Empirically, from running a quick script on the data in the article, it seems like you only need to sample 5 numbers to get a distribution that looks uniform using this "sum mod 10" method.

If you're going for empirical, why not ask for between 1 and a very large number? May as well extract as much entropy per person as possible for post-processing.

Mod10, no matter how large the number you’re only keeping the last digit (assuming they choose base 10 numbers), which... is probably no more random than asking them for a single digit in the first place.

Don't do mod 10, sum the digits.

I think they might mean "double trigger" acceleration, where the options vest automatically on change of control.

You pay the person you borrow the stock from a fee.

A core Libertarian value is individualism. So something like trafficking would be anathema to any Libertarian. Furthermore, I'm sure many would acknowledge that under a certain age it is not credible that any child has the ability to choose prostitution.

I'm not a Libertarian myself, but wanting to reduce the power of the state doesn't mean you believe in slavery.

No, but being libertarian does mean you believe, to varying degrees, that many issues of freedom are not responsibilities of the state.

I've been reading "The Business Blockchain" [0], it's been good so far.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Business-Blockchain-Practice-Applicat...

The thresholdout method [0] for preventing overfitting on a test set is an interesting application of this.

Here's a talk on differential privacy applied to the overfitting problem [1]

[0] http://andyljones.tumblr.com/post/127547085623/holdout-reuse

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mqXjdnZA18

There is very little demand for professional athletes so training to a very high level in mathematics or finance is a much less risky proposition.

Recently working on an embeddable shopping widget I noticed that if I animated it in certain ways chrome would block it as a popup.

Doesn't contradict what you said I just thought it was interesting that chrome doesn't just look for the most basic types of pop-ups.

It's not a protection racket but it is close to becoming a monopoly, which is also illegal in some circumstances.

This sort of anti-competitive coercion through overwhelming market power is why monopoly laws exist in the first place.

I don't think you understand what a monopoly entails. Having a large marketshare is simply not the only qualifier. It's also not remotely anti-competitive. That's just not what that word means.

In three years only emissions-free vehicles will be allowed in central London.

False. But I wish this was true!