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Ok, in future please refrain from ordering sandwiches while standing in the math line.

But how many points in grammar trolling?

"Let ε<0."

Or a similar but more blatant telling of the original joke would be "Let ℵ₀ be a group."

That's not what they were trying to argue. They were trying to argue that the video of the car leaving as soon as he got out (and him continuing to walk away) proved that he was expecting the car to leave as soon as he got out, therefore he was lying to the court about having intentionally left a backpack in the car.

Well, a legal code can both codify discrimination against children in some specific contexts, and broadly ban it in others. (It's true, the term "age discrimination" has been coopted to refer to discrimination against older people.)

For example this NYC law bans a category of discrimination against children: http://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/04/nyregion/new-york-to-bar-a.... I wonder if it's broad enough to challenge the Uber policy?

Age discrimination: still just fine in America.

Refunding the original shipping charges you paid is not the same as paying for your return shipping.

more evidence for the lead poisoning theory?

… while in the same era Peitgen and Richter were publishing books with detailed Mandelbrot sets in full-colour plates. What computers were they using?

The right solution here would be to treat a tab as exactly pi spaces. This, while not forbidding the use of tabs, would guarantee that any inconsistent mixture of tabs and spaces would be considered misaligned.

And yet the Library Genesis mirrors are alive and well.

What's the difference? Is it simply the size of the downloads? (Ebooks are only a few megabytes, so a single hobbyist can easily mirror the whole library these days.)

Define "almost no". I mean, they have full measure and I can give countably many explicit examples, what more could you expect?

If it's a random real then the probability is zero. If it's an arbitrarily close approximation to a random real then the probability is arbitrarily close to zero.

Really? Go on, then, pick one and tell us what it is (or at least tell us what your procedure was).

Twice it happens that he is asking a ridiculously long question, she starts to break in but he continues talking. Whom are you counting as the interruptor here? She is the one formally interrupting, but he should cede because his job is to make her talk.

If you count him as "interrupting" merely because he's doing the wrong thing in the context, then interruption-count is no longer the objective measure that it was introduced as. (More generally, it seems difficult to use interruption-count in a context like this where the two interlocutors are not intended to be in a symmetrical relationship to each other.)

500 lines or fewer lines; but 500 lines or less code.

Russia is the acute crisis, and the increasing polarization is the chronic condition which may have partially caused it and might possibly be resolved by it.

That's hardly the same as a guarantee that highly skilled immigrants and their families don't face difficulties and risks in coming to the UK.

For example, last time I looked at the UK papers they were full of cases of EU citizens, who should have indefinite leave to reside in the UK, being harrassed by the Home Office and threatened with deportation.

Well, The Simpsons in 2000 predicted President Trump.

And I'm not exactly sure what surprises you about the NSA, I think many civil-liberties groups in 1997 would have been happy to talk your ear off about their (reasonable or unreasonable) surveillance concerns.

It would be optimistic to count on it, but one of the few ways the US political system could get back on track is through the scale of crisis we may be heading for.

Yes, but bear in mind:

* where else will people go? The UK, for example, is also in an anti-immigrant mood. Though Canada may still be good.

* the current political climate in the US is ... unstable. It'll be significantly different in a year or two, one way or another.

AlphaGo had a fundamentally new architecture (nobody had successfully applied convolutional neural networks to Go before, although of course the headline underestimates the expertise and experimentation that's needed to get the details right).

So it's not surprising that at the first public announcement they hadn't yet pushed the technology as far as it would go.

I think you have to say something about the copy semantics too, because if you ignore those, value_ptr would be synonymous with unique_ptr.

   class Tree { Tree *_left, *_right; };
   Tree y = x;

makes a shallow copy.

   class Tree { unique_ptr<Tree> _left, _right; };
   Tree y = x;

doesn't compile, but

   class Tree { value_ptr<Tree> _left, _right; };
   Tree y = x;

makes a deep copy.

Right, but I still don't understand what underutilization problem is solved by property tax that isn't already solved by the fact that you could sell your underutilized land and receive money — unless your goal is to increase utilization beyond what's efficient.

Lack of property tax doesn't prevent a free market from operating, and ideal free markets cause optimal utilization (which admittedly is not the same as maximal utilization, but then, why would you want the latter?)

Now stamp duty, that is something which prevents land in the UK from being optimally utilized.

The two-engine A330 has been carrying the same number of passengers as the four-engine A340 for decades :).

I believe in this approach, but making it usable is harder than it sounds. Once I tried watching myself program with this idea in mind. I realized I often start by typing methods which don't yet have a class, code fragments which don't yet belong to a function, even expressions which don't yet live in a statement and which refer to variables which not only don't yet exist but don't belong to any yet-existing class — maybe I'll pause half-way through writing the expression and start creating the class in another window.

So you pass through a lot of ill-defined states. For the IDE to keep up it would have to just represent explicitly "this is a code fragment which doesn't have a name", "this is a variable which isn't defined anywhere" and so forth.

Writing "kitty litter/zeolite clay" certainly was bad style — it left ambiguous what the relation between "kitty litter" and "zeolite clay" is, which invited the editor to assume that they were synonyms and to just pick one.

Remember, kids, if you receive a sentence that's ambiguous, you can't edit it to make it less ambiguous if you don't have an extrinsic reason to know what was meant. Blindly editing can only destroy information, not create it (also known as the autocorrect problem).

That's because as soon as we leave, we forget about domestic politics in the old country and stop reading those forums.

We're too busy whining about domestic politics in the new one and talking about how we're going to leave it :).