Kapow

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by Kapow 7y ago
There's an Austrian site with a massive variety of puzzles like these, all playable online for free: https://www.janko.at/Raetsel/Uebersicht.htm It's mostly in German, but each game page usually has a rules s
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by Kapow 8y ago
Their money is mostly stored in regulated and insured banks and investments. Even if you get their bank password, you can't just move all their money at once to an untraceable account in an irreversible transaction leaving them with ab
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by Kapow 8y ago
> the ones making nests near urban areas were incorporating a lot of colorful man-made trinkets they scavenged from the big city to woo the ladies (which I think suggests some level of flexibility). If they avoided man-made objects, that
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by Kapow 8y ago
By these rules, you just committed an attack and violated the rights of others by saying "88". If you were banned to prevent this attack, nothing of value would be lost. Oh, "but I wasn't SAYING it" you say? Who jud
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by Kapow 8y ago
I think you have some XIs that should be IXs.
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by Kapow 8y ago
You think everyone else can't make conscious decisions, but you can? That sounds like solipsism, or just a lack of empathy.
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by Kapow 8y ago
Reminds me of "100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories" edited by Asimov. The format works really well for hard sci-fi, gets straight to the point. Some of them have stuck with me for decades.
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by Kapow 8y ago
That's just a ternary operator. I use that in Java all the time. value = boolean ? this_value : other_value; If the branching logic gets too complicated, I usually move it into a function (private method) with a return in each
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by Kapow 9y ago
If it was "promise" in the sense of "showing promise", then it's a mass noun and they wouldn't have said "a promise". That's like saying "a money" or "a knowledge".
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by Kapow 10y ago
That was actually mentioned in Nintendo Power volume 50, it's one of the most well-known and easy-to-perform video game glitches. They also mentioned the Zelda 2 glitch where you could wrong-warp by jumping off the top of the screen an
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by Kapow 10y ago
No, that's already covered by 0000, nobody drinks that one. Number the bottles 0 to 15 and it's clearer.
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by Kapow 10y ago
The ruling was in 2015, there was a year delay before it came into effect.
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by Kapow 10y ago
Some of these are poorly worded. Why does the answer to the May one keep talking about 30 seconds passing when the only time mentioned in the problem is 30 minutes? 30 seconds gives Nick at least 10 seconds per possible solution, he should
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by Kapow 10y ago
JS gets even weirder when you include all the comparison operators. https://jsfiddle.net/5Yzs6/17/ Did you know undefined is equal to undefined, but not <= undefined or >= undefined? Or that two instances of
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by Kapow 10y ago
It wouldn't need to involve cognition and logic, it could be evolutionary coincidence: humpback whales with behavior that happens to result in fewer orcas nearby would have more surviving offspring, so this behavior would be selected f
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by Kapow 10y ago
No, it would require them to add their cert on the intended machines under their control. The only reasons they would need the trust of all browsers and OS's are subterfuge and laziness. They should not be globally trusted to issue cer
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by Kapow 10y ago
Tetris is actually an interesting example: http://tetris.wikia.com/wiki/Random_Generator Officially branded Tetris games are required to use a "random bag" algorithm where they generate random permutations of
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by Kapow 10y ago
> People may not always feel comfortable checking into a local bar or sharing an anecdote from their lives, knowing these updates may not be relevant to all their connections. Google Plus solved this exact problem 5 years ago with "
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by Kapow 10y ago
Don't forget Codex of Alchemical Engineering, one of their free browser games: http://www.zachtronics.com/the-codex-of-alchemical-engineeri...
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by Kapow 10y ago
What black hole are you sending JSON into where the only way they could know something is a date is if you use a date type? Why can't that be part of the data structure you agreed upon in order to communicate in the first place?
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by Kapow 10y ago
Would this be implemented as only showing pairs within a certain threshold of difference, or would it choose an application purely at random and then the application with the closest score (or even 50/50 the next highest or next lowest
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by Kapow 10y ago
I think most people are reading that example and imagining a one-off harsh interaction with someone who doesn't usually snap like that, while the way you describe it: > how unpleasant social interactions persist and grow into a clim
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by Kapow 11y ago
Everyone forgets about Pac-Man, that was another huge contributor to the crash. The 2600 couldn't handle 5 sprites, so they used one sprite for all the ghosts and showed one per frame. The flickering ghosts against the bright blue back
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by Kapow 11y ago
That doesn't explain what "declared a de jure court" means. Declared an according-to-law court? And that made the judge run away? It's gibberish.
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by Kapow 11y ago
>and then taken the idea and started building it into their machines by default. And sold it and kept all the money to themselves? Sounds like a great deal for them.
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by Kapow 11y ago
That only makes sense if you restrict Bob's decision making to consider each game in isolation, without regard to how how rejecting an offer in one game might lead to a higher offer in a future game. At that point, I would call it a di
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by Kapow 11y ago
I think he's describing a different problem, since he mentions majority voting. If I was splitting a cake with 2 other people (A and B), A suggested fair division into thirds, and B suggested half for me and half for B, B's sugges
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by Kapow 11y ago
>In ROUND100, Alice knows Bob will take whatever non-zero offer she makes. Wait, how does she know that? Can you explain why you consider that the most rational choice for Bob to make? As experiment shows, this is not the optimal strateg
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by Kapow 11y ago
>Another problem which puzzles me even more is dividing a cake among three people by majority vote. Is there a name for this problem? I can only find the fair cake cutting problem, which has been solved for 3 people.
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by Kapow 11y ago
>declared a de jure court What does this mean? Google has no results for that phrase, using any verb tense.

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