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by tbabb 11y ago
The value of your view is closer to 0.1 cents. So 100 web clicks a day would cost about a dime to remove ads.
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Second Order FizzBuzz(bzarg.com)
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by tbabb 11y ago
By your logic, would it be illegal to install a browser plugin that replaces every instance of the word "keyboard" with the word "leopard"? Is that "vandalism"? And as you point out, I must first request the in
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by tbabb 11y ago
They can try to serve me spam/ad content along with the rest of content they provide, but I am not obligated to read it, nor is my browser obligated to display it, any more than I am obligated to read the contents of my spambox (even i
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by tbabb 11y ago
> I am afraid that the devil is in the details and it may turn out that this tax will be paid mostly by car owners (rising delivery costs, so food prices would grow) or people in rural areas who use coal heaters. The poor will suffer mos
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by tbabb 11y ago
Sometimes I wonder what future, more evolved humans will be like. What traits will be emphasized? I hope they look like this guy. Insatiably curious, extremely intelligent, endlessly productive, and effusively happy.
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by tbabb 11y ago
I do not really see what the "problem" is. One can easily define a unique (up to translation) "rotation-free" coordinate system that all observers will agree on, without any reference to "fixed stars" or the re
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by tbabb 11y ago
The short answer (i.e. without teaching all of Phys 101 in this comment) is that physics treats linear motion differently from curved motion. Objects that are moving in a straight line will continue moving in a straight line unless acted up
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by tbabb 11y ago
Ah, I think I see what you are hung up on. In newtonian mechanics, the equivalence principle says that any two inertial coordinate frames look "the same". For example, if you have two spaceships heading toward each other, the pict
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by tbabb 11y ago
I am not sure what point you are trying to make or what you are asserting is being "presupposed". What is described above are the results of an experiment. That's the way physics works; that's what will happen if you do
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by tbabb 11y ago
Hardly a "nitpick". That's a glaring error.
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by tbabb 11y ago
One astronaut (the spinning one) will detect a centrifugal force, and the other will not. If the spinning astronaut took a yo-yo out of her pocket, she would observe it accelerates radially away from her. The stationary astronaut's yo-
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by tbabb 11y ago
To add to that, Bell's theorem says that either locality or hidden variables may be true, but not both. We could construct a formulation of quantum mechanics that includes hidden variables, but must account for the state of the uni
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by tbabb 11y ago
8 seems like an extremely reasonable guess.
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by tbabb 11y ago
A big part of the plan is scooping up backhaul traffic-- latency for long distance communication will be very fast with a few laser-linked satellites, compared to many (hundreds?) of hops linked by glass fiber (wherein the speed of light is
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by tbabb 11y ago
"Robots" is not a Pixar movie.
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by tbabb 11y ago
There is a sentence near the end which suggests this puts limits on "theory of everything"-- I'm not sure I believe the result is that strong-- it seems that we could come to understand all the rules of the universe, but co
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by tbabb 11y ago
Yes, the two moons are analogous to slits, in that they're point-like objects interacting with a large, coherent wavefront. The "slits" will be identified (according to the proposal) because the gravitationally distorted ligh
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by tbabb 11y ago
The experiment proposes to introduce a time delay between two paths of a coherent signal by distorting them with a gravitational field (i.e. that of Jupiter). The experimenters would then check for interference between the two signal paths
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by tbabb 11y ago
> Like the coin trap’s slope, the curvature of space becomes infinite at the event horizon of a black hole. So time literally stops [...] so actually you can’t reach the event horizon. I think this is completely wrong. Isn't the cur
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by tbabb 11y ago
Thanks. I just lost about 3 hours looking at Applied Science videos. :)
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by tbabb 11y ago
Who is using "because it computes" as an explanation for anything? And to explain what?
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by tbabb 11y ago
I probably haven't had cause to encounter it for myself, but why does "culture fit" have a squicky connotation?
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by tbabb 11y ago
It's both. Each new movie will generate new technical challenges, and the tech side of the studio will be prompted to rise to the new creative demands. Finding Dory, for example, is a natural choice for using path tracing because of al
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by tbabb 11y ago
The difference between Reyes and path tracing is this: - Reyes batches camera-visible geometry into grids of micropolygons and microvoxels. These micro-elements are then shaded using any method you please (which, in the case of Pixar movies
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by tbabb 11y ago
Pixar movies from Finding Dory onward will be exclusively raytracing, FWIW.
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by tbabb 11y ago
"Critical thinking" is a term with more specific meaning than just "apply what you know". Critical thinking means asking yourself how you know what you think you know, mistrusting casual intuition, and examining how yo
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by tbabb 11y ago
I wonder if this result holds if the coin is given an "unusual" moment of inertia such that it does not spin about a single axis.
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by tbabb 11y ago
Let's not forget that orchards represent many years of investment. Killing an orchard has a much, much higher cost than simply choosing to grow a different yearly crop.
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The magic of the Kalman filter, in pictures(bzarg.com)
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