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Comment #48476321
> Axial flux motors aren't some new sci-fi invention Indeed not. The first ever electric motor was an axial flux motor built by Michael Faraday in 1821. It's definitely not a new i…
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Comment #47753632
Isn't that just gravity?
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Comment #47521640
What exactly are you claiming? You don't appear to be claiming copyright as you state that you don't know if they copied code. Are you saying that your prior art invalidates a pate…
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Comment #46220069
In my experience, legal and tax complexities are more than sufficient to restrict the countries that we have remote workers living in. We work globally so practical things like tim…
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Comment #46109382
> couldn't it? (Does it?) It could of course. It can do pretty much any pattern matching it likes. But I doubt very much it would because that pattern is way less common. As the ar…
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Comment #46079707
> thoughts? I have a few: What's the "Hypothetical Institute of Mathematical Physics"? What does 'a reflection of the total phase space or ”complexity weight” of the minimal aperio…
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Comment #46036547
> Capitalism That'll definitely help. But you need a certain amount of forced re-distribution to reduce relative poverty significantly below 30% because it's defined as 60% of medi…
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Comment #45724025
> why we define the Action as this object and why we should expect it to be minimised for the physical trajectory in the first place. The most coherent explanation I've heard was f…
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Comment #45463873
No, King Edward I was 300 years later.
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Comment #45359053
Sure but, in fairness, the HN title is a bit misleading. The paper says that the bodies are emitting light in the visible part of the EM spectrum not that the light is visible. And…
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Comment #45182986
It means that the current system provides free child care if your household income is less that 4x the federal poverty level. The new scheme doesn't restrict by income.
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Comment #44189768
> what parts of “Russia” were east of Japan in 1948 As it says she flew from Japan to the Aleutian islands, it would have probably been safer to fly via the Kamchatka peninsular in…
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Comment #43983276
> _who_ is the owner. Is it a stack frame? The owned memory may be on a stack frame or it may be heap memory. It could even be in the memory mapped binary. > Why would a stack fram…
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Comment #43355303
Most experimental approaches to fusion use a deuterium-tritium reaction. It's not the only possibility but it's not a wild bet that tritium will be needed whichever fusion tech win…
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Comment #42452502
That doesn't describe a census or anything like it. There is absolutely no evidence there was a census covering the Roman empire let alone the whole world (as actually stated in gL…
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Comment #42451562
> There is scientific consensus that Jesus was a historical figure It's fair to say that there is general consensus amongst Biblical scholars that there was a historical Jesus of N…
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Comment #42450167
From the article Gladys, who had previously converted to Catholicism and Christian Science, had firm ideas about how her conversion to Islam should go. She wanted it performed ‘on …
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Comment #42450077
> "Jesus" being essentially a mispronunciation Warning! Unnecessary nit-picking incoming... Jesus isn't a mispronunciation of Yeshua, it's a transliteration. Initially the Hebrew/A…
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Comment #42387554
> time they leave something undefined, they do so to leave implementations free to use the underlying platform's default behavior That's implementation defined (more or less) ie te…
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Comment #42306179
It's definitely less than Mach 5.5 given all the roadworks.
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Comment #41810506
In no particular order: 12 Angry Men Princess Bride Shawshank Redemption Ferris Bueller's Day Off My Cousin Vinnie
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Comment #41299564
They're not making the point about the military being state owned. They're making the point that the military is run almost identically to how a socialist state would be run. It's …
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Comment #40903023
I'm not the submitter, but I'm guessing that they thought it was interesting and thought others may also find it interesting. And so it proved. And as it is completely in keeping w…
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Comment #40875006
> Sorry Boris, your Euroskeptic vision has failed in so many ways. > Boris Johnson is out of parliament, making millions from speeches and newspaper columns. I'm pretty sure Boris …