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f(n) being O(n) means: there's a N and an x such that, for all n > x, N*n > f(n). By this definition, O(n/2) is the same as O(n) is the same as O(n/42). You just choose a different N. But it's better form to write O(n).
First, nobody can pull ten million jobs from their ass. Like, what the fuck do you propose they work on? Should we hire ten or twenty Indians to make us sandwiches that we won't eat? To farm more food that nobody will eat? There's simply not enough demand for labour today. If those people that were starving today were instead fairly rich, and could buy something, yeah, sure, there would be more demand for that labour that could create that something.
Second, we are talking about, like, giving them food. It's not like the developed world sat and decided to give each beggar a Mercedes. Apparently you think barely feeding them for a while will turn them into lazy asses without no ambitions such as, I don't know, an apartment, a car, a 40" TV screen and two or three kids. Maybe so. I don't see how it follows.
If anything, it shows that this field is mature, and has progressed to a more general vocabulary. It's still light years behind other kinds of engineering, IMO.
But your argument here amazes me. Why is it suspicious at all for the Interpol to hunt for a possible rapist? It does for thieves, kidnappers and so on. And it should. I would be surprised and enraged if the Interpol had an arbitrary threshold of violence by which it would decide to act or not, as if they were nobles graciously granting the plebs the gift of international justice.
Now, I don't buy that this rape accussations are pretexts. If the U.S. really wanted Assange, why haven't they charged him of espionage, hacking, anything to pressure the U.K. to extradite him? Sweden is now full of U.S.'s lackeys, but the U.K. isn't? Or, shit, just send a CIA agent there and get him on a plane. Wouldn't be the first time that happened.
Now, blaming all of this on the "western media narrative", a mindset relic of the hawkest hawks of the Cold War, who exaggerate a simple incident of "vandalism" in order to discredit the democratic government of Putin... Yeah, that's a contrarian opinion. Which just happens to be false. Western media simply does not give that much of a fuck now about Rusia. Past protests in Russia about the legitimacy of the elections? Here covered, at most, in passing. The law banning reunions? Don't care. The Pussy Riot incident? It's only on HN's front page because Kasparov was arrested.
I think of it as this: GIPS have massive debts in "German"-Euros. They also have prices too high in "Gypsy"-Euros, which is equivalent to say that GIPS have also salaries too low in "German"-Euros. They just can't pay that debt, because Gypsy salaries are too low, the prices are proportionately too high, and the debts are also too big.
What you do is, you create inflation only in Germany. Now German Euros are valued less, so wages and revenues grow. Gipsy Euros are valued the same as they were, so prices stay the same, and wages and revenues stay the same.
Now, this means that Germans want to buy more cheap Gypsy stuff and services, so there's now a trade deficit for Germany, and a trade surplus for the Gypsies. Which means an increase in wages and revenues for the GIPS, which is allocated to paying German debt.
The result is that the Gypsies get German jobs and German capital, and the Germans get their debt paid. This debt is, of course, of less value now for the Germans, they have to pay more for everything German, and there's less jobs on Germany, so they are pissed off. The thing is, they still win on the long term, because now they can buy cheaper Gypsy stuff, like Spanish-built German-designed cars. They can concentrate on more capital-intensive production, to offset lost jobs. Also, at least, they got back some of their debt.
By the way, ARM couldn't touch Intel if they wanted. ARM's market is not just another league, it's not even the same game. Even so, where low-power x86 vs. ARM can be viable, Intel will win, by default.
$wc = New-Object "System.Net.WebClient"
$airports = @("JFK", "GEO", "TXL", "SXF", "AGA", "LGW", "LTN", "SAW", "IKA", "KUL", "PER", "BKK", "KBP")
foreach($airport in $airports) {
$wc.DownloadString("http://airportcode.riobard.com/airport/" + $airport + "?fmt=json")
}BTW, please don't elevate rich people to a pedestal with the right hand, and at the same time, throw shit to politicians with the other. There might be a lot of cognitive damage with feet in Congress, but so there is in Wall Street. Personally, I prefer a democracy without Apple than Apple without democracy.
Yeah, there would be slim chances of recovering the stolen money, but that already is the case with cash, given a smart enough robber. The right way to tackle that problem is not to make the stolen goods easy to track, but to have preventive measures. In Bitcoin's case, these measures would be good security practices.
If your business is illegal, however, you're neck deep in shit already, so the marginal benefit for stopping is almost zero. Twenty to fourty years added to a life sentence.
> But Dinah Rose QC, for Mr Assange, said she could challenge the Supreme Court's decision because it relied on a 1969 convention relating to how treaties - such as those concerning extradition - should be implemented, and this had not been discussed during the hearing.
Watch and see. Now his lawyer will put into question the very meaning of implementing an international treaty. All in order to prevent a possible rapist, who just happens to be just a little less famous than Polanski, from being charged. Only the Chewbacca defense could make this sillier.
To put it the offensive way, nowadays it might be hip and such for white boys to address themselves as niggas, as it has being normalised by hip-hop spatters into the new bro. Still, no non-asshole honky would do so to an actually black person. It would be pretty insensitive, for starters.
Virtual memory -- useless with 4 GB of RAM at 30$. I'm personally also a proponent of managing this kind of thing with software, since we have OS's, and with good reasons.
String instructions: became useless in terms of performance when the Pentium pipeline came along. Which was undoubtedly a good design decision.
Custom opcodes: just write an interrupt handler for INT3, or whatever INT you like. Your OS might not let you in user mode, but some might say that's a feature.
LOCK existed from the beginning of the multiprocessor era, so please don't act so smug about it. It's like saying that your submarine swims.
The paging unit of the x86 allows the presence of a tag, independent of pointers, including code/data separation. And I'm not that keen on implementing a typesystem in hardware. Extensibility and all that.
Not separating opcodes for different semantics is a bad idea. It's like overloaded operators. Who knows what you are doing, given that types are not known in runtime. I'd personally like to see assembly become a more typeless programming language, anyway.
Vector operations and such... Well, in reality, they probably would slow down the processor, compared to having many atomic instructions, RISC being faster to execute than CISC and all that.
> It shows how from the first feminism was driven by ignorant indignation rather than reason
Way to editorialize, dude. It fucking shows nothing. At most, it shows the existance of a loony subset within any given set of people. Shocking indeed.
So, what's up next? Will Rob Pike's story, previously seen in HN, prove that the open source movement consists mostly of lunatic men that lack social skills and hygiene habits, who also behave in an incredibly moronic and unprofessional way? Because if your sample population were RMS, Ulrich Drepper and Eric Raymond, you'd get just that. And you'd piss many people off, of course.
There's no suppression. Just bullshit addition.
Yes, I would. Why wouldn't I? I just don't get it. Shyness, peer pressure? Please explain. And, why that appeal to the majority? Screw the majority.
> The bonus was an incentive, which you clearly didn't care about because: a) you forgot about it
Yeah, well, would you not ask for one month's unpaid wages? Would you just say "oh, I guess I forgot to check the numbers this time, sucks to be me"? What if that happened to one of your friends or close family? If something I say can be interpreted as though I don't care about my wage, should I work for free? Asking doesn't count as caring?
> b) you referred your friend who you would have referred anyway
Everyone gets paid according to the contract, regardless of what they would've done otherwise. Or, fuck it, let's just not pay ethical surgeons shit. They would've operated on those dying people anyways, the suckers.