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New comment by Cursuviam in "English, Swedish, German and Finnish Decline “Dog” (2013)"

Cursuviam — Fri, 01 Mar 2019 21:59:26 +0000

This would make a great Polandball

edit: Did not expect downvotes on this. Curious why

New comment by Cursuviam in "Facebook admits 18% of Research spyware users were teens, not 5%"

Cursuviam — Fri, 01 Mar 2019 19:47:15 +0000

Discords for small niches and personal servers are increasingly popular. Many subreddits have an associated discord.

New comment by Cursuviam in "For South Asian Cooks, Yogurt Starter Is an Heirloom"

Cursuviam — Wed, 27 Feb 2019 19:45:15 +0000

I don't understand your ps. Are you saying they should or shouldn't use the term South Asian?

New comment by Cursuviam in "Why Be Honest If Honesty Doesn’t Pay (1990)"

Cursuviam — Sun, 24 Feb 2019 15:51:07 +0000

It pays to be seen as honest, not actually honest.

New comment by Cursuviam in "Public protest against Amazon"

Cursuviam — Fri, 22 Feb 2019 15:27:11 +0000

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.

New comment by Cursuviam in "Public protest against Amazon"

Cursuviam — Wed, 20 Feb 2019 06:39:07 +0000

I suppose indentured servitude is a more apt metaphor.

New comment by Cursuviam in "When India Kicked Out Coca-Cola, Local Sodas Thrived"

Cursuviam — Mon, 18 Feb 2019 17:56:39 +0000

China is a much bigger market than India in 1973

New comment by Cursuviam in "Facebook to integrate the infrastructure for WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger"

Cursuviam — Fri, 25 Jan 2019 15:19:43 +0000

Messenger already has an encrypted mode on devices, though I agree default encryption seems unlikely.

New comment by Cursuviam in "Brexit Deal Fails in Parliament"

Cursuviam — Tue, 15 Jan 2019 21:46:23 +0000

It's their family motto, so many Starks have said it

New comment by Cursuviam in "Software Engineering at Google (2017)"

Cursuviam — Fri, 04 Jan 2019 11:34:52 +0000

Blaze is the internal version, such as borg vs kubernetes

New comment by Cursuviam in "Erik Demaine's Folding and Unfolding Page (2010)"

Cursuviam — Wed, 26 Dec 2018 13:53:51 +0000

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.

New comment by Cursuviam in "World's first fully electric bus fleet quietens Chinese megacity"

Cursuviam — Sun, 16 Dec 2018 22:23:52 +0000

Which makes sense for a British publication

New comment by Cursuviam in "500 miles (2002)"

Cursuviam — Fri, 14 Dec 2018 07:16:14 +0000

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.

New comment by Cursuviam in "500 miles (2002)"

Cursuviam — Fri, 14 Dec 2018 00:37:50 +0000

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.

New comment by Cursuviam in "Global, U.S. Growth in Smartphone Growth Starts to Decline"

Cursuviam — Sun, 09 Dec 2018 04:28:45 +0000

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.

New comment by Cursuviam in "Lyft Files for IPO"

Cursuviam — Fri, 07 Dec 2018 06:58:13 +0000

"Jefferson has beliefs, Burr has none." (From Hamilton)

New comment by Cursuviam in "Rust 2018 is here, but what is it?"

Cursuviam — Thu, 06 Dec 2018 23:52:19 +0000

Same here. The only real work I had to do was removing some unnecessary imports because of the new improvements to mod namespaces.

New comment by Cursuviam in "The Rise of Microsoft Visual Studio Code"

Cursuviam — Thu, 06 Dec 2018 18:35:21 +0000

They mean plurality.

New comment by Cursuviam in "Announcing the Winners of the 2018 MIT Media Lab Disobedience Award"

Cursuviam — Tue, 27 Nov 2018 18:11:39 +0000

Agreed. For example, the Media Lab and administration took opposing sides during the whole Senior House fiasco.

The MIT administration overall is incredibly lawsuit/risk averse after a bunch of heavy settlements, such as the Shin case, the sodium case, and the Wellesley girlfriend stabbing.

New comment by Cursuviam in "Questions to Ask Before Joining a Startup"

Cursuviam — Mon, 26 Nov 2018 16:07:37 +0000

Automated deploys aren't a magic bullet and can still break production, even at a big megacorp with tons of infra and tests to keep prod safe.