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Comment · 4 years ago
VALVe themselves have game IPs they want to protect. Within the boundary of "it's legal, wygd" there are always ways to make pirating VALVe games easier and VALVe will stand no ground to ban those.
Comment · 4 years ago
If the situation is that bad and cheating is that easy, soon there will be researchers cheating all the way to Elo 2000, just like there are researchers submitting garbage papers to prove that some journals are jokes. That will be interesting too so I am not against your vision.
Comment · 4 years ago
Search for "admitted" and it is on page 2.
Comment · 4 years ago
It probably inherits the name from other languages that get it wrong.
Comment · 4 years ago
For the hyperbolic version area is the correct counterpart of arc-length. See the wikipedia for a picture. So only "ar-" and "a-" make sense. Blindly using "arc-" is like saying non-invertible matrices are "vertible" because "in-" negates the meaning of a word.
Comment · 4 years ago
I (and I assume many do) buy flight tickets with a credit card so at least one bank knows you are traveling. Never have I had any problem when traveling. But there is one time I wanted to wire myself from Bank1 to Bank2, got blocked, called to unblock, and got blocked again immediately after I attempt the same transaction. Have to goto a Bank1 branch and brainstorm what to do and they ended up giving me a "bank check" (what's that???) only for me to walk to a Bank2 branch to deposit.
Comment · 4 years ago
Despite all the good contents, calling the inverse function of hyperbolic tangent "arctanh" just makes no sense.
Comment · 4 years ago
> rely on imported components

This doesn't matter. You buy wheat at $100 and sell breads at $250. You net $150 and convert that to, say, €150.

Comment · 4 years ago
Maths don't scale up. Moore's Law will catch up and eventually rendering math will be like rendering jpg. For now the priority is to get things to work so we don't waste extra time determining if we just avoid math or we use stupid PNG.
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Comment · 4 years ago
After ten years of "we are getting to the last mile" and "we are finally completing", it just feels like bio people cannot give up this good reason when justifying their funding so we have to re-complete human genome every other year.
Comment · 4 years ago
You are designing a "prefix code". It is a collection of strings of button presses such as {A, BA, BBAA, BBABA, BBB, ...}. Each string maps to an action.

Ideally no string is a prefix of another string. Even more ideally any infinite sequence of As and Bs can be decoded into a sequence of actions.

Comment · 4 years ago
Scooter has an even smaller wheel and is more unstable during high speed. Also bike is more muscle-efficient.
Comment · 4 years ago
You get to choose between out-sourcing the liability or naked-running. You can even linearly-interpolate between the two extremes. In case of banking, you already payed the hidden fee (banks get bailout using government money, aka your money)
Comment · 4 years ago
I guess I know why the parent is downvoted but in the end the responsibility is on both sides. If you don't speak fluent English you ask for interpreters in Spanish, Chinese, you name it. You can't insists on speaking an unpopular dialect/accents, can't even specify what best describe your dialect/accents, and expect anything from the hospitals.

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