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Would it be silly to attempt to analyze an image of a natural fractal in order to approximate the equation which forms the fractals?

Has something like that been done before?

Acrylic neck and fretboard with a really thin truss rod? It would probably feel terrible, and the IR light might be distorted anyway.

Correct!

What matters is whatever they are blabbering about actually gets them out of office or paints a negative picture to enough people that it makes a difference.

If it is not effective, that's when things get interesting, I believe. It could mean a number of things; younger people are voting more, games are becoming more widely accepted as not a bad thing, for instance.

In the latter case, one could argue that the perpetrators are very much out of touch.

I am generally a pedestrian, and in my experience when I am running on a paved path and cyclists go around me, they sometimes say "on your left" which works pretty well, but bells are great.

edit: doh!

I had a great experience buying my first car, a new-used car, from Enterprise Car Sales, a branch of the car rental company. We were able to have a good conversation, and I found that they are a "different" kind of car dealer because they have fixed, no haggle prices for all of their cars.

They are, however, still a car dealer as customers are not able to buy the car online, but they are able to pay to ship the car to the nearest Enterprise dealer. Like every other dealer however, there is a surprising amount of paperwork.

It wasn't entirely painless, but it was the closest to a pleasant experience as I was comfortable with. I was not comfortable negotiating how much I lose with a normal dealer.

I wish I could buy a Tesla vehicle now, but I don't have the money to do so, and I don't want to be in debt for a long time.

This is amazing stuff. Thanks! I agree that arguing over leap seconds is trivial. We're at a good enough point now, assuming leap seconds are handled correctly, such that accounting for those seconds keeps us on track.

> Noon should always be noon

In other words, given a point on Earth (or any planet) and it's angle relative to the sun it orbits, when that point aligns exactly with and faces the center of the sun, it is noon.

Consider this: The way everyone refers to time is "X Units before noon", much like the 24-hour clock (no am/pm), except 0 is noon. The key is that X must be flexible, it should have no maximum, and no minimum.

edit: clarification

Leap seconds are a work-around to make the 24-hour clock keep time correctly. The reason so many problems occurred was a combination of insufficient programming, but also the affect an inaccurate system.

I'm not sure what a correct system should be, but I know that it can't be based on the Earth, the sun, or any one galaxy. In order to have accurate time, it must be external to all of these things, like a meter stick is to an object.

The possible problem with this is that there will come a time when "3:00 pm" is in the middle of the night, the time to wake up for work will always "change".

edit: more thoughts

I'm currently using Google Docs Spreadsheets to keep track of my personal financial data. It is much more manual, but once the view over the data is set, all one needs to do is enter new credits and debits.

Here's how I have it set up: I have one sheet with 6 columns: Account, Transaction Date, Post Date, Credit, Debit, Description . When I have a new charge, I add a new row and fill it out accordingly. Every week, or at the end of the month when my statement comes in, I fill in the Post Date and check the charge. I then check if the statement is balanced with my data.

In another sheet for viewing the data, I use functions DSUM and DAVERAGE, to consolidate information, and I store Criteria Constraints within the same sheet, in a separate section.

All textual data is stored in a third sheet which is referenced in the two other sheets using the INDEX function. The INDEX functions reference custom Ranges so that the data sheets don't have to change.

Doing it this way is a bit of work up front, but once everything is hammered out, I believe it's a smooth system. It may not be the most secure, but it allows me to enter data from any computer, my phone or my tablet, so I really have no excuse to not keep track of my charges or not know exactly how much money I have.

I hope this helps you!

e: sp

This is entirely speculation on my part, but maybe this is some insight into how many spam accounts there are on Twitter.

I am fairly worried by the security policy at Twitter.

For example, I have a friend who had his Twitter account hacked. As an experiment, he deactivated the account, but did not change the password. Whoever had the password logged into the hacked account and reactivated it. When he received the email of the reactivation, there was no "If you did not initiate this, click here" option.

edit: formatting

This is a very interesting interpretation of that video. It has such a dystopian flavor. Yes, it solves problems for you, but at the expense of a full thought process.

What about changes that are required during off-hours when there there is a problem: Wait until works hours to implement in production? Is this not a consideration given the context?

"The goal of X is to teach us about the world, not stroke Ys' egos and tell us how clever our existing theories are."

This a million times. I want this on a shirt, with the millions of X's and Y's it satisfies. Thank you for posting.