 (or e in a continuous scale) turns out to be the most efficient. …

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    Comment #21154769

    Note that the answer was written by the asker. Who then commented on the answer: > I have posted this Q&A because I'm sick and tired of telling people to enable warnings. Now I can…

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    Comment #14641915

    Or, give each representative voting power proportional to the number of voters in their district. That way, no need for the added salary and chaos of 200+ more representatives, and…

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    Comment #13890676

    I thought I'd try writing a translation into Python. Not sure if it makes it any easier to follow, though... http://pastebin.com/yK1HrZJQ

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    Comment #13037478

    I'm curious to know what the original statement was that got mangled into this. Maybe the author heard ASCII instead of C? Not sure where numbercentric would come in, though.

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    Comment #13028141

    The article does mention that in August Trump promised to roll back the regulation.

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    Comment #11101424

    The paper "Unified Call Concerns" (linked at the end of the post) describes the issue in a bit more detail: you might write f(X x, Y y), knowing that X doesn't have a member functi…