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by cmsmith 14y ago
>It is within the performance envelope of those types of systems. Is this true? Reentry speed of an ICBM is something like 5 km/s. Entry speed of a meteor is a minimum of 11 km/s, and more like 25 km/s if this object wasn't in an Earth-
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by cmsmith 14y ago
I think your assumption of equal time for each task is incorrect. Either because people don't dry their hands, or it doesn't take as long as washing. Because typical bathrooms have 4 times as many sinks as they have hand driers, and I still
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by cmsmith 14y ago
I think that the resources required deserve to be considered. If these computers are running 24 hours per day, and they require an extra 100 watts to look for primes (over their idle power consumption), then each computer is using the equiv
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The confusion between 'break' and 'brake' was especially unfortunate here. I was never sure whether an action was going to cause a wheel to fall off or to slow the plane down.
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by cmsmith 14y ago
Publishing is not referring to printing the physical journals (no one is arguing that those should be free). Publishing refers to the work done by editors, copyeditors, typesetters, etc. Without those paid employees the quality of journals
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by cmsmith 14y ago
Exactly, the 'genetic' part of the term implies some sort of breeding, not that you can transform your search space into a vector which you call a genome. In fact, the algorithm used seems to be exactly what is described on the wikipedia f
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by cmsmith 14y ago
I see what the objection is, but I think that this is a good thing on the whole. Possessions are not sustainable. There is only so far an economy can grow before we use all of the metal and oil and landfill space available. The only way w
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by cmsmith 14y ago
I'm not sure I understand this. Solar power could power the US with a 100 mile square area, and it seems like 'perfectly ideal' biofuel production would be just as efficient. Of course, solar panels are around 30% efficient right now (per
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It's the same reason that federally funded scientific research is only available in for-profit journals. Someone has to pay for the costs associated with publishing things, and the scientists/FCC don't want it coming out of their budget. O
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For reference, here is a camera-based DIY automatic book scanner: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PE1Z4wl9fk&feature=relmf... As far as I can tell, the main advantage of the google device over this one is the ability to keep the book