yaks_hairbrush

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by yaks_hairbrush 8mo ago
It works if you don't care about magnitudes, distances, or angles of complex numbers. Those properties aren't algebraic.
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Desktop Linux has a Firefox problem(osnews.com)
113 points by yaks_hairbrush 3y ago|98 comments
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by yaks_hairbrush 3y ago
You're right that a business wouldn't lower prices if customers keep showing up. The basic causes of prices falling amount to two: increased supply, and decreased demand. On the supply end, if competitors enter a given market and
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by yaks_hairbrush 3y ago
> It would be perfectly straightforward to fund that entirely by raising income taxes on the highest earners. Even if you do that, you're still getting inflation. That'll hit everyone -- not just high earners. Loan forgivenes
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by yaks_hairbrush 3y ago
> Based on what? Someone with a high school diploma will earn on average $1.3 million over their lifetime. Someone with a B.S. averages $2.3 million. The college degree is thus worth, on average, $1 million in lifetime earnings. Source
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by yaks_hairbrush 3y ago
> The question is if you think "most recent college graduates without wealthy parents" are a population worthy of government assistance. And, quite frankly, I'd gravitate towards a "no" on this. When taken as a
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by yaks_hairbrush 4y ago
The length of the burst tells us the maximum size of the event. Imagine the event takes place instantly at the source, and that the source has some size. If we observe the event over two minutes, then the event size was two light-minutes.
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by yaks_hairbrush 4y ago
Maybe this: https://www.collaboraoffice.com/code/
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by yaks_hairbrush 5y ago
Played this (or something very similar) growing up. We called it "squeak".
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by yaks_hairbrush 5y ago
I have a macbook air with an egpu connected by a thunderbolt 3 port. I unplug the gpu when I want to take the laptop somewhere, and plug in back in when I'm at my desk.
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by yaks_hairbrush 7y ago
The issue with schools is that they're daily large gatherings where the virus can be transmitted. Children can be carriers with schools providing the network effect for spreading covid-19.
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by yaks_hairbrush 7y ago
FL300 (30,000 feet) is usually within the troposphere. And that's highly relevant, because the troposphere is well-mixed. Water vapor emissions at 30,000 feet are going to come back down, for the most part.
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by yaks_hairbrush 7y ago
So, 500 million metric tons sounds like a lot, doesn't it? But there's the fact that it's getting dumped into an already big system: the atmosphere at large. Let's check it out it percentage terms. According to wikiped
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by yaks_hairbrush 7y ago
Erm... I feel like you're maybe projecting and/or arguing a strawman. Acknowledging that humans are causing the climate to change is quite a far cry from demanding actions from China's population.
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by yaks_hairbrush 7y ago
Good question! It means that the probably of finishing in the next increment of time is always the same. Just got up to the teller? There's, say, a 20% chance that you're done within the next minute. Been at the teller's
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by yaks_hairbrush 7y ago
It was indeed established that Pluto had an atmosphere before the New Horizon flyby. The atmosphere is mostly seasonal. The air freezes when Pluto is far from the sun, and sublimates again when it's near.
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by yaks_hairbrush 7y ago
> The issue is rather that we don't know what all that star stuff becomes once it goes into the black hole, though there are theories. The problem is that the defining feature of a black hole, its even horizon, by necessity means th
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by yaks_hairbrush 7y ago
Oh, dear god no. Nicotine inhalers exist, and I went to a doctor to get a prescription for them a few years before ecigs became prevalent. The doctor insisted that Chantix was the way to go. I reacted badly to Chantix. I finally quit cig
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by yaks_hairbrush 7y ago
A secure service wouldn't have an easy way of getting at a user's password. They'd store the salted hash of a user's password, and not the password itself.
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by yaks_hairbrush 8y ago
The definition I gave is, nonetheless, the accepted definition of the term. Can't find a citation for yours. (Note: I do understand about utility, and how/why progressive tax systems help society. My only bone of contention here
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by yaks_hairbrush 8y ago
Definition of "regressive tax": A tax that takes a higher percentage of income from low-income earners than from high-income earners. By definition, the tax system in the post you replied to is not a regressive tax system.
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by yaks_hairbrush 8y ago
That's the big thing that jumps out at me. There are very, very few serious economic policies that have this level of agreement among economists. Greg Mankiw did a list a while back about what economists agree on: https://g
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by yaks_hairbrush 8y ago
(1) The US government did just that -- promised backpay for all unpaid work during the shutdown. (2) Banks may not wish to give loans to folks who have bad/no credit, even with the assurance. Banks need a bit more than assurances that
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by yaks_hairbrush 8y ago
Probably a planet. The distinction between planet and dwarf planet turns on whether the body has demonstrated gravitational dominance. Planet Nine's existence (if it indeed exists) was inferred from alignments of other bodies' o
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by yaks_hairbrush 8y ago
There are eight currently known bodies (apart from the sun) in our solar system which can tug hard enough to dictate terms of sharing/crossing their orbit. Pluto is locked into a 3:2 orbital resonance with Neptune. Neptune dictates t
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by yaks_hairbrush 8y ago
One very important difference between the big bang and the interior of the black hole: Within the event horizon of a black hole, there is always a singularity in your future. In our universe, that singularity is in our past. One interpreta
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by yaks_hairbrush 8y ago
Can I get an email address? I'd love to follow up on this post more directly.
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by yaks_hairbrush 8y ago
This is a really nice explanation -- it flowed really well, and I liked the sieve approach to proving the product-over-primes formula (the other standard way relies on a clever trick, and being clever is fun-but-not-good-for-exposition). I
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by yaks_hairbrush 8y ago
Off the top of my head: Yahoo! and DuckDuck Go might be ahead of Bing.
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by yaks_hairbrush 8y ago
It is a man-made shift. Here's the quick-and-dirty version of the reasoning: The earth's energy equation has three big components: sunlight in, reflected sunlight out, and blackbody radiation out. Measurements of these three ite

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