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How are you figuring that (x+1)/(x^2-x-6) doesn't have an asymptote at 0?

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Do you have a citation for that? You mean of my last post? It's my take on: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/981859214380462081 (Had to go hunting for it. It had fallen off the 'headlines', from my lurk-without-login glance at twitter, but still glad I'm not adding to all that weird stuff...

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The robot uprising has begun. SAN FRANCISCO — A woman in Tempe, Ariz., has died after being hit by a self-driving car operated by Uber, in what appears to be the first known death of a pedestrian struck by an autonomous vehicle on a public road. The Uber vehicle was in autonomous mode with a human ...

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flicky1991 wrote:Why is the formatting at the bottom of this page broken?

Drunkenness?

Freezeblade's and Ginger's posts have mismatched quote/spoiler tags.

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So then "gone" would be pronounced like "gon" (as in polygon) for you?

For me, "gone" rhymes with "lawn".

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360 degrees x 4 x 1/2 Radian = Surface Area of Sphere 41,252 degrees square 41,252 divided by 4 = Area of a Circle in degrees square 10,313.24031 41,252 multipied by 1/3 Radian = Volume of a Sphere in Cubic Degrees 787,873.524 Area typically has dimensions of length squared, and volume is length cu...

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Question about the end of movie:

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Patents can't really be shortened without losing their usefulness, though. At least for mechanical devices, the time from patent application to market can be measured in decades in some industries. Unless you want all large industrial companies to stop disclosing any inventions, I wouldn't shorten ...

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Have you tried sprinkling in some print statements to verify which array indices are actually being assigned?

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Sableagle wrote:... and then nobody will be able to read The Lord of the Rings except one old professor of literature who still has a rare fifth edition locked away somewhere.

They just added elf and wizard emoji in Unicode 10, so a translation is theoretically possible.

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Thesh wrote:Twitter.

I hear they've finally started to make money.

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The biggest downside being that many devices haven't been as secure as they should be, leading to them getting hacked and e.g. used for botnets.

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So an odd update to the situation. For reference, here's how everything is connected electrically: Keyboard/Mouse -> Motherboard USB -> Power Supply -> UPS -> Wall outlet Grounding wire -> Power strip socket ground -> Wall outlet on a adjacent wall Grounding myself on the wire often causes the speak...

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I would say though that there is another factor as well as the voting system that keeps the system two-party: The length and expense of your campaigns. If we contrast with the UK which also has a pretty strong fptp system, the UK has five mainstream parties - and more if you count Northern Ireland:...

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Here's my thought:

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Something hit the sun, causing a large splash of plasma on one side visible from Earth. Panic ensued as the sun seemed to be getting farther and farther away, as if the Earth was knocked out of orbit. The last thing I remember before waking up is what looked like black tentacles encroaching the sun ...

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Vsauce did a real life trolley problem experiment for their Youtube Red series, observing how people actually react in a (simulated) situation where they have to choose between doing nothing and switching the train to the track with one person instead of five. The video is free to watch, here.

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The new YouTube UI has been hella buggy for me, especially for comments. If I watch two videos consecutively and scroll through the comments on the second, I occasionally see the text of comments from the first video in completely unrelated comments.

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If she's in a one-party consent state, she could record inappropriate calls without having to tell the other person.

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I started playing at midnight on Christmas eve, and called it quits 2 hours later when You have to choose between telling Sayori "I love you" or "I'll be your friend forever". I ended up not being able to fall asleep after that, due to thinking about what would be the right c...

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Chen wrote:...there's a scene with the Emperor and Vader talking where the Emperor says "I have no doubt this boy is the offspring of Anakin Skywalker".

I'm pretty sure that wasn't in the theatrical release.

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My interpretation is not that Pfhorrest was saying that you sound like a man per se . I took his statement as a caution that all splitting , regardless of the source, starts to sounds alike, and that you might not realize when your own defensive mechanism mirrors the intolerance of your enemies--su...

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natraj wrote:til that the person who voiced tony the tiger also sang "you're a mean one mr. grinch" which disproportionately delights me

He's also the voice of Kirby the vacuum from The Brave Little Toaster. Also, "Thurl Ravenscroft" is a pretty epic-sounding name.

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"Learning" implies a gradual, internal process that happens while the AI is running, like a river changing course as the banks erode. But if the AI is a computer program, it can "change its programming at will", by modifying it's source code, recompiling, and restarting itself, a...

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Something you might want to check out is Handmade Hero , an educational stream/video series about coding a complete game from scratch in C*, without using any libraries (including the C standard library!) except for the Windows API and OpenGL. The focus is more on how to write a game engine rather t...

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No particular story, but supposedly sailors used to be tricked into joining crews sailing for China by getting them drunk until they were unconscious, then dragging them onto ships that would set sail before they awoke, at which point the sailor had no choice but to cooperate. Right, which is why I...

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Eebster the Great wrote:Or a decontextualized reference to the plot of a story, like the word "Shanghaied."

Which story are you referring to?

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Sounds like the next big clicking game.

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Ah yes, it seems like Eebster's talking about Tub's email solution, not Xanthir's.

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The problem is that Bob knows his target in advance of him being chosen as anyone's target, and moreover that he can choose who will target him. Bob can't choose who targets him, he has to send his target email to the next person on the list of random emails. If he targets anyone else, they will ge...

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How can Bob "deliberately not choose Carol as his target", since the target ordering is fixed?
Edit: Also, Bob's target is Alice in your example.

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Sheikh al-Majaneen wrote:It's actually a subset of infinity.

Wait, that's not right...

It's an intersection over infinity.

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Taking the thought experiment at face value, it only demonstrates that CPU chips don't "understand" Chinese, even if they're running a Chinese-speaking strong AI program that passes the Turing test.

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The ends of the cables that plug into components needing power are standardized. The ends that plug into the PSU are not (although they may use physically compatible connectors).

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Scientists use muons to scan the Great Pyramid of Giza and discover a void the size of the Statue of Liberty.

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Pizza Papa proposes professionals' poor patriotism prompted plummeting pie purchases.

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the sword would be covered in applesauce

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Sounds like a plasma globe.

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All of the individual carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, and nitrogen atoms that made up the apple would most likely spontaneously react with each other to produce stable molecules again, causing an explosion.

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Was just reading an article*, and came across this proposal for funding a basic income that I don't think I've seen before: [Yanis Varoufakis] suggested one effective policy would be for 10 per cent of all future issue of shares to be put into a "common welfare fund" owned by the people. O...

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