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by davidnc 10mo ago
I was curious about this - if my Google results are accurate, it looks like the stock actually peaked in June 2007, the same month that the iphone was released. It seems that Blackberry's market share of new phone sales peaked at 20% i
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by davidnc 1y ago
This comment does a great job of clarifying the picture: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17106193 . It's effectively a visualization of gcd(x,y), and has almost nothing to do with primes. Once you realize that, it&
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Generals.io(generals.io)
4 points by davidnc 1y ago|1 comments
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by davidnc 2y ago
The page for the novel mentions it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs._Frisby_and_the_Rats_of_...
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by davidnc 3y ago
There's still a red clique. And changing any of those 3 to blue crates a blue clique.
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Toronto public library hit by ransomware attack(torontopubliclibrary.typepad.com)
2 points by davidnc 3y ago|0 comments
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Radix Economy(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by davidnc 3y ago|0 comments
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by davidnc 3y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radix_economy The idea is that if it costs $r to store a base-r digit, then base 3 (or e in a continuous scale) turns out to be the most efficient. Obviously, there's no a priori re
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We sped up zipline hot reload(code.cash.app)
1 points by davidnc 4y ago|0 comments
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by davidnc 7y ago
Note that the answer was written by the asker. Who then commented on the answer: > I have posted this Q&A because I'm sick and tired of telling people to enable warnings. Now I can just point them here (or, if I'm in a par
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by davidnc 9y ago
Or, give each representative voting power proportional to the number of voters in their district. That way, no need for the added salary and chaos of 200+ more representatives, and you can get perfectly proportional representation.
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by davidnc 10y ago
I thought I'd try writing a translation into Python. Not sure if it makes it any easier to follow, though... http://pastebin.com/yK1HrZJQ
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by davidnc 10y ago
I'm curious to know what the original statement was that got mangled into this. Maybe the author heard ASCII instead of C? Not sure where numbercentric would come in, though.
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by davidnc 10y ago
The article does mention that in August Trump promised to roll back the regulation.
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by davidnc 11y ago
The paper "Unified Call Concerns" (linked at the end of the post) describes the issue in a bit more detail: you might write f(X x, Y y), knowing that X doesn't have a member function f, and call it with x.f(y). If a new vers