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by sonium 10y ago
TLDR: No, it is not. Once again Betteridge's law of headlines holds.
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by sonium 10y ago
This might sound a bit like a buzz-kill, but I don't think fusion power is necessarily competitively cheap. I think it will be comparable to nuclear power with a ~ 10 times higher capital investment to build a fusion-plant. Already now
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by sonium 10y ago
Its entirely unknown who succeeded or not since both sides have agreed not to disclose the deal. I think its likely that Youtube just got it their way but the non-disclosure is part of the deal so GEMA can still present it as a victory, and
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by sonium 10y ago
'its complicated'
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by sonium 10y ago
"Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." - Ian Betteridge
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by sonium 10y ago
> I reckon leaving will send a signal about reforming the EU... I heard this frequently, but it is never specified _what_ exactly should be reformed. Also I think that most people really overestimate the EU budget: It's about 1&#x2F
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by sonium 10y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11719543
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by sonium 10y ago
As a student ~ 7 years ago i had a summer job at an Audi assembly line. At the first place I worked there you had roughly one person every 10 or 15 meters or so appart, mainly restacking the supplies for welding robots. So there was really
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by sonium 10y ago
I think the video capabilities especially in connection with the CSI camera is what sets the Raspberry Pi really apart from Odroid and so on. It's pretty amazing that it can encode 720p video at 48fps - didn't something like encod
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by sonium 11y ago
> ... verified by Reality Keys. Etheropt has no owner. Its entire operation is described and executed by an Ethereum smart contract. Tell me if I'm wrong but isn't your trusted third party now simply Reality Keys?
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by sonium 11y ago
Sadly they write little substantial about the internal construction principle so I'm making an educated guess: Based on the pictures one can see that relatively hard shadows are created as expected by a point-like light source (like a
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by sonium 11y ago
I believe VOO is a synthetic fund.
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by sonium 11y ago
Slightly off-topic: a lot of Vanguard's ETFs are synthetic. Is there anyone who can say something about the risk involved in this in contrast to non-synthetic ETFs? Edit: As it turns out most or all of Vanguard's ETFs are physical
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by sonium 11y ago
Sadly they write little substantial about the internal construction principle so I'm making an educated guess: Based on the pictures one can see that relatively hard shadows are created as expected by a point-like light source (like a
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by sonium 11y ago
I'm doing a PhD in physics using using large scale numerical codes. From what I can see more computer-science would mainly improve the maintainability rather than the speed of codes used. They are often already heavily optimized and, f
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by sonium 11y ago
It is however less likely to be due to exchange manipulations this time because the exchanges are more diversified.
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Sitting for long periods doesn’t make death more imminent(ije.oxfordjournals.org)
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by sonium 11y ago
The IR source is easy, but how whould they have done the imaging? All IR sensors I know are semiconductor based, clearly not a option at this time.
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by sonium 11y ago
One intrinsic drawback in the concept of overlay journals is however that is does not allow for double-blind reviews. Until this is widely implemented I think the publishing process won't be fair.
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by sonium 11y ago
I would be interested in seeing some real-world figures for HPC applications (e.g. VASP). I think most people use Intel MKL these days. A 30% performance increase over MKL as in the first figure would be huge.
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by sonium 11y ago
> I lost heart quickly because I could find no tools that were interactive, simulating and stimulating to use, preferably visual like this. This is because there is no use-case for professional users. When it comes to computational chemi
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by sonium 11y ago
The author chose an outside scene with blue sky as a demonstration. This is exactly where one in reality does NOT have soft shadows due the the small apparent size of the sun. A indoor scene with an extended light source would have been a b
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by sonium 11y ago
To make it even faster, there is a (non-free) numpy version compiled with the Intel MKL math library [1]. We use this library in high-performance-computing, it's as fast as you can get on intel hardware. [1] https://store.co
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by sonium 11y ago
...or one could resort to the implied risk at Greek government bonds. A bond which matures in November next year trades at about 60% of the value you will (or wont) receive at that date. In other words the odds are roughly 2:3 that Greece d
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by sonium 12y ago
Beside what was already said, one needs to consider that German universities have a much lower expense per student. This is because the universities have a chronic lack of money. This means that little is invested into 'feel good'
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by sonium 12y ago
I think you might oversimplify matters a bit. If the pictures are original, I think this is quite remarkable. Let me state three properties about daylight which I think this light source addresses very well: 1) Directionality: Sunlight prod
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by sonium 12y ago
I started using MEGAsync instead of Dropbox. As a non-american I think this is one of the few ways I might be able to change things. Maybe the recent pressure from payment processors means that it works?
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by sonium 12y ago
While I like the idea, I think I would use it if the time-span would be adjustable, like every week. Also would be great to stay in touch with other relatives.
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by sonium 12y ago
I use Matplotlib for my publications written in latex. Matplotlib can also render via a latex backend, which gives you then matching fonts and symbols in the text and figure by using something as simple as: rc('text', usetex=True)