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Steel, itself, is a material with a wide range of properties. In terms of tensile strength, which is the simplest kind of strength to measure, steel ranges from mild steel at 400 N/mm^2 to piano wire alloys at about 2500 N/mm^2. &
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>Not really. It has fluctuated a lot. You can pick starting and ending points a few years apart and come up with very different results relative to actual inflation. I think he's talking about really long periods of time. It's
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It is a little jarring to hear "data-driven" and "nonperturbative" in the same sentence. It sounds a little bit like saying you designed a boat with a better lift-to-drag ratio. "Wait, is it a boat or a plane?"
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Ten miles from Fresno might be too far. I just picked a distance out of thin air. But when you have a minor stop, it's less important to build the perfect configuration. Even if you have to go outside of Fresno to get on the train, you
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It would be one thing if they were just going to Fresno. There are three major cities in the Central Valley: Bakersfield, Fresno and Sacramento. You get Bakersfield for free; Sacramento is north of SF and has existing commuter rail. Fresno
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>One age misunderstands another; and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own ugly way. I couldn't help but keep thinking about this Wittgenstein quote as I read this. I find it harder to say exactly why. Obviously, we f
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I didn't endorse anything. In fact, I presented arguments opposing the administration's view. I think it's unreasonable to argue that trying to understand people's actions is tantamount to endorsing them. We should never
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I'm not endorsing it, but it's roughly consistent with Trump's underlying philosophy that the international systems that USG manages are a subsidy from the US taxpayer to the rest of the world, and one which goes unappreciate
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You can probably calculate the value of P_n(x) using the equation: P_n(x) = (2 - 1/n) x P_{n-1}(x) - (1 - 1/n) P_{n-2}(x) This is numerically stable if x is in [0,1], but I haven't validated that you can get to very high n us
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1 is not a prime number because it would ruin the Euler product formula for the Riemann zeta function.
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The most elegant proof IMHO is the one that avoids the original problem entirely. Int[csc(x) dx] = 2 Int[csc(2u) du] = 2 Int[du / (2 cos(u) sin(u))] = Int[sec^2(u) du / tan(u)] = log(tan(u)) + C = log(tan(x/2)) + C Then Int[s
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I'll raise you for the cost of a single dose of Pluvicto: https://www.drugs.com/price-guide/pluvicto
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>While they may be identical in form, a Spanish canal isn’t a Moche canal. >Spanish canals operated in a temperate climate and were managed by individual farmers who could maintain or increase their water flow. The Moche and Chimu can
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You might look no further than Spain. There are dams built by the Romans which are still operating. Of course nothing that's literally from the modern period is centuries old, but that's a tautology!
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But they can do the ground effect pretty well, because the motors become lighter: https://www.regentcraft.com/news/regent-begins-sea-trials-of...
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>Also Bolsonaro was termed “far right,” but Lula not called “far left?” Bolsonaro was such an unbelievably terrible president that The Economist , that infamous right-wing rag (full disclosure: I am a long-time subscriber), endorsed Lul
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Scale patterns on a guitar are optimized for A: starting (lowest note 1) on a particular finger on a particular string and B: not sliding your hand up and down too much. For example, I know five major scale patterns: two start on the first
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One thing I started doing the last time I picked up guitar again, which was about two months ago, was wearing disposable nitrile gloves on my left hand. They're extremely thin and durable, and have minimal impact on dexterity, but allo
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>Due to an effect called the Doppler shift, astronomers expect galaxies rotating opposite to the Milky Way’s motion to appear brighter, which could explain their overrepresentation in telescopic surveys. I found this a little surprising
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>The track record of espionage investigations against people of Chinese descent For context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hsue-Chu_Tsien
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The Incas had bronze, but didn't take full advantage of its use in weapons because they didn't have metal armor or shields, which are uncommon in Bronze Age cultures because copper is much less plentiful than iron. There was no ti
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>we just need some major text editor to get the ball rolling and start making some attempts to understand these characters Many text editors offer extensions APIs, including Vim, Emacs, Notepad++. But the ideal behavior would be to auto-
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On the other hand, this would breathe new life into the world of open source cellphone software that isn't Android. It has existed in a limbo of free and corporate for over a decade and everyone gave up on alternatives like FirefoxOS.
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Today's situation is not very similar. Previously we worried about specific threats. The Axis Powers, the Soviet world and its influence, even nuclear war. We had a pretty good characterization of what the threat was, even if it was de
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>It was an intentional leak. Perhaps overtly, perhaps covertly, by one or more of the channel members for unknown purposes. It was Mike Waltz who invited Jeff Goldberg to connect on Signal. It seems inordinately unlikely that he would ha
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Air travel is basically immune to terrestrial obstacles. You can fly over almost anything, even though you do have to worry about the weather.
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>The fact that the model is a continuous real function is an artifact of the model, a weakness not a strength. The wave function is the square root of a probability distribution. The wavefunction is a continuous real function of positio
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The Europeans have 22/7, as long as they write dates with the slash.
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Energy consumption. I am pretty sure that the hydrogen utilization in most ammonia production is very high. In theory the energy required to produce ammonia is negative (Hf < 0) but at standard pressure its formation is thermodynamically
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>Unlike solar cells or battery cells, I don't really see much chance for 'learning rates' and technology improvement to drastically drive down the cost of green ammonia. Falling electrolyser costs are nice, but they'r

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