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 Discussion on answer by Nuclear Hoagi…

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Zizy Archer
Feb 4, 2024 07:34
@NuclearHoagie ((I should have said higher factor, 2x isn't all that much)) - I don't think you will find very many candidates willing to grab 5% of stock growth if it jumps a lot in a year, but I see your point. There likely were other candidates that would be (much) cheaper than Musk. Shareholders should be given at least a vote - Musk with high compensation or someone else with much lower, not that the board of friends decided to have just Musk as the only option at the helm.
Zizy Archer
Feb 4, 2024 07:34
For this latter point - suppose I propose to be a CEO of some company with 1$ salary but getting 50% of stock growth if it grows more than 2x in a single year and refuse to negotiate. Isn't that proposal something any board would gladly take (from financial side, ignoring that I would likely be an incompetent CEO)? Either I am free so shareholders win, or the stock grows a lot and shareholders win again.
Zizy Archer
Feb 4, 2024 07:34
Who are the harmed shareholders here? Those that were involved back in 2018 when this was approved, or also later shareholders? Also, given the stock growth required for the payouts, didn't shareholders gain much more than what market grew in the mean time - so were they actually harmed?
 

 Discussion on question by Peter: Coul…

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Zizy Archer
Jan 26, 2024 13:23
The problem implementing any suggestions is that any state trying to go proportional and multiple-choice only means it becomes irrelevant - why struggle getting 1 extra vote of that proportional state when you can struggle to get 10 extra votes elsewhere? So, you actually cannot realistically expect what you propose without push from the above, producing change in the whole USA at once.
 

 Discussion on question by user140244:…

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Zizy Archer
Jan 11, 2024 15:00
Can you tell an example of an issue that wouldn't be too revealing? It may be that artists feel functionality X is pretty basic and obviously needed and easy to do and don't buy your "It is not possible/feasible/...". Say RT rainbows are trivial. Just simulate individual droplets for every color separately ... :D
 

 Discussion on answer by Paul Johnson:…

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Zizy Archer
Jan 3, 2024 11:26
While the device is scam, this answer doesn't really address the question.
1) what you ultimately want is being warm. All electricity ends up being heat, but how warm you feel with different methods is not the same. Compared to warming up the whole room you can easily save >90% of electricity if you use IR heater that cooks your head and keeps legs frozen.
2) The primary question was about the student. There is also a scam about "informed water". Yet there actually exists a student that did research on this and had some troubles with that (I don't know details nor I care). So, it is possibl…
 

 Discussion on question by benjamin: T…

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Zizy Archer
Nov 10, 2023 11:41
What does a very small company mean? <10 people or 30+? With less than 10 people, all have bus factor of ~1. It will be obvious to everyone he is supposed to train/help his replacement.
 

 Discussion on answer by Weather Vane:…

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Zizy Archer
Oct 27, 2023 19:33
@StephanKolassa What you calculated is that motocycle drives 44 km/h on average. You need to use 1640/4840 for trip duration.
 

 Discussion on question by Lorenzo Poz…

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Zizy Archer
Oct 19, 2023 19:41
In most cases you can think as if ChatGPT is your spouse. Would you use that help and not mention it? (as far as ethics go; ignore competence of either - in the end, as you aren't even acknowledging them, all plagiarism and mistakes are yours)
 

 Discussion on question by Mario: What…

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Zizy Archer
Feb 1, 2023 17:33
2 reviewers is pretty much the norm. As is the norm that criticism is focused on - if you briefly skim a paper, proposal ... you might not notice anything wrong or inconsistent. For example, take publications from your comment - first reviewer might have seen 17 publications (candidate is good), the other saw 10 irrelevant ones (candidate is trying to mislead or exaggerate experience in the field).
 

 Discussion on question by monamona: I…

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Zizy Archer
Jan 24, 2023 08:49
A sheet with formulas for us meant formulas with the basic explanation but not elaborate explanations, proofs, complex examples and similar. For example, "area of circle A = pi*r^2" would be acceptable, step by step derivative say "[x^3 * e^(5*x^4)]' = ..." wouldn't be, even if the former has some text and the latter is just a bunch of formulas without any words. So, it is indeed VERY open to interpretation and different norms.
 

 Discussion on answer by JBH: How diff…

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Zizy Archer
Nov 18, 2022 08:03
I haven't used UI for nuclear reactors, but UI for lasers goes from "press this button 3 times, then set this set of 5 controls to set currents, then this one to set voltages then..." => 10 minutes of clicking and setting things up. Or "press that button to make a hole". Both were developed and programmed by the same group - just one laser was private and the other was public.
 

 Discussion on answer by JBH: Under wh…

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Zizy Archer
Sep 6, 2022 09:51
Anyway, no matter whether you have lasers or plasma whatever, when that thingy hits a ship, the section of the ship with the freshly made hole will be VERY bright.
Zizy Archer
Sep 6, 2022 09:51
@Luaan You don't do continuous beam when you want to ablate material, you blast it with series of short pulses. A single strong pulse when you just want to make a rough hole. Obviously, you need a power source - but you also need a power source for ship propulsion, for projectile ejection and for whatever else. So if you have a weapon that goes through anything obviously you will use that - aim for the main engines and you win in a single good hit. I am not arguing that lasers are the only way to go. But I believe they are an option, together with various kinetic, plasma etc projectiles.
Zizy Archer
Sep 6, 2022 09:51
@JBH Laser itself is obviously invisible in space, nothing to scatter from. Laser hit on the target is not invisible. Laser unsuitable - why exactly? Yeah, if they hit it directly at a wrong moment you are screwed. But exit aperture is centimeters to maybe meters for those capital ships and is the only weak spot - the rest is deep in the ship. And aperture is simply closed until shot is ready. If they hit your missile tubes or whatever else directly at a wrong moment you are similarly screwed, and missiles are most likely trivial to be shot down as they are slow.
Zizy Archer
Sep 6, 2022 09:51
IR laser is invisible, yet you can easily see bright flash when that laser hits aluminum block - even when that laser is just few millijoules of energy and lasts few nanoseconds. Sure, distances in space are enormous compared to meters in lab, but energy difference is going to be huge too. You wouldn't resolve anything, but I believe you could be able to see bright spots if you are looking up there.
 

 Discussion on question by HomegrownPo…

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Zizy Archer
Jul 16, 2022 04:17
Many towns and cities were set in that particular location (instead of 10 km up or downstream) because that particular spot was the easiest to defend. With this coarse geography you don't see those little hills that would be settled essentially since stone age and serve as the seed for the cities. Additionally, there are tons of other little details like winds, how fertile land is and so on, all of these will change city layout a lot. You can pick ALL cities folks have marked and add many others, and none would be wrong if the other details are suitable.
 

 Discussion on answer by Joe W: What i…

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Zizy Archer
Jun 28, 2022 09:55
I don't think this really answers the question - it explains that also previous policies are (also) to blame for current inflation rate, but it doesn't answer the thing I see as the main question: "I started hearing people around me blaming Biden for this, and saying Trump could do better than this." Would Trump make moves that lead to lower inflation rate than currently?
 

 Discussion on answer by o.m.: Everyda…

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Zizy Archer
Nov 4, 2021 20:28
@MikeScott You don't really solve concert tickets in current market either. Many bigger concerts have fan pits with more expensive tickets... but even there standing in the front row or the third isn't the same and you better get there several hours before the concert to be in front. Tickets to classical concerts are similar (you need to buy them fast). Yes, communism (price = 0) would increase competition further, but it wouldn't markedly change anything here. Though indeed it would most likely dramatically change housing market.
 

 Discussion on answer by AlexP: Everyd…

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Zizy Archer
Nov 4, 2021 16:54
@MikeScott Huh? Why would that be true and why+how does market solve the problem? People wanted food, clothes to not freeze and a safe place to live way before even barter, let alone money.
 

 Discussion on question by Zhan Chung:…

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Zizy Archer
Nov 1, 2021 18:53
This collaboration was 5 years ago and got published now-ish in a top journal? Not bad :)
One of my papers went through somewhat similar procedure. Previously a student worked on a problem but didn't completely finish before leaving. I joined and completed the work and repeated measurements. We left him as a coauthor but in my opinion it wouldn't be too strange/problematic to omit him - idea was supervisor's and final tests were mine.
 

 Discussion on answer by Join JBH on C…

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Zizy Archer
Oct 27, 2021 12:19
It needs to be pointed out that Russian fox experiment was obtaining results only through breeding and selecting for tameness - it was a genetic experiment primarily. So, they were not trying to tame foxes further or living with them and whatnot, which might speed the process. On the other hand, they did start with an animal that was socially similar enough to wolf, therefore likely to get domesticated. Trying this with more solitary bears for example might not work (or it might, who knows).
 

 Discussion on question by E.Aigle: Bo…

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Zizy Archer
Jul 2, 2021 00:43
If you literally showed only that the guard can be defeated and that you don't feel comfortable with it, boss is the one who isn't open to other opinions. If you kept nagging him for a while, I can see his point. Also, amount of how stubborn you are (or should be) depends on how right you are. A difficult way to defeat safeguards that you keep complaining about = you are stubborn. An accidental way is making safeguard mostly useless that you keep complaining about = you aren't stubborn, you are right.
 

 Discussion on question by user121416:…

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Zizy Archer
Jun 30, 2021 08:08
So if you were properly sick for 2 days, you should have taken just 2 sick days and 2 vacation days. Also, I don't remember any coworker that had 4 sick day leaves in half a year - 2 leaves of 2 days each has the same number of days off and seems much more usual to me (and, presumably, your manager too).
 

 Discussion on answer by Harper - Rein…

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Zizy Archer
Mar 25, 2021 00:23
It needs to be pointed out that LED and incandescent bulbs might have different "set on fire" limits - after all, LEDs have heat concentrated in base unlike incandescent bulbs which radiate most of heat away - so the base might get too hot for the fixture to handle safely even if total power draw is lower. But I guess any fixture that can take 60W bulbs will be able to safely handle at least 15W LED.
Zizy Archer
Mar 25, 2021 00:23
9W LED has ~800 lm. 600lm = 1W (give or take. It is wavelength dependent so it depends on spectrum). So, this LED is 15% efficient. There are more efficient LEDs but those tend to be quite expensive.
 

 Discussion on answer by divibisan: Ho…

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Zizy Archer
Mar 5, 2021 19:57
@HagenvonEitzen I understand the system as: N candidates enter (parties cannot prevent anyone from running - they would just endorse few candidates), voters pick top 4, then voters (can) rank those top 4, with the last place being thrown out and his/her votes go towards voters' 2nd or 3rd choices until one candidate gets above 50% and wins. It seems a pretty good system to me - nobody would want to rank 10+ candidates. Yeah, in theory, 100 candidates of party B would end up with few votes each and fail to enter second round. But you know who the top candidates are, so it wouldn't happen.
 

 Discussion on question by TobyB: Prol…

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Zizy Archer
Jan 30, 2021 18:04
Uh, even if you flee the city, so what? What is the point? You lost the city and attacker is still stronger than you. Enough supplies is not realistic either - 10k people, 1kg of food per person per day = 10 tons of food. Each day, through hostile territory. It won't work. The only semi-viable scenario is that you need to get just a person out of the city - then yeah, you could possibly manage to do this tunnel and make sure this VIP escapes. But you are quite likely to get few people out by simple breakthrough if this is all you want.
 

 Discussion on answer by cyber101: Wou…

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Zizy Archer
Mar 12, 2020 06:52
I think you greatly underestimate medieval swordsmen. Even if you could spare a month or two to actually teach our soldiers basics of these weapons, there is no chance they will put up any proper fight against trained units. They will be better than random peasants which were often used for crusades - discipline, stronger and better fed - but not a match for trained people who have the same skills AND know how to use a sword.
 

 Discussion on answer by Schmuddi: Do …

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Zizy Archer
Nov 26, 2019 09:02
Discrepancy in number of men named Ali is easy enough to understand (and doesn't change overall picture much). Hits in database aren't. Did they get 4871 hits and doubled that for some reason?
 

 Discussion on question by Nzall: Why …

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Zizy Archer
Sep 14, 2019 19:20
I would say it is simply because it is useless against anyone sane - in friendly duels it doesn't matter if you lose your wand, in less friendly ones you would rather stun your target (or worse).