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im2w1l

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    Comment #11057165

    The situation in Sweden is becoming really bad. The police have decided to cover up crime at the refugee centers because it is so high. For some age groups in Sweden there are now …

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    Comment #11055275

    1. Elections. 2. Monopoly. There is no "but they are doing it so we have to, too" race to the bottom.

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    Comment #11052257

    Suggestion: Add a way to distinguish between parameters sent to maybe and parameters sent to the program. You don't accept any parameters at the moment, but you may want to in the …

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    Comment #11050697

    Think about the press. How often do you see "joe schmoe did something stupid" vs "celebrity did something stupid"? Now, if you are rich and powerful, but not enough so to be famous…

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    Comment #11050208

    Yes, it's clear that some parts of academia has people with really suspicious agendas.

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    Comment #11050146

    They don't want you to be able to say stupid or dumb either

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    Comment #11049753

    "Those who prefer speed over safety deserve neither speed nor safety"

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    Comment #11038722

    People have earned a lot of money by nitpicking laws.

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    Comment #11038674

    Just because it doesn't have formal definitions doesn't mean it doesn't need them. As GP points out, the implication of the vagueness is that there will be a lot of legal uncertain…

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    Comment #11032771

    I think it may helpful to decompose the permutation into circles, and create an equation system of time left from different states.

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    Comment #11032742

    Has anyone analyzed the MCMC version? while not sorted: swap(a[rand(n)], a[rand(n)])

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    Comment #11017860

    That is not know to be the case, only conjectured.

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    Comment #11010791

    I'd pay 27k for a piece of paper that say people have to listen to my rants because I am edumacated.

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    Comment #11010319

    >a rogue thread randomly scanning your memory for things that look like addresses. How does that avoid race conditions? What happens if I quickly move my pointer around? i.e. b=a;a…

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    Comment #11009699

    I like this one http://0.media.collegehumor.cvcdn.com/70/36/483778211d5177e9... It seems impossible a few seconds until the trick is revealed.

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    Comment #11009377

    That no one should criticize or make fun of islam seems to be one thing, if you look at the targets they have gone after. I assume they also want The West not to interfere when the…

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    Comment #11009317

    The point isn't to make the enemy protect itself though. It is to get the enemy to give into ones demands.

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    Comment #11008698

    > some desktop motherboard allow to reinstall a corrupted firmware by putting a special named file on a usb key This sounds fun and dangerous.

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    Comment #11000990

    I am not 100% sure I understand your description, but if you want standard drop-in-replacement for linked lists, you want the array deque. It can do fast insertion and deletion at …

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    Comment #10993823

    Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater... Complexity analysis is very useful, even if it doesn't always give the full picture.

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    Comment #10993627

    Creating data can be expensive. Analyzing data is cheap. People who come up with a new theory get a lot more fame than people who publish raw data. The incentives are then to suck …

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    Comment #10986665

    Not everything responds to antibiotics. Viruses are an example of not responding to antibiotics. Doctors sometimes prescribe antibiotics for things they wont work for. Antibiotics …

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    Comment #10986552

    I looked it up, and it seems that while IP will reassemble packets, there is no 1-1 mapping between send calls and IP packets, when using TCP. You are only guaranteed to get the by…