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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.