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Funding, or a startup enterprise, is certainly needed to administer the peer review process. I'm willing to bet it would be less than $10 per paper in universal use. No money is ne…

(1) Someone else in this context refers to anyone other than the author-researcher. The point I am attempting to make is that researchers, as long as they are on an academic grant …

I couldn’t resist because everyone’s thinking of cat-guacamole. Also Labsix. https://mashable.com/2017/11/02/mit-researchers-fool-google-...

Exactly. And if you understand what you’re doing, you can avoid referencing the angle explicitly. Because macro arc length is rarely needed.

The trick with sin and cos is to never use atan (or atan2).

I found, at least for myself that there was a large opportunity for reversal, when adopting a more active lifestyle in retirement.

Let’s see what he can do with a $10 lunch business model.

Optical physicists and chemists need a laser with a knob on it to tune the laser to an exact desired color. In the 70s and 80s, the preferred method was the use of liquid dyes as t…

Price point is everything. Good luck.

I was under the impression that Chrome for IOS was a shell on Safari relying on calls to Safari code. Am I wrong?

"...Tumblr is the home of some of the most creative online personas..." Funny. I thought it was a porn site.

Out your piss.

“I don’t envision AT&T and Verizon tearing down huge amounts of copper in towns immediately.“ That’s not the point. When failures occur, they stop fixing the wires and send you a l…

This is silly. You’re the one being evaluated here. Can you code, or are you just a “sophisticated” smartass? The trick is to find out all these answers WITHOUT asking the intervie…

1. Frats select for lower overall academic ability. Few physics, biochem, ee majors. This bleeds over into their easier major. 2. Frats select for larger physical stature and attra…

For the first time ever, CCleaner 5.33.1612 is offered to immediately update, without begging you to upgrade, or trying to show you a video, or anything. The new version is 5.34.62…

The copyright law is absurd in the context of scientific publication. Here's why. The private property associated with the publication is created at the moment of publication, and …

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Many people lack a gut level understanding of this concept: a vendor who deep discounts or sells at cost can generate almost arbitrarily large revenues. For a while.

One of the happiest days of my life was when a Symantec support person, very courteously, helped me remove every Symantec product from my computer.

It's not rational trigonometry. The angles are irrational. In fact, it's useless, and was probably a decorative demonstration of Pythagorean triples.

Why do you think the 74LS189 was being counterfeited? It was the touch tone chip being counterfeited, and disguised as a 74LS189. The buyer knew the ruse.

Grade school. 6th grade. PS241 Brooklyn nyah!

If there's a shortage, or some other performance problem, they do, and they will.