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by scentoni 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_Park
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by scentoni 10y ago
From "Max Dama on Automated Trading": > Work shall set you free The English translation of Arbeit macht frei? Really?
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by scentoni 10y ago
A system that led to women not being allowed to vote until 1991 cannot be considered acceptable, much less perfect.
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ObXKCD: http://xkcd.com/1346/
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The Income Needed to Pay Rent in the Largest U.S. Cities(smartasset.com)
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by scentoni 10y ago
I completely agree. I lost my HP 48 during a move and still mourn it. I bought an HP 41C on eBay to comfort me, because I yearned for the 41 I saw advertised in Scientific American as I was growing up. I loved writing programs in https:&#x
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Ground Carriage, or leaving the landing gear at the airport(en.wikipedia.org)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_embrittlement is caused by hydrogen diffusing through the metal, not by cold. Cold actually slows the diffusion.
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Diamond's electronic and optical properties are far more similar to those of silicon than they are to graphite, graphene, or other forms of carbon. Diamond and silicon are diamond cubic lattices with sp3 hybridization (tetrahedral), gr
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Prince secretly paid for solar panels and teaching kids to code in Oakland(sfgate.com)
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Sonos on the cheap: How Chromecast Audio breathes new life into old speakers(arstechnica.com)
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I wonder how soon until this develops https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_Park
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by scentoni 11y ago
Story moved to www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/04/12/stephen-hawking-wants-to-use-lasers-to-propel-a-tiny-spaceship-to-alpha-centauri
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by scentoni 11y ago
Until we get into discussions of law enforcement officers working on a space station in low Earth orbit.
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Stephen Hawking joins futuristic bid to explore outer space(washingtonpost.com)
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I use ^t because I never use the transpose-chars function.
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USENIX Ending LISA (Special Interest Group for Sysadmins)(usenix.org)
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Wrong, it really does mean that it takes energy input to fuse iron and hydrogen. Naturally existing heavy elements are the result of supernovas, where a percentage of the energy of the dying star is converted to fusing elements beyond iron.
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by scentoni 11y ago
Obviously you've never had to typeset non-trivial mathematical expressions.
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From a followup post "Progress checking Zarankiewicz’s conjecture on the brick factory problem" [ http://mappingignorance.org/2013/10/01/progress-checking-zar... ] "This means that N_0(5) \approx
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by scentoni 11y ago
> A Symposium in Honor of Victor F. Weiskopf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Weisskopf
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GnuCash(gnucash.org)
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by scentoni 11y ago
Does anyone here use http://www.gnucash.org ?
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How about the Alienware Graphics Amplifier? http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/ali...
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Alienware Graphics Amplifier(dell.com)
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Zurich is one of the most expensive cities in the world to live[1], though I have fond memories of when I did my postdoc there. I lived downtown a block from the Hell's Angels, 4 blocks from where the junkies and hookers hung out, and
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by scentoni 11y ago
If they can be paid less, then they will be paid less.
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Are tech workers priced out of San Francisco?(sfgate.com)
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by scentoni 11y ago
A Lisp with significant indenting (like Python) would bear a strong resemblance to Haskell.
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by scentoni 11y ago
No--the mediating particle having mass translates to a finite range.

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