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by cynest 16y ago
It's also a change in location. It's significantly easier to be driven and interested in a subject when there are a nonzero number of people sharing your interest to interact with.
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by cynest 16y ago
We have significant evidence to believe that gravitational waves do exist. By measuring the energy of Hulse-Taylor Binaries, we can show that the expected energy loss is there. This was the basis for the 1993 Nobel in physics.
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by cynest 16y ago
This is how I hear very talented physicists describe themselves and others in that category. Stephen Hawking did not achieve in spite of his condition, but rather because of it. It forced him to develop a very specific set of visualization
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by cynest 16y ago
People have started relationships on/through Facebook that have turned into marriages. A bit of a blow to the part of me that thinks of Facebook as new.
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by cynest 16y ago
Temperature is a property of a system, not a single particle. Temperatures of absolute zero are considered impossible to produce because maintaining absolute zero requires a system with zero energy entering.
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by cynest 16y ago
Physics major.
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by cynest 16y ago
His point still stands somewhat. Windows won by maintaining control of the OS market, though the OS market became less directly relevant due to the fact that the web became the dominant force in commercial computing.
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by cynest 16y ago
I just got back from my university's career fair (Caltech). It was a bit interesting to see that while Google had poorly-advertised information sessions, it was Facebook who had people on the floor recruiting. It seemed like Google was cont
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by cynest 16y ago
I wonder how much of the benefit is specifically from waking up at the specific time 5am, and how much is simply waking up, then using the morning time to be productive in a way that isn't hurried or scheduled.
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by cynest 16y ago
There are several problems with this: 1. said entrepreneur is likely to be from a similar background, eg having served in the same agency, and thus being exposed to the same culture, and from this might very well be a bit desensitized to hu
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by cynest 16y ago
I would be willing to bet that the increase in general acceptability of divorce is the main factor.
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by cynest 16y ago
Isn't reddit a bit too niche for it to have a "reddit generation"?
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by cynest 16y ago
I believe his point was that research published by a single researcher on a blog is sketchy, and that he wishes that scientific discoveries could be done by individuals. If the researcher in question can provide proof of their claim, then n
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by cynest 16y ago
In the 20th century. Also, I wonder how much increasing access to information increases amount of news. If one were to count today, or any day within a small radius of today, how much would be considered newsworthy in 1954? How would the re
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by cynest 16y ago
It's silly. That's why.
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by cynest 16y ago
Considering that the employees live there, probably not many compared to on-site suicides.
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by cynest 16y ago
At the cost of 'tens of millions of dollars.' That's several months worth of income for Jagex, which means significant amounts of money are not going into development, which in the end hurts the product. I doubt they could afford to do this
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by cynest 16y ago
A test bank is the set of questions and/or possible tests that can be given in a testing period. The idea is that you are able to make it harder to cheat on a (usually multiple choice) test by making potential cheaters either not know or no
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by cynest 16y ago
Solar with a battery is probably the best for long durations. I imagine gyroscopes might be useful for stabilization. Radiation hardening is fairly simple; most things requiring the shielding can be shielded, with cables connecting them to
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by cynest 16y ago
The problem with this analogy is that Google had no intent of invading privacy. If you leave your shades open and someone starts taking pictures of the inside of your house, they are breaking your reasonable expectation of privacy. If someo
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by cynest 16y ago
That, and stopping widespread debilitating diseases.
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by cynest 16y ago
However, a person often in crowded areas will likely experience far more radiation over time simply from others around them on their cell phones.
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by cynest 16y ago
Playing the devil's advocate here, but wouldn't exposure rates be more important than usage? Most people would likely be exposed more to other phone's radiation than just their own phone's.
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by cynest 16y ago
His Swedish door. I'm pretty sure the pirate party would have a field day were that to happen.
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by cynest 16y ago
Cool. So might the new neurons be more for motor control than say, mathematics?
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by cynest 16y ago
Only a subset of mormons (fundamentalist LDS). Also, I doubt they'd want to legally marry their wives: single mothers collect more benefits.
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by cynest 16y ago
Also, for some strange reason, work you do that is interesting prepares you a hell of a lot more for your intended major in college.
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by cynest 16y ago
As much as I generally like George Carlin, this seemed to reduce down to unsubstantiated claims.