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by kmm 8y ago
Does this affect the research itself, or only the presentation of it?
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by kmm 8y ago
In my experience, 0-based indexing is way more common in mathematics. Maybe it depends on the field you're working in. Off the top of my head, dimensions are numbered from zero in relativity and particle physics, Fourier series only ma
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by kmm 8y ago
Similarly, the birds called redbreasts, whose chests are orange as well
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by kmm 8y ago
I was really happy to see it got rewritten in JS as well, because Java applets are a pain (or just plain impossible). Sadly, the JS version is also a lot slower, I don't know how that could have gotten prevented
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by kmm 8y ago
And why is not everybody driving around in a Lamborghini or an Audi R8 right now? Tesla cars aren't more affordable
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by kmm 8y ago
"kuiken" is Dutch for a chick, a young chicken (curious that in English, the form with the diminutive became the one used for the adult), whilst "kieken" is dialectical Dutch for "chicken". "kieken" a
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by kmm 8y ago
And quite in quite a few dialects you'd say "eiers" and "kinders", which is exactly the other kind of "double plural".
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by kmm 8y ago
Curiously, Kinder and children are completely unrelated. Child comes from the Proto-Germanic kelþaz which further came from the Proto-Indo-European stem gel-. On the other hand, "Kind" comes from Proto-Germanic kinþa, which comes
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by kmm 8y ago
Religion isn't unquestionable, doubt is a key to faith. There's an entire academic discipline devoted to critically studying the divine, theology. That is not an excuse for avoiding and denying any insight into creation or trying
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by kmm 8y ago
You misunderstand the Casimir effect. It's a relativistic analogue of the van der Waals interaction, with a very curious alternative derivation from zero point energies. It is not free/negative energy, it is not free momentum, it
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by kmm 8y ago
Did they openly state that as their goal? Because all Li-on batteries in the world can power the US for about an hour. EDIT: Can anyone of the downvoters please explain what I said wrong? Are we expecting a ten thousandfold increase in batt
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by kmm 8y ago
The article says that a cow produces about 100 kg of methane a year. At 0.7 kg/m^3, that's about 142 cubic meters of gas per year. Natural gas costs a few dollars per thousand cubic meters... So even without going into efficiency
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by kmm 8y ago
It's not about (justified) revenge, it's about security. 1500's Spain was as dangerous to the natives of the Americas as the Romans were to the Carthaginians 2000 years earlier. If some society didn't have qualms with at
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by kmm 8y ago
Doesn't work on Chrome 66 due to recent policy changes with regard to autoplay https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/09/autoplay-p... I checked it out in Firefox. Very neat :)
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by kmm 8y ago
If not by actual fuses, how is it implemented? There has to be some sort of physical change for it to survive without power indefinitely
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by kmm 9y ago
> If it is the tire that makes the noise, it is no surprise that there is a Doppler shift. Unless you're slipping, the point of contact between the tire and the road is always standing still with respect to you
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by kmm 9y ago
I don't see how insulin leading to fat storage changes anything about the caloric balance. Insulin promotes fat storage because it's a signal glucose is available in the blood, and the body prefers glucose over fat. So much so tha
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by kmm 9y ago
Can you source that? Because as far as I can tell, de novo lipogenesis is a relatively rare process, exactly because our body prefers to just store the fat in the blood as fat. Sugar is burned preferentially, and only when your carb intake
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by kmm 9y ago
But tellingly, virtually only in the US. Other common law countries which had it, abolished it for being unconstitutional. In any case, calling the (lawful) killing of a kid by the police a murder by an accomplice, is making a mockery of th
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by kmm 9y ago
Comparisons with language of the same family. If practically all modern Germanic languages use an /a/ in the word for "name", it will probably have been an /a/ as well in English. This is more or less the centr
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by kmm 9y ago
http://www.falstad.com/circuit/ It used to be a Java applet, now rewritten in JavaScript. Sadly, the Java version vastly outperforms the JS one, at least on my machine, but Java applets are annoying to run nowadays
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by kmm 9y ago
Loanwords often don't break pronunciation rules in English either. Vladimir, prosciutto, croissant are all pronounced as if they were English words by everyone but the most pedantic, and they sound very different in their origin langua
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by kmm 9y ago
You need to eat. You need to leave the house. You need to use some form of motorized transport to partake in society. You don't need to have sex. Abstinence is a form of birth control as much as being bald is a hairstyle.
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by kmm 9y ago
Maybe it's been taken down because it reeks of bad linguistics and bad anthropology. Not to mention the obvious that being good at counting doesn't make one good at academic subjects. I studied math and didn't see a number la
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by kmm 9y ago
Funny story, AT&T claims copyright on this empty file. Every time you use a blank line in your program, you're violating their copyright http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/humor/ATT_Copyright_true.html
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by kmm 9y ago
I think "his late 80's" seems more likely. The GP post mentions his grandfather fighting in the Boer War (~1900) which would make him almost 110 years old in the late 80's
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by kmm 9y ago
The difference with the past is that the sun is slowly getting hotter. Increasing the incoming solar power by a mere 10% would be enough to tip the climate into a runaway process that will boil the oceans and scour the surface. Our Earth on
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by kmm 9y ago
Shouldn't simple linear movement of a scene still compress really well?
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by kmm 9y ago
The relevant statistic is fatalities per billion vehicle-kilometers, which attempts to even out that discrepancy, and leads to the same conclusion. Using this metric, the US still has twice the fatality rate than the UK. > In the EU it&#
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by kmm 9y ago
Canadian wait times are a bit of an aberration according to a recent survey[0]. According to the same survey, which also includes other developed countries, the US isn't doing better at all on other fields, and significantly worse on t

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