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by gizmo686 5y ago
That depends on how you define 'conservation of energy'. Consider an arbitrary bounded volume of spacetime. Conservation of energy says that the net flow across the boundary of any such volume is 0. Under this definition moving in
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by gizmo686 5y ago
You have to be careful when talking about 'speed' when you make time a dimension in your geometry. Traditionally, speed is a measure of how much of your space-time curve is in along the time axis. For any space-time path, you can
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by gizmo686 5y ago
Not just practically impossible, it is theoretically impossible. Given Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, observing a position with a certainty of the planck length would require it to have so much energy that it forms a black hole. S
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by gizmo686 5y ago
The guy who used to sweep away the paper airplanes (Roy Glauber) went on to win the Nobel prize in physics for his work in quantom optics. Based on his wikipedia page [0], you would think that Keeper of the Broom is a more prestigous tit
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by gizmo686 5y ago
Too late as in we have already started implementing (C). > but there's a pretty big delta between the climate that we'll leave our grandchildren if we zero our emissions by 2050 versus the climate we'll leave our grandchil
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by gizmo686 5y ago
Federal agencies are still subject to the ADA, which Biden cannot waive without Congress. While the ADA appears to allow for vaccine requirements in general, it still requires reasonable accommodations for those who cannot get a vaccine.
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by gizmo686 5y ago
CO2 levels already exceed 400ppm. It is too late to adopt 0 emmisions as the entite strategy. We need to either: A) go carbon negative B) other geo engineering C) adapt to the new climate By itself, option C is baked in to be a generation d
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by gizmo686 5y ago
> the US is downgraded as a credit risk making it harder and more expensive to borrow in the future. That isn't the way it works. At least for the US. The US's rating was downgraded in 2011 (following another debt-ceiling near-
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by gizmo686 5y ago
You don't. The waiver between the ownee and manufacturer specifies that the owner is liable. Beyond that point, insurance solves the issue. Currently, the driver is liable and is required by law to carry liability insurance, so there i
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by gizmo686 5y ago
It's not really up to the kernel. The kernel and initial ramdisk are loaded into memory by the bootloader. Once you are in the ramdisk you can do pretty much whatever you want to mount the root partition; including using a user space f
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by gizmo686 5y ago
Most people don't own a savings account because it is profitable. They do it because it us a valuable service. It provides an easy way to store your money that is secured by 'this collapsing is an exustensial threat to the governm
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by gizmo686 5y ago
The Supreme Court struck down the federal moritorium [0]; and there wording made it clear the issue was the CDC exceeding it's authority under current law (as opposed to a fundamental constitutional issue). As such, this ruling has no
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by gizmo686 5y ago
A large egg is 78 calories. Over the course of a year a single egg per day adds up to 8 lbls. However, many people are able to maintain a remarcably consistent weight without thinking about it. This suggests that humans have an innate abili
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by gizmo686 5y ago
You can prune entire sets of the combination space without needing to enumerate through all of them. One of the simplest such optimizations would be to set that if set S costs more than the target, then no superset of S is a valid solution.
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by gizmo686 5y ago
There are also second order political implications to widespread home ownership. You greatly increase the number of land owners, which greatly increases their power as a political block. This leads to policies that drive up the value/c
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by gizmo686 5y ago
The distance metric for flat spacetime is given by: ds^2 = dx^2 + dy^s + dz^2 - cdt^2 For a particle traveling at the speed of light, this gives ds=0.
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by gizmo686 5y ago
Isn't McDonalds also well known to be a community center?
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by gizmo686 5y ago
The original standard the CDC decided to use before we had data on any of the vaccines was that 50% protection would be the threshhold for "effective"; although I am not sure what level of infection they were planning on measuring
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by gizmo686 5y ago
The CDC reccomends that adults over 50 who might have had chicken pox get the Shingrix (Shingles) vaccine. https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/shingles/public/shingrix/in...
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by gizmo686 5y ago
An infinite loop without any side effects.
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by gizmo686 5y ago
50% duty cycle is more than enough to keep the temperature at a survivable level. If the utilities use the load shedding program to reduce AC usage to the point of killing people, the situation would already be so bad that the alternative l
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by gizmo686 5y ago
Spaces are more pythonic than tabs. https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#tabs-or-spaces
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by gizmo686 5y ago
Isn't that the definition of too big to fail?
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by gizmo686 5y ago
I'm not opposed to regulating the relationship between franchiser and franchisee, but anti trust does not strike me as a good fit. The market here seems to be something like 'franchise rights to a fast service food brand'. Mc
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by gizmo686 5y ago
> Right now this area is not taken seriously enough as it should by the research community Another reason is that basic material needed to conduct this research (child porn) is legally toxic to posses. Sure, there are ways around that fo
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by gizmo686 5y ago
Many people start wood working at a young age. If they want to build a house, they need to acuire permits, comply with zoning regulation, comply with building codes, get sign off from a certified engineer. Not all coding is the same. If you
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by gizmo686 5y ago
Related question, does anyone know of a tool to change the time speed of a program. Something like "make the program think an hour passed every minute"?
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by gizmo686 5y ago
A polynomial is solvable if and only if its corresponding Galois group is "solvable". Solvable groups are motivating primarily by the problem of determining if polynomials are solvable. In general, it takes some work to know if a
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by gizmo686 5y ago
Difficulty adjustments happen ever 2016 blocks. Normally that is about once every 2 weeks. However with a large enough drop in hash power, that is a very long time.
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by gizmo686 5y ago
Thinking about dropping to 0 is a useful thought experiment, but everything in the article applies to a sufficuently small positive value. On a practical matter, a sudden drop in the value of bitcoin could make it literally impossible to by

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