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Comment · 4 years ago
you may well be correct but society would be a lot less advanced if not for the works of 'unbalanced' individuals
Comment · 4 years ago
they are not; this is classic hn posturing

at the veryleast this would belong to a second or third class of algorithms for ug( after the usual meat and potatoes: big,small o notation, searching and sorting, dp, greedy algorithms and so on) depending on the difficulty of the assignments this could be easily a graduate course

remember that no matter how difficult, obscure or new a technical field is you will have people here claiming they took a class about it as a freshman 10 years ago and they wrote some papers about it. sometimes it may be true, but most of the time it isnt

Comment · 4 years ago
but we dont have the intelligence

even this site filled with supposedly smart educated individuals is filled to the brim with prejudices; jingoism; hate; intolerance; short-term thinking and huge cognitive blind spots

Comment · 4 years ago
with literally hundreds of competitors popping up daily you cannot afford to have an overly sensitive nsfw filter; right now this tool is almost useless
Comment · 4 years ago
the modern western liberal view is to protect all basic freedoms (of speech;of privacy; of representation; of free trade; of presumption of innocence) as long as they belong to the 'correct people'; as for the ideological enemies no right is needed and no tactic used to curtail those same rights is deemed too low or too hypocritical

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