Now you see, I'd claim Harry Potter as a great read under one of two conditions: Either A) you are looking for an enjoyable read rather than a serious/deep one, or B) you are analyzing it in terms of either alchemy or Rosicrucian writings (especially the latter, and especially the Chymical Wedding). There are interesting parallels to make...
Thought -- what about building another torrent tracker site (ala TPB), but rather than being assholes about it, when a company requests material be taken down, ask them to prove they are who they say they are (more or less a written statement on a company letterhead, maybe a phone call beyond that?) then set them up an account where they can simply blacklist their copyrighted material on their own, with a clear warning that if the capability to blacklist torrents is abused (allow those who get blacklisted to appeal it and duke it out [preferably without your personal involvement in the duking out], it's considered "abuse" of that power if over a certain % successfully appeal (meaning false positives) as it's clear that they aren't a good judge of their own copyright holdings at that point) then access to that feature will be revoked. Would that constitute "due diligence" to ensure "non-infringing uses" and comply with copyright holder's wishes, I wonder?
In terms of avoiding STD and pregnancy, it's pretty clear why abstinence is the ideal circumstance -- it's the only one where the risk is non-existent, rather than small.
As for religion forbidding sex, it's simple -- it's easier for a religion to control people when "all have sinned". It's rather like the quote about how the government can't control innocent men, it can only crack down on criminals.
Race is what race is -- a combination of gross physical traits that let you make some vague underlying assumptions about the broad genetic heritage of an individual. If I took the word "race" out of it, and said that said traits contained a "significant genetic component" does that suddenly change your opinion of the statement?
Specifically, how does saying something has a "significant genetic component" shared frequently by those who are descended from peoples originally native to certain parts of the world meaningfully different (especially at the depth routinely gone on internet forums) from connecting it to "race"?
1 is only semi-false. Using a HOSTS file doesn't use significant CPU that you aren't already using because your request is already going to hit your HOSTS file anyways. I suppose technically having a very large HOSTS file would consume more parsing it than a small one, but in comparison to alternatives, it's CPU light at the least.
Couple this with setting the permissions on certain registry keys so that "Everyone" is denied the ability to do anything with the key except view it and change permissions, and only "Administrator" can set permissions. A favorite of mine to give that treatment is the file association for executables, as a lot of malware of the "fake AV" type nowadays is changing the association of executables to run itself when you run any other program.
Cost effective? For small/light things (letters, things tht fit in those flat rate boxes, etc) where the time of delivery isn't particularly strict, USPS. If you need it to be there in three days or less or it is large and/or heavy, then either of the other two is a better deal.
"You did not know anyone who did, as they died before you were born."
Depending on his age, that may or may not be the case. If he happens to be very old, he may have had a grandparent or great grandparent who did, and they probably died when he was very young. I mean think out the time: If he's 90, he was born in 1920, at that time, someone 18 (I know Confederate soliders were not required to be 18, but it gives us a little wiggle room) at the time it started would have been 78 at his birth. So, I mean technically if he's very long lived and from a very long lived line, he may have even been able to speak in complete sentences when a family member who was actually involved in the Civil War passed away. If we reduce the requirement to "alive during" rather than "served in", we can gain another nearly 2 decades of wiggle room.
The odds of that particular scenario are fairly unlikely, but it is *technically* possible...
People with a reasonable understanding of the art who understand how a post office box functions would understand that being inside the post office (the boxes have an open back, that's how the mail gets put in them to begin with) or possessing basic lockpicking skills would give access to any mail in your post office box. Accordingly, if you have a post office box, your mail should be open to casual search by the government. Right?
I thought the core issue in the McDonalds coffee case was "Coffee is normally hot and can cause minor burns (as in this would be the expected risk for purchasing a hot beverage), this was far hotter than is typical and caused more severe burns (necessitating medical attention). This McDonalds had already received multiple complaints about their coffee being far hotter than is typical, and so were aware of the issue. Accordingly, the defendant felt they were owed (at a minimum) medical expenses for treatment and legal fees." Admittedly it may have gotten stupid as it went on (which seems to be a habit of legal proceedings, start at a semi-sane complaint and potential resolution, rack it up to something ridiculous as time passes), but the core issue seems reasonable.
How is this not analogous to, well, mail if you don't have home delivery (as in you have a P.O. Box). The mail comes into the postoffice (mail server) and gets filed into your post office box (flagged as being in your account). You visit the post office (connect to the POP server) and open the post office box with your key (account credentials, which for POP are about verifying you can access your mail and not preventing spam [technically you could have a setup where POP and SMTP have separate user info entirely, though I wouldn't exactly call that common]) and withdraw your mail (download the messages).
Or are you saying that if you have a P.O. Box that the FBI/police has the right to read all of your mail?
The runtime limits on these competitions are mostly there to provide a flat cutoff for exceptionally bad algorithms and for infinite loops. They are usually very generous to the point of "If it runs over the time limit, then either you are doing it *very* wrong or are stuck in an infinite loop on our example data".
For example, say you have to find the max path sum down an equilateral triangle of numbers. There is a solution that involves visiting each position in the triangle once for an arbitrary size of triangle. There are also solutions that involve individually testing every possible path one at a time. The former is probably under the limit when presented with a 500 level deep triangle, the latter probably isn't.
For the most part, you're best bet is to give them a good understanding of the basics of the language, a reference book (if such are allowed in your competition), and then go heavy into general problem solving, especially ways to simplify seemingly computationally intensive problems.
If I understand you, you are saying that the primary culprit behind the rate of autism increasing 80-odd fold is mercury poisoning in children (personally, I think differences in diagnosis are probably far more significant, much like how we have FAR more ADD kids than we did 20 years ago)?
That would be easy enough (if inhumane) to test. Or for a less "evil" testing mechanism, we could try to see if other potential sources of mercury exposure are connected to autism rates?
So is the assumption that mercury causes autism (in the sense that a virus causes smallpox) or that we can have magical uncaused cases of autism, but in kids that are vaccinated vaccination is the cause?
Awww, but I had these convenient legal, social, and or political problems that could be solved by magical two word phrases. Just for the sake of amusement, give problems that these would solve: "forced prostitution", "legal pedophilia", and "Roman-style Coliseum" =)
While the phrasing may not have been the best, I don't know that it's necessarily a troll to mention pedophilia wrt Lewis Carroll. He *did* spend a lot of time around young children, one of his hobbies was photography, his favorite subject young children. And he named the main character of and dedicated "Alice" to a certain young girl he spent an excessive amount of time with.
There are a *lot* of "but that doesn't *mean* he's a pedophile" examples you can pull from Charles Dodgson's life. Enough that the possibility is certainly up there. Though you can't necessarily prove anything (though the pages missing from his papers and journals do pique suspicion).
Except that the "between people of the same color" part has been a condition on marriage on numerous occasions through history (including a pretty large stretch in the US).
As well as polygamy being practiced in some groups today, and being pretty common in much of the world for much of history.
There's also several different "kinds" of marriage described in the Bible, for those for whom Biblical definition of marriage is what really counts, including one where a man married his sister-in-law if his brother died with no heir, and the first child produced from such a union "counted" as his brother's.
So never ever mount a camera more than 6' from the ground before taking these kinds of pictures, for fear that otherwise you could be sued because your street-view photo-taking van was too tall?
My employer has a vendor that stamps JESUS SAVES on their invoices, has a gospel literature distribution rack at their sales counter (two of them, one a Chick-tract rack and the other with pamphlets and small-ish books), and has pro-life posters plastered on the front of their building. They mildly creep me out sometimes.
I had 3 years of Comp Sci in high school, all in Pascal. Got a 5 on the test (actually took 3 AP tests in Physics, Calc, and Comp Sci; tested 3, 4, and 5 respectively). It was actually the last year that the AP Comp Sci tests were in Pascal, supposedly.
Pascal isn't a terrible language to learn starting from though -- at the very least it reinforces some good habits by refusing to compile over things that are warnings in other languages. I'll admit I might have gone overboard my final year though. The teacher wasn't exactly ready for me, such as I was, and was basically told to present her with projects, then complete them and she would grade. By the end of it I had written a graphics unit (fancy pascal name for a library -- they had a somewhat different structure than a normal program) that did some semi-fancy stuff and did screen updates by drawing to an array and them copying the array into another array made absolute at the address of the video RAM (DOS machine, so it's a known address), and had an IPX networking library written in mostly assembly (using the feature in Borland Pascal that allowed you to write individual functions in inline assembly).
Not that I'm entirely against unions as a concept (and being from where I'm from we're practically brought up being shown what business will do to people without law or organized labor restraining them, heck that's a decent bit of the state history class we all took in middle school). What unions became over time in the US however is an entirely different beast.
Hehe. I got some grades based on that on a few occasions. I got a reputation as a bit of a slacker and a bit of a procrastinator but someone who'd always get it done before the deadline, even if it was a couple thousand lines and due tomorrow...
I once had a calc professor who docked me points because she didn't see how I got from one step to another in a problem. I actually turned around and submitted a proof demonstrating that the one step was always true and saved several intermediary stes resolving the problem the "normal" way and she restored full credit for it. Same professor once offered bonus points on the next test for anyone who solved the indefinite integral of sqrt(tan(x)) dx just to see how people in 2nd semester calculus would try to tackle it...
OTOH, I also had one professor who *never* gave a perfect score on a test. He absolutely refused. He once gave me a 97/100 on a test for using an abbreviation because he couldn't find anything else wrong.
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Now you see, I'd claim Harry Potter as a great read under one of two conditions: Either A) you are looking for an enjoyable read rather than a serious/deep one, or B) you are analyzing it in terms of either alchemy or Rosicrucian writings (especially the latter, and especially the Chymical Wedding). There are interesting parallels to make...
Thought -- what about building another torrent tracker site (ala TPB), but rather than being assholes about it, when a company requests material be taken down, ask them to prove they are who they say they are (more or less a written statement on a company letterhead, maybe a phone call beyond that?) then set them up an account where they can simply blacklist their copyrighted material on their own, with a clear warning that if the capability to blacklist torrents is abused (allow those who get blacklisted to appeal it and duke it out [preferably without your personal involvement in the duking out], it's considered "abuse" of that power if over a certain % successfully appeal (meaning false positives) as it's clear that they aren't a good judge of their own copyright holdings at that point) then access to that feature will be revoked. Would that constitute "due diligence" to ensure "non-infringing uses" and comply with copyright holder's wishes, I wonder?
In terms of avoiding STD and pregnancy, it's pretty clear why abstinence is the ideal circumstance -- it's the only one where the risk is non-existent, rather than small.
As for religion forbidding sex, it's simple -- it's easier for a religion to control people when "all have sinned". It's rather like the quote about how the government can't control innocent men, it can only crack down on criminals.
Lead Acetate was good enough for the Romans, why isn't it good enough for you?
Race is what race is -- a combination of gross physical traits that let you make some vague underlying assumptions about the broad genetic heritage of an individual. If I took the word "race" out of it, and said that said traits contained a "significant genetic component" does that suddenly change your opinion of the statement?
Specifically, how does saying something has a "significant genetic component" shared frequently by those who are descended from peoples originally native to certain parts of the world meaningfully different (especially at the depth routinely gone on internet forums) from connecting it to "race"?
1 is only semi-false. Using a HOSTS file doesn't use significant CPU that you aren't already using because your request is already going to hit your HOSTS file anyways. I suppose technically having a very large HOSTS file would consume more parsing it than a small one, but in comparison to alternatives, it's CPU light at the least.
Couple this with setting the permissions on certain registry keys so that "Everyone" is denied the ability to do anything with the key except view it and change permissions, and only "Administrator" can set permissions. A favorite of mine to give that treatment is the file association for executables, as a lot of malware of the "fake AV" type nowadays is changing the association of executables to run itself when you run any other program.
Nope. This cannot and will not cost them sales in any way. Only piracy does that, and if this appears to, it just means that piracy is on the rise...
Cost effective? For small/light things (letters, things tht fit in those flat rate boxes, etc) where the time of delivery isn't particularly strict, USPS.
If you need it to be there in three days or less or it is large and/or heavy, then either of the other two is a better deal.
"You did not know anyone who did, as they died before you were born."
Depending on his age, that may or may not be the case. If he happens to be very old, he may have had a grandparent or great grandparent who did, and they probably died when he was very young. I mean think out the time: If he's 90, he was born in 1920, at that time, someone 18 (I know Confederate soliders were not required to be 18, but it gives us a little wiggle room) at the time it started would have been 78 at his birth. So, I mean technically if he's very long lived and from a very long lived line, he may have even been able to speak in complete sentences when a family member who was actually involved in the Civil War passed away. If we reduce the requirement to "alive during" rather than "served in", we can gain another nearly 2 decades of wiggle room.
The odds of that particular scenario are fairly unlikely, but it is *technically* possible...
People with a reasonable understanding of the art who understand how a post office box functions would understand that being inside the post office (the boxes have an open back, that's how the mail gets put in them to begin with) or possessing basic lockpicking skills would give access to any mail in your post office box. Accordingly, if you have a post office box, your mail should be open to casual search by the government. Right?
I thought the core issue in the McDonalds coffee case was "Coffee is normally hot and can cause minor burns (as in this would be the expected risk for purchasing a hot beverage), this was far hotter than is typical and caused more severe burns (necessitating medical attention). This McDonalds had already received multiple complaints about their coffee being far hotter than is typical, and so were aware of the issue. Accordingly, the defendant felt they were owed (at a minimum) medical expenses for treatment and legal fees." Admittedly it may have gotten stupid as it went on (which seems to be a habit of legal proceedings, start at a semi-sane complaint and potential resolution, rack it up to something ridiculous as time passes), but the core issue seems reasonable.
How is this not analogous to, well, mail if you don't have home delivery (as in you have a P.O. Box). The mail comes into the postoffice (mail server) and gets filed into your post office box (flagged as being in your account). You visit the post office (connect to the POP server) and open the post office box with your key (account credentials, which for POP are about verifying you can access your mail and not preventing spam [technically you could have a setup where POP and SMTP have separate user info entirely, though I wouldn't exactly call that common]) and withdraw your mail (download the messages).
Or are you saying that if you have a P.O. Box that the FBI/police has the right to read all of your mail?
The runtime limits on these competitions are mostly there to provide a flat cutoff for exceptionally bad algorithms and for infinite loops. They are usually very generous to the point of "If it runs over the time limit, then either you are doing it *very* wrong or are stuck in an infinite loop on our example data".
For example, say you have to find the max path sum down an equilateral triangle of numbers. There is a solution that involves visiting each position in the triangle once for an arbitrary size of triangle. There are also solutions that involve individually testing every possible path one at a time. The former is probably under the limit when presented with a 500 level deep triangle, the latter probably isn't.
For the most part, you're best bet is to give them a good understanding of the basics of the language, a reference book (if such are allowed in your competition), and then go heavy into general problem solving, especially ways to simplify seemingly computationally intensive problems.
Yes, that will be interesting to see.
If I understand you, you are saying that the primary culprit behind the rate of autism increasing 80-odd fold is mercury poisoning in children (personally, I think differences in diagnosis are probably far more significant, much like how we have FAR more ADD kids than we did 20 years ago)?
That would be easy enough (if inhumane) to test. Or for a less "evil" testing mechanism, we could try to see if other potential sources of mercury exposure are connected to autism rates?
So is the assumption that mercury causes autism (in the sense that a virus causes smallpox) or that we can have magical uncaused cases of autism, but in kids that are vaccinated vaccination is the cause?
Awww, but I had these convenient legal, social, and or political problems that could be solved by magical two word phrases. Just for the sake of amusement, give problems that these would solve: "forced prostitution", "legal pedophilia", and "Roman-style Coliseum" =)
I thought hippies crystal-gazed. If they're sniffing crystal, you've probably got meth-heads and not hippies infesting your locality.
You see, this brings up the core issue, at what point is it a "person", and why wasn't it a person one second prior to that?
While the phrasing may not have been the best, I don't know that it's necessarily a troll to mention pedophilia wrt Lewis Carroll. He *did* spend a lot of time around young children, one of his hobbies was photography, his favorite subject young children. And he named the main character of and dedicated "Alice" to a certain young girl he spent an excessive amount of time with.
There are a *lot* of "but that doesn't *mean* he's a pedophile" examples you can pull from Charles Dodgson's life. Enough that the possibility is certainly up there. Though you can't necessarily prove anything (though the pages missing from his papers and journals do pique suspicion).
Except that the "between people of the same color" part has been a condition on marriage on numerous occasions through history (including a pretty large stretch in the US).
As well as polygamy being practiced in some groups today, and being pretty common in much of the world for much of history.
There's also several different "kinds" of marriage described in the Bible, for those for whom Biblical definition of marriage is what really counts, including one where a man married his sister-in-law if his brother died with no heir, and the first child produced from such a union "counted" as his brother's.
So never ever mount a camera more than 6' from the ground before taking these kinds of pictures, for fear that otherwise you could be sued because your street-view photo-taking van was too tall?
My employer has a vendor that stamps JESUS SAVES on their invoices, has a gospel literature distribution rack at their sales counter (two of them, one a Chick-tract rack and the other with pamphlets and small-ish books), and has pro-life posters plastered on the front of their building. They mildly creep me out sometimes.
I had 3 years of Comp Sci in high school, all in Pascal. Got a 5 on the test (actually took 3 AP tests in Physics, Calc, and Comp Sci; tested 3, 4, and 5 respectively). It was actually the last year that the AP Comp Sci tests were in Pascal, supposedly.
Pascal isn't a terrible language to learn starting from though -- at the very least it reinforces some good habits by refusing to compile over things that are warnings in other languages. I'll admit I might have gone overboard my final year though. The teacher wasn't exactly ready for me, such as I was, and was basically told to present her with projects, then complete them and she would grade. By the end of it I had written a graphics unit (fancy pascal name for a library -- they had a somewhat different structure than a normal program) that did some semi-fancy stuff and did screen updates by drawing to an array and them copying the array into another array made absolute at the address of the video RAM (DOS machine, so it's a known address), and had an IPX networking library written in mostly assembly (using the feature in Borland Pascal that allowed you to write individual functions in inline assembly).
Union BS, mostly.
Not that I'm entirely against unions as a concept (and being from where I'm from we're practically brought up being shown what business will do to people without law or organized labor restraining them, heck that's a decent bit of the state history class we all took in middle school). What unions became over time in the US however is an entirely different beast.
Hehe. I got some grades based on that on a few occasions. I got a reputation as a bit of a slacker and a bit of a procrastinator but someone who'd always get it done before the deadline, even if it was a couple thousand lines and due tomorrow...
I once had a calc professor who docked me points because she didn't see how I got from one step to another in a problem. I actually turned around and submitted a proof demonstrating that the one step was always true and saved several intermediary stes resolving the problem the "normal" way and she restored full credit for it. Same professor once offered bonus points on the next test for anyone who solved the indefinite integral of sqrt(tan(x)) dx just to see how people in 2nd semester calculus would try to tackle it...
OTOH, I also had one professor who *never* gave a perfect score on a test. He absolutely refused. He once gave me a 97/100 on a test for using an abbreviation because he couldn't find anything else wrong.