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by cshimmin 13y ago
They don't have to run that deal forever, of course. It could be a shorter term play for traction vs. the big(ger) guys.
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by cshimmin 13y ago
I do nearly all my work on remote machines, writing code in Vim over SSH. Could chromeOS work for someone like me? Is there a decent terminal app for chromeOS? I don't want a PuTTY-like utility that allows me to open sessions; I'm
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by cshimmin 13y ago
Well, it's definitely not an official announcement. Though the github page looks legit and has only been added a few minutes ago.
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by cshimmin 13y ago
Is this some kind of leak? steamdb.info is evidently not affiliated with Valve in any way...
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by cshimmin 13y ago
Interesting point. But as bitcoin adoption (hypothetically) increases, its market cap should approach some significant fraction of m0. And m0 is presumably increasing with time, while the total supply of BC does not. As others pointed out,
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by cshimmin 13y ago
Ah okay. It wasn't clear from OP's document.
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by cshimmin 13y ago
But this is just a question of granularity. When Zimbabwe hit hyperinflation they printed trillion-dollar notes because the 1-dollar note was too fine-grained to be feasible. Conversely, Britain used to circulate half-pennies, because there
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by cshimmin 13y ago
I am surprised to learn there are only 2,100 trillion Satoshi (smallest unit of bitcoin, equal to 1e-8 coin). For comparison, the Gross World Product [0] is roughly $85 trillion, or 8,500 trillion pennies, and growing (almost) every year.
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by cshimmin 13y ago
The altitude is rising and falling because the satellite is in an (approximately) elliptical orbit around Earth. Go play you some Kerbal Space Program! :)
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by cshimmin 13y ago
To answer your questions: 1) sorta. "mass charge" is just mass. In quantum field theory, particles can have an intrinsic mass parameter. The higgs mass parameter is interesting in that it is imaginary (i.e. its value squared in ne
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by cshimmin 13y ago
ATLAS guy here. I agree with @toomuchtodo, we're stuck in the stone age. It's basically just batch processing and lots of copying data around for no reason.
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by cshimmin 13y ago
I wonder if these companies could burn a "watermark" into their firmware, or create subtle differences of internal components. Then you give a slightly different variation to each factory; when the counterfeits come out, you know
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by cshimmin 13y ago
Reminds me of this mercator projection puzzle: https://gmaps-samples.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/poly/puzzledr...
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by cshimmin 13y ago
Firstly, I'll offer that the article doesn't claim to explain why other elements aren't liquid, and simply observe that it does explain why mercury is : the math works out. But interestingly there is one other element whic
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by cshimmin 13y ago
Seal: http://empaempa.github.io/GLOW/examples/complicated/Complica...
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by cshimmin 13y ago
Certainly this works, for example this is how any electromagnet works. Skimming the article, it seems they're actually transporting the magnetic field itself, though. For example, you hold a magnet at one end of the pipe, and its field is f
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by cshimmin 14y ago
A colleague of mine at CERN once told me that if they ever get a nobel prize, it will be a peace prize. The number of nations and institutions brought together for science is quite amazing!
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by cshimmin 14y ago
I don't think it's fair to conclude "some people just don't like school" => "ADD doesn't exist". I'm a graduate student working on my PhD in physics. Physics and astronomy are my lifelong passions, and is now my career. Nevertheless, my
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by cshimmin 14y ago
Basically, the accepted answered did something like this: First, he noticed that the sand looks pretty uniform. You wouldn't be able to tell one patch of sand from another. So he just picked a random 200x200px square of sand. Using this sam
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by cshimmin 14y ago
Late to the party, but I thought I'd clarify on what temperature really means. Many people are familiar with temperature as characterized by "average thermal velocity" of, say, air molecules. However, in statistical mechanics (the physics o
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by cshimmin 14y ago
From previous incarnations of this thread on HN (I think the linkedin one...), I have learned to use SuperGenPass. There are a few similar utilities, basically it hashes your password browser-side with the site domain. This allows you to ma
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by cshimmin 14y ago
From their email to users: "As a precautionary measure, we strongly recommend that you change any identical passwords that you may be using elsewhere." I suppose it's a good idea, as a "precautionary" measure. But is this their way of adm
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by cshimmin 14y ago
It seems a lot of people here were a bit taken aback by Heuer's comment at the end. Both teams spent weeks vetting the results and prsentation, and the decision not to claim discovery was taken very seriously. There is still a lot of work
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by cshimmin 14y ago
few of us are formally trained in CS. some of us are good. others are not. my understanding is that the computer engineers at CERN are mostly tasked with IT work, the rest (including DAQ software/firmware, network code, distributed+realtime
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by cshimmin 14y ago
The title is hyperbole. Neither group claimed "discovery". They only are claiming observation of a new boson.
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by cshimmin 15y ago
Interesting point. Of course a wind-powered device cannot extract all of the power of the wind; the power goes more like v^2 times (delta)v, where the delta is basically how effectively the device can slow the wind. Of course, one might exp
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by cshimmin 17y ago
I think there's an inversion of your logic about grading papers when applied to investing. Usually grades in college operate on a curve; the peers are harsh because their grade is relative to other students. In this case, it's ycomb that is