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mathgradthrow

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    Comment #49077036

    The word you are looking for, probably, is "totally disconnected". Discrete always refers to the "discrete topology".

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    Comment #49075276

    Navel gazing is a physical phenomenon, so if you would like to know everything about physical phenomena, you have to be able to predict the navel gazers.

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    Comment #48529404

    >Homework requires internet-connected devices I see an opportunity for much more reasonable legislation since this is a thing that the gov already controls.

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    Comment #48239363

    So many of these invariants are redundant and so few of them encode any of the interesting rules of chess.

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    Comment #48229147

    well, I wrote should as a hedge.

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    Comment #48225197

    Someone flips a coin and looks at it, what orders are you willing to put in? The potential for insiders should be represented by a complete loss of liquidity.

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    Comment #48216760

    I think when your work is no longer required, you will probably come to regret this sentiment, not that it matters.

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    Comment #48011113

    You're right, but I was confusing counterparty risk and adverse selection.

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    Comment #48009823

    Everytime someone loses money on a bad bet in a prediction market, it's an opportunity for them to learn something about ~~counter-party risk~~ adverse selection. You could easily …

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    Comment #47950046

    a realistic response? What's a realistic response to "how many calories are in an avocado?" If you are counting calories, you don't want the answer to "how many calories are in the…

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    Comment #47878532

    Income is by far the dominant term, you're being ridiculous.

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    Comment #47877676

    You are responding to data about the median American.

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    Comment #47664719

    Did you not vote?

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    Comment #47660293

    Does this question need asking?

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    Comment #47660288

    This is the dumbest thing that has ever been posted on this site.

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    Comment #47640716

    You don't have to agree to a disparagement clause... She accepted a lot of money to agree to it.

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    Comment #47640316

    Putin can barely fight his own war, and how are you proposing that China supply Iran? You can't rebuild capability in a day. Do you want to give odds to your proposition that this …

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    Comment #47634003

    I don't know if any have completed runs yet, but supposedly we're using B-52s...

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    Comment #47632757

    1) The US has run 13,000 missions over Iran in the last month. Thats a lot of targets. 2) The initial US degradation of Iraqi capabilities was much much greater in gulf war 1. 3) F…

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    Comment #47597090

    I don't believe you understand how modern bombs work.

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    Comment #47597088

    You think the pentagon was like "shit, Iran is bigger than we thought"?

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    Comment #47595419

    I'm not really sure that's any of their business.

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    Comment #47518628

    wasn't that about when the iphone came out?

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    Comment #47439257

    > try tweaking the description of a widely-known algorithm just a little bit and see how good the generated code follows the spec. this works well for me

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    Comment #47327197

    No, because of the fundamental limitation of DRM. Content must be delivered as plaintext.