stryker

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by stryker 14y ago
That's precisely why Einstein's theory of relativity was so groundbreaking. It stipulates that the speed of light must be the same relative to every frame. Let's say you're moving nearly as fast as the speed of light. Are you flying side by
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by stryker 14y ago
Can I talk to you offline? How can I message you on this forum? I feel like I'm missing something. The FAQ defines FTL as "getting to a location faster than light" but what if light is taking a suboptimal path? Assuming wormholes exist, dep
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by stryker 14y ago
I agree with your assessment, but you're still missing my point. Following your analogy, what I'm saying is not that 1+1=3, but that we're not really using the plus operator here. I think we both agree that wormholes do not violate causalit
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by stryker 14y ago
I'm going to ignore your condescension. I'm also going to assume you didn't read the rest of my post, because you presented no arguments to counter my points. I'd like to point out that the wikipedia article on the Alcubierre drive writes a
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by stryker 14y ago
I feel like a lot of people here misunderstand the speed of light as a cosmic speed limit. The speed of light as a speed limit is a local constraint. On a larger scale there is no such speed limit. Just because you travel faster than ligh
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by stryker 14y ago
It's the only manipulative practice allowed by the SEC because of the need to "maintain a fair and orderly market". This article describes it fairly well in its abstract: http://economics.ouls.ox.ac.uk/10713/1/IPOstabilization.pdf . "Stabi
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by stryker 14y ago
Just semantics. The writer presumably is considering only even numbers, for which it is generally true that you get more solutions as you increase the number. You are right in that it is worded non-rigorously, but in my opinion it is implie
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by stryker 15y ago
I too am more interested in the bytecode hackery that's going on here than the fact that it is a goto implementation. You might be interested in byteplay ( http://code.google.com/p/byteplay/ ), which is a module that tries to simplify this
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by stryker 15y ago
Four years of signing up for pistols, never once got in (I signed up fairly early too. Guess I shoulda automated it). This new degree will now make it even harder to get in! Maybe as a result they will look into expanding the class.
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by stryker 15y ago
There's a saying: plans are useless but planning is essential. I think generally it's good to think about these things because the process is more valuable than the plan itself.
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by stryker 15y ago
>> Predatory pricing, according to the linked wikipedia article, occurs when the price is set below the cost of production. I have nothing against profits, but exuberant profit which I think is the product of exploitation. Yes, stri
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by stryker 15y ago
You are being downvoted not only because a large portion of HN believes that adding huge amounts of value to society should pay off handsomely, but also because a lot of your points are easily falsified. Changing the example from Apple to M
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by stryker 15y ago
I will concede that there are many reasonable social frameworks designed to maximize societal wealth in the long run. You are simply describing your own version. After all, capitalism is one solution to this very complex problem of resource
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by stryker 15y ago
Right. The market price of a good is governed only by supply and demand. Sure, the cost it takes to produce the good influences its supply and demand, but in a capitalist society, only the market determines its price at the end of the day.
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by stryker 15y ago
His story is a bit hyperbolic. Not sure which bank he worked at, but any business sector can have bad/incompetent companies where consumer / investor ignorance and asymmetric information allows them to add minimal value for high fees. He al
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by stryker 15y ago
I'm going to assume that you're not talking about the secondary market for used goods, because that can most definitely be a business. See: ebay.com. About arbitrage: I agree with you, to some extent. By definition, as more people notice th
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by stryker 15y ago
It's not so surprising if you consider that humans are much better at pattern recognition in general, where the space of possibilities is too large for a brute force search (even with clever optimizations, such as minimax, alpha-beta prunin
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by stryker 16y ago
Looks pretty cool :D Keep me updated!