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Seeing as the President is the leader of the federal government does he have the right to abolish capital punishment in federal cases? Could this be done without an constitutional amendment?
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The negativity of a density matrix is defined as
$$
\mathcal{N}(\rho_{AB}) = \frac{1}{2} \bigl(\|\rho_{AB}^{T_A}\|_1 - 1\bigr),
$$
where $\rho_{AB}$ is a density matrix on the bipartite system $A \otimes B$,
$T_A$ denotes the partial transpose with respect to subsystem $A$,
and $\|\cdot\|_1$ is t...
What is the exact start date and time of the Cardano network?
I need to do some epoch boundary time calculations and want to make sure I have the exact network start time. Is this value archived somewhere that I can reference?
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I'm using a USB2514-B as a 4-port hub connected to a Raspberry PI CM4, and I can't figure out why the USB devices connected to it only work in full-speed mode.
If I connect a USB device in high-speed mode (like a USB mass-storage device), the device is not recognized and dmesg throws out I/O erro...
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What's a property of a forcing poset that stops the forcing extension $V[G]$ from killing a given weakly compact cardinal $\kappa$ in $V$?
One sees that $\mathrm{Add}(\kappa, \gamma)$ preserves $\kappa$'s weak compactness (although it won't preserve measurability; you need $o(\kappa) = \kappa^{++...
Disclaimer: I'm not a stalker.
Steam lets you follow people.
What does following people actually do though?
Having someone as a Steam friend already lets you see what games someone adds to their wishlist, starts playing, buys, etc... so what's the point of following someone, and what does it do?
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[JPS 1 Samuel 20:30] Then Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said unto him: 'Thou son of perverse rebellion, do not I know that thou hast chosen the son of Jesse to thine own shame, and unto the shame of thy mother's nakedness?
What might be Saul's concern?
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Consider the below sample file
a
b
c
d
When I visually select first two lines a and b and then execute :norm dd it seems to delete first and third line instead of deleting first two lines. The output is
b
d
Any idea why this is happening? I know we can use dj motion but I'm just curious why :no...
Liminary note: I'd like to emphasize I'm asking this question neutrally. There could be some good reason for that trend, such as more non-instructional research staff.
I saw on https://x.com/DOGE/status/1869811780543021359 :
Beware that the y-axis starts at 50,000 rather than 0. The plot shows ...1
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I've seen this image thrown around mainly on Twitter:
The quote begins with "Ich bin sozialist" and it is purportedly a direct quote from Hitler. It is used mostly by right-wingers to assert that Hitler was a socialist.
Examples:
Philosophia Perennis
Die Zeitung
Klonovsky
A similar quote can b...1
The following is from Rambam's Sanhedrin veha’Onashin haMesurin lahem - Chapter 11
All individuals are acceptable to judge cases involving financial laws, even a convert, provided his mother is a native-born Jewess.
הַכּל כְּשֵׁרִים לָדוּן דִּינֵי מָמוֹנוֹת אֲפִלּוּ גֵּר וְהוּא שֶׁתִּהְיֶה אִמּ...3
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In the following minipage with a fixed height, why does TeX not try to use the glue settings to make the content fit within the fixed height? I don’t even get a warning about an overfull \vbox.
\documentclass{article}
\newcommand\test{%
\vspace*{1em plus 1em minus 1em}
Test%
\par
}
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While preparing an answer to another question here, I coded up a query that contained multiple window functions having the same OVER(...) clause. Results were as expected.
select ...
sum(sum(s.price)) over (partition by p.productid
order by c.date
...4
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I’m a retired engineer and am stumped on why, for my cases, a catenary curve can be approximated by a portion of an ellipse. Both curves have their vertex at the origin. For the catenary,
$$\frac{y}{c}=\left(\cosh\frac{x}{c}-1\right)$$
The boundary condition is $(x,y) = (R,H)$ as shown in the s...3
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I'm slowly losing hard drive space and I don't understand why. I had 15 GB initially and now I'm down to less than 4 GB despite only installing a few programs/files. I have searched online and watched videos, and although I have been able to reclaim some of the disk space, overall the hard drive'...
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Visual puzzle, pattern.
Source: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfJem2ocgmifwE9P_iiPROObYEVDUGvB9Yh-u0FqJd-hkkrrA/closedform
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I read this book maybe 25 years ago. I believe it was first published in the 80s or 90s, and I think the author was a woman.
Essentially, the main character is crew on a star ship, and there is some sort of rank structure like government or military. Everyone has psychic powers, at the very lea...
I'm new to exit polls of elections.
From 2016 CNN exit polls, there are 2 versions of the exit polls
Here's the (transposed) text version of the tables :
Not combined
Mormon
Other Christian
Protestant
Protestant/Other Christian
Catholic
Jew
Muslim
Other
Other/Muslim
None
Democrat
28.00%
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I'm making a 2D logo and want to make it thicker, but I can't. Extruding doesn't work, the Solidify modifier doesn't work, and I can't even move vertices along the Y-axis (which would thicken it in this case since the logo is aligned along the X and Z axes). I can move it around in Object Mode, b...
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Given the height, \$h\$, and width, \$w\$, describing a rectangle of the first \$hw\$ natural numbers in row-major order produce the numbers in the order they are encountered by repeatedly removing a strip of the outermost numbers, each time starting with the top-rightmost and ending with the bot...
Two people are consensually sexting. Person A is under the age of consent of its nation (United States) but person B is in a different nation (Portugal) where person A would be over the age of consent.
Could person B face any legal problems (either in Portugal or the United States)?
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Quotients in constructive type theory are a bit of a pain. My understanding is that the first type theory that supported them well was cubical type theory, and in previous type theories the alternative was called "setoid hell".
On the other hand, consider how quotients are handled in CZF set theo...
Sentient creatures evolve on a warm continent and for some reason is unable to wear anything: clothes, armor, spacesuits.
As they start their expansion they have to find way to keep them warm. As they invent weapons the have to do without armor.
Why would they have this restriction?
I was wondering if it’d be possible to scatter a model made of multiple objects across a plane (without joining them) using geometry nodes. For example, this house, where each window is its own object:
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The code works, but I could use help testing it more comprehensively and double-checking that everything I'm doing makes sense, and that all the options can coexist with each other. I'm running into the problem that I've been staring at my own code for too long and could really just use outside i...
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Similar to the class for the RAR file, now a class to extract and store the hashes from SFV files.
Though this was considerably easier, there has been some code reorganisation: there is now an abstract HashFile class, from which both RarFile and SfvFile inherit:
"""This module contains classes an...
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In the geometric figure, the point p is the center of a circle and the two angles marked are 20 Degree (converted to radians):
GeometricScene[{{a, b, c, p}, {r}},
{CircleThrough[{a, b, c}, p],
GeometricAssertion[PlanarAngle[{a, b, p}] == \[Pi] 20/180],
GeometricAssertion[PlanarAngle[{a, c...
Scenario: I would like to remove the author apex access from production for developers and only keep access to use developer console for running soql.
To achieve this I gave minimum permissions to developers as below:
API Enabled
View all Data (Needed for developer console)
No author apex permi...2
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Recently a player decided to accept a permanent sacrifice of her character in order to enchant an item.
I would like to weigh the power of the item against the type of sacrifice.
Mechanics: A medium sacrifice should be comparable to a rare item, and a big sacrifice to a very rare item.
Crunchy: A...
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The main character is a high school student training to become a fixer/negotiator due to an event in his past. He was selected by a mentor to protect the young daughter of a criminal family i believe. There are some super natural elements such as his training in a martial art that shortens his ...
I have some simulated time series data in R:
library(tidyverse)
library(forecast)
library(lubridate)
set.seed(123)
dates <- seq(as.Date("2023-01-01"), by = "month", length.out = 36)
trend <- seq(1, 36) * 2
seasonal <- sin(2 * pi * (1:36) / 12) * 10
random <- rnorm(36, mean = 0, sd = 5...
Can you draw a shape that has 4 right angles and exactly 4 sides of equal length, but is not a square? You may need to think outside the box ;)
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The 'here string' (<<<) is a useful construct, and can be used in lieu of echo in many situations. However, when calculating a hash (as one example) the addition of a newline character changes the hash value.
I've searched for a compact method to prevent the newline from being added by the 'here ...
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I'm working on an exploratory essay that uses the Skellam Distribution and I found that it involves the Bessel function (specifically of the first order). I tried looking up information about the origins of the Bessel function and particularly about the Bessel function of the first order, but I d...
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I need to get information about the last person edited the file, so I use git blame to achieve this. All I need is to run git blame -L X,Y and have it pasted in the Vim window.
If I attempt one of the following I don't get any results:
:!git blame -L .,.
:!git blame -L line('.'),line(.)
Is there...
Towards the end of Episode 1 of season 3 of Invincible.
But in episode 2
So the question is:
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Let $a,b,c$ be positive real numbers, show that the following inequality holds
$$
\frac{a(a+b)}{(b+c)(2a+b)}+\frac{b(b+c)}{(a+c)(2b+c)}+\frac{c(a+c)}{(a+b)(2c+a)}\geq 1.
$$
$\textbf{My attempt}$
I first rewrote the inequality as following
$$
\sum_{cyc}\left(\frac{a}{b+c}\right)\cdotp \left(\frac...
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When mirroring objects, it often happens that an object ends up with a transform that has at least one axis negative. I can "apply all transforms" to bake the transforms into the object, but that does not change the fact that the orientation of those triangles is now flipped. I could fix it by fl...
I have a file with a header row containing the file path as the name for each column and I'd like to extract and print out just the file name. There are over 100 columns.
E.g. Input header row:
AAF2Y7VM5-8/cnv/F04_reads.tsv AAF2Y7VM5-7/cnv/D04_reads.tsv AAF2Y7VM5-6/cnv/E04_reads.tsv
Goal ...1
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I am wondering how are airfoils optimized to handle well in a variety of flight regimes or Reynolds numbers. Let's say you want an airfoil that compromises between having low drag at speeds around 300 mph, a high L/D ratio at around 100 mph, and still be able to fly relatively efficiently at arou...
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How can I force LaTeX to use the space available at the top and bottom of the page to display the title and additional text on the same page as my images without changing their size and only for that specific page?
\documentclass[a4paper, 12pt, twoside]{report}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} % ...1
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Q: Based on a given start/end date range, how to find matching single dates with Excel formular only?
In the Dream spell the
messenger can [...] shape the dream’s environment, creating landscapes, objects, and other images.
The question remains if this also includes the appearance of both the messenger and the target of the spell since that entails more than just simple images and is not specif...6
Like many people, I've been experimenting with AI and using it for my own personal needs, for example as a way to summarize search results or as a more personalized recommendation engine for entertainment. I have also used it for professional use in my capacity as a programmer to write and mainta...
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Some game effects, such as the Bearded Devil's Beard action or the Chill Touch cantrip, prevent creatures from regaining hit points.
What happens if you have to make a death saving throw under this effect and roll a natural 20?
The relevant rules sections - Death Saving Throws and Stabilizing a C...
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I am looking to twist a selection of faces on a mesh. I selected a batch, extruded a bit (using Size) and now I want to twist them so they point more inward than out.
How would I go about this in Blender 4.2.5?
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A White House fact sheet makes the following claim:
Access to the American market is a privilege. The United States has one of the most open economies in the world, and the lowest average tariff rates in the world.
Is there any factual basis for this claim that USA has the lowest average tariff...
The answer is a single word. What word?
Back when the Great Vowel Shift was supposedly over, William Wordsworth penned the following lines:
I heard a thousand blended notes,
While in a grove I sate reclined,
In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts
Bring sad thoughts to the mind.
Now:
Was "thoughts" pronounced as "thotes," or was "n...2
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I have recently taken my (UK) Nokia G50 to India for a vacation, and as a result, now any time I press the power button three times in quick succession, it calls the emergency services. This is apparently required by Indian law, and, per both my own experience and the grumbling of people on forum...
What is this part on the S-3 Viking at the Naval Air Museum?
You can see a close radiator in the back of the fan.
(original image).
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A new thought experiment has recently crossed my mind to which I could not find a clear solution as yet. Assume that an observer $B$, holding a magnet, moves inside an electric field of $E_y$ at $v$ relative to an observer $A$. [See Figure 1-(a)] Since the magnet is supposed to be electrically ne...
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On page 303/304, Lancaster/Blundell give this equation:
$$
\lambda_{p}\left(\mu^{\prime}\right)=\lambda_{\mu}(\mu)+6a\left[\lambda_{p}(\mu)\right]^{2} \ln\left({\mu^{\prime}}/\mu\right)\tag{34.5}
$$
"which is expressed in differential form thus:"
$$
\mu \dfrac{d}{d\mu} \lambda_{p}(\mu)=6a\lambda_...
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I set my telephone's chronometer a while ago and at the moment it stands thus:
How soon will I see ten different digits?
If I allow it to run indefinetly, how many times will it show precisely ten different digits?
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Suppose a class of mine written in LaTeX3 has to input a file myfile.tex where spaces shouldn't be ignored. Because \ExplSyntaxOn (by default enabled in such a LaTeX3 class) switches to a category code régime in which spaces are ignored, a workaround is to rely on:
[...]
\ExplSyntaxOff
\input{myf...
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Obviously, we can't say for sure; all these theories float around and from what I can tell, the Church has no concrete position on the matter.
I find Girard's scapegoat theory of atonement highly compelling, and I'd like to discuss it more with others. But first, I'd like to have some confidence ...
I need to add letters to the left of my subfigures, like this:
I’m not sure how to do this. Currently, I have added the figures as subfigures using the following code:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{subcaption}
\begin{doc...1
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In Loertscher and Muir "Optimal Hotelling Auctions" (Working Paper, see Loertschers website at this link), they have a setup where types are distributed according to CDF $F$ which has density $f$ with full support only over $[0,1]$ (representing their position on a Hotelling line). There are $N$ ...
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