kamagmar

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NYC and Microsoft Unveil New Law Enforcement Technology(mikebloomberg.com)
1 points by kamagmar 14y ago|0 comments
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by kamagmar 14y ago
> the first fundamental particle observed since the quarks in the 1980's A minor correction -- the tau neutrino wasn't discovered until 2000.
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When scientists become hedge fund managers(ftalphaville.ft.com)
13 points by kamagmar 14y ago|5 comments
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by kamagmar 15y ago
He didn't intentionally upload code to Germany. He uploaded to xp-dev.com, and the server happened to be in Germany.
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A map of the Tricki (math tips & tricks)(tricki.org)
3 points by kamagmar 15y ago|0 comments
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by kamagmar 15y ago
According to this: http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/big-shift-for-gas-guz... we exported $37.1B worth of vacuum tubes last year. I could be wrong but that amount seems wildly implausible. Could the category actually be "Vacuum tubes
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by kamagmar 15y ago
Just to be clear: what they've ruled out is the Standard Model version of the Higgs boson. There are actually many possible kinds of Higgs bosons, the SM version being the simplest.
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Pssst ... Wanna Buy a Law?(businessweek.com)
4 points by kamagmar 15y ago|0 comments
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by kamagmar 15y ago
Reminds me of this article on how hard it is to convince companies to use static analysis: http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2010/2/69354-a-few-billion-lin...
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by kamagmar 15y ago
Mangosteens may be legally imported to the US from SE Asia if irradiated. They may also be imported from Puerto Rico. The Chicago fois gras ban ended in 2008.
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by kamagmar 15y ago
> it's possible there are actually meth-heads who are also into identity theft Not just possible, it's actually quite common, and has been for awhile. For example, see this article from 2004: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4460349/
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by kamagmar 15y ago
I believe the main RS discovery channel is looking for a p pbar -> graviton -> e+ e- resonance, where p is a parton (i.e., quark or gluon).
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by kamagmar 15y ago
Standard gravitons are already constrained to be almost massless, so i'm guessing the article is referring to Randall-Sundrum type massive gravitons in 5D.
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by kamagmar 15y ago
> FYI there is no such thing as a "kind of" or "selective" default. Yes there is. If this plan goes through, S&P will downgrade Greece's credit rating from CCC to SD ("selective default").
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by kamagmar 15y ago
I thought enterprise value was market cap plus debt?
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by kamagmar 15y ago
The title goes a bit too far. The new experiment doesn't rule out the Holographic Principle, it rules out Craig Hogan's model, which was inspired by the Principle.
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by kamagmar 15y ago
> Business owners who take a loss are defined by the government as living in poverty. The poverty line sets a minimum level of consumption. These people are consuming above that threshold, so i don't think the government counts them as
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by kamagmar 15y ago
I took a look at the data you cite in your blog post. You seem to imply people earning < $5k/yr receive on average ~$20k in welfare. However, in the BLS Expenditure Survey you used to create the figure, under the section marked "Sources
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by kamagmar 15y ago
> UTC (which is an arbitrary human invention) Hmm, i wouldn't call it totally arbitrary. UTC = TAI + LS, such that |UTC - UT1| < 1 second, where: * LS are leap seconds, * TAI is "physicist" time, based on the ticking of atomic clock
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A currency trader’s take on Bitcoin(ftalphaville.ft.com)
2 points by kamagmar 15y ago|0 comments
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by kamagmar 15y ago
We should get rid of the penny and the nickel, and then issue 10, 20, 50, 100, and 200 cent coins.