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by kmm 7y ago
The words weather and whether are only rarely mixed up naturally, in contrast to apostrophes. And even if they were, why not? The pronunciations have already merged, the only reason they're still distinct is because of the immense hist
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by kmm 7y ago
> [...] Two test particles with the same initial position and velocity, but different electric charges, can behave quite differently in the same electric field. > One possible response is to say “oh, maybe our notion of force should r
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by kmm 7y ago
Given the high statistical confidence they have, 7.2 sigma or 1 in 2 trillion, it's more likely to be some sort of systemic issue with the experimental setup.
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by kmm 7y ago
I get sad and frustrated when I get downvoted, even though I'm (pseudo-)anonymous. It's completely irrational, and I'm a bit ashamed for it, yet it's gotten to a point where I basically just don't bother anymore wit
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by kmm 7y ago
I had Latin in high school. While I liked reading the stories and deciphering the verbs and case systems, I didn't see what the point of it was. I was assured I'd understand later, with some spiel about how it's a great liter
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by kmm 7y ago
Lithuanian is very conservative in some aspects, and very progressive in others. For example, it has lost the neutral gender and it has innovated some cases that didn't exist in PIE. There is no scientific, consistent way to call it as
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by kmm 7y ago
Because they are electrically neutral, there is no direct interaction between photons, which is good, because it allows us to see each other even when there is light coming from all directions. At low energies, that's the end of the st
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by kmm 7y ago
Attention to detail would be noticing that that is exactly what they state in their last paragraph. What's the point of linking to the FDA definition anyway? Apart from it obviously being a result of lobbying, it's completely irre
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by kmm 7y ago
I'm a little surprised this isn't illegal, and it really should be. It's irrelevant whether or not this actually would work, it's in principle immoral.
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by kmm 7y ago
But that's just DST with extra steps.
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by kmm 7y ago
He probably saw the first result incorrectly, opticians almost exclusively use negative cylinders, it seems incredibly unlikely that he would both stumble upon a rare exception using positive cylinders, and that she'd coincidentally ge
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by kmm 7y ago
If you don't want to listen, I can't force you, but what's the point of poisoning the discussion so the people who do want to listen, like me, don't get a chance to? How can you even say their viewpoints are "shit&q
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by kmm 7y ago
I'm personally very worried about sentiments like the one you express. The smug complete dismissal of another's viewpoints, complete refusal to even just listen, generalizing over all people with the same ideas... Opinions like be
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by kmm 7y ago
If anyone is interested in a proof, I think this works: The slowest car will with probability 1 be the first car in its own clump. The second slowest car will be the first car in a clump if it is in front of the slowest car. This happens wi
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by kmm 7y ago
I want to say this without any implied sneering or arrogance, I am sure keeping a site like Reddit up must be monumentally hard and I don't think I could do a better job at all, but isn't it down quite often compared to other site
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by kmm 7y ago
I always forget how close space is. The ISS is only 400 km up, they actually only see 3% of the Earth's surface.
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by kmm 7y ago
I think you might have mistaken the Earth's mass in kg with the gravitational binding energy. That last one is 2.5e32 J. So about a millionth of the neutron sugar cube.
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by kmm 7y ago
With the confining pressure of gravity gone, it would instantly and violently expand. The intense 10^32 pascals of degeneracy pressure drop quickly with expansion, but even just assuming it can expand 5 ml at that pressure, the energy relea
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by kmm 7y ago
Maybe because of cinnabar https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinnabar
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by kmm 7y ago
At least for continuous statistics, the p-value is uniformly distributed when the null hypothesis is true.
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by kmm 7y ago
It has been computed for at least 10^16 steps, and it sure does look drunk, but sadly that does not constitute a proof. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mertens_function
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by kmm 7y ago
Your state changes from two numbers to one number, such a transition is of course not going to be bijective unless carefully designed. In physics most states stay the same "shape", making invertibility easier to achieve.
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by kmm 7y ago
Correct. Consider an initially stationary sail. Even though this isn't physically what is happening, you can imagine the reflection from the point of view of the sail as a photon getting absorbed and a photon of exactly the same freque
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by kmm 7y ago
The flowers can also be cut as if they're bushes, making it a reasonably hypothesis that the bushes serve to make the tile "cuttable", and the flowers then just change the look. I too enjoy the traces of development decisions
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by kmm 7y ago
There is no incompatibility between orthodox quantum mechanics and Bohmian mechanics, the latter makes exactly the same predictions as the former. As does any other interpretation of quantum mechanics. That's why they're called in
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by kmm 7y ago
I don't think it's anywhere illegal if not used for revenge porn or harassment.
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by kmm 7y ago
Private "personal use". Creepy, but not harassing if it never leaves the user's computer. Celebrity fakes have existed for decades, it's very possible I'm naive, but I assumed it was for, uh, fantasy aides.
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by kmm 7y ago
Its use with an unspecified antecedent is centuries old, but usage for specific persons is not. Time will tell whether it'll catch on.
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by kmm 7y ago
That sounds like a recipe for mysterious breakages and subtle inconsistencies. And most importantly you can never develop a feel for the language if there are no clear idiomatic ways to solve some problems. There needn't be one true wa
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by kmm 7y ago
That is how an earlier trillion FPS camera worked, but in this case they do capture a handful of frames of a single event at a 100 femtosecond resolution. https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevL

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