You’re both utterly thoughtless since you’d consider withdrawing money rather than taking taking relatively low interest loans out against that equity, leaving the bulk of your millions to appreciate longer
I mean, you’d be terrorizing the economy, but that’s also what you do when you eat food grown and prepared by people with inadequate labor protections, so why not take the red pill and double down on being a true slave-supported neo-Athenian?
Interactive Brokers (one of the best) has margin rates that are 5.17-5.83% at the moment depending on the size of the loan. Whether or not you want to pay rates like that and be potentially leveraged in the market, is a personal question. Not sure what any of this has to do with terrorizing the economy though ...
Germany has been criticized by many for their questionable free speech. Snowden is one famous person to do this.
The right to offend is also considered by many to be an important part of free speech-1.
In fact, I'm not so sure why the person responding to me is not at all worried. Even if the law is dropped, and this particular prosecution dropped, the fact remains: "a political artist was prosecuted for a poem insulting a politician."
If his point is simply Germany has better free speech than other countries, naming Thailand; then OK, I agree, but they're still getting close to treading a dangerous line.
> The right to offend is also considered by many to be an important part of free speech.
It sure is (as for example, highlighting, insulting and mocking absurd religious beliefs), fully on your page there.
That is also the consensus in Germany, and consequently that particular paragraph of the penal code is scheduled to be deleted by 2018. That's one reason I'm not worried about it.
Another is this: Reporters Without Borders has consistently rated Germany in the top 20 in its Press Freedom Index over the last decades, indeed better than, say, Thailand (at 142), the USA (at 43), or the UK (at 40). US-based Freedom House in their "Freedom of the Press" report rates Germany at 25, US at 33, and UK at 39.
§103 is being removed, a paragraph that had a useful existence when it was easy to start a war by insulting a foreign head.
The "right to offend" is not being instated however, as §185 (law against insults) still exists and won't be removed, as it serves as a useful outlet for insulted people other than e.g. violence.
Nothing. There is nothing wrong with code generation in a production setting with "grown up" engineers who uses version control and knows the pitfalls.
The part in parenthesis is just a rant about education and how teachers use notepad and javac to teach Java.
So my point is the only thing students shouldn't use in an IDE is code generation.
But going from javac to Maven in CS1 would be insanely difficult; there are many prerequisites before one can use Maven. It may only work in top-tier schools.
For a good discussion, instead of looking at the problem strictly programmatically, you could look at it as something you could map in vector space.
The dimensions of appointments are [startTime, endTime, location]. If you have points in one appointment that intersect with other appointments, then you have a collision.
This problem is solved with a couple of simple if statements. Finding a "solution" that is more complex than necessary or introduces knowledge that really isn't needed is the sign of a programmer who... over-engineers and is likely to be a detriment.
Does anybody know what the dB level of macbook speakers playing at max volume is? I am curious to know if playing music at max volume through them while sitting about 2-3 feet away from them can damage hearing.
Probably depends on the model. Maybe try downloading a phone app and testing it. I don't think my 11.6" Air makes enough sound to do damage at 2'. Using the Earpods at max I notice some increased tinnitus though.
I guess technically in C everything is passed by value but you can pass a pointer to something and call it, naturally, a pass-by-pointer. Since in C you can typically get the pointer value by providing the reference (I don't remember if it is called the reference in pure C, but we are clearly talking about the same thing here) it can also be called a pass-by-reference, consistent with some other programming languages.
Pointers are a specific type reference. As they are the only type of reference built-in to the language, it is common to use the more general term "pass by reference" to mean "pass by pointer" when discussing C.
>Can you explain what it means to balance a binary search tree?
Yes, to minimize the depth by "filling" every branch possible/equalizing the number of nodes in every subtree at a given depth.
>Are you referring to writing your own implementation of AVL or RB trees?
Yes, though the interviewer didn't say "AVL" or "RB". I'm not sure I ever even got a class with those in it, and frankly, I don't care enough to memorize how to implement them just for an interview question.
Again, this wasn't Google. This wasn't a firm that did complicated data-structures stuff all the time. They fully admitted how simple their work is. But they asked about how to balance a binary search tree anyway.
But in this case we have all the people who didn't make it to the NFL complaining about the NFL combine, and how in actual football they don't have to bench 225 pounds.
How did you choose "20% saved while working" as a number? Why not 80%?