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by starwed 15y ago
The word "want" is frequently used in science to refer to the tendency of a system to act a certain way. It isn't meant to imply volition!
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by starwed 15y ago
Do you have reason to think that's likely?
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by starwed 15y ago
I actually thought about the contact lenses in Torchwood that could overlay text on your vision.
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by starwed 15y ago
I think they wanted examples of mainstream publishers that use/accept word files, rather than examples of word's capabilities. (And even if they weren't, I would appreciate such examples.)
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by starwed 15y ago
Equivalently it is where the second derivative is equal to zero -- which implies the first derivative is at a local extrema. In the context here, it's clear that the inflection point would be the point of greatest change.
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by starwed 15y ago
Have you heard it from the same specific people? Because if not I don't understand what the fuck your point is. :) With every release, android will get a little bit better. And every time that happens, some people will decide they now
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by starwed 15y ago
Do you have some secret ability to know who clicked the downvote button that the rest of us lack?
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by starwed 15y ago
Do you need an invitation? AFAIK I'd never requested one, but seemed to be able to use the site. (While logged in to my regular google account.)
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by starwed 15y ago
Heh, I bought one of these recently and went through exactly the same process, looking over it for a physical eject mechanism.
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by starwed 15y ago
Make them mandatory if you can't pass a screening test.
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by starwed 15y ago
>It's just that the general OS feels tired to me. What does this even mean?
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by starwed 15y ago
It seems like you've just rephrased the original question.
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by starwed 15y ago
Check Preferences -> Updates, you might well have disabled that option.
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by starwed 15y ago
Ah, but he wasn't involved in this study -- one of the researchers had worked with him on a previous study, and that's why his name came up.
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by starwed 15y ago
Perhaps because this argument has croppped up, like clockwork, with every release since FF5. It's boring, predictable, and doesn't add anything to the discussion.
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by starwed 15y ago
You're downvoted for pretending controversial opinions (that the nytimes is a neoconservative stronghold) are obvious and need no justification.
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by starwed 15y ago
>Ultimately, I don't think people will have a problem with paying, and certainly not such a small amount. Growl use seems to be integrated in several open source projects. I probably would never have gone out of my way to get it -- but
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by starwed 15y ago
>The cost of the concessions, while high by microwaveable popcorn standards, are highly competitive among their peers. I'm 100% unsure of what you mean here. What peers?
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by starwed 15y ago
Why does the author insist on using 'we' as if he were an author of the study? I found that very confusing... (I'd find it more acceptable if a physical experiment were being discussed, but this seems to be a theoretical result.) Oh, here'
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by starwed 15y ago
Here's a post from cosmologist Sean Carrol: "Energy is not conserved." http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2010/02/22/... tldr: "Energy isn’t conserved; it changes because spacetime does."
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by starwed 15y ago
Ah, since OP's example groups were Chinese and Indian, and your examples were Chinese and (American) Indian, was pretty easy to get confused! :)
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by starwed 15y ago
I think it is pretty clear from the context of his comment that Indian refers to people from India.
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by starwed 15y ago
There is a claim that answers your question in the very beginning of the article. > Currently, all of the fuel needed for a mission is carried up with the rocket, and the weight of the fuel limits the size of the spacecraft.
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by starwed 15y ago
The plus sign definitely was used for that.
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by starwed 15y ago
Mozilla labs played around with that in Ubiquity, a natural language command line interface for firefox. https://mozillalabs.com/ubiquity
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by starwed 15y ago
> For a professional result you would need to control the cameras completely manual and take a lot more pictures in different settings (light, reference colors, tripod, ...). Well, it's also worthwhile testing how well the automatic se
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by starwed 15y ago
Seems like a site with lots of heavily rated products could do a bit better -- you might be able to use your database of known distributions to inform your prior.
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by starwed 15y ago
I could answer 'proably not'. Then, if this were reddit, it would get upvoted. But since it's not, it would most likely get downvoted. Oh, the paradox...
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by starwed 15y ago
>This is starting to look like another case of super-smart over-specialized eggheads making assumptions and not seeing the big picture What a fucked way to spin this -- the group asked for outside help in explaining their results and
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by starwed 15y ago
Real scientists learn on the street. Or more seriously, please take that attitude outside and burn it... :(

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