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More importantly, the concept of speed itself is confusing when you try treating time as just another dimension. Traditionally, speed means how many units of space do you move in a unit of time. Asking about your speed through the x dimensi
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But this is true in relativity as well. In an appropriate coordinate system, you are also moving in only 1 of the 4 dimensions. If you are not accelerating, then this coordinate system is an inertial reference frame, and the fact that you a
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There are two seperate questions: 1) Do the alledged facts meet the legal requirements for the crimes charged? 2) Are the alledged facts true? A trial is focused on question 2. A jury is called on to make a determination of the facts of the
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by gizmo686 4y ago
You don't even need gravity. Basic thermal dynamics says that a closed system should reach thermal equilibrium. It is (in my opinion) actually a bit surprising that a massive body in thermodynamic equilibrium has a uniform temperature.
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Shelter tracks CPI less energy pretty closely, especially during the recent surge: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=RJqZ
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Most of the pre-war rise was recovering from the covid crash of gas prices. The price overshot its pre covid level a bit, but that can be explained through supply issues (you can't increase production on a dime; demand was difficult to
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by gizmo686 4y ago
You can view a bit of their analysis here: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/checking-our-work/presi... Their seems to be a systemetic bias for them to be underconfident. That is to say, when they a result is likly
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If your analysis is correct, you would expect Trump to have gotten a desicive victory in the popular vote. Not only did that not happen, but he lost the popular vote by 2 points.
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From the very first paragraph of your link. > Trump is a significant underdog — he has a 13 percent chance of winning the election according to our polls-only model and a 23 percent chance according to polls-plus. But those probabilities
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by gizmo686 4y ago
One of Congress's powers is to regulate interstate commerce. The scope of that power has been stretched to be commically large; but profit controls in the gas market clearly fall within that power. Price/profit controls have been
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by gizmo686 4y ago
Copper is also easier to work with. The wire is much more forgiving of bending, cutting and terminating it is easier, and is is more resilient to dirt on the endcap. Also, the risk of power surges comes with the ability to transfer power, w
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by gizmo686 4y ago
The higher level thing to notice is that Windows is a second class platform for much of the software world. As such, it is in a position where it needs to bend the knee for compatibility with the dominant platform if they want it to be an a
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by gizmo686 4y ago
The terminology is confusing and the article isn't doing a good job of explaining it. "Rootfs" is an im-memory virtual filesystem used to hold the root. The bootloader will read the initramfs into ram before executing the ker
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by gizmo686 4y ago
Long term, inflation tends to reduce income inequality (up to a point, I've generally seen 10-15% quoted as the sweet spot). The problem with inflation and poor people is more short term: wages are one of the last things to inflate, so
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by gizmo686 4y ago
Short term liquidity problems are handled by the repo market, where banks can take short term loans from other banks to cover withdrawals. In a crisis situation the lender of last resort (e.g. central bank. So federal reserve for USD) will
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by gizmo686 4y ago
> The shell actually uses copy-on-write usefully. (And yes I'm aware that there's a good argument that the shell is almost the ONLY program that needs fork() !) It's been a while since I looked at it, but I believe Androi
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by gizmo686 4y ago
> If there was a discrepancy between the amount of USDT and USD controlled by Tether, surely that peg would be far away from $1 USD/$1 USDT right now no? Why would you think that? As long as Teather has >0 USD they can honor rede
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There is also some game theory going on there. The second player is also offering the first an ultimatum. In theory, if the second player says they would only corporate for a 1/99 split, the second player should accept that deal (assum
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by gizmo686 4y ago
Most 30 year mortgages are paid off within 10 years; often using the proceeds of selling the house in question. The bank's plan is that they will sell the mortgage before the paint drys; then they don't care what happens. Regardle
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by gizmo686 4y ago
That still lets Alice find out. I don't see a clear way of mapping the concept of a zero knowledge proof to the crush problem. But the best I can come up with is: 1) No one learns that Alice (claims to) have a crush on Bob 2) Unless Bo
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by gizmo686 4y ago
That doesn't require an entire bank. An ATM can dispense cash. Depending on what deals your online bank has, you can probably find a fee free ATM near you even if it isn't an ATM for your bank. Sure, at some point the ATMs may all
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by gizmo686 4y ago
The article is talking about people who self report as living "paycheck-to-paycheck", which means the term means whatever the surveyed population feels like it means. If you want a more controlled responce, you need to ask more sp
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The universe is not isotropic in the time dimension. However, across space the prevailing thinking is that the universe is isotropic on a large scale in the spatial dimensions.
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by gizmo686 4y ago
What specific law was broken? In the US, generic "hacks" generally fall under the computer fraud and abuse act, which is notoriously vague about what qualifues as "authorized". Perhaps some other lawvis applicable. But I
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Computer engineering and computer science are different fields. A computer science degree generally requires a semester of programming language theory, which likely includes talking about generics (along with a bunch of more obscure ideas).
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1) Banks are solvent. Assets exceed liabilities. They have a liquidity problem if there is a bank run, but can unwind there position and pay all account holders if given enough time to do so. (To be clear, it is still possible for a bank to
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by gizmo686 4y ago
There is no monopoly in this case. Any halfway credible comoetitor would know how to get to the docket themselves.
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The only promise the government made to forgive loans is the public service loan forgiveness program, which was designed to encourage people to work in underserved areas without offering a large enough salary to attract talent on the normal
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I'm confused. I understand wanting to have a reserve fund to help maintain a peg. National currencies do this as well, including selling their reserves to prop up their own currency when needed. However, why would a stablecoin put its
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by gizmo686 4y ago
Consider the following pseudo-Java: Object foo = ... if (foo instanceof String) { System.out.println(foo.toLowerCase()) } The above is not valid Java, because foo has type Object, which does not have a toLowerCase()

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