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by mikorym 7y ago
Electromagnetism concerns movement of what appear to be moving circles. If you roll a circle with a pen marker it draws a sine or cosine curve. If you try to draw the spiral of a light wave you get perpendicular sine and cosine curves. Ligh
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Just by using pesticides and herbicides more precisely you can have a major remedial impact. Many farmers would apply either the wrong pesticide against an insect or at a stage that makes it less effective against its target. However, we ha
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by mikorym 7y ago
Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_number_object
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Ok right, then it makes sense.
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Did anyone notice that nowhere in their keynote address they mentioned macbooks/laptops? Maybe I missed something, but that is crazy to me. Sure they make their money with iPhones, but their macbook lineup is what I am interested to he
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by mikorym 7y ago
It's a joke that is meant to both criticise category theorists and ring theorests (elsewhere on HN someone mentioned these kind of jokes have a name). But I don't think anyone here understood the joke. For a category theorest N an
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by mikorym 7y ago
Personally, I think it stems from HN readers having a chronic inclination to try to be clever (myself included and no judgment intended).
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by mikorym 7y ago
> most That is exactly my point: it is a fashionable trend.
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I do think there is some truth in immunity (I grew up in Limpopo province) but there is also very localised variation in spread of malaria. The area where I am from is in the malaria area, but few people get malaria. My grandmother had mala
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by mikorym 7y ago
Not to be prescriptive, but that is why I don't do the "hip" thing of numbering from 0. The question of whether 0 is a natural number or not, is from a category theorist's point of view, rather quixotic. The category the
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by mikorym 7y ago
I am glad Kasparov and Deep Blue is mentioned here. Kasparov still does active research in chess (and especially computer aided human chess). And all the while I was under the impression that chess had been "solved" in the 90&#x27
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I believe the Eurofighter Typhoon was and still is programmed in Ada.
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I couldn't get past the first few paragraphs. Culling of wild animals by definition has to do with carrying capacity and I would have expected that to be the basic point of discussion.
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Not really on topic here, but I've been trying this for a while and maybe someone can point me in the right direction. What are the preferred synthesisers / synth emulators that one can (or should) install on Linux? My quest is al
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I think "don't try to prove the Riemann hypothesis" is only part of the iceberg that includes "you may want to prefer theory building over problem solving" and "we're not getting any medals here". It&
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by mikorym 7y ago
So maybe with 500 parameters one could do football? 121) Last time player had a happy meal 122) Amount of times drunk at training . . . 499) Hours spent playing FIFA 20 on console 500) Fashionability of latest hairstyle
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by mikorym 7y ago
I think you are right, but I think it's more about people's sentiment. It's like saying in Washington's time people respected politicians. The question is then did people's perception change or did policians change?
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Girlsdoporn.com faces trial for allegedly filming 22 women under false pretenses(arstechnica.com)
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Noprocrast prevents edits directly after submission.
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> it also covers information about organised crime Let's just pause a bit here. In South Africa, if your phone gets stolen and you go to the police, they may well respond with: "Yes we know the guy, but we're not going to
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by mikorym 7y ago
> legally obtained As an aside, you and I both know how easy it is to get an activated sim card... But I agree with you comment; this article is not really "news".
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An engineer working in JHB told me the stolen battery business is a R 1b a year market (15 ZAR = 1 USD; so USD 65m a year) in South Africa so you are probably right.
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by mikorym 7y ago
I think you mean that using USD and ZAR enabled people to start buying products again. They still have and had major inflation; but instead just had a means to buy things again. Exactly quantifying inflation there is a problem due to govern
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by mikorym 7y ago
I don't really understand why the commentors are just contradicting your statement with philosophical notions of ownership. I think your comment is more about the right to self-determination and touches on the topic of what wealth itse
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Not deliberate; I just write things out as I say them and didn't review.
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In South Africa there is the added complication that these taxes don't normalise income inequality—they exarcerbate it. One of the biggest problems is that regulation raises the barrier to entry and creats a situation where the "e
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Excel is to me basically a sequel database broken in a few key ways. And some people (a lot of...?) like it that way.
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by mikorym 7y ago
TL;DR: vlookup : (value to lookup, column to search, numbered column from the left, yes/no use range) xlookup : (value to lookup, array to search, value to return array) You can also replace hlookup with xlookup . Two optional arg
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by mikorym 7y ago
I didn't use Dropbox in this way (and I realise actually I should use symlinks more) but why would they change this behaviour?
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by mikorym 7y ago
I remember having had problems with exFAT on linux. Did it not work at all, or did you have to use user repos to get exFAT working?

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