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karakot··on US citizens will need a visa to visit Europe starting in 2021
as a US citizen from a 'shithole' country, I fully support it, lets all US/EU citizens experience what we all had to. Fill in a ton of papers, prove that you're a human too and get rejected.
karakot··on Cancer Complications: Confusing Bills, Maddening Errors And Endless Phone Calls
A real Canadian version is the following:

- You've got a backpain? Here is your ibuprofen peal.

- But I have very severe back pain.

- Here is your bigger ibuprofen peal, come back in 6 month to see the specialist.

6 month later in US:

- Congratulations, you've got cancer.

3 years and more than $1M in bills later:

- This is the end.

karakot··on Some Fundamental Theorems in Mathematics
This might help https://www.amazon.com/dp/1466230525
karakot··on An Amazon revolt could be brewing as tech giant exerts more control over brands
https://www.amazon.com/Algorithm-Design-Manual-Steven-Skiena...

I bought it and it was a counterfeit book. Pretty sure if you buy it there you will get either a counterfeit book or an international edition which has significantly lower print quality.

karakot··on Data Structure and Algorithms Interview Questions for Programmers
If you're asked to sort a list and if you suggest something better than bubble sort, it means you 100% studied it. There is no way someone could come up with the quicksort(or alike) algorithm on an interview.
karakot··on Programming Paradigms for Dummies: What Every Programmer Should Know (2009) [pdf]
I'd say the book itself is on par with SICP (if you can deal with Oz IDE).
karakot··on Ask HN: What's your favorite elegant/beautiful algorithm?
thanks, this is a great comment(and the rest of the thread). Yes, I meant that it doesn't work without assuming #1, and it had missing #3.
karakot··on Principles of Algorithmic Problem Solving (2017) [pdf]
There is an error on p150 & p151. The text says: " The recursion tree for the case T = 10 can be seen in Figure 9.1" & "Figure 9.1: The recursion tree for the Change-making problem with T = 10." But the figure itself uses T = 8

Also " Figure 9.2: The recursion tree for the Change-making problem with T = 10, with duplicate calls merged. " The tree starts with 8 as well.

karakot··on Amazon Pitches Facial Recognition to Monitor Immigrants
It really depends. In the US pedestrians account ~10% of total number of traffic related deaths.
karakot··on Amazon Pitches Facial Recognition to Monitor Immigrants
if you're on a highway, then a car driving 30mph is much more dangerous than one which is 10mph over speed limit.
karakot··on Ask HN: What's your favorite elegant/beautiful algorithm?
and it's also a broken version.
karakot··on Lenovo: Companies working in China may have to install local backdoors
"The Capitalist will sell us the Rope that we will hang them with."
karakot··on Why touchscreens in cars don’t work
One of the reasons I'm not buying a Tesla.
karakot··on Wells Fargo Bans Cryptocurrency Purchases on Its Credit Cards
I'm sure you can't buy stocks with credit cards either.
karakot··on Google Shopping now returns no results for searches containing “gun”
burGUNdy
karakot··on Chrome Enterprise
they removed context menu though, i wanted to [s]google[/s]bing rentkil company mentioned there and failed.
karakot··on The Company Behind Many Surprise Emergency Room Bills
I have some anecdotes

1. A friend of mine had severe back pains, all what he got from a family doctor was some painkillers and some stories that his back pain due to to weak muscles and he has to exercise more and wait a bit (3-6 months) before he can get some tests done. Anyways he moved to the US and week later made some tests to find that he has cancer in some serious stage. He started treatment but it was too late.

2. Another friend had spend 6 hours in ER with his eyelid cut in half (he got a branch into his eye while hiking).

3. I had some troubles with my daughter in Canada as well, don't want to go into details.

I eventually moved to the US and while healthcare here is outrageously and ridiculously expensive it is still years ahead of Canadian when you have a good insurance.

karakot··on Finance sites erroneously show Amazon, Apple, other stocks crashing
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