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Re:Mathematics all-in-one cheat-sheet (2013) [pdf] on Thursday May 30, 2019 @10:55AM (#20051819)
This is exactly what I thought. In fact, when I got to the section that listed the right-truncatable primes, I immediately searched Euler because I knew there was a problem about them -- turns out I had already solved it though lol.
Re:Why Do Rich People Love Endurance Sports? (2017) on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @12:52AM (#19024098)
My wife has signed up for 3 half-marathons in the last year and the maximum cost was $60 (and they all came with a t-shirt).
Re:Why Do Rich People Love Endurance Sports? (2017) on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @12:50AM (#19024088)
>According to the New York Times, the total cost of running a marathon—arguably the least gear-intensive and costly of all endurance sports—can easily be north of $1,600.

Wat.

What marathons are they signing up for?

Re:Family Tree of Economics on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @12:48PM (#18866855)
I have no idea. I'm not an Austrian, but I can tell you that stating they are "nonexistent" in modern academia is just wrong.

Go look up Peter Boettke at George Mason -- he is a current, publishing Austrian Economist (he gave a talk at my uni).

Re:Family Tree of Economics on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @12:39PM (#18866767)
Having graduated with an Econ degree just 5 years ago, I can tell you that this is 100% false.
Re:The Curse of the Black Lotus (2015) on Friday December 28, 2018 @10:09AM (#18777112)
>Lotus and eight other ridiculous cards

Well, Lotus, 7 other ridiculous cards, and then Timetwister.

This is basically what I was referring to, along with the redistribution and redirection of capital towards the "war effort."
I would wager that the two World Wars impact on capital had a lot to do with the decrease of the 1%'s wealth.
>So your definition of "solidly upper class" is the top 10% of earners? That's a pretty loose definition IMO.

You stated that above. I'd say your definition here is quite a bit more "loose."

Re:Project Euler on Sunday December 10, 2017 @06:40PM (#15894147)
This is exactly what I use it for.
Re:Visual Studio Code 1.8 on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @04:52PM (#13179995)
> Terminal copy and paste key bindings on Windows have changed to Ctrl+C (when text is selected) and Ctrl+V respectively.

So happy.

Re:Broadcom Wi-Fi Datasheets on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @12:03PM (#12968946)
Every time I do a fresh install of Debian on my laptop, I whip out the Ethernet cable and do the strange, hour-long dance of installing and uninstalling broadcom-sta-common while modprobing various kernel modules until my wifi works.

BCM4313 -- never again.