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by ramchip 16y ago
> Thus, as long as total energy is conserved, there's no problem. Where did the other laws go? > The second issue is that solar heating is due to radiation, not conduction/convection, so there's no heat exchange as such. I don't und
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by ramchip 16y ago
Disclaimer: not a physicist. My intuitive understanding is that, as you heat the absorber, it becomes hotter and hotter, until it reaches the same temperature as the sun's surface. At this point, the absorber (also a blackbody) radiates jus
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by ramchip 16y ago
You could also buy a regular pool heat pump and stick it in your house: http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Pool_20Heat_20Sink
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by ramchip 16y ago
(I think this would be more appropriate on Reddit. I don't mean it in a belittling way, just that there would be more answers and better ranking on Reddit than on HN for this kind of questions.)
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by ramchip 16y ago
According to ( http://www.faqs.org/faqs/electrical-wiring/part1/section-20.... ) and to the wiki article on wire gauges, 40A requires 8-gauge wire, which is 3.264mm in diameter, while 20A is 12-gauge, which is 2.054mm. The ratio of their c
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by ramchip 16y ago
Yes, and it sounds a lot more complicated than ramen. While a box of ramen is a meal by itself (for a sufficiently loose definition of "meal"), you'd have to open a lot of these cans to cook anything, which would require a lot of plastic po
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by ramchip 16y ago
I liked the end of the article: Jeffrey Swartz is President of Daly-Swartz PR (www.dsprel.com). Jeffrey has been involved in PR and marketing communications since 1973 when he was named corporate commmunications director at Frost & Sul
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by ramchip 16y ago
> On a serious note, how is it that the planet has 4 times the mass of Earth but the surface gravity is "the same or slightly higher" than Earth's? It could be bigger than Earth: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=surface+gravity+of+
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by ramchip 16y ago
The grandparent wasn't talking about startups, though: i'm not sure if a company will ever be able to take on Google in search directly
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by ramchip 16y ago
You should befriend emacs' artist-mode as well ;)
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by ramchip 16y ago
I may be missing something here, but aren't you comparing a programming language with an OS?
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by ramchip 16y ago
A good companion to bugmenot. Thanks :)
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by ramchip 16y ago
One of the most underrated elements in design, is simplicity. I don't think it's very underrated anymore.
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by ramchip 16y ago
I'm in Canada and I can't see it without logging in, but it's not a "paywall", just a "registerwall".
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by ramchip 16y ago
> I'm confused here - according to Wikipedia, (coital) prostitution is illegal in Japan. And so is gambling, yet you'll find plenty of pachinko parlours or soaplands/"health salons" announced very explicitly. I believe the main reason i
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by ramchip 16y ago
> as flown of a cliff > I makes it more difficult I suppose you inadvertently illustrated the problem...
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by ramchip 16y ago
I think you're technically right about the difference between the two, but I'm quite sure the author did mean "do good"... more food would obviously be a good thing for Africa.
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by ramchip 16y ago
I'm not sure if that's what you meant, but possibly an explanation to the downvoters: a Ph.D. is a specialization; "specialization in general knowledge" doesn't compute.
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by ramchip 16y ago
Same question was posted a few days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1603562
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by ramchip 16y ago
Aren't you extremely wealthy compared to the average Thai? It sounds interesting for someone in your kind of situation, but there's a lot of assumptions that are not universals: being fairly rich (or having skills worth a lot) off the start
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by ramchip 16y ago
Did you read the post? > I would love for people with enough traffic to make a statistically significant recommendation (i.e. 10K uinques/mo+), to look at their Google Analytics and use that information as their vote. I don't think he w
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by ramchip 16y ago
I actually preferred the square, beige boxes, compared to a lot of the boxes they sell nowadays. It was very sturdy, harder to scratch, didn't look dusty after a couple days, and because of the shape easy to clean, store or transport. Downs
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by ramchip 16y ago
The problem isn't on the client, it's on the server. Using the Chrome plugin would break their apps just as well as using Chrome itself. To test all the web applications currently used by HMG departments can take months at significant pote
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by ramchip 16y ago
Probably these guys: careers@red-gate.com
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by ramchip 16y ago
> Not to mention being an entrepreneur is a sure way to socially kill oneself in japan, this idea is still widely shunned and looked down upon. I suppose we may be talking about a different age group, but I'm in a theatre circle at a Ja
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by ramchip 16y ago
Unrelated to your suggestions, Quebec has a school (CEGEP) between high school and university. I think it's a good idea to give kids some time to think about their choice, and since they have to choose their general orientation (science, et
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by ramchip 16y ago
Why would Excel need to be replaced? It's good software.
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by ramchip 16y ago
Yes, and it is my impression that the downmodding has become very aggressive recently. It's not for rude posts only anymore. Just looking at the above poster: he adds a polite request for explanations to improve his posting, and yet his rep
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by ramchip 16y ago
But he did: The switch statement was optimized to a jump table, while the if statements became a long sequence of compares.
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by ramchip 16y ago
The article mentions that it is the highest-clocked, but I didn't see anything saying that it's not the fastest, too. It has not only the raw clock speed but several cores and a truckload of cache.

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