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by scythe 4y ago
sin(x + pi/2) = cos(x) = cosh(ix) Therefore, sin (pi/2 + i arcosh(2)) = cosh(-arcosh(2)) = 2 where arcosh(y) is the familiar inverse of the hyperbolic cosine, i.e. log(y + sqrt(y^2 - 1)), so we find sin(pi/2 + i log(2 + sqrt(
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>As far as I know, there is no proven way to improve equality in a school system. What the remainder of your post argues is that there is no way to achieve complete equality in a school system. But we need to be clear about what that m
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by scythe 4y ago
I wouldn't describe the review as "scathing", although it's certainly titled as though it would be. The parts where the author offers the most critical complaints seem to be particular to their experience as a startup ba
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by scythe 4y ago
I'm still waiting for the FCC or ITU to define a band for electrodeless plasma lamps. For the uninitiated, these are microwave-driven light sources that are about half as efficient as the best LEDs, but still way more efficient than in
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by scythe 4y ago
I think that one particular subsection deserves a lot more attention: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/686... >(2) INAPPLICABILITY OF FOIA.—Any information submitted to the Federal
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It's not much easier to engage with ten articles of varying quality and varying levels of disagreement than with a podcast. >The Miseducation of Free Speech Does not focus on Haidt. >College and the “Culture War”: Assessing Highe
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>A completely different explanation could be that [...] we can finally listen The article references massive increases in ER admits for self-harm , among similar data. That isn't a matter of "listening". Haidt continually
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Geologically, New Guinea is part of Australia (the continent), being part of a contiguous section of continental crust. New Zealand, however, is not, forming instead its own "microcontinent" (sometimes Zealandia). A couple of rive
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by scythe 4y ago
China does promote potatoes. But the key advantage of the potato is that it grows where rice will not, in the drier and colder west of China. So it allows China to expand its food growing capacity. Unfortunately, while I had plenty of good
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by scythe 4y ago
>Used cars will be mostly worthless due to the batteries being shit. Modern battery chemistry can last for 2000 cycles. Assuming you get 200 miles on a charge, that's 400000 miles. A typical ICE car doesn't last that long.
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>We don't need rare earths for permanent magnets, though again this means a bulkier and less powerful motor It sure would be nice if there was a breakthrough in producing rare-earth-free magnetic materials: https://online
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BRICS is an acronym. You can't join it. There is an associated trade entity, which ironically was created in response to the acronym.
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by scythe 4y ago
The Pax Mongolica was more short-lived than many hippie communes! In fact the original Kaliflower Commune persists in San Francisco, some 56 years after its founding, while the Mongols were unified in the 1210s and fell into civil war (th
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by scythe 4y ago
Neither Greece nor Rome is a valid example. There were not the restrictions we're used to. But taboos abounded, particularly e.g. the stigma against cunnilingus. The Romans in particular gave us the phrase Quis custodiet ipsos custode
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by scythe 4y ago
The Mongol Empire is the last example you want to use about stability. Regardless of whether sex was monogamous in most ancient societies, it was nonetheless ceremonialized, (somewhat) feared and (to the extent possible) regulated. The rule
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by scythe 4y ago
There is certainly a second side in the broad sense: we know that Qatar hired a rival private intelligence firm likely up to the same no good. But in the narrow sense it is just ridiculous to suggest that third-order connections among the u
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It's not impossible. But again, the contrast has four parts: - Eurasian private sector, works - Anglosphere private sector, works (except in Canada) - Eurasian public sector, works - Anglosphere public sector, confounded by cost overru
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>Erlang style, where we embrace failability of both hardware and software and explicitly design programs to be resilient to partial faults. >SQLite style, where we overcome an unreliable environment at the cost of rigorous engineering
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by scythe 4y ago
We can say a lot about infinity. But for people who don't study advanced math by choice, the first question is why are we talking about infinity, when we don't normally, in our physical world, encounter infinite amounts of anyth
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>The minimum IQ required to graduate college (and even some masters degrees) with decent grades can’t be much more than 100 at this point, but was certainly more like 115 or even 120 in the 1950s. IQ is in practice affected by education
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by scythe 4y ago
The key to allowing this process to be performed at low temperature appears to be the use of sodium hydroxide as the electrolyte: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1149/MA2020-02191562mt... The more well-known
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by scythe 4y ago
The most obvious distinction between intellectual property and ordinary property is their history. Ownership of things has existed for longer than reliable records are available. Copyright and patents, by contrast, were created during the
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by scythe 4y ago
US tall buildings are not slower than the rest of the world. That's the biggest surprise in the data, and it persists under different analytical methodologies.
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by scythe 4y ago
>I still have not figured out why the holy hell there isn't commercial real estate built along with all sound transit stations. We have these large expensive stations that are devoid of any commercial activity, meanwhile Japan stick
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It's very difficult to put a direct comparison, because the government usually does not build skyscrapers, and the private sector almost never builds public transit. But you see dramatic shortfalls in US cost and rate on the constructi
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Contractors are probably part of the problem: https://slate.com/business/2023/02/subway-costs-us-europe-pu... Public agencies don't have enough in-house expertise, so they spend more on contractors and c
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by scythe 4y ago
Los Angeles?! He clarifies that it's probably due to a low sample size. But still... LA? It seems like the "surprising" success of the US might be due to skyscrapers being largely built by the private sector, which is prett
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by scythe 4y ago
The unique feature of the new tile isn't that it will tile aperiodically. It's that it will only tile aperiodically. If you just want an aperiodic tiling, you can achieve it with 2x1 rectangles. There's a big list of such p
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by scythe 4y ago
In the case of the toilet games, I would expect the real goal is to (subtly) induce men to pay attention while they urinate, to prevent what is referred to in radonc as a "geometric miss".
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So Dropbox found uploads, allegedly from Meek, containing CP. Then devices were found at Meek's residence containing CP. To there, you could fake it: pwn the box, open a Dropbox, upload pictures. Basic parallel construction. In items 3

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