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by jbay808 5y ago
An excited state isn't a barrier, it's a state with a higher energy than ground state. Several non-ground-state orbitals have a wavefunction whose amplitude drops to zero toward the centre. An electron won't tunnel to a locat
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by jbay808 5y ago
Could we keep it perpetually in an excited state that has no amplitude at the centre?
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by jbay808 5y ago
> What's changed: automation creating value automatically, different from rent-seeking. In today's inflation-targeting macroeconomic framework, automation causes a decrease in the price of goods and labour, which would have a d
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by jbay808 5y ago
They're carefully trying to change ownership of the hot potatoes so that as many of them are in foreign hands as possible. If Evergrande defaults, foreign bondholders will claim their collateral. So instead, for example, they have stat
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by jbay808 5y ago
> inflation... shrinks debts Generally interest rates negotiated between lender and borrower take expected (or even actual) inflation into account, so that only works when inflation runs well above expectations, or interest rates are art
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by jbay808 5y ago
CBDCs and cryptocurrencies have virtually nothing in common.
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by jbay808 5y ago
> There's a pretty big difference between the introduction of a CBDC (essentially just a government bank account + debit card) and the deprecation of cash such that the CBDC is the ONLY way you can transact. It seems perfectly obvio
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by jbay808 5y ago
It's no coincidence that it's coming up at a time when interest rates hit zero.
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by jbay808 5y ago
In addition, if the CBDC replaces cash, there might not be a way to avoid the central bank taking your money. This is how they could implement negative interest rates, which could be used to prop up asset values.
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by jbay808 5y ago
Also, any new debts being created will tend to price in the inflation with a higher interest rate.
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by jbay808 5y ago
You don't have to google it. First of all, "pad" is not illogical, and it's arguably a more familiar word to non-native speakers than "extrude". Secondly, the tool's icon looks just like an extruded cube,
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by jbay808 5y ago
> $500 smartphone today would have cost tens of thousands of dollars only a few years ago, if it were even possible to manufacture then Would you have spent ten thousand dollars on such a phone a few years ago? I wouldn't have. I
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by jbay808 5y ago
> It's not the returns to investment that are changing How so? Quantitative easing controls the yield on bonds, and stock prices adjust accordingly to keep their yields consistent with the bond yield + risk premium. We've seen
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by jbay808 5y ago
For most of the '60s, inflation was below 2%, while interest rates were 3 to 5%. Inflation started picking up north of 3% in 1967, and interest rates climbed along with it, to 8%. High interest rates (especially above inflation) create
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by jbay808 5y ago
A fix is in progress -- developer realthunder has submitted a patch last year to solve the topological naming problem, and you can try it in their development branch.
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by jbay808 5y ago
Extruding a square is exactly the same as SolidWorks though? You sketch a square on any plane, then extrude it (they call it the "pad" tool instead of "extrude" but otherwise it's identical). I think the only thing
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by jbay808 5y ago
There's lots of great tools there! The RealThunder development branch fixes one of FreeCAD's main weaknesses -- the topological naming problem, and is worth checking out as well.
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by jbay808 5y ago
> Consider: not working for an unethical company. You mean one of the companies Amazon is driving out of business? For some reason they aren't hiring.
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by jbay808 5y ago
I keep growing more impressed by FreeCAD. At the moment some of the most critical usability improvements are still in development branches though.
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by jbay808 5y ago
Unfortunately, this also brings back anything you deliberately erased, which might still render some writing unreadable!
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by jbay808 5y ago
Did you call on Americans to leave the US during the war in Iraq?
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by jbay808 5y ago
Oh interesting. Like the Netherlands.
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by jbay808 5y ago
It would be really annoying if my cat could wipe my hard drive just by walking on the keyboard when I'm in the bathroom.
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by jbay808 5y ago
Good point. It can be a tough habit to break, because it seems to occupy the same part of my brain as "the UK".
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by jbay808 5y ago
It's a Lumix DC-GF9.
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by jbay808 5y ago
> AFAICT, regular cameras with vastly bigger apertures, which should be able to take better photos, in fact are generally much worse until you get into huge bulky DSLRs. Why? Are you sure about this? The last point-and-shoot camera I own
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by jbay808 5y ago
> reflective layers behind the sensor Reminds me of this surprising little tidbit from E. T. Jaynes' 1991 paper "Theory of Radar Target Discrimination" ( https://bayes.wustl.edu/etj/articles/craddi
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by jbay808 5y ago
> guerrilla wars to expel an invading power that hasn't been successful Palestine?
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by jbay808 5y ago
I just don't understand why you think this matters. Even if the relative permeability were as high as, say, 2 , it would only move the 500 uT effect radius by some tens of centimetres. But just from common sense, it must be several or
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by jbay808 5y ago
I'm pretty sure that's due to saltwater's conductivity, not any EMF considerations. Conductivity will result in some partial cancellation of the AC magnetic field. But not enough to matter at 60 Hz, which is within the Extrem

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