jamesmaniscalco

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by jamesmaniscalco 6y ago
You can't really compare the energy of a particle beam to temperature - temperature is only really defined in equilibrium and macroscopically. Also, from the article, > "In the new method, conditions sufficient for fusion are c
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by jamesmaniscalco 6y ago
If you run the random process many times and then look at a histogram of the vector of outputs, the distribution peaks somewhat higher than 2 [0], but the output of the random process does not tend towards any particular number or sequence
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by jamesmaniscalco 6y ago
I'm not sure if you are being ironic, but this is actually a common misuse of the phrase "begging the question": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question Noting of course that it's probabl
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by jamesmaniscalco 6y ago
As far as I can tell, textbook publishers practice price discrimination so that they can sell less expensive versions of the same book in markets where profit is maximized at a different price. Retailers are only permitted to sell the appro
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by jamesmaniscalco 6y ago
No, the electron has the lowest mass of all charged particles.
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by jamesmaniscalco 6y ago
Interesting, thanks. Do you recommend Gitlab over Github because of the built-in CI/CD?
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Ask HN: When do you containerize new projects?
7 points by jamesmaniscalco 6y ago|4 comments
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by jamesmaniscalco 8y ago
I'm not sure if the cost of flights would really go up that much. Just to play with some numbers, let's consider a pilot with a salary of an astronomical $1,000,000/yr who flies transatlantic flights on wide-body jets (300 o
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by jamesmaniscalco 9y ago
I think this is the wrong interpretation; your answer would be correct if the rope were hovering at a height of 10 km along the full length. My interpretation is that the rope is pulled taut to a height of 10 km at a single point, so that i
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by jamesmaniscalco 11y ago
So if you look at the waveform of the signal, there are in fact smaller ripples after the main event. However, how long these ripples take to settle afterwards to equilibrium is related to how quickly the waves propagate. In the case of rip
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by jamesmaniscalco 11y ago
Source, please?
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by jamesmaniscalco 12y ago
Yup! This one's been around for a while: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-accidentally
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by jamesmaniscalco 13y ago
Cool, but the math seems wrong. For example, why does 27+27 make 81?
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by jamesmaniscalco 13y ago
Also, subtracting 2 from each of those numbers produces a similar pattern: 2 - 2 = 0 2 - 2 = 0 4 - 2 = 2 10 - 2 = 8 = 2 * 4 98 - 2 = 96 = 8 * 12 10178 - 2 = 10176 = 96 * 106 105687938 - 2 = 105687936 = 10176 * 10386
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by jamesmaniscalco 13y ago
Trying to figure out a mathematical representation of this sequence... I noticed that different patterns emerge when you subtract 1 from each value in the sequence. From there we get: 0 1 2 4 16 160 15680 159591040 16866847940875520 Each (