Armisael16

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by Armisael16 6mo ago
The sqrt function returns the principle square root, not both. That’s true for all numbers, positive, negative, and complex alike.
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by Armisael16 9mo ago
Why should productivity and corporate tax rates be correlated at all, up or down? The link there is not obvious.
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by Armisael16 11mo ago
If you’ve played KSP you should know how totally useless Mun bases are.
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by Armisael16 1y ago
There isn’t anything magically about precisely zero percent interest rates; the behavior we see is mostly a smooth extension of slightly higher rates, which the EU was at. And of course ZIRP was pioneered in Japan, not the US.
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by Armisael16 2y ago
IRV is also vulnerable to third-party spoilers; the squeezed middle is a well-known phenomenon in that system.
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by Armisael16 2y ago
The standard definition of a correction is a 10-20% market decline. “Minor” corrections aren’t defined, though one could imagine an event that barely meets the threshold making sense. But yes, strictly you are right - this isn’t a correctio
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by Armisael16 2y ago
ESA’s 2024 Space Environment Report, which is what the article references: https://www.esa.int/Space_Safety/Space_Debris/ESA_Space_Envi...
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by Armisael16 2y ago
Cooling is the main and normal direction heat pumps run in; heating is the new and unusual way to use them.
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by Armisael16 2y ago
Why would you ignore the largest state in that land area calculation? Alaska still isn’t quite enough to push the US up, but it’s good for another 20%-ish increase in land area over the contiguous number.
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by Armisael16 3y ago
Southwest has dozens of Max 8s, for what it’s worth: https://www.planespotters.net/airline/Southwest-Airlines I booked a flight with them last night, and it’s scheduled to fly on one.
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by Armisael16 3y ago
c is used in the definition of the meter, but you don’t remotely need to know that in day-to-day life. As long as the seven base units (length, time, mass, temperature, electric current, luminosity) end up with reasonable values the system
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by Armisael16 3y ago
Historically speaking the things the rich think are worth spending money on haven’t lined up with what society thinks is best all that often.
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by Armisael16 3y ago
“Your total money is decreasing” is not the same thing as “all your money is gone” - it’s leading in that direction, but if it takes 20 or 30 years to get there that’s usually enough for people to retire on.
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by Armisael16 3y ago
I imagine it’s just an ingrained use of language picked up from other people - no thought behind it, like an atheist who says ‘Christ’ as an expletive.
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by Armisael16 3y ago
Boston Dynamics is trying to produce for the military market. The field doesn’t generally have huge expanses of well-maintained concrete to drive on.
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by Armisael16 3y ago
Setting up large enough weights to lift is incredibly expensive - it’s a terrible way to use power, let alone store it.
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by Armisael16 3y ago
It’s a war crime. If you start doing it the other side won’t shoot at nothing - they’ll shoot at everything, civilians included.
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by Armisael16 3y ago
> It’s very hard to see a situation where it’s logistically feasible for the US to transport so many people over that it exceeds the number of soldiers already in the military. The US military has about 1.5 million people at present. Whe
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by Armisael16 3y ago
Cute, but totally irrelevant. Microsoft has the money and the US government clearly has the ability to get the money.
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by Armisael16 3y ago
Unfortunately it’s generally more complex than that, at least in US law - simply having material nonpublic information isn’t enough. It really matters how you got the information. For example, when Hindenburg Research did a ton of research
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by Armisael16 3y ago
NACS already uses the CCS signaling protocol, and always has - Teslas have been able to use a dumb adapter to plug into CCS chargers for years.
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by Armisael16 3y ago
The v4 superchargers are supposed to support 800V charging. They’re only just starting to be rolled out, unfortunately, but anyone who can hold out will probably end up okay.
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by Armisael16 3y ago
A charge usually takes 20-30 minutes. You get a five minute grace period, then you start getting hit with $1/min idle fees. That’s barely enough time to get from the far reaches of the parking lot to a store and back. Bringing the food
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by Armisael16 3y ago
Are you suggesting people just go read the documentation like an encyclopedia? I don’t know a single person who got their start programming by doing that - just about everyone wants some sort of guide to help lead them in good directions.
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by Armisael16 3y ago
Probably from/related to https://colinwoodard.com/books/american-nations/
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by Armisael16 3y ago
Yes.
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by Armisael16 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_fuel
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by Armisael16 3y ago
It’s less efficient than normal electric batteries and will take up far more space. Gravitational storage only works in the very particular case of water, where moving it is downhill nearly perfectly efficient and free, and where you can al
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by Armisael16 3y ago
Phonons can have a negative effective mass - in other words, you can mostly ignore the effect of the background environment if you simply change the mass to be something else (which can be negative). That’s very different than having a nega
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by Armisael16 3y ago
The Securities Exchange Act of 1934 explicitly exempts currencies in section 3 part 10 (split across pages 11/12 of https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/COMPS-1885/pdf/COMPS-188... ). Of course this i

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