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by kmm 7y ago
I find it curious that you got downvoted. I'm European as well and I have had the same question for a while. We have far-right, nationalist parties and even more extreme fringe groups, but no threat of secret Nazis. Maybe it's bec
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by kmm 7y ago
"They're having a great time" The accord with the verb is still as if it's a plural pronoun. Just like with "you" which technically also used to be plural, doesn't take the old singular second person forms
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by kmm 7y ago
Is there a reason disc parking is not practiced in the US? Seems a lot less work than marking tires or keeping track of license plates. Are there any legal or other issues with it?
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by kmm 7y ago
It can approximate any function, not just continuous ones. It's just that every approximation will be continuous, but pointwise they will converge
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by kmm 8y ago
I'm supposed to get my master's degree in physics this summer (only a thesis remains), and this thread is not doing me any good. Good thing I can program, I guess.
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by kmm 8y ago
Well in a sense yes. The distance between the two protons decreases at almost exactly twice the speed of light, as seen from the rest-frame of the detector. That's not a violation of relativity as there is no physical object or informa
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by kmm 8y ago
When I stopped taking Venlafaxine (Effexor), the side-effects were immensely unpleasant. Brain zaps, panic attacks, hypersensitivity to light, barely any cognitive function. My psychiatrist was a sweet lady, but she did not appear to unders
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by kmm 8y ago
Sadly, the tolerances are as inhumanly small as they stated. The intuition is that the fractional change in orbital period will equal the fractional change in orbital speed (times 3, but we're only interested in orders of magnitude). T
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by kmm 8y ago
I understand how branding and marketing could drive the price of frames up, but I've never understood why the lenses themselves are so expensive. The tolerances are not very high, and there must be a massive economy of scale. The artic
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by kmm 8y ago
Or send a chunk of metal at near light speed. Things in space move very predictably for thousands of years, and as the projectile only barely trails the signal of its departure, it would come as a total surprise even for very advanced civil
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by kmm 8y ago
It probably does, giving a small contribution to the "atmosphere" of the moon. A cubic centimeter of lunar atmosphere contains about 10^6 particles (compared to 10^19 on Earth), and according to the article, the Earth's geoco
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by kmm 8y ago
Makes me think of DNP, a substance which acts to dissipate the protein gradient in our mitochondria, wasting the energy that the mitochondrion would otherwise use to make ATP. The wasted energy is turned into heat, giving its users an eleva
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by kmm 8y ago
Amazing picture. That crater on Thule, the smaller one, is curious, the impact should have obliterated it. Maybe it's not a crater but a depression left over from when it was attached to Ultima in a different place, before it rolled in
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by kmm 8y ago
What an unnecessarily divisive post. Science is not antithetical to philosophy, and physicists and philosophers aren't two different camps. As someone with an education in physics, I had a physics professor who also wrote lovely articl
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by kmm 8y ago
There's a lovely photo of scientists manually painting the scan lines coming in from Mariner 4, like a paint by numbers picture https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1...
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by kmm 8y ago
It's not zero-sum, the carbon taken out of the atmosphere in the form of CO2 to make the feed is partly put back in the form of methane, which is a stronger greenhouse gas than CO2. This means a cow is a net greenhouse gas producer. Th
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by kmm 8y ago
A cow release on the order of 100 kg of methane per year. Natural gas costs about 1 dollar per 2 kg of methane. I don't know how hard methane extraction is from air with ppm concentrations of it, but could it be done for less than abou
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by kmm 8y ago
There are enzymes in cells called proteasomes that degrade intracellular proteins that are damaged, not needed anymore or just old and ready to be replaced. The rest products are peptides, short chains of amino acids, some of which become b
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by kmm 8y ago
I can just barely feel the difference of temperature of one degree Celsius. I really don't feel multiplying that by 1.8 will make a big difference in how good a scale it is for humans.
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by kmm 8y ago
The concept of a damaged metabolism doesn't make sense. Your body doesn't waste energy for the hell of it, there is not even a dial for the metabolism to change. Your organs just perform their functions using energy in the process
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by kmm 8y ago
How are those times not arbitrary? Midday is not the middle of the day if you don't wake up at 4 o clock, 14:00 or 14:30 is about the middle of the day. We could shift the hours for work and life, such that it'd be normal to wake
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by kmm 8y ago
A few TLDs have A records, like ai. or dk. http://ai . http://dk .
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by kmm 8y ago
Another neat example is that 98% of the world's population lives in a country larger than the median. A more interesting deduction is that humanity is probably atypical, and larger than the average extraterrestrial civilization. Any se
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by kmm 8y ago
I'm curious to know, what is the point of linking to solar time? What advantage is there to the Sun reaching its highest point at 12 'o clock? Most people are awake for about 6 hours before noon, and about 10 hours after. Most soc
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by kmm 8y ago
In no state is the minimum wage the employee takes home lower than $7.25 an hour. The employer can pay them less only if the tips make up the difference, down to $2.13(!) an hour. Of course, most waiters and servers end up making quite a bi
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by kmm 8y ago
Mohammed, the people who told the story of Ali Baba and the ancient Jews all spoke Semitic languages. As with a lot of metaphors, it might have come with the language. Like how early Indo-European cultures had patrilocality and sky gods
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by kmm 8y ago
Interesting. During my BSc in physics, I did some experiments with single turn coils, and they certainly formed plasma. One of the most interesting phenomena we noticed was plasma conduction, where the metal vapor of which the coil previous
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by kmm 8y ago
The applications lie not in the magnetic field directly, but its usage in research, allowing us to develop better technologies. By knowing how a material or structure behaves in such gigantic fields, we develop a better understanding of it,
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by kmm 8y ago
Magnetic fields are generated by currents, not by changing currents. The current only needs to rise that fast to outpace the imminent destruction of the coil from resistive heating.
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by kmm 8y ago
I have similar complaints and no optometrist has been of help. It's really annoying at night, or simply when watching TV, the subtitles are always subtly doubled. I did get a corneal topography scan a few years ago, and they ruled out

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