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The OP is imagining a device with a “hollow core” of atmospheric pressure helium surrounded by a solid and continuous membrane. Since this hollow core would be much larger than the…

This relates to the difference between how a real gas and how an ideal gas behave in this scenario. The difference in this situation will be very small in my opinion, broadly becau…

I work for an acquired startup that tried to solve this problem. It’s been around 8 years and we’re up to 50 or so people. I’d say we are okay at it. We haven’t gotten fundamentall…

How are you arriving at that number? 60 seconds per minute 60 minutes per hour 24 hours per day 30 days per month ~2.59 million seconds per month One billion requests into 2.59 mil…

Very pedantic but I’d want to know. A watt is a unit of power, which means gigawatts per day is a rate of change of power. If you want a unit of energy you need power multiplied by…

To compare apartheid to being asked to follow scientifically validated an internationally agreed protocols to not spread a disease to those around you, geesh.

I disagree with this comment. I don’t want to start a debate, just to give my experience and perspective. I am a South African, I am white, just for transparency. In my experience:…

One reason that these nets are not there yet, is that they are sticking to the 'firing' analogue of natural brains. They are using binary output over time that averages out, a tech…

I imagine they meant kw, and that 20w is close enough to 1kw. (btw, I thought the human brain uses a lot more than 20w, maybe 20w in chemical signals, but a lot more in heat?)

While you are correct that the count of neurons is not the only thing the synthetic brain has to boast, merely saying 'wired like a rat brain' is not really much extra. It does not…

Staitght up is also wrong if you want a circular orbit.

Its a joke, eval(uate) is evil...

Given that the person stated that they are only consuming hundreds of gigabytes I think we can assume that they mean megabits not gagabits.

This is really on the edge if where I don't know what I'm talking about anymore but I would think not. The forces holding atoms together and the energies associated with changing t…

The reason that negative temperatures are hard to explain is that the definition of temperature in the sense used by physicists is not very accessible. It has to do with how much a…

To clarify: that sphere is not a 'standard' in a sense that it is going to definite a kilogram. It is a tool which is going to be used to measure the correct numbers to define the …

I don't understand what you mean? 10 things to store, 1000 buckets to store in, less than 0.1 probability of a collision? That seams both not very impressive or even correct?

Perspective: 1 hours downtime a year is already better than 4 9s

This sounds like security through obscurity, made worse by the fact that it is probably difficult to guarantee that users who are shown the 'privileged' modules are somehow to be t…

I believe that you have a misunderstanding regarding 'what is happening here'. This isn't 'client side authorisation' in the sense you are talking of. Specifically it still relies …

Note that these batteries wouod have to be replaced every time they are empty not 'once a year .

Why do you think it's illegal?

Consider however that if we all bought off the app store, then while apple may take 30% of our payments, the author may benefit far more from the increased exposure due to the inhe…

You lost 6 orders of magnitude to this IMHO: 5610 million km^3 = 5.61 * 10^3 * 10^6 km^3 = 5.61 * 10^9 km^3 = 5.61 * 10^9 * 10^9 m^3 = 5.61 * 10^18 m^3 But you said the resulting v…

I don't like calling non-uniform distributions 'predictable'. Think of it like this: A coin which produces heads 99/100 times is not predictable, since you cannot predict when the …