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Comment · 10 years ago
I can only wonder how they much they'll charge for precious soldermask and silkscreen inks.
Comment · 10 years ago
True, this seems to be how Foreign policy people view things. This viewpoint shows up in things like "Five eyes" etc.
Comment · 10 years ago
Do you know the story of how the British went from petty traders to "greatness"?
Comment · 10 years ago
Great idea! Maybe this could help Venezuala. Oh wait...
Comment · 10 years ago
Parent is referring to the ODE \dot{z} = i z.
Comment · 10 years ago
This is a question of what it "means". It's origins can be traced to problems dealing with SO(n), and in this sense it's uniquely defined by the Lie-algebra of \mathfrak{so}(n), but in the Clifford-algebra world they become blades (more appropriate for CG).

I consider the cross-product to be one of the most abused objects in Physics; my first course in Newtonian mechanics was a nightmare, filled as it were, with the ghosts of all the characters killed so as to make the plot ostensibly "simple".

Comment · 10 years ago
Actually it's a bit more like 42.
Comment · 10 years ago
Peter Thiel is also on the steering committee of the shadowy Bildeberg group.
Comment · 10 years ago
Wouldn't a Thinkpad be a better idea ? You can get used ones for fairly cheap.
Comment · 10 years ago
Comment · 10 years ago
America, for all its deficiencies, does not expect its citizens to be loyal to a foreign culture or language, in order to come up in life. Some idiot being elected to the throne is not going to change the U.S, nor will it change the fact that US's GDP per-capita is about 25-30x that of India.
Comment · 10 years ago
Tell me, other than mimic ing whatever is fashionable in London, Berkeley and Paris, what exactly has the "Left" done in Africa, S. Asia and S. America ? Fashion, in general, is apparently the operational semantics of the ostensibly unpowdered and unperfumed.
Comment · 10 years ago
Hmm. In India, education, laws, governance, pretty much every sphere of power, last I looked, is run in English, for the English (vestiges).

China, like most nations, may aspire towards Western nations, but K-pop/Internet/TV inspired fads are no match for such awesome structures enforces under the threat of violence.

As outsiders, it's likely to be difficult to appreciate this - I recommend Naipaul (although he tends to believe colonization was some godsend).

Comment · 10 years ago
From its constitution.
Comment · 10 years ago

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