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Re:Hyundai suspending two US suppliers because of child labor on Saturday October 22, 2022 @04:51PM (#33302111)
Not if you include literacy in any language e.g. Spanish or English.
See the Japanese cherry blossom data mentioned by someone else. It has blooming data since 600 AD.
This is a consequence of the immune response. It's common to every vaccine (or viral infection).
Re:Reddit is being funded by a fake company? on Saturday May 14, 2022 @10:42AM (#31378404)
And you're downvoting me right now for telling you the actual truth.
Re:Reddit is being funded by a fake company? on Saturday May 14, 2022 @10:20AM (#31378162)
It exists in their fevered imagination.
Re:Reddit is being funded by a fake company? on Saturday May 14, 2022 @10:19AM (#31378150)
No one is "anti-free speech", but some companies have decided that overt racism, sexism, anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry violate what they've decided are reasonable terms of service. If users don't like it, there's always 8chan, Stormfront, Gab, Gettr, Truth Social, Parler.
Re:Did the W-boson just “break the standard model”? on Saturday April 30, 2022 @12:42PM (#31217264)
Contrarianism should never be confused with intelligence. When someone says "most of them don’t like me", you can hear the underlying hisses of "because I am right and they are wrong" and "because I am smart and they are dumb". If most people don't like you, there's a very simple reason for it.
Hacker News bans the same types of hate speech that Twitter prohibits. Is that "censorship", or only when Twitter does it?
There aren't two sides to genocide.
You might want to consider switching to decaffeinated coffee.
It's a load of clickbait nonsense by someone with one foot in the crackpot bin.
Re:A pair of dice which never roll 7 (2004) on Sunday January 23, 2022 @03:23AM (#30044554)
Excellent point!
Re:A pair of dice which never roll 7 (2004) on Sunday January 23, 2022 @02:48AM (#30044405)
This is a very tricky problem. We want dice that generate outcomes of two fair dice but no 7s, and every other outcome having the same relative probabilities. Note the generating function (x + x^2 + x^3 + x^4 + x^5 + x^6)^2 - 6x^7 has no nontrivial factors, so we must get creative. My first solution was to consider the generating function x^2 + 2x^3 + 3x^4 + 4x^5 + 5x^6 + 5x^7 + 4x^8 + 3x^9 + 2x^10 + x^11 = (x^6 + x^5 + x^4 + x^3 + x^2 + x) (x^5 + x^4 + x^3 + x^2 + x). So we can do it with a standard 6-sided die and a 20-sided die with 4 each of 1,2,3,4,5. If you roll a 7 or more, add 1. My solution is completely different from anything mentioned in the article. I actually like my solution much more, as it uses two readily available Platonic solids. You don't even need to renumber! For the D20, you can divide the face number by 4 and ceiling, or mod 5 and add 1.
Under American society it had been deemed adequate to feign contrition to maintain the entrenched power structure, while continuing to engage in the same terrible behavior as before. That's no longer being tolerated.
Why would you ask someone who doesn't understand a concept to explain it?
Where's the mercy and grace in allowing people to engage in terrible behavior without consequences? The ruthlessness was in tolerating serial predatory behavior, and people are finally tired of it.
You have access to the internet, yet claim you can't find good information about Covid? Please don't troll about a virus that's already killed millions of people, including my own mother.
Americans have seemingly no interest in taking Delta seriously. Worse, many state governments are actively trying to make it as bad as possibly.
Re:NP Complete 3rd Grade Math Problems (2018) on Sunday August 29, 2021 @07:44AM (#28345927)
Solution in SageMath:

from sage.numerical.knapsack import knapsack knapsack([122, 275, 185, 597, 647, 216, 713, 457, 146, 518, 316, 489, 711, 645, 477, 804, 671, 231, 621, 98, 87], max=4394)

Note that this only finds a solution, not all solutions.

Of course he doesn't, as it's complete nonsense.
"we"? No "we" don't. If it bothers you so much, why don't you do it? No one is stopping you.
Re:The international travel ban is cruel and unscientific on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @04:25AM (#27205935)
It's neither cruel nor unscientific if vaccination status can't be verified or is easily faked. Furthermore, those vaccinated can still get infected, so if there's concern about variants being introduced to a new region, that has to also be considered.
"virtue points" is a meaningless propaganda term.
My Model M was built in 1992, but still looks and feels brand-new.
As a subscriber to the New York Times, that's exactly the opposite of what I've observed. A frequent criticism, in fact, has been interviewees not being identified as GOP political agents.
Is this a serious, peer-reviewed journal? I'm not familiar with it.
So, you're saying your "community" is everything within a 30 mile radius? That's 30^2*pi = 2800 square miles of "community". He grabbed an AR-15, drove across state lines and murdered two people. Well, three people, as his life is over. And I'm sure his family and the families of his victims aren't doing too well, either.
Rittenhouse is from Illinois. How was he "defending his community" in Wisconsin?
Who exactly is this person and what are her credentials?

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