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I could be mixing things up here, it's been too long ago. I think this was about a directed graph, so the number of edges is actually N^2 and your walk roughly of that length.

50mph on a 65mph road may be "impeding the flow of traffic". 63mph certainly isn't. I'm a bit confused regarding your insinuation of an "agenda" in my comments? I've been in enough…

A while back I interviewed with a networking company in the bay area and one of the things the interviewer asked me do was to devise an algorithm to walk the fully connected graph …

> Nearly every study on the topic has concluded that faster vehicles get into less accidents Citations definitely needed. Not just of the studies that perhaps support your point, b…

> This is largely because speed limits are too low. Research is clear. For every 5mph increase on a highway you can calculate how many people per year per mile will die more. If yo…

> Driving below the speed limit increases the amount of drivers who need to do overtaking, Nobody "needs" to overtake or is "forced" to doing something dangerous outside safe margi…

> the average reaction time of a gamer is 150ms It's rare that those gamers have a crying toddler in the backseat while being sleep deprived and the sun coming from a less than per…

It's even great in the sense that a speedometer tends to make people aim for "I need to go 65 mph" instead of "I should not go above 65 mph" which a speed limit is actually intende…

Your comment would be significantly more accessible to the general HN crowd if you explained what BI and MAU stand for.

> Parking is a problem in a lot of European cities. On the flipside, the inner cities are much nicer. You have fewer of those seas of concrete just for parking. I wish it was even …

Sorry, I don't see how my post relates to NIHism. Could you elaborate?

But this is Hacker News where people who build things hang out. If you are fine with the state of the world and are not involved in advancing it, good for you, you can close this d…

> IMHO, you should only reach for this understanding when you realize you need it Issue is that often times people don't know that a certain tool exists, so they re-invent a 100x w…

Which exactly describes the problem with today's culture of people watching a 10 minute youtube clip and then thinking they are experts on the subject matter. Be it microservices, …

But that's exactly what you did! You just counted which fraction of all kids is boys. You threw away that this is about pairs of kids, about april 1 on which one of them has their …

And what do you do with non-discrete attributes?

Nice! What's really fun about this problem is that you can have very convincing arguments for 1/2 being the correct answer, and very convincing arguments for 1/3 being the correct …