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Re:Ask HN: Please review my site favilous.com on Monday January 25, 2010 @02:00PM (#1075812)
The first thing I noticed is that the site is painfully slow on my computer (in both Chrome and Firefox). I think the changing image is hogging CPU.
Re:Drunk Cycling on Thursday December 17, 2009 @12:25AM (#1000474)
The statistic of deaths / mile is irrelevant. Of course more drunk walkers die per mile walked than drunk drivers die per mile driven, because it takes them > 10 times as long to get anywhere. I think it's more likely that accident rates are based more on time traveled than on distance traveled.
Re:What's your favorite math proof? on Tuesday December 08, 2009 @06:07AM (#983436)
This is similar to the following question:

Is there a positive integer that does not have an accurate semantic definition in english of less than 100 characters? (i.e. "The first number", "The first prime", "The third perfect square", etc.)

Proof that there is no such number:

Suppose there were. Construct a list of all the numbers that don't have an accurate english semantic definition in less than 100 characters. The first of these can be accurately defined as "The first number that does not have an accurate english semantic definition in less than 100 characters", a contradiction. :-P

Re:What's your favorite math proof? on Tuesday December 08, 2009 @06:04AM (#983432)
Cute.

I know it's a joke, but the inductive step fails for n = 2. Each of the two groups of 1 horses being the same colour does not imply that all the horses are the same colour.

:)