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unstabilo

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    > Was it Einstein who said, "Any scientist who cannot explain what they are doing to an eight year old is a charlatan"? No. It's commonly attributed to Einstein, but of course he d…

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    Comment #9986345

    You didn't read the search results. Those are not ads, but articles mentioning the phrase, at least on the first page (20 articles).

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    Comment #9931823

    In Firefox press Shift+F2, then type "screenshot --fullpage" in the command line at the bottom of the page. No addon, plugin or extension needed.

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    Comment #9897537

    [1] [1] Thank [2]! [2] you

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    Comment #9702967

    Also, margarine consumption causes divorce in Maine. More "true facts" at http://tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations .

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    Comment #9425927

    My point is that a good algorithm, a good strategy can give you a several orders of magnitude speedup, more than the speed differences among languages. If a higher level language m…

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    Comment #9425322

    Or if you use clever algorithms. I don't have benchmarks at hand, but I suspect that an FFT in Python is faster than a naive Fourier transform in C.

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    Comment #9367320

    I already linked below, I didn't want to repeat it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_differences_in_suicide

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    Comment #9367047

    3. The number of reported suicidal attempts are actually higher for women.

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    Comment #9366996

    Basically, what user squids wrote. For more information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_differences_in_suicide

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    Comment #9366849

    Women tend to choose less effective methods, like wrist-cutting or sleeping pills, while men are more likely to choose hanging or shoot themselves.

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    Comment #9315746

    Technically, only half of it.

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    Comment #9303900

    He didn't say all open source is trustworthy, only that closed source is not. And Sourceforge, the repository itself is not open source.

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    Comment #9264354

    Not even dreams. It's PR. Daddy runs an "archery academy".

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    Comment #9170371

    Hello World execution time benchmark in many languages: http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-users/2011-03/m... With Haskell: http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-u…

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    Comment #8887470

    No need to apologize, even if it's perfect, the first player can always win by playing the right moves.

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    Comment #7875736

    Nor in Opera 12.

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    Comment #7796313

    Maybe not exactly what you want, but this book has some useful information: http://cleveralgorithms.com/nature-inspired/index.html . Check out the "Heuristics" subtitle of the algo…

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    Comment #7558143

    "Undefined behavior" means "undefined by the language specification ", but it is well defined by the compiler implementation . In other words, you never use the C language, always …