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by dguest 5y ago
How much are the penalties? If they are charging some absurd (say 20%) interest and you're off by 10k, you might pay them a few hundred in interest if the process is prolonged a month, which is on par with a tax prep service.
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by dguest 5y ago
I know people who have optimized this: - they fill out their taxes with rough estimates, - the IRS helpfully corrects their errors, and sends the form back - they sign the corrected form, send it back - the IRS accepts the second round. Thi
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by dguest 5y ago
Giving your GPS the ability to calculate gravitational time dilation would be cool. According to Wikipedia [1] gravitational redshift is about 1e-16 per meter. Someone else posted a clock costing around $2k with a precision of around 1e-11
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by dguest 5y ago
Why do we need atomic clocks in everyday devices? Most everyday devices use quartz resonators, which, with some temperature stabilization, will gain or loose around 25 seconds a year [1]. As others have mentioned the clocks can be synced to
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by dguest 5y ago
There are plenty of kind / warn / "great" people who got Tesla and Apple to where they are. They aren't all figureheads, but they are there.
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by dguest 5y ago
I see it every few years as well, and I'm glad I finally did the math (it's not that hard actually)! It's probably a good freshman physics example, to make people think about orders of magnitude and energy. Or a good "Fe
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by dguest 5y ago
Complete aside: Has anyone actually implemented this classical example? I've heard it mentioned a few times but always assumed the people floating it hadn't thought about orders of magnitude enough: a "sip" of orange jui
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by dguest 5y ago
It gets better than that: there were radar-detector-detector-detectors [1] which were consumer radar detectors that could detect the police radar-detector-detector and shut down. It's tagged as [citation needed] on wikipedia, but the s
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by dguest 5y ago
I don't think most companies are maliciously breaking unsubscribe buttons, but there are a lot of websites that don't work on some browsers, are badly maintained to the point of being unusable, are confusing, or simply don't
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by dguest 5y ago
I've had people make fraudulent charges on my debit card. The answer to your question: It wasn't a big deal. The bank contacted me immediately and said they noticed strange behavior on my card and had thus blocked it. They sent me
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by dguest 5y ago
I thought courts had required banks to allow opt-out for a long time. Apparently more recently [1] this was expanded so that account holders have to opt in. [1]: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/overdraft-protection-expi_
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by dguest 5y ago
I've never owned a credit card. Can you have them automatically pay off the balance every month? It seems like this would cut into their profits. I think the point above was more or less: - With a debit card if you have 10k in the bank
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by dguest 6y ago
I think this clarifies a misunderstanding I had from your original comment. It sounds like the "secret sauce" for this collaboration includes a set of numerical libraries. They would get relatively little funding, few publications
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by dguest 6y ago
I'm not an absolutist, and don't want to come off as one. I'm just not in lattice QCD :) What degree of data sharing is considered normal there? Across experimental physics it varies a lot: astronomers are often required by t
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by dguest 6y ago
Saying they treat their code as secret sauce is a pretty damming accusation for scientists. I've seen a few other cases where relatively closed groups of otherwise top-notch scientists claim an interesting discovery [1,2], and then tur
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by dguest 6y ago
Alice and LHCb are around 1k. ATLAS and CMS are closer to 3k. There are some very cool experiments at CERN that have less than 100 members, which typically take advantage of either existing LHC interaction points[1] or the accelerator chain
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by dguest 6y ago
We have an internal database that keeps track of who contributed where. So in practice when someone is making a hiring decision, they find someone who works on our experiment, and that person asks around or accesses the internal database to
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by dguest 6y ago
Almost every paper I've been a part of. Some of us will do a few independently, but if we want to use LHC data it has to include everyone on the collaboration on the author list.
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by dguest 6y ago
We earn the right to be on every paper after working on the experiment for around a year. After that it's automatic: there's theoretically a way to remove yourself from specific papers but no one ever does. It's a convoluted
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by dguest 6y ago
If you work on a bigger LHC experiment (ATLAS or CMS) you publish about 100 papers a year. I'm on the "author list" for many hundreds of papers that I contributed nothing to and never read. It's actually very difficult t
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by dguest 6y ago
I can't help but read this with a negative tone. To put a more positive spin on it: for roughly 1/26th the cost of another chat client we could have twice the scary robots. There are a lot of similar things that we spend a relati
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by dguest 6y ago
If you make the window narrower the content pane disappears, so it's possible to work around this.
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by dguest 6y ago
Exactly, you end up with objects appearing at multiple locations that don't interfere with each other. This is completely consistent with observation, it's just weird: it means all the outcomes actually happened and the observer j
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by dguest 6y ago
It's also worth skimming the wikipedia page on quantum decoherence [1]. Quantum mechanics forms a consistent theory without any concept of randomness or wave function collapse, and decoherence explains how this evolves into a classical
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by dguest 6y ago
For the record I'm not a fan of this sort of censorship either. But I'm guessing their aversion to drug references is more to avoid offending people than to discourage drug use: opiate (and amphetamine) abuse is a pretty serious p
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by dguest 6y ago
I had the same thought, but more as an illustration of why the approval process worked exactly as Apple would like here: they likely want to establish a barrier against whimsical provocative marketing but not against serious app development
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by dguest 6y ago
It's also possible that the US political system is aligning with the rest of the world. The American Republicans now seem a lot more authoritarian and the American Democrats more socialist than they were 10 years ago. I can't say
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by dguest 6y ago
The only knowledge I distinctly remember gaining in high school was from a class called "consumer auto". I learned to change my oil, replace the brakes and flush the lines, check the fluids, etc. As a broke college student DIY aut
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by dguest 6y ago
Wow, that's awesome! Thanks for the tip! A lot of people seem to be questioning why you'd need this when you could just provide a full link. Personally I read a lot of technical documentation and having acronyms written out in ful
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by dguest 6y ago
I always assumed it was worse than this: when you breath out your lungs still contain a slightly lowered oxygen concentration at atmospheric pressure, so the partial pressure of O2 is still quite high. In a vacuum this drops to zero, meanin

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