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by bvod 6y ago
Of course, you can find the full explanation in the amicus brief: https://www.brennancenter.org/sites/default/files/legal-work... It is NP complete in determining to an absolute degree that a redistricting pl
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by bvod 6y ago
This is not only much needed, but also will help shape how our legal system can adapt to new technologies. I had the privilege of sitting in on an Election Law class last year at YLS. The topic was gerrymandering, with a discussion of the l
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by bvod 6y ago
If you exclusively consider the value of the puts, then yes they made a killing. But Mexico didn't use the puts to take a huge directional speculative bet - it used them to hedge oil price risk, so the profits from this trade are struc
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by bvod 7y ago
Yup. But I didn't take the offer.
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by bvod 7y ago
The fingerprint scanner is intended to benefit the company, not the users. It makes it significantly more difficult to share an account, which protects Bloomberg's $24,000 / user / year revenue.
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by bvod 7y ago
I would recommend talking with a lawyer before taking any actions to circumvent international sanctions. There are very severe civil and criminal penalties.
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by bvod 7y ago
C++ is deep and nuanced, so reading books will help structure your learning. I've found Scott Meyer's books to be great for starting out. Those will give you a fantastic foundation, from which you can dive deeper. Those and others
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Ask HN: What are some of the most influential PEP's?
1 points by bvod 8y ago|0 comments
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by bvod 8y ago
The problem is that the rev/user isn't constant. If they get more users, they earn more from each user. And conversely, if they lose users, they earn less from everyone. So even if a small percentage of their users opted to pay mo
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by bvod 8y ago
I feel like your pricing is off. $29/week is too expensive for consumers, yet far too cheap if you plan to get reimbursed from insurers. Especially considering you'll need a lot of people and show improvements for them if you want
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by bvod 8y ago
Can anyone explain how they decide which requests to reject? The blog post just mentions that excess RPS gets rejected, but couldn't rejecting arbitrary requests cause other problems?
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IHeartRadio plans for bankruptcy(bloomberg.com)
2 points by bvod 9y ago|0 comments
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by bvod 9y ago
"'We’re trying to figure out if we can predict how much shortcutting ants will do given a geometry of their environment,' Garnier said." Garnier clearly states that they haven't figured out the algorithm. Then the s
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by bvod 9y ago
Interesting topic but the title is misleading - the article concludes saying scientists still haven't figured out the algorithm. It would be nice if the title actually reflected the content of the article
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by bvod 9y ago
Who does this and do you have a source? It would be interesting to learn more
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by bvod 9y ago
Actually I read the whole thing - it was written really well. But it's far from extremely clever what he did. Anyone who's studied tenancy law for more than a few days could do the same. The only difference he had was being sociop
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by bvod 9y ago
This article does not belong on HN.
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by bvod 9y ago
Graduating and going through the hiring process last year, I realized how true this is and how important your tech pedigree is. I recieved no full time offers before interning at Apple last summer, and after the internship I had no trouble
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by bvod 9y ago
Google has an in-house litigation team that would have already been on payroll. Sure they had to pay for expert witnesses and court fees, but the total would be far less than what they settled for
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by bvod 9y ago
Sure but we can always find an arbitrarily 'better' use of any donation by looking at it from a utilitarian perspective
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by bvod 9y ago
Amazon hires plenty people of both classes, recent grads and experienced hires. But from my impression I think they hire more recent grads than any other tech company.
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by bvod 9y ago
So any article under the sun is relevant for HN? That's definitely not the case as mods frequently remove posts, and as much as they would like to be, mods are not arbiters of intellectual curiosity.
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by bvod 9y ago
I find it really annoying that top two articles on HN are completely separate from engineering. Since when have posts from news sources been able to not just make it to the front page, but dominate the front page? Years ago, coming to this
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Ask HN: Why is finding cryptocurrency fraud difficult?
2 points by bvod 9y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: What problems does blockchain solve?
76 points by bvod 9y ago|68 comments
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by bvod 9y ago
Since the tapes were damaged by "moderate to severe mould," it likely would have taken a non insignificant amount of work to convert them to digital format. NASA doesn't want to waste it's engineers' time - this see
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by bvod 9y ago
This is completely irrelevant to the article, where they use hydroelectric power to mine bitcoins. But even if they used nonrenewable soures, the negative impact on the environment shouldn't be faulted to bitcoin. It's the energy
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Ask HN: What tech companies do you invest in?
46 points by bvod 9y ago|52 comments
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Ask HN: Best ways to recruit on HN?
2 points by bvod 9y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: How are top-grossing apps calculated?
54 points by bvod 9y ago|23 comments

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