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by aroberge 7y ago
If you assume that almost all the mass of a galaxy is in its nucleus, then the only "orbits" allowed are conical sections (ellipses, parabolas, hyperbolas): there is no such thing as a spiral trajectory. You would need a very unu
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by aroberge 7y ago
This is about a Canadian case. There is no such thing as a precedent from an American court.
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by aroberge 8y ago
Forget about the expansion of the universe; you could ask the exact same question for an observer moving away from a source and detecting a different frequency (hence energy) of the light emitted due to "normal" Doppler effect in
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by aroberge 8y ago
I agree with your caracterization of courriel as elegant - and I find "pourriel" (for "spam") even more so.
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by aroberge 8y ago
> Are there things my users really don’t need to see right now? Yes, what about the ridiculous amount of space taken by the header and footer on that page.
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by aroberge 8y ago
> That's not what happened at all ... when they just made a geoip check ... It sounds as though you have access to data that the rest of people on HN do not. Would you care to share your source? Are you certain he would not have be
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by aroberge 8y ago
We have definitely not observed spontaneous creation of virtual pairs in a vacuum. I do not blame you for thinking so as it is often described this way. Almost no computation in Quantum Field Theory can be done exactly. What physicists do i
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by aroberge 8y ago
Toronto, the city mentioned in the article, is in Canada. "Fisa courts" are a U.S. entity which has nothing to do with what is being done in Canada.
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by aroberge 8y ago
> However, because our world is cosmological and the big bang does actually pick out a preferred reference frame, Lorentz Invarience has to be approximate in some way. A particular solution to a set of equations does not usually have all
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by aroberge 8y ago
Dark matter is also required to make the predictions of primordial nucleosynthesis correct and modeling of the large scale structures of the universe.
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by aroberge 8y ago
?? Canada's population is roughly 1/10 of that of the US and the article count shown for Canada is also roughly 1/10 of that of the US. Exactly how is it surprising?
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by aroberge 8y ago
The numbers do not (fully) support your argument. We have a similar situation in Canada in terms of expectations ... but the for the price paid by students which is signficantly lower. And, the participation rate is 54% for Canada compared
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by aroberge 8y ago
1) How many popular sites point back at Breitbart? At least initially, Google's search algorithm appeared to be based on the number of such backlinks. I imagine it still does to a certain extent. I doubt very much that the net traffi
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by aroberge 8y ago
Tested on Brython (with Firefox) - http://www.brython.info/tests/editor.html?lang=en Iteration 0 took -0.9660000801086426s Iteration 1 took -0.9519999027252197s Iteration 2 took -0.9499998092651367s It
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by aroberge 8y ago
I'm old enough to have lived with a phone number published and not have to worry about it. Then came the telemarketers. Still, long distance calls were expensive and such calls were relatively rare. Next, long distance calling became e
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by aroberge 8y ago
I am not a lawyer ... Patreon allow people to get money from their "fans". You could make one or one hundred different app, each with their own licence, and it would (should) be irrelevant for support you get through Patreon.
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by aroberge 8y ago
That patch is not meant to be applied. It has been created to demonstrate the difference that the new syntax would make on code actually used in production.
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by aroberge 8y ago
To implement Option 3, it most likely suffices to remove any mention of self.fall in https://github.com/aroberge/experimental/blob/master/experim...
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by aroberge 8y ago
Given that Python has "break" as a keyword and "Explicit is better than implicit", I thought it was Pythonic to have it this way.
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by aroberge 8y ago
Author of the blog post here: this is just me having fun with import hooks in Python. The code written for this specific example is just a quick prototype which should not be used as an example for anything serious. Still ... it's fun!
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by aroberge 8y ago
So, you conclude that it is a pointless tool because people can consult the HIPB website directly. Meanwhile, Troy Hunt, the creator of the HIPB website himself writes that this is a good idea.
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by aroberge 8y ago
> It's been almost 100 years since the initial clash between classic mechanics and quantum theory, and how much closer are we to unification? There is no problem with, to use your words, unification of classical mechanics and quantu
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by aroberge 8y ago
Wow ... Since you are so certain that time does not exist, why don't you write a paper showing the implications for quantizing gravity, and why the standard spacetime picture of both Special and General relativity is wrong?
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by aroberge 9y ago
> We really need to quit forcing programmers to take calculus. ... This is a resource to learn Computer Science - not computer programming . Calculus and many other advanced mathematics topics are very much needed if wishes to le
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by aroberge 9y ago
The comment you replied to mentioned the USA. North America is a continent that includes 23 countries, only one of them is the USA. Living in one of the other 22 countries and looking at the USA, I would tend to agree with the comment that
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by aroberge 9y ago
The person I was replying to was referring to a study about the U.S.
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by aroberge 9y ago
Canada would disagree with you. One in five people living in Canada was born in another country [1]. Canada is officially a multicultural country [2]. Yet, there is a lot more trust and a lot less social strife than in the U.S., to use a c
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by aroberge 9y ago
I'm surprised to see this kind of things here, of all places. I'm even more surprised to see all the positive comments (so far). The most important feature of the periodic table of elements is that it is based upon some underlying
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by aroberge 9y ago
I don't get it. You take a solution (pure CSS) that does not require JavaScript to run, so that users that turn off JavaScript for security or other reasons can see the page styled as intended, and you convert it to something that wil
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by aroberge 9y ago
This may be of interest to people using git on Windows and have malwarebytes installed. I tried to install a new version and found I could not as there was another version that was present. Git did not appear anywhere as a program to uninst

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