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by Zaak 15y ago
Considering how far Goldman's tentacles reach into the federal government, I'm not surprised at all.
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by Zaak 15y ago
That's what they look like at present, but it's possible that future theories will allow us to calculate their values from first principles.
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by Zaak 15y ago
Yes, thank you. That's exactly the one I was thinking of.
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by Zaak 15y ago
That reminds me of a story about Richard Feynman visiting a physics class outside the US. The diplomat types were very upset with him for pointing out that their books and classes were terrible, teaching things like the energy of a ball goi
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by Zaak 15y ago
If you boost something up to orbital velocity and LEO altitude but don't circularize, its orbit still intersects the atmosphere, if not the earth. The delta-v required to keep from falling back down would be better used to push into whateve
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by Zaak 15y ago
The propulsion system from Earth to Mars could just be a scaled-up version of the systems we've been using to send probes to Mars for decades. Yes, it would be wisest to send at least two trips, so that equipment can be ready for the crew w
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by Zaak 15y ago
Good point. On a related note, I would like to see a "perverse" compiler and library which exhibits random behavior when undefined behavior is specified by the language.
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by Zaak 15y ago
Reduce is trivially parallelizable if you can ensure your operation is associative, but you have to work in languages like Epigram and Agda to guarantee that. (retract "he's wrong")
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by Zaak 15y ago
Essentially what happened was you had to have a manager approved justification for running a windows machine, whereas previously it was left entirely up to user choice. Google also has a habit of releasing information to the public as if it
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by Zaak 15y ago
Wouldn't that make a mess though?
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by Zaak 15y ago
> In fact my last department (in the US) lost a promising prospective PhD student to France after she realised she'd probably have her PhD three or four years earlier if she did it in Paris instead of California. I'm really glad to hear
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by Zaak 15y ago
The lasting record of science is made of publications. The process of science is made of people. If our current system is making scientists who are too specialized to do the science we will need in the future, we're doing it wrong.
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by Zaak 15y ago
Re-spinning the core is unlikely to be the best approach. Winding a giant cable around the equator and pushing a giant current through it is probably within our capacity, though orders of magnitude more expensive than any project ever attem
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by Zaak 16y ago
Also make sure to get a variety of angles to the suspected source. The sensor is pretty planar, so will probably have a much smaller response when it's edge-on versus facing directly towards or away.
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by Zaak 16y ago
IIRC it took like six months to kill her though.
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by Zaak 16y ago
On the one hand, I agree. On the other hand, a type declaration cannot possibly tell you /why/ unless the type system encodes a significant portion of our physical world. This encoding is left as an exercise for the reader.
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by Zaak 16y ago
That's a very interesting question. I made a stab at removing the invariant enforcement from the AVL tree code, but it was more involved than I expected. In this specific case, it doesn't matter much since compilation takes less than a seco
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by Zaak 16y ago
All seriousness aside, how do we fed-ex ourselves across borders?
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by Zaak 16y ago
Agreed. Some people choose to leave Google to start their own companies. Some people choose to stay in the situation they have at Google. Choice is generally a good thing.
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by Zaak 16y ago
Everything is linear if plotted log-log with a fat magic marker.
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by Zaak 16y ago
Probably the best way to get something like that would be to build it yourself. It may not be the kind of project you're looking for though.
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by Zaak 16y ago
To avoid race conditions you would need a way to create a pre-detached directory.
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by Zaak 16y ago
Does Google take that fee, or does it go to the mobile carrier?
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by Zaak 16y ago
Is there anyone currently giving the sort of advice that motley fool used to give before they changed for the worse?
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by Zaak 16y ago
(1) DO INTERCAL DO FORGET #1 PLEASE GIVE UP
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by Zaak 16y ago
It's possible you're an anomalous trichromat: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_blindness#Anomalous_trich...
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by Zaak 16y ago
Everyone has a different level of risk aversion. Some people want to play it very safe, and others are willing to take large risks if the possible rewards appear worth it.
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by Zaak 16y ago
The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles http://www.idc.ac.il/tecs/
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by Zaak 16y ago
I live in the US, and I don't think I've ever seen a chip+pin card. Most stores will take ATM/debit cards (using PIN) as an alternative to credit cards (using signature), but the ATM/debit cards use magnetic stripe like the credit cards.
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by Zaak 16y ago
Also, the 6502 has been reverse engineered from micrographs, so perfect transistor-level emulation can be done. http://www.pagetable.com/?p=517

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