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Re:Ask HN: What's your speciality, and what's your "FizzBuzz... by noblethrasher on Thursday January 02, 2014 @10:52AM (#7000131)
x is "near" y and y is near x. y is not near z, so z is not near y, and therefore z is not near x nor is x near z.
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Re:Ask HN: What's your speciality, and what's your "FizzBuzz... by Someone on Thursday January 02, 2014 @12:21PM (#7000734)
Bad example. "Near" is not an equivalence relation. Every step you make keeps you near where you were, but you can eventually get thousands of miles away.
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