Yes, taking the nth root is an operator. Taking the SQUARE root is this operator with the operand 2, which is usually graphically omited. I totally agree with the top comment: it's burning one of the 2's.
The obvious counterargument is that the problem statement is
> Given exactly four instances of the digit 2 and some target natural number, use any mathematical operations to generate the target number with these 2s, using no other digits.
and the square root symbol is a mathematical operation and is not a digit. That it is equivalent to taking the 2nd root isn't relevant ... the whole puzzle is about finding and using equivalents.
We need an (official) third party, like an escrow. You report to them, they manage the talking with the company, they tell the judge you did nothing wrong because you reported to them, THEY use tables and shit to decide that such and such attack vector is worth this percentage of the company's revenue, this team would have received a hefty sum
What's unique in this scenario (I'm from Serbia) is that these elected guys didn't form a political movement, they weren't actively involved.
What happened is that students created a list of 250 people and vetted them.
So far they did an absolutely amazing job. There are LOT of potentially malicious actors from academia but so far looks like they did a good job at excluding them.
So those 250 people (not all of them are academics, only like half or so, maybe less) were chosen by students and they accepted.
So far, the whole movement and those people from the list haven't made a single mistake; and that's why they got 53% in election. And not ordinary election, these ones were marked by almost complete media blackout and outright lies (e.g. media claiming students are beating women, to give you an idea of what kind of lies).
Anyway, of course, we'll see.
The biggest focus right now for pretty much everyone is putting people in handcuffs, and I don't imagine much of ideological differences on that topic.
Believe what you want, but I’m a real person with real opinions. Some of my opinions may differ from your own from time to time.
I have another account here that is 15 years old, but it ended up getting shadow banned as Hacker News got progressively more Liberal Progressive Dance In The Streets when Charlie Kirk Got Shot, and I’m not afraid to point it out.
HN has become a place where you can say anything political, so long as it is the one true way of the Liberal Progressive Left.
It didn’t used to be like this. It used to be a place where the same comment could point out the pros and cons of both sides, and it would encourage deeply thought out conversation.
Thank you brave throwaway account for spreading lies, but while Crehan did pass away in December 2016 while serving his sentence, he was not murdered by "radical Muslims", nor was he killed by anyone. A police investigation and an independent coroner's inquest found no suspicious circumstances or foul play. The inquest concluded that he died alone in his cell from a drug overdose involving methadone.
Also, he was not sent to a "high-security prison full of radical Muslims", he was serving his time at HMP Bristol, which is a standard Category B local adult prison that houses mainstream inmates from the surrounding local courts.
> How is anyone (as in not us, the tech nerds) supposed to reason about this?
People have more than enough brain power to reason about this. "There are several distributions, I recommend this one" is not exactly rocket science.
We really need to stop treating people like they have an IQ of 30 and only 5 minutes of free time per day, or we'll never defeat Google et al that purposefully maintain us in this belief.
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