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  1. That's certainly not correct value.. Earth gets ~ 1370 W/m^2 (in atmosphere). And is ~ 150 mln km away from the Sun. ~1370 W/m^2 × (~150×10^9 m)^2 × 60s × 60 × 24 × 365.25 = ~9.728 × 10^32 J
  2. Sensei replied to Jon O'Starr's topic in Speculations
    I need his source code..
  3. They should not short sell in the first place! It is not constructive financial tool (in the case of stock market, in commodity exchanges it is completely different story). Doesn't build, but ruins businesses. If somebody thinks company is a bad business or eventually it will collapse should not buy their stocks. But if you short sale their stocks, that is evil! You are causing collapse of the company in shorter time. Hedge fund managers got what they deserved for and they were punished..
  4. I think market always behaved this way, but behind closed doors e.g. couple powerful investors making secret agreement and causing up rise or fall down of the company stock's together without everybody knowing about it. Now crowd of ordinary people can do it completely openly on the Internet. Before XX century there were bankruptcy of banks caused by spreading of rumours about sudden insolvency. Some were completely true, some others were lies. Attempts to regulate this will lead to permanent censorship of literally everything. e.g. people won't be even able to complain about malfunction of the product which company sales, even if their complains will be absolutely true (and which will lead to eventual fall of stock price of the company). "Talk about company (and their products) always in positive light or don't talk at all".. That is what you want? Who will judge they said lies about the product? Who will judge that rumours about company insolvency is true or lie? Court? No. Because the all details of how good or bad is situation inside the company is under control of the company and they can show court whatever lies they want.. What rating had companies and banks in 2008, a day before financial crisis? The highest possible! People proclaiming collapse of the system were mocked, censored, marginalised, sued. If somebody would publicly complain on CDS before 2008, banks which made millions and billions selling them, would sue person, because he or she attacked branch of which they are sitting and making profit on it.. If they would have a tool which you want them to introduce by making regulations, they would use it straight away to shut up mouth of wistleblowers..
  5. Some irrational numbers e.g. PI have infinite number of digits of each kind in decimal numerical system.
  6. PDF contains text and images. Start from making sure your text is really text, not image. e.g. some people scan paper documents and output from scanner (images) are put as is inside of the PDF document. To handle images there is needed OCR. Completely different procedure. Also text can be in several columns. Attempt to OCR will result in having couple words from each column mixed each row! Find some example here and copy and paste it for a start: https://www.google.com/search?q=python+extract+text+from+pdf This is what ordinary layman would do. Programmers write scripts which will automatically extract needed data. Manual extraction of data from thousands files would take months or years of work. In some not computerised countries and companies, people still work that way in offices. That's bizarre. And results in waste of human resources, ineffectiveness, inproductivity of company, office or government. Inability to compete with the real world were such job is done by programmers. Programmers wanting to extract data from documents have different than amount of information, problems like damage of character encodings (it doesn't bother much UK, US, Australia and Canada programmers, but the rest of world indeed), text in scanned images, text in columns, incorrect recognition of the letter by OCR etc. etc.
  7. They will rather send a Tesla. "First Tesla on another planet".. Actually they could do this (launch a rocket) this week..
  8. Depends on what do you mean by the "structure fundamentally similar".. ..you should search for articles on comparing MRI scans of twins..
  9. Bluetooth works reliablely only a few meters. If you run app in continuous BT discovery mode the all other devices with enabled BT will be captured (unless they have disabled BT, or enabled airplane mode). So app knows which devices (and indirectly which people) were around you (and their phone's BT MAC addresses). And if person is ill the all people with close proximity (5-10m) will be identified (if government app would send MAC address to central server). The problem with this method is that the all people have to have smartphone, and all have to have installed application, and must have battery fully charged, and never exhaust it.. continuous usage of BT drains battery very quickly. To make application work, device can't go to sleep mode. My device especially not liking WiFi, and GPS, but BT is third to drain battery.. Obviously there is (well deserved!) reluctance from democratic countries people concerning about their privacy. Therefore even Android app which asks for Bluetooth permission also requires coarse location permission, since Android v10, fine location permission, and since Android v11, background location permission. As a side note, if you have WiFi turned on, Hotspot mode or not, MAC address can also identify your device (it is unique in the world). But WiFi and BT have different MAC addresses. So, entire idea of usage of BT could work only in totalitarian country, like North Korea etc. (if they would have electronic devices and electricity all day long)
  10. Fast neutrons (with higher kinetic energy) can destroy nuclei i.e. split it to clusters. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster_decay Search net for "fast neutrons induced cluster decay"
  11. The answer for your initial question is:
  12. I have extension to your teaser: Make 0 using once each 2, 11, 13, 17, 19, 101 with only + - x / ( ) as Operators.
  13. If creators don't want their articles to be listed by search engine, it is easy: 1) don't buy ads to advertise your website, and 2) edit robots.txt file to reject search engine crawler: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/robots/create-robots-txt The first example on the page is how to disallow Google crawler to scan your website. Copy'n'paste to your website, 5 seconds of work and ~24h delay (till crawler notice change) and you're gone. More and more journalists release articles behind paywall. Does Google or any other search engine owner pays to skip it? Nope.
  14. Politicians, and generally people around the world, have completely lost their minds... The idea that the search engine has to pay content creators is totally bizarre... Money goes exactly the reverse direction! Content makers pay Google to include their website and promote whatever they sell to the people! If person goes to shop to get something from the shop, person pays shop? or shop pays client to get it? Farmer pays clients to buy his/her products? or clients pay farmer to produce food? Australian politicians are: 1) idiots? 2) have no idea how IT works? 3) both.. ? 4) bribed/corrupted by local IT companies which make local search-engines.. ? so entire regulation is just to shutdown foreign IT companies and promote local search-engines instead.. ? (if 4th is the answer, local search-engine IT companies won't pay the content creators as well!) Australian politicians apparently think that shop should pay clients to get their stuff from shelves.. Instead of "talking with lawyers", they should talk to computer programmers first.. I believe so that any senior IT engineer in Australia is having facepalm on his/her face hearing it.. as least should have.. The search-engine has forever an ongoing auction of websites. There are hundred millions or billions websites and their pages around the world, and each of creator wants to appear as close as possible to the top of list of search results, because end clients read just the first page (rarely more) of result.. They (creators of content) pay Google (or any other commercial search-engine) to be on the top of list! There is limited space and everybody wants it. Creators pay Google, not Google Pays creators! Water does not flow uphill even on the opposite side of the Earth.. Australian politicians apparently think it does.. Bizarre.
  15. Even if phone would be made of radioactive materials like Uranium or Plutonium it is extremely unlikely they would cause brain tumour (chances like one to trillions) 1) radioactive particles have barrier of skin and skull 2) people don't hold phone 24/7 close to their head (count how long per day you phoned.. you have it on calling reports from your provider). UV light from from the Sun (having hundred thousands to millions times more energy than microwaves used by cell phone) don't cause brain tumours. It causes skin cancer. Why? Because particles can't penetrate and reach brain. However there are some quantum particles which can penetrate, but they are extremely powerful primary and secondary cosmic rays and free neutrons.
  16. 60 Hz is AC frequency in USA and couple others countries where is used such standard. In the Europe there is used 50 Hz AC. LED uses DC mostly. 230V/110 VAC is converted to 5-12 VDC first and no more pulsates. Frequency of photons have nothing to do how energy was delivered. You eat food and you are emitting photons in MW and IR spectrum visible by IR camera. BTW, try recording light bulb by smartphone camera with enabled 60 fps mode (or more) and you will see these pulses. Human eye is unable to see it because they are too fast. 60 Hz means there will be 120 pulses per second. Light bulb emits light no matter in which direction electrons fly.
  17. The largest known primes are Mersenne primes. You have no idea where are non-Mersenne primes prior it..
  18. You should start by taking a photo from the microscope and attaching in to your reply. Maybe someone will recognise the microorganism. Print it out and find veterinarians as well. Bresser with LCD is quite nice: https://www.google.com/search?q=bresser+lcd+microscope
  19. Any object emits photons with energy depending on temperature (blackbody radiation). But if temperature is equal to environment, object receives (absorbs) similar amount of energy in photons (and other ways) as it emits therefore illusion of lack of radiation ("equilibrium"). But if you will put object with room ambient temperature to e.g. refrigerator it will be emitting more than receiving back and cool down even more. Turned off smartphone, or totally broken smartphone also emits radiation. If you would put it in refrigerator and observe by IR camera you would see the difference (photons in IR and MW spectrum) and how it slowly goes from ambient room temperature 20-25 C to below 0 C, emitting less and less energetic photons. You could repeat with even lower refrigerator temperatures with liquid Nitrogen and get to even lower energetic photons from blackbody radiation.
  20. How much memory do you have in the computer? Do you have HDD, SSD, or M.2? HDD has 55 MB/s transfer. SSD 550 MB/s. M.2 NVMe 1700-3500 MB/s. I have 16 GB (max) in the laptop and SSD to not have to worry about out of physical memory. Planning to upgrade to 24 GB (max of mobo) in the desktop machine. If application is using too much physical memory data must be swapped to disk and HDD is serious bottleneck here. I recommend to not even touch a computer without 16 GB of memory regardless of what are you doing and strongly recommend M.2 NVMe. 120 GB NVMe (1700 MB/s) costs 50 USD and PCI adapter for desktop costs 20 USD. 100 USD NVMe burst can have 3500 MB/s. Laptop users without on-board M.2 unfortunately have to use SSD. If you are not homeless there is no reason to suffer using obsolete computer.. It does not cost much.. Investment will pay off within a couple days of usage because you will save your time of life, which is wasted on waiting for the computer to finish job.. and minutes add up to hours, every day.. I often hear laymans "I don't do anything fancy, so don't need much" (the last time yesterday). BS! Reading websites in 10 tabs/windows can take the all memory of 8 GB computer these days.. M.2 NVMe has 70 times faster data transfer than HDD, so even if computer has out of physical memory events, they won't be as painful as with slow HDD. And there are still people using 5400 RPM HDD...
  21. IF smartphones would cause DNA/RNA mutations, microbes and viruses (living in other organisms), placed under the smartphone, should have abnormally damaged DNA/RNA. It is easy to verify scientific experiment. Grow unicellular microorganisms. Divide into two parts. One will be control group. The second place under smartphone, or even surround by dozen of smartphones, with full LTE / 5G / WiFi turned on all the time during the experiment, under WiFi router, or even put inside of LTE/5G cell-tower, after the experiment, compare amount of damaged DNA/RNA with control group. Repeat hundred times, with different species, with different environment conditions, with different duration of experiment. Release your findings. Some millionaire with a scientific interest should offer a $1 million USD award for proving that DNA/RNA is abnormally more damaged by LTE/5G/WiFi (procedure like above)... But why is that so? Answer: because of the increased temperature.. Tight pants decrease air flow, and increase temperature. Working electronic device is warm/hot, and also increase temperature. Somebody made study and experiments, how hot bath influences men fertility among sauna enthusiasts?
  22. US problems are much deeper than D.T. .. actually, he is just the result, what happened in U.S. below the carpet, where sometimes rich and prominent people, look only when there are elections.. I found an article in European newspaper about the situation in the USA as seen by a foreign journalist (translated by Google):
  23. Sensei replied to Ghideon's topic in The Sandbox
    You don't need brackets {} if superscript or subscript has just one character. e.g. x^2 instead of x^{2}. Subscript you make using _ character. [math]x^2[/math] [math]x_a[/math]
  24. Which one? There are two CuCl and CuCl2 ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper(I)_chloride https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper(II)_chloride Is it your aim? or just playing for fun? "Copper(II) chloride is prepared commercially by the action of chlorination of copper. Copper at red heat (300-400°C) combines directly with chlorine gas, giving (molten) copper (II) chloride. The reaction is very exothermic. Cu(s) + Cl2(g) → CuCl2(l)"

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