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by rquantz 12y ago
The linked Wikipedia page addresses turning the loop on and off. In fact, it can't be run continuously because it would overheat. Edit: actually, I may be mistaken. Here is one of the relevant passages: "When at rest, the loop is
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I never have understood why the space elevator gets so much attention, and the launch loop is almost unknown. The elevator obviously had some high-profile proponents (like Arthur C. Clarke), but given how realistic the launch loop seems (on
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Browsers change a lot in three years. I'm sure there will be plenty of bugs introduced as they evolve.
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Yes, it's pretty incredible. And try to imagine if a foreign power forced down air force 1 and boarded the plane. That would be an act of war.
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Can Ebola spread on public transit? No(well.blogs.nytimes.com)
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I can do one better. I went to a job fair type event with one of the cofounders of the company, and I was pushing a very qualified woman we met there. The cofounder told me, with a very thoughtful look on his face, "I'm not sexist
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Haha, working musicians are hardly upper class. Intelligentsia, maybe.
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3) Soda is available everywhere and is the de-facto drink with most meals. I don't remember the last meal I ate with adults where people ordered soda. It may be that every once in a while I'll be around a recovering alcoholic wh
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Let's not get ahead of ourselves here. I'm pretty sure XKCD is part of the job description.
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In fact, beaming makes the difference between 3/4 and 6/8 clear. But even if it didn't, you can't divorce the cultural object from it's notation. Once you're trained, traditional music notation is pretty optima
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I actually don't think we completely disagree here. First, I definitely didn't intend the parallels with math to extend any further than the problems of perception with regard to how they are taught versus how they are practiced b
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They analyze lots of music and try to make connections within and between them, using a wide variety of analytical techniques. If you're actually asking and not being sarcastic, the sibling post links to several journals that will give
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To those of you claiming either that "this is not a theory of music" or "yes, this is exactly what people mean when they say music theory," you are both right and both wrong. The content of these cheat sheets describes w
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It's unfortunate that the label 'music theory' has become associated with this basic stuff Only in the way that the label mathematics has become associated with arithmetic. The stuff here is what you need to know in order t
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Here's what startup employees hate the most about their jobs(slate.com)
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New Yorkers are already paying for Idaho, and every other backwards, poor, uneducated, unpopulated state. And we talk about leaving the Union all the time, but that isn't why. It's because those same backwards, poor, uneducated,
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I got the same thing. Amazing.
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I can't tell you how many times I've wanted something like this. The pain of writing and testing html email is pretty huge, and the only people doing an even halfway decent job with them seem to be the proprietary email campaign c
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Yes, It Could Happen Again(theatlantic.com)
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It's partly because of that sound that musicians have to actually turn their phones off during recording. If you're too close to the board that clicking gets picked up.
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The vast majority of NPR's funding comes from member stations.
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This is a great example of what I'm talking about. He even claims to be based on science! But where are the studies this program is based on? I'm betting they are mostly studying untrained individuals for about 10 weeks with low s
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bcbrown covered this pretty well in their response to your comment, but I just wanted to reinforce: it's well established that doing almost anything will show improvements for untrained people. So this study, like most studies, doesn&#
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Part of the problem with this study is the same as that seen in most studies in exercise science -- they only study untrained participants and last, say, 10 weeks (or 8, in this case) And then there are the tiny tiny sample sizes (14 indivi
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You could still have finance without interest. It would consist of lending money at interest based on a subjective estimation of the debtor's ability to repay. Like it used to be. Insurance is harder to imagine...
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I don't know the answer to that. But this is just another in a long line of theories about the shadows in the photos and videos from the lunar surface, all of which are based on ignorance of how photographs work and how three-dimension
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Why bother? People who believe that one of the most documented events in human history, in which 100s of thousands of people took part, was a hoax are not going to be convinced by refutation of the supposed "evidence" they bring f
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The Right Stuff is an entertaining movie, but beware that it plays fast and loose with a lot of facts, and also does a great disservice in its depiction of the beloved and respected Gus Grissom, who was killed in the Apollo 1 fire and was m
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That's one of the problems with religiosity: you can't imagine a way to find meaning in the world without fooling yourself.
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You may be right. I chose alcoholic because suggesting they try drinking to solve one problem will cause other problems for them. If I were to try attending church in order to make myself happy, I would find myself 1) tortured by the inanit

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