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Comment · 2 years ago
The reason this worked is, that the back-action of the moon on the sun is very insignificant. For a "real" chaotic three-body system, you need three bodies that interact with each other on comparable scales.
Comment · 4 years ago
An emergency room physician once told me, they used to call the first sunny days of spring "Nierenwetter" ("kidney weather").
Comment · 4 years ago
This is now my lock screen as well. Thank you very much!
Comment · 4 years ago
From the artcile: "The numbers were small — 13 metformin-exposed boys were born with genital defects. But after the researchers adjusted for factors including parental ages and maternal smoking status, they found a 3.39-fold rise in the odds of a genital defect. “The rate per se was surprisingly high,” Wensink says."
Comment · 4 years ago
They're advocating for "drastically cutting the red tape", which could certainly influence one side of these inequalities quite strongly.
Comment · 4 years ago
Not all food is done once it reaches the desired temperature. A lot of food, e.g. tough meats, need to stay above a certain temperature for a long time until they're done.
Comment · 4 years ago
The supply of Dollars is not limited to 21 million.
Comment · 5 years ago
Real Estate! That'll be the only valuable thing in such an economy.
Comment · 5 years ago
No, if you need 50k for electricity, it does not matter how much money you put into the mining rig, you're better off buying 40k bitcoin directly.
Comment · 5 years ago
Only the generator is at the bottom, the power still comes from the upper part of the structure and is transferred mechanically, I would assume.
Comment · 5 years ago
But you can see that explosive growth equally well in the per capita numbers. The total number is just the per capita rate multiplied by a different number in every country, so there are very few occasions where it is useful to choose it over the per capita rate.
Comment · 5 years ago
The headline seems to be plainly wrong. It's an interstellar comet that supposedly has not had a close encounter with another star. But it certainly is not the "first interstellar comet to have visited our solar system", or did I miss something?
Comment · 5 years ago
Cheap HDMI cables typically leak image information quite nicely. With the right equipment, it's really easy to get a decent resolution image of the radiation picked up from an HDMI cable even over tens of meters.
Comment · 5 years ago
From your comment I would conclude that is not exactly the same mechanism. For the moebius printing, the pages are flipped individually while the stack of records is flipped as a whole.
Comment · 5 years ago
It does make sense. The price of BTC in USD is roughly the same on every exchange. If some exchanges allow USD and USDT interchangeably, the BTC price can be driven up by trades that are conducted in USDT. The price on Coinbase will adapt to that.

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