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by scythe 3y ago
A sensible legal reform would be to establish that property managers and other private busybodies can't ban any reasonable energy-saving upgrades.
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by scythe 3y ago
I suspect that the "depth" of most CSS code is significantly shallower than what gets written in general purpose programming languages. In CSS you often align this box, then align that box, and so forth. A lot of the complexity in
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by scythe 3y ago
You can get the relationship: 1 - x^2 < cos(x)^2 < 1 / (1 + x^2) from ordinary trigonometry, although you can't just do this with nilsquare infinitesimals; you need a more sophisticated setup.
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by scythe 3y ago
It's not just some arbitrary rule, though. It's a principle that's widely understood to apply in all sorts of situations.
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by scythe 3y ago
That a rule exists in someone's head — regarded — does not make it a rule.
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by scythe 3y ago
The various comments complaining that Justices have violated this Code in the past are forgetting that modern law and society looks dimly on ex-post-facto rulemaking and such laws are in fact forbidden by the Constitution. Past actions are
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by scythe 3y ago
Nonstandard analysis is one of those things that sounds nice in the abstract, but even though I first learned about it more than ten years ago, I have yet to see a worked didactic-level example of how you would, for example, obtain the deri
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by scythe 3y ago
Most of these clever optical solutions for all of our problems have an "it gets covered in dust eventually" problem. You can also get the opposite effect -- heat absorption with little radiative heat loss -- using a very thin laye
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by scythe 3y ago
The claims against Mother Theresa spread particularly by Christopher Hitchens among others are false: https://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/comments/gcxpr5/saint_mo...
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by scythe 3y ago
We should also consider that when our perception of things has changed, perhaps it is because the things we are seeing that changed. The average person in Einstein's day received a much inferior education to what schools offer today, a
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by scythe 3y ago
I have a weird luck with FreeBSD: it seems that every time I think about trying it, I find that it's just a month or so before a major version release. The first time I considered trying it was just before FreeBSD 10 was released; that
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by scythe 3y ago
There is a very different (but less popular) direction in American sci-fi that is most prominently represented by Kurt Vonnegut, although he tends to depict a much closer future than the likes of Heinlein.
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by scythe 3y ago
Ironically, the article also says that when the US won its case at the WTO, the Molycorp rare-earth mine in the Mojave Desert went bankrupt soon after! Something of a monkey's paw.
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by scythe 3y ago
One thing that's especially egregious about the situation in RadOnc is that there are plenty of situations where the doctors and physicists have already planned a treatment, billing $xxx per hour, and only then it is denied by insuranc
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by scythe 3y ago
You linked A: a thread of allegations against players of any Smash version, the vast majority of which involve Ultimate or SSB4 players and B: a thread about Nintendo's interview with ZeRo, the former Ultimate #1, who was finally exile
556.
by scythe 3y ago
Wikipedia's history of this is very nice: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_steam_engine#Pre...
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by scythe 3y ago
Nobody could ever launch a Melee refresh because even the community today can't agree on what the best version is. 1.01? NTSC? PAL? PAL Yoshi and Fox with other characters NTSC? UCF? Neutral starts? Scientists should take note of our a
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by scythe 3y ago
In some ways, but in relatively different ways. Hitler played the charismatic warrior figure; Stalin wrote books and tried to talk like a scholar (whilst promoting the likes of Lysenko).
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by scythe 3y ago
>With the price of renewables dropping precipitously, however, the project's economics have worsened, and backers started pulling out of the project. I would expect this to continue limiting investment in nuclear, since the outlook
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by scythe 3y ago
The other confounder that came to mind quickly is that Texas is generally hotter than New Mexico. Even though methane is a gas regardless, I would expect this to have an effect, since diffusion processes generally happen faster when it&#x27
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by scythe 3y ago
>For operating conditions of the reduction at 1500 °C Unfortunately, this figure is fatal to any solar-thermal project. While the color temperature (hence theoretical limit) of sunlight is a blistering 5000 K, real concentrators achieve
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by scythe 3y ago
Sad to see this article reach the end of the scrollbar without even a mention of the triazine sunscreens which are pervasive in Japan and approved in the EU with no action from the FDA. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bemo
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by scythe 3y ago
All of this gets much easier if you notice that the smaller eigenvalue is less than one. So its contribution becomes exponentially smaller at higher F_i. Hence, you can just take the corresponding power of phi, multiply by some constant I f
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by scythe 3y ago
FTC lost to Microsoft because the overall case was bewildering. Per Wikipedia, the merger would have made Microsoft the third largest gaming company. Which makes it clear that it faces plenty of competition. In theory, they could abuse th
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by scythe 3y ago
Mergers seem like the smaller concern for innovation. The big concern from the point of view of a startup is "what if BigCorp just imitates your product and puts you out of business?" Historically, this situation has been managed
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by scythe 3y ago
You really wouldn't want to have a post sit on top of Hacker News for an hour and nothing comes of it. Think of how much we could have gotten done on this messageboard otherwise!
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Electronic origin of high superconducting T_C in trilayer cuprates(nature.com)
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by scythe 3y ago
I always have trouble with the argument that monetary policy = wage suppression. The argument is that when the central bank demands a higher interest rate on its loans to other banks, the bargaining power of labor is mysteriously diminished
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by scythe 3y ago
Did you read to the end? That's the idea he ends up with: only use nuclear propulsion for space-to-space travel where you don't care as much about shielding.
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by scythe 3y ago
Orkut didn't really die a natural death, though. It was cannibalized to juice Google+, which subsequently collapsed. "X" is definitely running right into a similar problem that Google+ faced: a good name can't save you b

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