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by cygx 4y ago
As far as I'm aware, organizations like the American Nazi Party or the National Socialist Movement (United States) are legal in the US. Even Germany failed to ban its neo-Nazi party (the National Democratic Party of Germany ) desp
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by cygx 4y ago
The calculation maps a random number R in range 0..255 to numbers 1..10 via R % 10 + 1 The problem is that 10 does not evenly divide 256, hence for large R, the mapping will be incomplete. Specifically, 250 => 1 251 =&
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by cygx 4y ago
Note that while support for anything post C89 used to be spotty at best, the Visual Studio situation has improved in recent years, see e.g. [1]. [1] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/c11-and-c17-standard-...
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by cygx 4y ago
While we're at it, it's "analysis", not "analisys"...
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by cygx 4y ago
AJAX and DHTML are not synonyms: The latter predates the former and refers to interactivity via client-side scripting.
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by cygx 4y ago
Thanks for the correction, I retract my objection. We could also start counting from when the Articles of Confederation came into effect (1781), which lies approximately between 1/3 and 1/4 ;)
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by cygx 4y ago
About 30%, actually: The US constitution came into effect in 1789, the Queen took the throne in 1952. (2022 - 1952) / (2022 - 1789) = 0.30 You're right if one starts counting from the declaration of independence, however, yielding
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by cygx 4y ago
We were also shown a graph of how many orders of magnitude away from ignition (for want of the correct word) by date See p.4-5 of [1] for more recent plots. It includes earlier runs of both KSTAR (the experiment under discussion) and EAST
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by cygx 4y ago
There are major differences. For one, in case of catastrophic failure, the plasma will dissipate, its temperature will drop and the fusion reaction will stop.
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by cygx 4y ago
But 'Jupiter' has been dead for close to 50 years. While Tolkien was protective of his work and its integrity, I'm not entirely sure he would have wanted it to ossify entirely (as already quoted elsewhere: "I would draw
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by cygx 4y ago
Per Tolkien's later writing, the blue wizards arrived during the 2nd age to oppose Sauron in the East, but as far as I know they aren't mentioned directly in the material Amazon has the rights to. Having that role filled by Gandal
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by cygx 4y ago
Sauron became a floating eyeball and characters were made into caricatures of themselves (Denethor) or forced to undergo 'character growth' not present in the books (Aragorn, Faramir). The movies are great, but by no means some so
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by cygx 4y ago
Note that the canon is somewhat fluid: Tolkien changed his mind on various things (off-hand, I can think of the creation of the orcs, when the wizards first arrived in middle-earth and what exactly Balrogs look like).
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by cygx 4y ago
There is another comment below saying the owner/moderator/whatever of Kiwifarms also works with "law enforcement organisations" on anything illegal on the site. Not ones from New Zealand, though: https://www
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by cygx 4y ago
Which the US signed in 2009. The 2nd battle of Fallujah was in 2004. "We hadn't yet promised not to do war crimes, so it's ok if we did." Do you have a source for the air delivery? There were articles about it at the
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by cygx 4y ago
That's what we have the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons for. It bans the use of incendiary weapons against military targets in civilian areas via air delivery, and delivery by other means under various circumstances. Cf h
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by cygx 4y ago
Why should we assume that Middle Earth genetics work anything like normal Earth genetics? Note that Middle-earth Earth ('Arda') supposedly is normal Earth: LotR takes place during the Third Age, whereas we're currently in
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by cygx 4y ago
Showrunners are a thing. See eg https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=hollywood+repor... for some stories from the trenches.
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by cygx 4y ago
Not necessarily if the separation is agreed upon by the UK central government: Madrid's main problem is a unilateral declaration of independence.
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by cygx 4y ago
Scotland doesn't qualify to join the EU upon independence What would be the problem, assuming the independence gets recognized by London? The border situation? The deficit? Or is there some more fundamental problem I'm unaware o
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by cygx 4y ago
What constitutes a big enough change to bring a new vote? Leaving the EU?
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by cygx 4y ago
But the cosmic microwave background refers to one single event, that has echoes everywhere, right? An event is a single point in spacetime, whereas photon decoupling happens everywhere, defining a spacelike hypersurface we use for synchro
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by cygx 4y ago
Errors in Tired Light Cosmology: https://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/tiredlit.htm
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by cygx 4y ago
You cannot speak about an absolute synchronicity among events happening in locations scattered among an arbitrary subset of the set of all visible galaxies The cosmic microwave background gives you a physical realization of just that (but
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by cygx 4y ago
Repeatedly: E.g. the battle of France took six weeks, and the 2003 invasion of Iraq just over a month, never mind things like the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia that was over in 2 days. However, occupation can be a bitch...
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by cygx 4y ago
I'd also add Recami's Tachyon Kinematics and Causality: A Systematic Thorough Analysis of the Tachyon Causal Paradoxes to the reading list. However, as this is a paper from the 80s, it's probably only available behind a pay
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by cygx 4y ago
That's really more of a philosophical question, and arguably not a particularly interesting one - ex nihilo nihil fit (nothing comes from nothing), after all: Either there's 'eternal' nothingness - an option which we h
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by cygx 5y ago
Why not Devanagari then? This Europe-centric point of view bother me. Sure: As I mentioned in another comment, I'd add markers to enable arbitrary super and subscripting. However, the question I responded to was asking what specifica
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by cygx 5y ago
Should a universal text encoding provide a way to encode the names of mathematical and physical quantities? In my opinion, yes. If it can't, it's not fit for purpose, no matter what is or is not an intrinsic property of some cha
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by cygx 5y ago
Upper-case subscripts are missing, for one: I'm not allowed to talk about the normal force F_N in plain text email. Superscript and subscript Greek letters would also be nice to have, eg in context of relativity.

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