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That video does exactly the same job explaining the underlying reasons -- down to using much of the same wording, and the same visuals.

And it was online for a few weeks before this article was published.


One even has a watermark and a Youtube seek bar. This was painfully obvious.


> > I'm disappointed that the question wasn't answered.

> It was answered.

And now disappointed that the article only answered the question? :D


I couldn't initially find the answer because I was looking for a calculation to find the answer instead of just a sentence out of the blue with the answer



An arc that spans one radian of a circle's circumference has the same length as the radius.

So if you imagine a connected line of 233 suns across the sky, spanning 57.3 degrees, the actual length of that line would be the same as the distance from your eyes to the sun.


John Conway is actually one of the authors of the book discussed in the article.


The original article is a bit better:

http://www.livemint.com/Companies/lDn53REhqvhqGoIxs9MgwJ/App...

Apple isn't actually prevented from selling either new or refurbished iPhones in India. What it appears that they cannot do, though, is open any Apple Stores there, because they don't (or can't) comply with a rule that "at least 30 per cent of the value of procurement of manufactured/processed products shall be sourced from Indian small industries" (from a similar story about Walmart: http://www.thehindu.com/business/Industry/30-local-sourcing-...)

It looks like what they wanted to do was to manufacture the original phones in China, as always, but do the refurbishment in India, and thereby call the refurbished phones "locally sourced". If they could do that, then they could run their own stores in the country, assuming that the refurb phones made up 30% of their product.

The Indian government rejected that idea, so I presume that Apple will need to continue selling through third-party retail stores, or come up with another way to comply with the rule.


If apple is serious, why don't they build a factory and make phones in india? When Ford, Hyndai, GM, Toyota can manufacture in India, why not apple?


Because opening Apple stores in India isn't worth changing their whole production and supply chain.

Ford, Hyndai, GM, Toyota are all car companies. They're used to dealing with local production requirements.


Apparently they have that covered, too: http://motherboard.vice.com/en_ca/read/canada-changed-its-el...

It can't be officially signed until after the election, but they can still negotiate. And all three parties, according to the article, are in support of the agreement.


From Michael Geist, the law professor quoted in that article, http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2015/08/canadian-government-amend...

"Despite the government’s attempt to grant itself the power to continue to negotiate the TPP during an election campaign, there are reasons to doubt that it can effectively do so. First, while there would seemingly be no problem with ensuring Canada remains at the negotiating table, committing to significant policy changes would go well beyond the description of a caretaker government that should be largely limited to “routine” activities.

.. Without a government mandate, Canadian negotiators simply can’t provide other TPP countries assurances that concessions made today will last beyond October 19th."


Nitpicking: It can probably be signed, but cannot be ratified. Ratification makes the treaty binding, signing does not, but I imagine it may be very difficult to re-open negotiations after signing.


Big Hero 6 isn't original, if that's what you're saying there -- it's drawn from the same Marvel universe as Captain America and Guardians of the Galaxy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Hero_6_(comics)

Heavily adapted for a different audience, certainly, but still not an original story.


Oh, didn't know that. That means 0/10 for 2014 then.



No, not in the sense of not using copyrighted material published in other channels -- it's based on several books. I don't think the screenplay could have been legally used without agreements with at least some of the authors there.


From reading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium-3#Fusion_reactions, the 2p are two protons, and not positrons, as valarauca1 is saying.

So, 4 protons and 2 neutrons go in, 4 protons and 2 neutrons come out.

But charge still needs to be conserved -- I presume that the spare electrons just aren't shown in the reaction; if they were bound to the protons, then we'd see 2H rather than 2p.



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