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Their "argument" was presumably the infrastruture required for the API to exist took the overhead. I'm a bit sceptical.

But yeah, compared to the performance boost of not downloading the adverts - or on many sites, simply blocking all javascript - really, this overhead could never be consequental.

Hell, for us in NZ; it's incosequental compared to the speed of light crossing the pacific ocean. According to Wolfram Alpha, I'm looking at 0.0349 second latency, one way (so 0.0698 second round trip) minium due to speed of light. That's 35 milliseconds one way, 70 milliseconds round trip.

That's right, to go below 70 millisecond latency per request for me to a typical, west coast USA web server, Chrome will literally have to break physics.

Turn off the Fox News.

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Turn off the Fox News.

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... integrating the reciprocal of the cube root of the co-secant.

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I don't think I could have gotten that integral even back in high school when I was good at integrating.

But your point about teaching kinds to be more responsible with money is well taken.

No.
Frequency of red light starts at 400THz you nutsack, your math is wrong.

There's not really any conceivable way to do any such thing, nor any purpose which would be best served by it, and other side effects of that much energy expenditure would be of far more immediate concern. If my math is right, the energy required to move Mars to Earth orbit would be about 20x its gravitational binding energy. You probably don't want to just give it a big whack, and the list of things that would probably be easier would probably include disassembling the planet and moving it to a new orbit piecemeal.

At 7 million gallons a day, Lake Michigan will be empty in only 500,000 years!

1/(7million/1.29e15 x 365)

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Lake+Michigan+gallons

Scaremonger much? And to think, I used to come here because people used some semblance of critical thinking. Also, this is three minutes of discharge of the Tittabawasee river at Midland, MI.

What is the indefinite integral of cos^3(x^3)dx? Google doesn't know how to do calculus, but w|a does. Who is smarter? It can solve non-linear ordinary differential equations too. And differential geometry.

What is the indefinite integral of cos^3(x^3)dx? Google doesn't know how to do calculus, but w|a does. Who is smarter? It can solve non-linear ordinary differential equations too. And differential geometry.

Population of Los Angeles metro: 13million, almost 26x Wyoming. Larger than the bottom 13 states combined.

I haven't seen such denial in a company killing something off since Apple's G4 Cube:

The company said there is a small chance it will reintroduce an upgraded model of the unique computer in the future, but that there are no plans to do so at this time.

It's been 6,028 days. It's dead.

"The representative declined to say if Microsoft would ever bring Kinect back."

Microsoft no longer manufacture the Kinect hardware, their current Xbox One S and Xbox One X consoles don't support the Kinect without an adapter, and they just stopped selling that adapter. It's dead.

One Texas is 33.45 Wales.

PS, we have 50 other states (but Texas is the second largest)

We have 49 other states, (fifty states in total,) unless you are counting psychological states, such as 'of fury' or 'of confusion,' in which case the total is far, far higher.

FTFY.

Much depends on definition chosen. People sometimes assume one definition is the only, and therefore absolute. Texas is not the second largest, in many things. For example, the largest state measured by the size of its coastline, Texas isn't even in the top five. Or considering the length of the perimeter bordering other states or countries, it's probably not second there either. Texas is also probably not the even the second largest in total surface area, as it is extremely FLAT; I'm pretty sure California, with all its mountains, and Hawaii, (including all the wetlands between its various mountain peaks,) both have far, far more land area than pancake-like Texas.

One Texas is 33.45 Wales.

PS, we have 50 other states (but Texas is the second largest)

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An acrefoot of water contains over 1 million liters, pinky in the air.

Why is this news to anyone with a brain?

If you want straight answers, look at Wolfram Alpha.

I don't accept this answer. We have https://www.wolframalpha.com/ [wolframalpha.com]

I don't understand your answer. Are you a bot from either Google or from Wolfram Alpha?

I don't accept this answer. We have https://www.wolframalpha.com/ that attempts to do just that, Google with its unlimited resources could do more and better. I think the real problem with lack of progress in this area is that Google is perfectly happy with staying Digital Yellow Pages, as this provides maximum revenue. If they start answering questions, it will cost them clicks and page views.

According to Wolfram Alpha, it's about 1.205 million football fields in size.

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Will it autonomously crash in a parked trailer ?

That's why you run such a prototype 390 million km from the nearest trailer.

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If the students are allowed online for the tests now, they might find this webapp helpful: https://www.wolframalpha.com/

At some point in time they decided to complete with Ask Jeeves and become an "answer engine." Good luck with that.

It was shortly after Microsoft made a deal with Wolfram Alpha to do the same thing. Google had a huge push after that to give answers and such.

Some statistics that might help:

horizon radius | 8.86×10^12 meters
event horizon area | 9.86×10^26 m^2 (square meters)
surface gravity | 5070 m/s^2 (meters per second squared)
temperature | 2.057×10^-17 K (kelvins)
entropy | 1.303×10^73 J/K (joules per kelvin)

Relative velocity to speed of light = 5000000mph / 671000000mph = 0.00745c

Using Lorentz formula

T = 1.000027

Even at 5 million mph, it's still in first gear relative to the speed of light.

They say '12PB' of durability for the 375GB part but refuse to tell us how much overprovisioning they do. They say '30 drive writes per day' without tellling us what the warrenty will be.

Those numbers (12.3PB) work out to be very nearly 3 years, for what it's worth -- perhaps (???) there's a 3-year warranty or something (or expected lifetime).

Quick Wolfram calculations

Err...the average human eye has 20/20 vision, which is one minute of arc per pixel (actually arc-minutes for a capital E). 1/atan(1/60 degree) is 3438, and 3438 / 10 inches = 344 ppi. Put another way, the average person would need to be within 3438 / 565 pixels = ~6.1 inches (~155mm) to resolve individual pixels on the screen in question.

p.s. If you personally have 20/10 vision, that goes up to 20/10 * 344 = 688 ppi at 10 inches, and you should be able to resolve individual pixels on your phone at 3438 * 20/10 / 534 ppi = 12.9 inches. And yes, I'm assuming square, 100% black or white pixels. Subpixels and true color images change the equations, so your numbers may be correct for photos on phone screens.

Well, what exactly a time unit of CPU computation means isn't defined (it's like saying "This item cost me 500 monetary units", there's no context), but if we just take it to mean a literal amount of time on any random CPU...

6,500 years of CPU time potentially costs as little as ~$171k USD at Amazon, and compute costs are continuously falling.

how did you come up with that price?

Spot pricing on a 36CPU c4.8xl is currently $0.46/hour.

6500 years in hours / 36 * $0.46/hour is $728K

Spot pricing may go lower from time to time, but on-demand pricing for the c4.8xl is $1.80hour, so $0.46 is already a significant discount. The upcoming c5 series should help with pricing.

arccos(-4*4/4/4) If you don't have a calculator with you, https://www.wolframalpha.com/i...

Wolfram returned this which is 10^10^153.9...

Actually, you can, if you allow complex arithmetic - ln(-4/4)/sqrt(-4/4)

I was in London for work shortly before the Brexit referendum, and the dollar was then worth 0.69GBP[1]. Compared to the current value of 0.816GBP, the pound has dropped 18.3% -- almost exactly what TFS claims. So if you want to characterize a nearly 20% drop in value as "pretty much matching the old pricing", I guess go ahead. But for those of us living in reality, a 20% drop in the value of our money is a pretty big fucking deal.

[1] Source: Wolfram Alpha

Easy. He just asked Worlfram Alpha.

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The Adult Population of the USA is something like 194.5 Million people.
Let's say that you can get by on $25,000 per year, tax free.
Providing UBI for this many people will cost the economy 4.8 Trillion Dollars. Where is this going to come from?
OK, let's scale this back a bit. We will give every adult in the USA $200 per week - $10,400 per year. We're still talking about $2.02 Trillion - this is 11% of the entire GDP of the USA.
To put this in perspective, the USA spends $810 Billion on public education per year, $1.3 Trillion on pensions and almost $600 Billion on defence.

WA

Overhead would have to be 50 sheets of paper. doesn't seem right.

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Overhead would have to be ~78 sheets of paper. That doesn't seem right.

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world population 1700 to now.

2012 electricity generation was 22,668TWh

There must be some kind of error in 1.1 ms, as that is 9.1 x c, which doesn't seem possible...

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war reduces populations

I bet you can't even pick out he war years on a population chart. http://www.wolframalpha.com/in...

You'd have a hard time picking out diseases and those have had a greater impact

According to WolframAlpha, there are about 1 million words in the English language. So, each word in the English language should generate 280 million new combinations based upon the patterns we tend to use. Colour me highly sceptical about that. I might be wrong, my maths are a bit rusty and I'm not all that much into password cracking. So, I am open to arguments showing that my thinking is flawed.

Also decline in Turkey and Iran.

captcha: tragedy

The extra warming has been compared to 400,000 Hiroshima-sized nuclear explosions per day, or 2.5 x 10^14 Joules per second, or 250 TW. This is a very large number, but total solar energy intercepted by the Earth is around seven hundred times greater. World power consumption in 2013 was 18 TW. Power consumption is a term in the energy balance equation; we are eventually going to have to rein in energy use purely because of climate considerations, but not soon.

This is the kind of question that belies a complete lack of understanding about the scale of energy involved. I can't even qualify your comments on friction. However, to believe that there is any kind of hidden source of 100-125 TW located on the planet defies any kind of credulity.

as many french emigrating as us citizens getting the hell out of the US

US population is five times greater than france. http://www.wolframalpha.com/in... so french emigration per capita rates are much higher.

rapid population growth?

Population would be shrinking in the US, like most of western countries, if it were not for immigration. Replacement fertility ate in the US is 2.1. The actual value is 1.89.

Wolfram Alpha is the place to ask that sort of thing.

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Result:
2.722×10^14 kg (kilograms)
2.722×10^11 t (metric tons)

Volume V of water from V = m/rho_(H_2O):
    | 2.722×10^14 L (liters)
    | 272 km^3 (cubic kilometers)
    | (assuming maximum water density ~~ 1000 kg/m^3)