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by kbutler 7y ago
Centrifugal and coriolis pseudo forces cause objects to act strangely in rotating frames. Also, in small-diameter rotations, the tidal forces can be very noticeable (differential acceleration on different parts of an object).
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by kbutler 7y ago
I'd be interested in opposing views, as there must be some, judging by the reaction, but the above seems very apparent to me - I don't see why people would disagree or consider it controversial. Sanders wants to tax high earners
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by kbutler 7y ago
But in Sanders' case 1) it isn't his money (and no, that money doesn't just appear because he wants to spend it), and 2) it sets the expectation of future cancellations, promoting excessive borrowing (moral hazard).
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by kbutler 7y ago
Well, actually, it isn't orbiting just around the center of mass of the solar system (solar system barycenter), but that is just one of the two foci of the earth's elliptical orbit. The error is of a similar magnitude as assuming
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by kbutler 7y ago
The GPL is not compatible with Apple's App Store restrictions, so giving away your source code is not sufficient to comply with the GPL. "The primary problem is that Apple imposes numerous legal restrictions on use and distributio
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by kbutler 7y ago
Is it reasonable to expect people to buy a commercial license if releasing a free app to a commercial app store? Probably depends on the reasonable(?) license fee.
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by kbutler 7y ago
Pons, Fleischman and the university blew it, on both the science (didn't measure neutrons, which are the signature of fusion) and the press (pumped the hype without the science). Jones was much more reserved, and discussed with the pre
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by kbutler 7y ago
Woops, yes, transposed when I was trying to determine when it may have been introduced. archive.org has only "red on" (archive since 2015, though the article is dated September 2003). google books finds a 2016 book with this artic
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by kbutler 7y ago
Not every instance: next context exterior exhaustion exploded FedEx
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by kbutler 7y ago
I love that they claim completely unspecified "health benefits" of -ORP (but "not on the scale of molecular hydrogen) while deriding the previous claims of also unspecified "health benefits" from pH of water (high p
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by kbutler 7y ago
You're in good company. Fear of public speaking is (one of?) the most common phobia(s). For one example, Warren Buffett was terrified of it - and took specific steps to overcome it, including taking the Dale Carnegie course on public
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by kbutler 7y ago
The first conference I attended, I presented in the last time slot of the final afternoon...in Hawaii. Fortunately I had presented other sessions on previous days, so I had something to compare it to.
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by kbutler 7y ago
When reading in bright sunlight, the white paper can be excessively bright, and yes, I've wished for a dark page. I agree that it is about matching the brightness of the monitor with the background.
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by kbutler 7y ago
But being profitable means that at least someone is willing to pay you to do the thing. Note that there can be market distortions that either cause profitablity where it wouldn't otherwise be (e.g., government mandates) or prevent full
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by kbutler 7y ago
"Ball for warmth" doesn't explain the swarming of bees in warm weather (around a queen dividing the hive). But bees will also use the large cluster heat effect to kill predatory hornets: https://www.livescience.co
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by kbutler 7y ago
Digging a little deeper into Google N-Grams was enlightening in a different way: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=nerd%2Cnerds&y... There are lots of "nerd" occurrences before 1950! However,
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by kbutler 7y ago
Interesting stats on the battery replacement, but if my family/youth groups/etc. routinely took 20+ minutes for a gas station bio break, there'd be words. Especially if we had to do it every 150 miles (80-15%).
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by kbutler 7y ago
Intermittent renewable energy like wind also drives cost really low sometimes. This could be an alternative to grid-based storage of electricity. Comparison of capital cost and loss and value of the byproduct would be interesting.
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by kbutler 7y ago
How is the scalability of of the extraction process, both in manufacture and operation of the membrane?
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by kbutler 7y ago
prevalence of sexual abuse in penitentiaries. The reliance on filed complaints appeared to understate the problem. For 2008, for example, the government had previously tallied 935 confirmed instances of sexual abuse. After asking aroun
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by kbutler 7y ago
During 2006–2010, 10,649 deaths of U.S. residents were attributed to weather-related causes of death (Table 2). Exposure to excessive natural heat, heat stroke, sun stroke, or all were cited as either the underlying cause or a contributing
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by kbutler 7y ago
I'm really confused. The face-value perception of the quotes I posted ("'methane time bomb’...is one thing we don't have to worry about" with the link for context) is the actual, correct meaning of the quote and con
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by kbutler 7y ago
Here's the conclusion from the paper itself: The differences between deglacial and modern warming preclude us from unequivocally ruling out the possibility of large-scale natural methane releases to the atmosphere from old carbon reser
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by kbutler 7y ago
Nothing in the abstract or longer explainer contradicts those quotes, whether you consider them "cringey" or not. "The authors show that the 14C methane signature is relatively constant through this abrupt methane rise. They
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by kbutler 7y ago
Why do you find this site convincing? It appears to be small sample set of temperature records taken in growing urban environments.
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by kbutler 7y ago
"the idea of a ‘methane time bomb’ coming from warming sediments and permafrost is one thing we don't have to worry about in connection with global warming," "The researchers believe that soil and marine bacteria that fe
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by kbutler 8y ago
If they didn't build it well, you throw it away, and you're only out what you paid the temporary worker and your code review/acceptance test. The point is this was a well-specified, independent component with an existing func
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by kbutler 8y ago
Crisco still has trans fats/partially hydrogenated oils, just less than .5g per serving, letting them round down to 0g. https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2012/01/09/144918710/th... We d
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by kbutler 8y ago
> The right is also more likely to conflate free speech with some kind of "unchallenge privilege" - the idea that people using their speech to complain about your speech is somehow bad. The giveaway for this is people going on
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by kbutler 8y ago
And the situation in medicine is exposed to additional confounding factors - the placebo effect exists (for both faith healers and doctors) and (at least for doctors) has been getting stronger: https://www.scientificamerican.com&

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