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by joshdick 13y ago
Yeah, that seems to violate the goal of the avalanche effect. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avalanche_effect
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by joshdick 13y ago
It's because the other part of their business, media and advertising, loses money, as the article states. If you make $168M from subscriptions and lose $5M from media, then subscriptions account for about 103% of your profits (168/(168-5)).
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by joshdick 14y ago
So what if DEA can't decrypt it? The real question is: Can the NSA decrypt it?
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by joshdick 14y ago
That didn't end up well for the last guy who tried it ...
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by joshdick 14y ago
Or you know, maybe many readers of the Times want to support the great journalism that the paper produces, since they realize that without their subscriptions, the paper could not exist in its current form.
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by joshdick 14y ago
I wish I could give you a link to one of Prof. Hicks's published papers on the topic, but I'm having trouble finding one that isn't behind a paywall. This seems like a nice introduction: http://www.math.drexel.edu/~ahicks/papers/physics-to
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by joshdick 14y ago
For those interested in learning more about this, including the math behind the mirror's curve, check out Prof. Hicks's website: http://www.math.drexel.edu/~ahicks/
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by joshdick 14y ago
No, it is not two mirrors. What Prof. Hicks made is a single mirror. The linked article explicitly says this.
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by joshdick 14y ago
No, that link is for 2 mirrors. What Prof. Hicks made is a single curved mirror. That is new. That is why his results got published and he was awarded a patent for it. If you had bothered to read the linked article, you'd already understand
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by joshdick 14y ago
No, that is not what Prof. Hicks made. His mirror is a single curved piece. Source: I am a former undergrad research assistant of his.
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by joshdick 14y ago
The U.S. looks bad compared to other countries because we have more poor children than they do. If you compare our middle-class and upper-class children to theirs, we look a lot better. The U.S. does not have an education problem; it has a
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by joshdick 14y ago
Of course Mathematica is good at succinctly expressing mathematical functions. I'd like to see how much Mathematica code it'd take to write a compiler or web server.