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by hugh 18y ago
The black hole would consume the sun eventually, yes.
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by hugh 18y ago
Which is why the algorithm provides the possibility of moving uphill.
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by hugh 18y ago
My instinct would be to do it with some kind of Metropolis Monte Carlo algorithm. 1. For initial conditions, distribute digits randomly throughout the 3x3 boxes. The only condition we need to apply at this stage is to not repeat a digit wit
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by hugh 18y ago
You couldn't cut around it, because it would fall out the bottom of any container you tried to put it in. Perhaps you could give it a charge (by firing electrons at it) and then confine it electrostatically or magnetically.
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by hugh 18y ago
How would they even be able to tell if they'd done it?
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by hugh 18y ago
I can't see that the atmosphere is likely to get sucked in -- not in the early stages. Until it becomes very massive (i.e. has absorbed a significant portion of the Earth's mass) it's only going to have a significant effect on things that a
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by hugh 18y ago
Has anyone ever figured out (or even estimated) how long it would actually take to destroy the world if we did succeed in creating a black hole on the surface? Assuming it didn't evaporate and started out at rest, it'd presumably fall strai
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by hugh 18y ago
No, six weeks ago was just a guesstimate. You could probably try plotting the frequency of the words "gas prices" and similar phrases showing up in news stories over time to gauge interest (speaking of which, trend picking via time-dependen
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by hugh 18y ago
There was a spike in fuel-obsessiveness about six weeks ago, but now prices have flattened off people care much less. People only care about saving fuel when fuel prices rise suddenly, not when they're flat-but-high.
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by hugh 18y ago
Ford doesn't have any interest in maintaining that myth -- they only have one hybrid model. Toyota is the only company currently getting rich off that particular myth. They couldn't sell it in the US because by US standards it's tiny, under
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by hugh 18y ago
Not really that much higher. It's not like they'd ship a new one out from the mainland every time one failed -- they'd have a huge stack of spares sitting around on the rig and replenish it every now and then.
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by hugh 18y ago
I would have thought that a short would be sufficient.
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by hugh 18y ago
The standard of the comments in this thread is the best argument against politics.
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by hugh 18y ago
Since the local temperature maxima and minima are the only places without a temperature gradient, it seems logical that the physicists would have to be confined to the hottest parts. Well, that or the coolest parts. But I suspect the ho
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by hugh 18y ago
I think that's called an "election".
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by hugh 18y ago
No politics, please (especially not of the whiny-extremist variety). The fact that the guy has occasionally whacked together a few lines of python doesn't make it relevant.
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by hugh 18y ago
This almost makes me want to hire this guy to clean my car.
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by hugh 18y ago
Personally I'd take the second deal, but that's just because I don't consider $1 million to really be "fuck you" money at all -- it'd buy me a nice house and give me a good head start, but it wouldn't let me retire and spend the rest of my
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by hugh 18y ago
When you're only earning $800 a month, taxes should be pretty negligible, surely?
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by hugh 18y ago
Why not a recording of a Maserati? It's cheaper.
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by hugh 18y ago
I was going to complain about the use of the word "unique", but it's only in the headline and not in the article itself. It is almost certainly not unique, but I'm prepared to believe it's very unusual.
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by hugh 18y ago
1. Rerolling the dice is still a faster (and thus better) way of solving this problem. Ah, but it's not guaranteed to terminate.
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by hugh 18y ago
As it happens I was looking at the edit history for the Sarah Palin article a few days ago. A more complete (dare I say less biased) article would have mentioned that no sooner had this particular individual started making flattering edits
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by hugh 18y ago
I'm afraid I have to agree with jayz's dead comment: "obnoxiously twee" is a pretty good description of this guy's writing style. I'm sure some people like it, but I'm not one of them.
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by hugh 18y ago
Rocket + radioactive silicon + crashing into the sun = all possible flavours of awesome. I can't think of any better way to spend $200 million.
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by hugh 18y ago
There was a Montessori school down the road from my primary school. We thought the students there were pretty weird (they were easily identifiable by their lack of uniforms) but of course their weirdness was more likely due to their parents
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by hugh 18y ago
Oh, I don't know about that, you could have a film which depicted some of the parts of his life which weren't shown in the first one. Like, say, how he met his first wife. Or most of his business dealings. Or his twenty-second birthday part
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by hugh 18y ago
Are you suggesting that no other government on Earth is capable of, or willing to do warrantless searches?
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by hugh 18y ago
Y'know, I started reading that post with a view towards making a cynical, snarky comment, but by the end it didn't seem such a bad idea. You'd need to make sure the karma system couldn't be gamed, though -- either by automated actions (kind
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by hugh 18y ago
Perhaps, but gravity comes a close second.

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