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by frickinLasers 7y ago
A 550km trip at the speed of light should take just under 2ms. It looks like they've accounted for the other stuff.
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by frickinLasers 7y ago
This is my interpretation as someone who has never seen this type of study and is giving the authors the benefit of the doubt: Take Table 3. The outcome "O_ij" for each student's "views of abilities" is the scale sc
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by frickinLasers 7y ago
Please explain
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by frickinLasers 7y ago
That's absolutely the case. > Now, when the pilots applied power to the engine, the aircraft would have a significant propensity to “pitch up,” or raise its nose. This propensity to pitch up with power application thereby increased
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by frickinLasers 7y ago
Make that 2.
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by frickinLasers 8y ago
There are plenty of ways to make a living and still be a net positive for society. I wasn't shaming him, but I'd love to raise my children in a culture where the focus is helping not just yourself and your possibly undeserving off
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by frickinLasers 8y ago
At 8:15 in the video, he mentions a solar cell used while prototyping is under a "dark blue plastic box" to keep the thing from spinning out of control. There's probably not too much UV getting in there. You could probably hi
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by frickinLasers 8y ago
It made me pretty sad to learn the physicist who authored the Britney Spears guide to Semiconductor Physics is now in SEO. He is apparently in it for the money. http://britneyspears.ac/physics/about/about.htm
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by frickinLasers 8y ago
This is great. Why haven't I heard of Blendle before?
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by frickinLasers 8y ago
This would be more compelling if all the y axes started at zero.
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by frickinLasers 8y ago
Maybe he's waiting for tenure to start doing real research. That's the only winning strategy for this game, as far as I can tell.
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by frickinLasers 8y ago
I think the above poster is not clearly differentiating between heating from RF radiation and heating from electrons colliding with silicon or battery components. Given that simple failure in communication, I'd like to see the calculat
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by frickinLasers 8y ago
When hovering over the last value in the graph, I see 22 million. I don't know where you found the next three digits It looks like the plot is lagging the numbers below, for some reason.
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by frickinLasers 8y ago
I'm not particularly informed on arguments for and against this, but shouldn't a national ID require some modicum of trust in the national government? In their ability to keep the database safe from bad actors, including Executive
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by frickinLasers 8y ago
Did you happen to receive an unexpected address change notification? I did when I checked out with Paypal. The address didn't change (maybe it's all caps now and wasn't before?) and now I'm wondering too. It took them a
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by frickinLasers 8y ago
Perhaps it's not controversial in your circles. I realize this is anectodal, but I've dated two women pursuing a PhD in a STEM field, both smarter than me in many ways. The second I began to suggest the reason for my greater physi
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DHS Continues Facial Recognition Deployment with an Eye on Domestic Travel(techdirt.com)
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Court rules Fourth Amendment protects smart meter data(motherboard.vice.com)
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by frickinLasers 8y ago
It was a fantastic parallel I hadn't considered before, so I upvoted.
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by frickinLasers 8y ago
This has nothing to do with the parent's comments. Whoop-de-do, so we toppled an unpopular dictator and left a power vacuum in his place; how does that "keep [America] safe"? We should not be the World Police. We can't e
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by frickinLasers 9y ago
Are you scoffing at fusion startups in general? Because they do exist. https://tae.com/ http://www.helionenergy.com/ https://www.cfs.energy/ https://lppfusion.com/
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by frickinLasers 9y ago
Does anyone have a source? I can't find the story anywhere. Edit: http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/365718-house-set...
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by frickinLasers 9y ago
4. Perhaps more competition would be a better option, but as the failure of Google Fiber has shown, competition is not allowed to exist. The ISPs own the infrastructure, and they will do everything in their power to prevent outsiders from t
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by frickinLasers 9y ago
Out of curiosity, what are the chances this geolocation error also exists 170 miles away? I had the exact same thing happen a few weeks ago, from just east of Chicago.
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by frickinLasers 9y ago
> for linux use: https://github.com/tbds/FreeContributor/tree/master/data This appears to be broken.
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by frickinLasers 9y ago
But those who read this here might share it with five average joes, perhaps one of which might really get upset about the situation and call their congresscritter. If this argument is presented in several different formats and enough averag
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by frickinLasers 10y ago
This is what happens when you give people arbitrary power over others with no training on civil rights, and task them with maintaining "security" (at all costs). There is a pervasive, contagious attitude in the security sector: We
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by frickinLasers 10y ago
> I miss the old days too, but I wouldn't vote to water-down airport security Do you mean the "security" theater with a 95% failure rate? http://abcnews.go.com/US/exclusive-undercover-dhs-tests-find...
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by frickinLasers 10y ago
As the "smart kid" I was never able to grasp why all this busy work was important. I thought the point of homework was to prepare the student to pass tests. If I could already pass, why should I be forced to perform countless hour