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by pndmnm 14y ago
Ah, I gotcha. Yeah, the question as posed is straightforward, though there's some fun stuff (fixed points of ordinal exponentiation, inaccessibles, etc) floating around in the same neighborhood.
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by pndmnm 14y ago
It's sort of interesting -- there's also no largest natural number, but we can talk about the size of their cardinality. You can't do that with all of the "infinities" since the collection of ordinals doesn't form an ordinal (Burali-Forti)
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by pndmnm 14y ago
There are the same number of whole numbers as there are fractions/rational numbers (my favorite quick proof -- every whole number is a rational number (itself over 1). Map each n/m in lowest terms to 2^n*3^m for an injection of rationals i
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by pndmnm 14y ago
Many sockets have little bent-wire brackets that pop into those holes when the plug is fully inserted in order to help hold it in place.
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by pndmnm 14y ago
Relatedly, there was an in-channel-command bug in Twitter in 2010 that would allow you to force anyone to follow you by tweeting "accept [username]". It was discovered accidentally by a fan of a band named "Accept" tweeting "accept pwnz":
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by pndmnm 14y ago
Nagel's book is a wonderful exposition (three-page-long footnotes aside). In addition to these two, I might recommend Torkel Franzén's book "Gödel's Theorem: An Incomplete Guide to Its Use and Abuse". Some of the content is fairly technic
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by pndmnm 15y ago
Batista is not being downvoted because they're expressing a differing opinion. They're being downvoted because they're not taking the time to fully consider the issues and engage in reasonable debate. As an example, from their first post,
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Why it's hard to explain drug discovery to physicists(wavefunction.fieldofscience.com)
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by pndmnm 15y ago
Right. So why are you wearing your belt (hooked through some fabric loops on your pants) and you're not wearing your phone (resting in a fabric pouch on your pants)?
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by pndmnm 15y ago
Do you wear your belt, or is it just always with you, hooked through some loops on your pants? This isn't meant sarcastically -- the idea of "wearing" something is pretty tied up with the context of the object (e.g. is it "clothing") and le
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by pndmnm 15y ago
Any small portion of the Möbius strip "looks like" a chunk of 2D object, but the entire object cannot be placed directly into 2-space. The surface of a sphere is a similar example.
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by pndmnm 15y ago
I spent a ton of time years ago making molds for some of the hard-to-get plastic parts for an unusual car of mine so that I could produce my own spare parts. Simply being able to print them would be amazing. Of course, many of those parts
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by pndmnm 15y ago
Your definition of "government's duty" is not universally agreed upon, and it's intellectually dishonest to predicate an argument on the presumption that it is.
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by pndmnm 15y ago
Many did -- e.g. the original G4 Towers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Mac_G4 The gray oval in the center of the drive door cover is the load of a class 3 lever that pushes the eject button on a relatively commodity optical drive. I
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by pndmnm 15y ago
This has sort of existed since the '40s, using radiant heat from the bread: http://www.automaticbeyondbelief.org/ I haven't tested this, but you're probably have issues with e.g. dark rye.
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by pndmnm 15y ago
In e.g. physics or chemistry, the sciences are predicated on your ability to reduce problems to simple systems and interactions. In biology most phenomena require a large, complex, highly interactive system, which is difficult to simulate