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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 displayin…

"Julia is a huge innovation; a Tesla is another car that does similar things to the other cars."

Would you like to engage with the ideas in the piece?

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 mean…

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 resu…

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 partic…

Anything in particular you would highlight? I've been following const generics development, but other than that I'm not too clued in. Thanks!

The commerce clause?

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 al…

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 ext…

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 p…

The presence of a very diffuse plasma in outer space is well established.

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…

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…

This is embarrassing, don't do this

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 …

No, just asking why it would be good. The claim was that it's so good that it's worth increased corruption.

why would bipartisanship be good?

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." Capitalis…

- "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…

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 th…

It uses more energy than a medium-sized nation to accomplish nothing of use?

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 …

> 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:/…

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 cane…