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They are infinitely divisible

I think the idea is that you can move the threshold on when to implement in Fortran/C(++) since you only have a '1x-5x slowdown' for most common application compare to the 20x-5000…

Electricity powered bicycles are not that rare here in Denmark, they look like this: http://www.ecykler.dk/dame/863-raleigh-society-da-n7-elcykel... which is not particularly more …

The first few chapters of ET Jaynes: 'Probability Theory: The Logic of Science': http://bayes.wustl.edu/etj/prob/book.pdf Are great (and free) as a thorough introduction to bayesia…

That's just glib. People use lots of bitcoins on silk road every day with no interest in speculation. Bitcoins are a real currency with value backed by the interest in silk road pr…

My guess is that bitcoins are mainly used for college students' and drug hobbyists' $50 purchases of LSD and the like on silk road and not for big transactions.

How far back does your score data go?

If you have worked a lot with R you won't be surprised that anything is faster than R

It is possible here in Denmark. There is a very safe and unique ID for everyone, the kicker is that it costs $0.60 per user/year to utilize.

It takes a hell of a lot of $50 websites to pay an average programmer's salary

Exactly, OP does not understand the role RAM plays in computers. It is a disappointment for me to see the link get so many points in this community where you would expect the basel…

Static. On this site I host mostly huge-ass html files (about 1 MB per request) with apache 2 and mod_deflate :-) There is also a wordpress site and another database-request-heavy …

Traffic on an EC2 micro instance for a website I run: http://i.imgur.com/bR6I8.png

It's a small point to make but there are no cat videos on my small corner of facebook :)

A lower bound for latency to the 'other side of the earth': (20 000 km) / the speed of light = 66.712819 milliseconds http://www.google.dk/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&#38...

I have never seen this attitude

I think the main purpose would be for Google to target ads very specifically like facebook does now.

List of communities: https://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/DjangoResources#Communit... Mailing lists: https://www.djangoproject.com/community/ on the right Sizes of communities: redd…

On Facebook you buy ads for ~$1+ because you can set target demographic to something as specfic as "women; 42-47 years old; looking for relationships with other women; with a degre…

Strictly speaking, everything we see happened in the past :)

I have a hard time changing functionality of the alt key between alt and meta. I Terminal.app I just go to preferences and it is there. Here it takes a little more..

but it's focused on just 25 spots on the front page each day You can get 35k views in a day from getting to place 93. and you can get 8k views in a day from the 175-largest subredd…