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Are the upper class not simply the descendants of those who were once the upper echelon?

Fair enough. I guess I presumed the preference since he uses an iPhone.

I'm surprised that despite being able to concisely explain why Apple is preferable to Google due to the privacy implications of their respective business models, they're perfectly …

I disagree. It's a cliche at this point that when Wal-Mart enters a town, all the mom and pop stores close up. The profit margins from distributing these goods now contributes to $…

I'm curious how much it would cost to say double the worker's salaries (or halve their hours at the same pay). How many Foxconn man-hours does it take to produce an iPhone, and wha…

Ship it and sell it for $15!

I never say anything about d being even. Rather, as soon as d > 0, x{d} is even, so "almost all" x{d} are even. As you vary x and d, you cover all integers exactly once, so from th…

The twist x{d} is even as soon as d>0.

Even the phrase almost all is a bit misleading here, since there is no canonical choice of measure on the set of elliptic curves in question.

To back up my last claim, let me prove that 100% of positive integers are even in the same spirit: Fix any odd positive integer x, and consider its "twists" x{d}, which for positiv…

It's not accurate. Looking at the arxiv link ( https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.02325 ), the idea is you fix some elliptic curve E, and you look at its "twists" E^d, where the parameter …

More severe than death?

Pretty sure books are going to be around for a while.

That website doesn't call it crazy, it just points out many of the difficulties, and the comments refute many of them. I do have to admit, it did not occur to me that the work week…

I'm not sure if you were serious, but I actually think completely getting rid of timezones is not that crazy of an idea. It would take some getting used to, but naively I don't thi…

Shouldn't any halfway decent investor discover this when performing due diligence? Or is there more stupid money out there than I realize?

Depends on the game. Totally agree for FPS, but e.g. EA Skate was basically designed to be played with two sticks.

In Boston, I've used Eat24, GrubHub, Doordash, but never Uber for food. I actually didn't realize how popular it was until this article.

From https://www.kansas.com/news/local/article208812519.html District Attorney Marc Bennett said the Wichita police officer who fired the shot that killed Andrew Finch after a swat…

But having experienced direct help, what it actually means is someone talks over my head no matter how much I say I don't understand. That sounds like a problem to me. I don't know…

Pregnant Elsa vs. Green Spider-Man Family w/ Surprise Kinder Surprise Color Counting For President!

The now-four-year-old comments on that video are just... mwah.

I think what GP meant was that MD5 is meant to be cryptographic, and parenthetically, it's bad at it. MeowHash is not even meant to be cryptographic, so it is much faster.

I don't know about the subscriptions, but my significant other uses RTR one-offs for company parties and is a pretty satisfied customer.