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Comment Re:Time for China export tariff (Score 3, Interesting) 247

No, I hate China. I don’t love or hate United States, but Trump can go twirl. I’m a British national posting this from London. He imposed a 145% tariff on Chinese products, and I strongly believe the United States electorate should experience the consequence of their (majority) actions.

Comment Re:UK thinks they can regulate US companies (Score 1) 28

The jury is still out on the efficacy of the April Fools’ Day Tariff Regime, but a failed casino owner, who thinks that trade deficit is a good metric for determining which countries are ripping off United States, probably isn’t winning the Nobel Prize for Economics any time soon. It’s like saying that Marks & Spencer is ripping me off because I choose to buy most of my stuff there instead of Fortnum & Mason. The Trump Administration is a clown show in a mini.

Comment Re:Angular Momentum (Score 1) 86

Like you, I’m having great difficulty understanding any of it. Assuming it isn’t complete pseudoscience, I presume an easterly force must act from “the planet” (ground, building, physics lab) to “the experiment” (cylinder with iron zinc etc), conserving both linear and angular momentum. Acting over a distance (40000 km per day at the equator) this force does work (per unit time) or instantaneous power (as a continuous process). The angular kinetic energy of the planet is reduced, and the angular kinetic energy of the experiment is increased. A wind blowing towards the east on a wind turbine provides a similar transfer of power. Does that sound about right?

Comment Re:At first I thought... (Score 4, Interesting) 11

Yes, they seem to be compressing in the direction often written as lambda (wavelength). EXR could store the individual wavelengths as MainLayer.450nm, MainLayer.460nm etc instead of MainLayer.R, .G and .B. But it would compress each layer individually, rather than exploit the coherence across X,Y,Lambda and potentially Time

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