c_lebesgue

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by c_lebesgue 10y ago
While in principle I agree with you, in practice N was most of the time equal to 65k, with the exception of the dot-com bubble (years 1999-2003, so 80% of the time; program was added in 1990). And there probably should be something like H1B
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by c_lebesgue 10y ago
As someone who got "rejected" in the H1B random lottery - yes, the system needs an overhaul. Perhaps an auction system would be appropriate, where companies bid on visas, then top N bidders get visas from the pool, paying the lowe
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by c_lebesgue 11y ago
I think the complexity of the problem actually speaks in favour of Varnish. The Unix philosophy of writing software is based on the principle of doing one, possibly small thing very well. And that's exactly what Varnish does: it is a r
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by c_lebesgue 11y ago
Welcome to a new era, one where negative interest rates have no lower bound.
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by c_lebesgue 11y ago
In the step 2. you write that you "Ask everyone to accept proposal i", but to satisfy the safety property of Paxos you can only accept proposals from round "i" if you were a participant of the round "i" in the
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by c_lebesgue 11y ago
The original IP address can also speed up the prosecution process, at least in Europe, where many privacy violations are a criminal offense.
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by c_lebesgue 11y ago
I do not think spam accounts are ever deleted, just flagged. Maybe those created in some absurd numbers. After all they make a valuable training data for spam detection algorithms.
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by c_lebesgue 11y ago
My thoughts exactly: which one is true? A) Amazon is a kind of narcissistic codependency/Stockholm syndrome environment; B) the "horror" stories are exaggerated; C) the job is so cool that people are willing to take some abus
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by c_lebesgue 11y ago
Honest question: do you think that only Amazon has interesting problems to solve? I do not know much about the company internally, but there exist other companies that compensate and treat employees better, such as Google or Facebook.
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by c_lebesgue 11y ago
German EUR bonds have the second lowest yields globally, with Switzerland being the leader. Also their ratings are higher than f. eg. the US bonds. So the German government does not really have to worry about borrowing money.
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by c_lebesgue 11y ago
Nitpick: you need a potentially unbounded number of alternations between existential and universal quantifiers to get PSPACE. Otherwise it is just somewhere in the polynomial hierarchy. Otherwise you are right, "outsmarting" the r
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by c_lebesgue 11y ago
Why the assumption that Ellen Pao was not fired? It felt like one of these cases when an employee has a lengthy talk with her supervisors, after which she is given an option to quit, as a way to save her face. An evidence for that would be
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by c_lebesgue 11y ago
Sure, it is certainly possible that mathematics can be automated, but mathematics is also over 2000 years old. We are not much closer to automating it than the Greeks were. P=NP does not only break the Complexity theory (which is a relative
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by c_lebesgue 11y ago
And the Gaussian distribution is an eigenvector of the Fourier transform. Not surprisingly both of these facts correlate with how fundamental is the exponents function to solving linear differential equations, and how fundamental is the Gau
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by c_lebesgue 11y ago
Well, to be fair, the QE program has been stopped, and S&P 500 is still skyrocketing.
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by c_lebesgue 11y ago
There's not that many countries with immigration problems like the US. The majority of governments don't care much.
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by c_lebesgue 11y ago
There is a movie about post-war Warsaw [1], based on Russian airplane photo shoots. The part of the city that looks almost perfectly flat is the former Jewish ghetto. Nowadays, this area has a completely different arrangement of streets, be
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by c_lebesgue 11y ago
Warsaw was devastated after the WWII. It is estimated that about 85% of the buildings were destroyed, and only about one thousand people lived in the ruins, compared to more than one million before the war. The communist government that was