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by cmsmith 11y ago
If it is truly a 1G maneuver, then the answer would be: 9.8 m/s^2 * (1-cos(\theta)) Where \theta is the angle off of level flight. So when you are fully inverted, the plane would be accelerating at 2 G's downward (one t
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by cmsmith 11y ago
>This is of relevance to the question because there are a lot of people who think the bombing of Hiroshima is justified, but when you get into the question of Nagasaki it gets more murky. Three days is not adequate time for a government
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by cmsmith 11y ago
The article's focus on the temptation for collusion seems overblown to me. Yes, the interests of Pepsi+Coke's index shareholders are served if the companies avoid cannibalizing each other's value, but those shareholders have
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by cmsmith 11y ago
>Apparently the normal 30,000 feet cruising altitude is not higher because the reduced oxygen levels at higher altitudes impact the gasoline combustion too much. If this is true, wouldn't it make more sense to bring liquid oxygen up
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>Even though HBO and the different TV providers ... The paradox is that Netflix's UI is on average worse than theirs, so my preference of browsing shows on Netflix is not a usability thing, it's an emotional thing. I would disa
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by cmsmith 11y ago
Wild guess: Boston is a densely populated city with geographic restrictions (due to the bodies of water around it). The ratio of roads needing to be cleared vs available snow dump areas might be a lot higher than in most places in Canada. A
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by cmsmith 11y ago
This article does a pretty good job of synthesizing why I'm fairly optimistic about climate change despite believing the scientific models. I think that there is an austerity/flagellant meme within environmental circles that state
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by cmsmith 11y ago
1. 3/4 of energy usage is outside the transportation sector. 2. If we switch 3/4 of energy production away from fossil fuels, that will make a huge dent and make renewables even cheaper. 3. Once renewables get cheap enough, it may
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by cmsmith 11y ago
Hence my parenthetical. But since you mentioned amendments, you should look into the Corwin Amendment [1], which was written to preclude its own repeal. The amendment was an all-in attempt to appease the slave states and prevent the Civil W
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by cmsmith 11y ago
And the corporations only hold out for a repatriation holiday because there has been one in the past, and there is a decent chance of there being one in the near future. This is a slippery legislative cliff - once you indicate a willingness
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by cmsmith 11y ago
And what happens to the local farmers and roofers when you start shipping in goods and handing them out for free? They have a few more bags of rice but are out of business, and dependent on the next aid shipment for their other necessities.
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by cmsmith 11y ago
FYI, and not making any judgement, but this is how they pay for office space and for research that is too esoteric/risky to get external funding.
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by cmsmith 11y ago
>Investigators are looking for evidence to demonstrate Uber Canada is violating the tax law by not collecting GST and QST on behalf of its drivers to UberX. For those who don't want to google translate. Further down it says that thi
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by cmsmith 11y ago
>Many traditional real estate investors are perplexed by WeWork’s $5 billion valuation. With that kind of money, you could build the world’s most expensive skyscraper—One World Trade Center, which at 3 million square feet has roughly the
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by cmsmith 11y ago
80 years is a very long time. It's long enough for two or three generations to grow up, decide what they want to do for their career, notice their dad's career outlook doesn't seem to be on the rise, and go to work in a facto
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by cmsmith 11y ago
This is a bit of a Godwin's switcheroo - where in a historical discussion about Nazis someone will inevitably try to use it to win points in a modern political argument.
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by cmsmith 11y ago
>just as much if you are doing it to get to or from your home that is on the road as if you are using it to get between two points that the road happens to connect This is exactly the point and where the problem lies. If I live on the ro
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by cmsmith 11y ago
I'll be the first to say here that if this effect is actually supported by data, and not just anecdotes, then the councilman has a good point. It's rude and dangerous to cut through residential neighborhoods to save one or two min
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by cmsmith 11y ago
A great video, and I noticed the actual linked article here suspiciously follows the exact same structure and examples that Feynman does in his explanation. It would have been nice to acknowledge the fact that the author was probably watchi
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by cmsmith 12y ago
It seems to me that we need the legal system to recognize computer-processed 'big data' as what it is, which is a totally new kind of information that doesn't fit neatly into our existing privacy framework. I think it's
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by cmsmith 12y ago
I don't really get the constant focus of the energy conversation on transportation (< 1/3 of total energy use). If, as you say, we can get solar energy to the grid for less than coal then we're getting close to the time wh
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by cmsmith 12y ago
>This is great. More competition is great for me, the consumer. Recently Lyft and Uber have bother offered flat rate rides for $5-7 anywhere in SF. When people ask me how it can be so cheap, I always joke it's because it's a $1
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Apple shareholders would sure like Tim Cook to buy Tesla(wired.com)
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by cmsmith 12y ago
For an extreme example, it's generally considered a bad idea to let people get paid for 'donating' organs. In addition to the practical problem (paid donors are more likely to lie about the condition of the donation), there i
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by cmsmith 12y ago
This is how we express rare events which threaten buildings and bridges. For example, the design level earthquake is chosen such that it has a 10% chance of being exceeded over a 50 year time span (475 year return period). The maximum consi
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by cmsmith 12y ago
I'm not a very experienced ice skater, but it seems like the flatness of a frozen canal is what makes it nice to skate on. The renderings in the article show frozen over sidewalks, which presumably have at least small slopes to them. W
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by cmsmith 12y ago
It's a bit disappointing that they went to the trouble of building a radio into it and didn't just connect it to the NIST atomic clock radio time signal WWVB.
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Specifications and annotations on construction drawings are typically all caps, as well. In that context, it looks more official and also more legible at various magnification levels.
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Your statement, which is just accepting an internet-rumor as true, contrasts very strongly with the article itself, which is about going to great effort to learn things from hard data.
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>It might be nice to live in a world in which poets had the audiences of pundits. And maybe the making of carrot carnations should be an Olympic event. I take the opposite message from all of this. It is nice to live in a world with su

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