The integers are totally closed under multiplication. They lack an inverse under multiplication that's why they aren't a field.
For those who had the misfortune to suffer the consquences of his folly, he is not controversial at all. He is a conceited man-child with very bad manners. There's readily accessible, amble evidence for that by looking…
I wrote a Javascript visualization of this (using React) some time ago: http://mperdikeas.github.io/stack-piling-and-tumbling/index.... (click "start dropping grain" to start) Github repo:…
The problem with chess is that what makes it so addictive is the effect of memorizing openings. Opening theory adds strategic depth, flavor, and a landscape to what would otherwise be a dry, abstract, overly tactical…
Economists started using mathematics purely out of Physics Envy. I am obviously not talking about financial products which require some statistics and complex probabilistic models due to the way they're structured. All…
I 've used both. Flow wins hands down: (1) It is less intrusive. Flow's type system is built on annotations which are simply stripped away at runtime (as opposed to writing in another - albeit similar - language that…
In your database always store time as seconds since the Epoch (or milliseconds since the Epoch if you need more precision). Forget about SQL date/time types, they are useless. Then convert to "civilian format" only in…
It gives me a very warm feeling to know that those simpletons now have you to care for them and prevent other people from taking advantage of them. I do hope they show some appreciation for your efforts on their behalf.
I know very well what these systems are and, more importantly, I also know what they have in common (with German National Socialism, Maoism and Arab Islamism too): contempt for the rights of individuals and belief in…
... asks the one who can't write 11 words without a syntactic error (in case you edit it: "Do you even know the meaning of the words to use ?"). Also be advised that it's not correct typography to prepend the question…
If a business is willing to offer me free soda refills and I freely choose to patronize thar business, then it takes a hardcore Stalinist to dare stand between us two and prevent by the force of guns this peacefull,…
The depths of socialist / collectivist depravity that the French are willing to descend to are mind-staggering. And to think that, from time to time, one sees in HN some random joke of a post portraying France as a…
The US did it by virtue of it being a lot more homogeneous when it was first created. Last time I checked they didn't need any translators when they were debating the constitution, nor is the US constitution printed in…
It most definitely is and it takes a very starry eyed sort of person to expect otherwise. The idea that 20 or so different people with different languages, religions, mores, histories, frames of reference, economies…
Yep, obviously.
For a man, a brothel operator, a private detective, or a drugs purveyor would make more sense for blackmail. How would a waiter in a nondescript location gain access to information that would allow him to blackmail?…
The story doesn't explain how a spy working as a waiter, purchase manager or "artist" can gain access to military secrets.
Scarcity, fungibility, divisibility, durability are not societal constructs. Plus all metals have some inherent value. On top of that you have desirability which you could perhaps explain as a societal construct…
Bitcoin fails to satisfactorily answer von Mises' regression theorem. It also has no scarcity since it can face competition by an infinite number of similar conceivable algorithms / block-chains / virtual currencies…
Even in OO languages (such as Java and C#) people are routinely advised to favor composition over inheritance whenever given half a chance. Classes definitely smell (or rather reek) of the infamous 90s that inflicted…
Herd immunity is a "tragedy of the commons" type of game. Case closed. Unless you can prove that a rational actor would chose in his own self-interest to cooperate in which case you might get considered for a Nobel…
People will not be amazed, at least for more than a day, by anything that's widely shared. Never had, never will. Human beings, being what they are, a few enlightened souls excluded, derive happiness by the advantages…
I am not convinced that the Egyptians could build watertight channels at this scale, especially those shown climbing up the slope of the pyramid which would have to be watertight at the top too, and under great…
Maybe it can't buy happiness but it can definitely buy off unhappiness, some of it anyhow (adapted from a line in "Psycho").
Perhaps, in a broader sense. One particular account I've read in a autobiographical book by a person who fought in a distant civil war and had been on both sides of the table, so to speak, recalls how he felt the same…
The integers are totally closed under multiplication. They lack an inverse under multiplication that's why they aren't a field.
For those who had the misfortune to suffer the consquences of his folly, he is not controversial at all. He is a conceited man-child with very bad manners. There's readily accessible, amble evidence for that by looking…
I wrote a Javascript visualization of this (using React) some time ago: http://mperdikeas.github.io/stack-piling-and-tumbling/index.... (click "start dropping grain" to start) Github repo:…
The problem with chess is that what makes it so addictive is the effect of memorizing openings. Opening theory adds strategic depth, flavor, and a landscape to what would otherwise be a dry, abstract, overly tactical…
Economists started using mathematics purely out of Physics Envy. I am obviously not talking about financial products which require some statistics and complex probabilistic models due to the way they're structured. All…
I 've used both. Flow wins hands down: (1) It is less intrusive. Flow's type system is built on annotations which are simply stripped away at runtime (as opposed to writing in another - albeit similar - language that…
In your database always store time as seconds since the Epoch (or milliseconds since the Epoch if you need more precision). Forget about SQL date/time types, they are useless. Then convert to "civilian format" only in…
It gives me a very warm feeling to know that those simpletons now have you to care for them and prevent other people from taking advantage of them. I do hope they show some appreciation for your efforts on their behalf.
I know very well what these systems are and, more importantly, I also know what they have in common (with German National Socialism, Maoism and Arab Islamism too): contempt for the rights of individuals and belief in…
... asks the one who can't write 11 words without a syntactic error (in case you edit it: "Do you even know the meaning of the words to use ?"). Also be advised that it's not correct typography to prepend the question…
If a business is willing to offer me free soda refills and I freely choose to patronize thar business, then it takes a hardcore Stalinist to dare stand between us two and prevent by the force of guns this peacefull,…
The depths of socialist / collectivist depravity that the French are willing to descend to are mind-staggering. And to think that, from time to time, one sees in HN some random joke of a post portraying France as a…
The US did it by virtue of it being a lot more homogeneous when it was first created. Last time I checked they didn't need any translators when they were debating the constitution, nor is the US constitution printed in…
It most definitely is and it takes a very starry eyed sort of person to expect otherwise. The idea that 20 or so different people with different languages, religions, mores, histories, frames of reference, economies…
Yep, obviously.
For a man, a brothel operator, a private detective, or a drugs purveyor would make more sense for blackmail. How would a waiter in a nondescript location gain access to information that would allow him to blackmail?…
The story doesn't explain how a spy working as a waiter, purchase manager or "artist" can gain access to military secrets.
Scarcity, fungibility, divisibility, durability are not societal constructs. Plus all metals have some inherent value. On top of that you have desirability which you could perhaps explain as a societal construct…
Bitcoin fails to satisfactorily answer von Mises' regression theorem. It also has no scarcity since it can face competition by an infinite number of similar conceivable algorithms / block-chains / virtual currencies…
Even in OO languages (such as Java and C#) people are routinely advised to favor composition over inheritance whenever given half a chance. Classes definitely smell (or rather reek) of the infamous 90s that inflicted…
Herd immunity is a "tragedy of the commons" type of game. Case closed. Unless you can prove that a rational actor would chose in his own self-interest to cooperate in which case you might get considered for a Nobel…
People will not be amazed, at least for more than a day, by anything that's widely shared. Never had, never will. Human beings, being what they are, a few enlightened souls excluded, derive happiness by the advantages…
I am not convinced that the Egyptians could build watertight channels at this scale, especially those shown climbing up the slope of the pyramid which would have to be watertight at the top too, and under great…
Maybe it can't buy happiness but it can definitely buy off unhappiness, some of it anyhow (adapted from a line in "Psycho").
Perhaps, in a broader sense. One particular account I've read in a autobiographical book by a person who fought in a distant civil war and had been on both sides of the table, so to speak, recalls how he felt the same…