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  1. Re:The last to go on Aircraft Responsible For 2.5% of Global Carbon Dioxide Emissions · · Score: 1

    No, their fossil footprint isn't small, and there are many more important thing to do with oil, e.g. plastic.

  2. Re:protip on Aircraft Responsible For 2.5% of Global Carbon Dioxide Emissions · · Score: 1
  3. Re:The last to go on Aircraft Responsible For 2.5% of Global Carbon Dioxide Emissions · · Score: 2

    I'm a pretty big global warming doomsayer, but even I want to live in a world where I can fly to the other side of the planet in 24 hours if I really have to.

    I'm a vegeterian, but I want to eat meat whenever I want.
    PROTIP : Nobody really *needs* to be on the other side of the planet in 24 hours.

  4. Re:Good news on NSA Says They Have VPNs In a 'Vulcan Death Grip' · · Score: 1

    if everything's encrypted... viola.

    Interesting. How do you plan to encrypt a big violin? :)

  5. Re:NetworkManager on NetworkManager 1.0 Released After Ten Years Development · · Score: 1

    I just checked, it's a dependency for ubuntu-minimal.
    So it's installed on every Ubuntu/Mint/....

  6. Re:NetworkManager on NetworkManager 1.0 Released After Ten Years Development · · Score: 1

    Here's a command you can use to get all those commands :
    bash -c "compgen -c | grep ^[A-Z] | sort"

    On my system, I get :
    ControlPanel, GET, GMT, HEAD, Mail, MAKEDEV, ModemManager, NetworkManager, POST, R, Rscript, VBoxBalloonCtrl, VBoxClient, VBoxControl, VBoxHeadless, VBoxManage, VBoxSDL, VBoxService, VirtualBox, X, Xephyr, Xorg

  7. Re:Since this has turned into a textbook bitchfest on Calculus Textbook Author James Stewart Has Died · · Score: 1

    I'd never actually been taught trig, and was trying to learn it independently for both Statics and Calc II.

    I tried to learn trigonometry by heart for a long time, and it never worked.
    I would try to learn this : http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu... and could not remember anything with 100% certainty.
    Is it cos(a)cos(b)-sin(a)sin(b) or cos(a)cos(b)+sin(a)sin(b), or maybe cos(a)sin(b)+sin(a)cos(b)?
    Anyway, the best way for me was to remember the one formula to rule them all (Euler's):
    e**ix = cos(x)+i*sin(x)

    Using complex addition, multiplication and e**(i*n*x)=(e**(i*x))**n, I can find all the formulas from the cheat sheet easily.
    It's less error-prone than learning by heart, and it's much more fun because I understand it and can check it with simple geometry.

  8. Impressive on Godot Engine Reaches 1.0, First Stable Release · · Score: 0

    It's very impressive.
    The Godot website reaches 0.01fps right now.

  9. Re:Glad I Didn't Build an Application Around That on Google Earth API Will Be Retired On December 12, 2015 · · Score: 1

    If you have an array of (t,x,y,z) points, it shouldn't be hard to do.
    It sounds like you clearly know what you want, so you could either code it or make someone code it for you.
    Python+maplotlib or Sketchup+Ruby would do just fine.

  10. Re:Glad I Didn't Build an Application Around That on Google Earth API Will Be Retired On December 12, 2015 · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure I understood what you want to do.
    Do you just want to display your 3D path?
    If so, gnuplot or matplotlib would do.
    If you want more information and more interactivity, just use SketchUp.
    You can write a small Ruby script to display one path for each skydiver, geolocate the model and display a map on the ground.

  11. Re:Oronyms are part of Tamil grammar. on Excuse Me While I Kiss This Guy: The Science of Misheard Song Lyrics · · Score: 1
  12. Re:Sadly,... on Uber Banned In Delhi After Taxi Driver Accused of Rape · · Score: 2

    I totally agree with you for the reasons why rape is so common in India.
    But there's no need to be a white-knight do-gooder to realize that (at least in Europe), many prostitutes aren't so happy about their job, and that many are there because of the mafia.
    I never tried prostitution for this reason. Give me a "fair-trade pussy" label and I'd be happy to try it.

  13. Sadly,... on Uber Banned In Delhi After Taxi Driver Accused of Rape · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Sadly, it appears that rapes are so common in India that they should also ban public parks, buses, trains and Starbucks.

  14. Re:video chat on Firefox 34 Arrives With Video Chat, Yahoo Search As Default · · Score: 0

    +1

  15. Re:Two things on The Life of an ATLAS Physicist At CERN · · Score: 3, Funny

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  16. Re:Some people never learn. on Taxi Medallion Prices Plummet Under Pressure From Uber · · Score: 0

    Normal people have something like 100-120% debts/assets

    And here comes my WTF again.
    I consider myself a normal person, and I have 0% debt/asset ratio.
    I want to sleep well at night, I might be out of job next year, and I really don't like having debts.
    People having way too much debt was a big part of the 2008 crisis.

  17. Some people never learn. on Taxi Medallion Prices Plummet Under Pressure From Uber · · Score: 2

    "I'm already at peace with the idea that I'm going to go bankrupt," said Larry Ionescu, who owns 98 Chicago taxi medallions.

    WTF? Either he doesn't really own 100 medallions (and his bank does), or he considers having "only" 30 M$ the same as being bankrupt.

    He reminds of a scene from "The Queen of Versailles" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2125666/). Some 50 year old lady was complaining that last year "she owned 10 multi-million-dollar houses", and that now, she hasn't anything left.

  18. Re:help me understand on Riecoin Breaks World Record For Largest Prime Sextuplet, Twice · · Score: 1

    I suppose prime sextuplets are mostly just cool, because they're primes, and close to each other.
    Who knows, they might have applications in cryptography, image compression or whatever.
    It is possible that there are an infinite number of twin primes, but only a finite number of triplets/quadruplet/sextuplet.
    This currency could be a way to find the biggest sextuplet, ONCE AND FOR ALL!

  19. Re:So is it two or ten times tougher? on Corning Reveals Gorilla Glass 4, Promises No More Broken IPhones · · Score: 1

    It goes both way :
    "07de".to_i(16) => 2014

  20. Re:So is it two or ten times tougher? on Corning Reveals Gorilla Glass 4, Promises No More Broken IPhones · · Score: 1

    GP is correct.
    He wrote 10 as in 1*base+0*1, not as "how many fingers you have".
    two is written 10 in binary, ten is written 10 in decimal, and sixteen is written 10 in hexadecimal.
    If your pseudo is any indication, you might understand :
        (2..36).map{|base| base.to_s(base)}

  21. Re: It's still reacting carbon and oxygen... on Coal Plants Get New Lease On Life With Natural Gas · · Score: 1

    And why don't *you* like austerity?

  22. Re:How do you do it? on Polyphonic Overtone Singing Explained Visually With Spectrograms · · Score: -1, Troll

    I feel like a dirty old man (that's probably because I am one), but all I can think of is how a blowjob would feel like with overtone singing.

  23. Not so bad on Polyphonic Overtone Singing Explained Visually With Spectrograms · · Score: 0

    Tits, mathematics, physics theory, measurements and vizualisation aren't bad, but come on, give us some real "news for nerds"!
    I don't know, maybe some post by Bennett Haselton for example.

  24. Re:Confidence levels on Big Talk About Small Samples · · Score: 1

    Telling someone to type a command in R doesn't explain *why* typing that command works, or what's going on in the background.

    It's kinda hard to explain why this command should work, since it doesn't.
    The command should be 1-pbinom(37,54,.50)

  25. Re:Confidence levels on Big Talk About Small Samples · · Score: 1

    Talking about "getting the math right", the right command is 1-pbinom(37,54,.50), which is about 0.1919%