ballenarosada

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by ballenarosada 7y ago
I'm currently working on an extension to modify the built-in symbolic calculator to display its stack entries in rendered LaTeX--it already has various language modes for displaying its s-expression based formulas, including LaTeX, so
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by ballenarosada 7y ago
"Julia is a huge innovation; a Tesla is another car that does similar things to the other cars."
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by ballenarosada 7y ago
Would you like to engage with the ideas in the piece?
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by ballenarosada 7y ago
Don't fall for what? The fact that some people move between percentiles during their life doesn't change the fact that the distribution has grown more unequal. What the number means is that, while those who are poor are poorer now
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by ballenarosada 8y ago
Taking on debt to finance a public good like high speed rail is perfectly reasonable. Privatization isn't a natural outcome of a public corporation running a deficit--it's the result of a political decision to disinvest in that pr
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by ballenarosada 8y ago
Good question. Under the influence of a magnetic field, charged particles do all sorts of counterintuitive things due to the Lorentz force, which acts at right angles to the particle velocity and the field. One example is a sideways precess
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by ballenarosada 8y ago
Anything in particular you would highlight? I've been following const generics development, but other than that I'm not too clued in. Thanks!
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by ballenarosada 8y ago
The commerce clause?
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by ballenarosada 8y ago
You're right, my derivation is mistaken for failing to take the z component of the force. EQ. 19 is more like it although you'll note, also goes as 1/z^3. You're also right that all that is moot from sheathing. But an io
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by ballenarosada 8y ago
If you read the exposition you linked, equation 14 gives an expression for the field which is linear in the area. Again, it's pretty important that the capacitor be infinite in extent, otherwise it behaves differently. What's the
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by ballenarosada 8y ago
Well, before breaking out a higher order analysis, I'd like to at least see a real first order analysis. The argument from potential at infinity is dispositive, but let's do some practice anyway: Let A be the area of the capacitor
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by ballenarosada 8y ago
The presence of a very diffuse plasma in outer space is well established.
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by ballenarosada 8y ago
The electric field outside an infinite capacitor is zero. For a finite capacitor, there is a nonzero field. The importance of the infiniteness assumption can't be understated--such a capacitor cuts the universe in half, and every point
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by ballenarosada 8y ago
This won't work. The basic idea about the protons gaining more momentum than the electrons is valid. But the dipole creates an opposite field outside of the charged plates. Protons will be decelerated until they pass the first, positiv
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by ballenarosada 8y ago
This is embarrassing, don't do this
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by ballenarosada 8y ago
It's the inverse square (not a root), because the surface of the planet is two-dimensional. Think of moving a projector screen back and forth. For a fixed aperture angle, the area projected upon will grow quadratically with distance, s
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by ballenarosada 8y ago
No, just asking why it would be good. The claim was that it's so good that it's worth increased corruption.
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by ballenarosada 8y ago
why would bipartisanship be good?
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by ballenarosada 8y ago
Yes, before capitalism, which is bad, things were even worse. I can critique both capitalism and what came before it. And it's not just an argument"against being shitty." Capitalism really doesn't have anything to do wit
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by ballenarosada 8y ago
- "independent actors are acting rationally in this situation." - "the only alternative is this particular strawman policy, which would make things worse" - "there's nothing absurd about people starving due to
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by ballenarosada 8y ago
On the contrary, the image itself is uncomfortably well suited to make a point. This comment is a classic example of defending an obvious absurdity of capitalism by appealing to the overall system. It's true that individuals are all ac
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by ballenarosada 8y ago
It uses more energy than a medium-sized nation to accomplish nothing of use?
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by ballenarosada 8y ago
Gibson's cyberspace is a terrifying place where corporations, who execute total control over financial reality, operate centralized computer systems powerful enough to fry a human mind. It's not about a decentralized execution mod
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by ballenarosada 9y ago
> Hydrogen can absorb or (suitably excited) emit light at 21cm wavelength specifically, better than all other wavelengths. Based on the article, I don't think this is right. http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/S
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by ballenarosada 9y ago
As a socialist... You're right about Twitter and the history of political debate. The era of Henry Clay and Daniel Webster was also the era of Senators beating each other with canes.
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by ballenarosada 9y ago
There's a clear epidemiological value to the result about being able to get patients to effectively reduce their caloric intake without counting.
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by ballenarosada 9y ago
I think the study shows precisely that it's not a public health danger to tell people that.
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by ballenarosada 9y ago
How in the world do you propose to achieve equality of opportunity without equality of (many) outcomes?
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by ballenarosada 9y ago
This article makes no mention of the role the Wilson administration likely played in creating the famine to begin with. Following 1917, anglo-american support of fascist paramilitary groups in Russia led to the bloodiest civil war in histor
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by ballenarosada 9y ago
If that happened, would libertarians begin to regard unpaid surplus labor as theft?

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