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Comment · 7 years ago
This would make a great Polandball

edit: Did not expect downvotes on this. Curious why

Comment · 7 years ago
Discords for small niches and personal servers are increasingly popular. Many subreddits have an associated discord.
Comment · 7 years ago
I don't understand your ps. Are you saying they should or shouldn't use the term South Asian?
Comment · 7 years ago
It pays to be seen as honest, not actually honest.
Comment · 7 years ago
Of course it's not literally slavery or indentured servitude, but it does share some common elements that are useful for our analysis. In particular, they both involve voluntary commiting yourself to restrictive labor in exchange for coming to the US.
Comment · 7 years ago
I suppose indentured servitude is a more apt metaphor.
Comment · 7 years ago
China is a much bigger market than India in 1973
Comment · 7 years ago
Messenger already has an encrypted mode on devices, though I agree default encryption seems unlikely.
Comment · 7 years ago
It's their family motto, so many Starks have said it
Comment · 7 years ago
Blaze is the internal version, such as borg vs kubernetes
Comment · 7 years ago
It was a wonderful class! When I took it, the class sessions were basically open problem solving sessions involving said advance data structures. Apparently, the class leads to at least 2 or 3 published papers whenever its held.
Comment · 8 years ago
Which makes sense for a British publication
Comment · 8 years ago
Sure, you can prove a minimal distance. Think of this problem as a metal chain. Each link of the chain enforces a maximal distance on the nodes it adjoins. The chain is bound on either end to some fixed point.

In an non-constrained case, sure, there's no-minimal link distance. You just have a pile of chain.

However, if you make the chain taut between the two points, say by decreasing the number of nodes in the chain or the maximal distance of links, the minimal distance between nodes then approaches the maximal distance between nodes. When you have a chain constrained to the straight line between the two points, the maximal distance between nodes is equal to the minimal distance between nodes.

Comment · 8 years ago
You could use this to prove that N devices are spread fairly geographically evenly near the line between two devices you know the location of, if the transport latency was fairly constant.

If you cross this line over multiple countries, you now have a system where you can prove that the devices are spread across some number of the different countries, which probably has some useful properties, like making nation-state attacks slightly more difficult.

Comment · 8 years ago
I also prefer having a thicker phone in exchange for durability and battery life, so I current have the Galaxy S8 Active, which does very well on those fronts.

Sadly, it appears it didn't sell particularly well, thus no S9 Active.

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