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by chm 11y ago
Are you a US citizen? At $0.76 per CAD the whole of Canada is pretty much the definition of "cheap".
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by chm 11y ago
So I just bought a new Postbox license. Why should I buy and use your product instead? Convince me!
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by chm 11y ago
Interesting question. I don't have the answer but it could be because it's costly to get the whole thing running. Once it's up, you want to keep it up to avoid all sorts of problems/costs. And that's not considering
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by chm 11y ago
“A lot of them can barely read,” said Saul E. Kerpelman, who estimates he has defended more than 4,000 victims of lead poisoning, nearly all of them black. They suggest the demographics support the title.
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by chm 11y ago
I know several people who have tried ketamine, but in powder form. Have any of you on HN tried? I saw people doing it only once, and they seemed quite functional, though a bit inebriated. They said it was a very pleasurable high. I guess th
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by chm 11y ago
I understand, and I still think an ad company has every interest to improve its ad targeting. What is so controversial about that?
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by chm 11y ago
I highly doubt they added a Google account requirement to improve ad targeting. You might be right but it's really hard for me to agree with you. It could be optional, but it appears not to be.
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by chm 11y ago
I run the ShareLaTeX open-source version and it renders a PDF each time I want to see the changes I made. With ShareLaTeX I can exactly see how the end product will look, something you can't do with this app. It's much less respon
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by chm 11y ago
is completely suboptimal for creating long structured documents I actually saw many science students work very well with MS Word. They knew how to use it and liked it, whereas I completely despised it as I was never able to fit an
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by chm 11y ago
I coincidentally also subscribed to the Economist in 2011 and I can relate to the feeling of being informed. However I had to cancel my subscription in 2013 for lack of time. After a while, I could never finish an issue. To be honest I have
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by chm 11y ago
Sorry for the non-answer: The term "solar cell" refers to a wide variety of technologies[1]. Anything from common semiconductors, rare-earths or even fruit juice can be used to make solar cells. The impact will be highly dependent
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by chm 11y ago
My MSc is concerned with a model for simulating molecular photovoltaics. The work I do is a blend of physics, chemistry, maths and programming, in different proportions. I wouldn't say it was "easy to immerse", but complement
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by chm 11y ago
I don't see the Bitnami apps when I try to create a droplet. Where do I find them? Edit: It seems I need to register on Bitnami's website.
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by chm 11y ago
I was satisfied with his answer. But along his own logic, answering "why does the train stay on the tracks" is a very much more involved question than at first appears, because our intuition and what we now know about gravity are
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by chm 11y ago
Ha! Well, I'm sure you understood what I meant, and your assumptions about me can't be clearer. It's just tiring that people assume so much. It derails conversations.
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by chm 11y ago
Then you are quite mistaken in your assumptions about me and should consider revising the basis on which you made them.
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by chm 11y ago
But then by your definition, name-dropping is what Feynman does during the entire series of videos . How does the train stay on the tracks? Any question asked by the interviewer could have been answered in a lot more time than Feynman took
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by chm 11y ago
If Feynman didn't know of a better analogy, why didn't he just say so? That would have been more interesting and useful than a sermon. I see however that people are certainly more satisfied with a bad answer than somebod
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by chm 11y ago
You have missed the point because you were unaware of the larger context in which that one conversation sat. :) Why are you so sure? Most commenters who don't agree with me have wrong preconceptions/assumptions about
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by chm 11y ago
No. I'm of the opinion that Feynman didn't teach him a lesson with his speech and analogies. You don't get hired by the BBC to interview Richard Feynman by being a dimwit yourself.
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by chm 11y ago
Then why didn't Feynman simply say so? He patronized the interviewer and in my opinion it wasn't productive. An honest answer, and admittance that he didn't know of any better way to explain/justify it, would have been e
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by chm 11y ago
He was pointing out that where you let it stop depends on the context. And there you have said it. I haven't missed the point. Feynman did by not acting on the context of the interviewer's question. Of course he had to s
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by chm 11y ago
I'm not offended, but I would have been irritated if I was the interviewer. Don't you think the mature man Feynman was talking to already knew what he was talking about with his "why" sermon? Do illiterates really go aro
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by chm 11y ago
To me Feynman was acting like a jerk at that moment. He was aware of who was interviewing him and should have acted accordingly. He knew what the purpose of the interview was, and who the audience would be. He could have simply stated that
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by chm 11y ago
That was my experience as well. Another poster mentioned Quantum Computing Since Democritus by Aaronson. The latter seems more technically difficult but I enjoye it more than GED. I haven't been able to "get into" GED in th
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by chm 11y ago
It's a great book (I'm more than halfway into it) but definitely not for laymen. I followed one quantum computing class as well as having had many QM classes and I find myself having to read a lot of background information to un
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by chm 11y ago
This assumes that you were capable of conscious decision making, or had free will, at birth. The assumption is the problem, I think. I would think that "free will" is developed, not de facto available from birth. In fact, I thin
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by chm 11y ago
Buy one and find out if the seller is legitimate :)
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by chm 11y ago
My understanding is that current is defined as charge per unit time through a single point . The charge moving stays a charge. I don't get what you mean by it changing identity?
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by chm 11y ago
Most are actually receptive and dispite public assumptions, do care about their long term health and what they put in their body. That's where I don't agree. If they really cared, they wouldn't ingest unknown ch

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