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I have no special knowledge about IBM Vs Apple historically, but: a quarter billion in CAPEX when you've earned a billion in revenue in a single year is extremely different to what…

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Silver's forecasts do predictably change, more precisely in that they swing deterministically in favour of one candidate whenever the most recent poll to come in favours that candi…

Adaptive Brightness: "solving a problem that's been solved numerous times, but this time using machine learning"

In the article they've trained the AI to predict what frames the game would provide given a certain input, but to demonstrate its effectiveness they show the original game given a …

Equalities that involve units aren't straightforward. Not a physicist of any sort but don't all the 1's still fundamentally change the equality since they change the units? I would…

Very true - neither the person who wants BTC (but has no opinions on BCH) nor the BCH buyer wants to take the risk that the other coin will drop before he/she can sell it. In other…

The interested parties on either side would have been better off buying pre-fork and selling the one they didn't want, rather than buying after the fork, even though the end result…

PE ratios correlate highly to dividends for shareholders. Does holding bitcoin have a way of compensating you when the transaction count increases?

Indeed. I guess volatility like this isn't a dealbreaker for other asset types so it shouldn't be here. Just seems odd that we call it a "currency" when these things happen routine…

To me an asset that moves 15% in a day, and which no-one knows what it's truly worth, isn't great as a store of value. I'm not going to speculate about where bitcoin will be tradin…

That manifold is a torus - you can walk in circles by walking West-East or North-South, each of which repeats every 1 distance unit. If you walk along the diagonal you get a repeat…

I would expect these are broken down by enzymes in the mouth/gut long before they have a shot at entering the bloodstream to bind with any antibodies.

Payment systems like visa are relatively cheap to operate when being used honestly. There may be overhead when people commit fraud, but to me that seems more prudent than giving ho…

My suggestion would be to place the car by distance travelled since last leaving the home straight. Use steering + throttle inputs to determine when you are on the home straight, m…

Did a back of the envelope trigonometry calculation as an approximation, seems to check out :)

Follow-up question - after extending the rope by 0.12mm and pulling it up to allow the cat to pass under it, how far away are each of the two points where the rope lifts off the gr…

I'm assuming the GIF showing a phone taking a Motion Still was itself made using Motion Stills. Fun.

Ballpark numbers here; by similar reasoning, since the industrial revolution humans have put out no more than 26,000 years worth of all volcanoes' emissions (say 200 years worth of…

I hope I don't come across as too obtuse, but it might still make economical sense for the PSF to backpedal on their decision: even if Python3 is a good solution for the future, it…

https://xkcd.com/927/ comes to mind when I read this.