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Is voting to balance in the spirit of the site? The other day I saw an answer which was ok. Not great but not bad. So no reason to upvote or downvote. However the answer already had a single downvote. I felt this was unfair so upvoted the answer to keep it at what I felt was a fair score. It wasn't until afterward that it occurred to me that I should have perhaps solely voted on the content of the answer.  Is this a reasonable reason for an upvote or should I have left the answer alone? Looking for a single word for 'blind worship' Is there a single word for 'blind worship' as in worshiping an actor blindly notwithstanding the bad performance? So I know the basic gist is that fusion power's main issue is sustaining the fusion. I also know that there are two methods. The Torus method and the laser method. The torus magnetically contains plasma and heats it with radiation and accelerates the plasma around to make strong enough collisions that protons fuse. The laser method uses 192 lasers and focuses it on tiny frozen hydrogen pellets and aims to initiate fusion each time pellets are dropped.  The though struck me when we could sorta combine the two designs together. The torus doesn't have to worry about making fusion happen at a specific location but it has issues in that the plasma is unevenly heated and leaks. On the other hand, the laser design is extremely complicated in the level of precision needed and would have to repeat this for every pellet. This lead me to think to make something precise and contained at the same time.  I see that particle colliders are able to direct two beams of protons and have them collide at a specific spot with a very precise energy. Couldn't we tune the energy of the two beams of protons to the energy required for them to fuse? We have the ability to smash them into bits, surely we have the ability to have them fuse. (I'm thinking about the type of collider that circles two beams in opposite directions)  It would be at much lower energies than normal colliders and would be very precise and it would be possible to fuse at a specific location that has greater leeway because for protons that missed collision, they'd just circle around again! Thus protons would efficiently be used and very little would be wasted. There wouldn't be problems of plasma leakage because we are focusing them in a thin tight beam.   It seems that this idea has girth, or I feel this way at least, can someone back me up by offering some calculations on how to calculate the efficiency? How would I go about calculating the two circling beams of protons and at what specific velocity would be needed? etc. Overriding !important style Title pretty much sums it up.  The external style sheet has the following code:  td.EvenRow a {   display: none !important; }   I have tried using:  element.style.display = "inline";   and  element.style.display = "inline !important";   but neither works. Is it possible to override an !important style using javascript.  This is for a greasemonkey extension, if that makes a difference. Setting CSS pseudo-class rules from JavaScript I'm looking for a way to change the CSS rules for pseudo-class selectors (such as :link, :hover, etc.) from JavaScript.  So an analogue of the CSS code: a:hover { color: red } in JS.  I couldn't find the answer anywhere else; if anyone knows that this is something browsers do not support, that would be a helpful result as well. ModelBuilder not adding output feature class to Table of Contents? I'm trying to create a tool in ModelBuilder that will take a new point from a user, create a feature class for this point and display it on a map.  What I've done is:   I've created a feature class for a point-like feature in ArcCatalog. I've prepared a really simple model in ModelBuilder, that starts with a feature set variable (which takes the feature class as a schema and symbology file). The variable is marked as a parameter. Next I'm using the Copy Features tool that takes the variable as input and saves it as a feature class in my scratch workspace. The output feature class is marked as a parameter with the 'add to display' option.   After the module is run I get a shapefile in my scratch workspace. I can add it manually to TOC and it contains the selected point. However no matter what I do, I can't display it in TOC automatically after the model completes.  There is a known issue described in several places that doesn't allow to display newly created layers in TOC when model finishes with the 'add to display' option. However there's a quick workaround, which is to mark the output layer as parameter. In my case it doesn't work.  I'm using ArcGIS for Desktop 10.1 on Windows 7 x86_64. Can I install Ubuntu inside Windows? Ubuntu 12.04 won't come with the Windows Installer (Wubi) pre-added. But is there any way to install 12.04 using Wubi? Does a 2100W angle grinder need an earth pin? I have recently purchased a Makita 2100W angle grinder. It has just the live (L) and neutral (N) connectors unlike the one I previously used, which had a third protected earth (PE) connection.   Would it be better if I changed the connections to a 3 pin connector? Take the following gedankenexperiment in which two astronauts meet each other again and again in a perfectly symmetrical setting - a hyperspherical (3-manifold) universe in which the 3 dimensions are curved into the 4. dimension so that they can travel without acceleration in straight opposite directions and yet meet each other time after time.  On the one hand this situation is perfectly symmetrical - even in terms of homotopy and winding number. On the other hand the Lorentz invariance should break down according to , so that one frame is preferred - but which one?  So the question is: Who will be older? And why?  And even if there is one prefered inertial frame - the frame of the other astronaut should be identical with respect to all relevant parameters so that both get older at the same rate. Which again seems to be a violation of SRT in which the other twin seems to be getting older faster/slower...  How should one find out what the preferred frame is when everything is symmetrical - even in terms of GRT?  And if we are back to a situation with a preferred frame: what is the difference to the classical Galilean transform? Don't we get all the problems back that seemed to be solved by RT - e.g. the speed limit of light, because if there was a preferred frame you should be allowed to classically add velocities and therefore also get speeds bigger than c ?!? (I know  is only a local theory but I don't understand why the global preferred frame should not 'override' the local one).  Could anyone please enlighten me (please in a not too technical way because otherwise I wouldn't understand!)  EDIT Because there are still things that are unclear to me I posted a follow-up question: Graphics horribly corrupted on Ubuntu 16.04 in VirtualBox, showing random strips of pixelated colors How deterministic is floating point inaccuracy? How can I install software or packages without Internet (offline)? Execution order of event receivers and workflow on a list Exposing database IDs - security risk? I've heard that exposing database IDs (in URLs, for example) is a security risk, but I'm having trouble understanding why.  Any opinions or links on why it's a risk, or why it isn't?  EDIT: of course the access is scoped, e.g. if you can't see resource foo?id=123 you'll get an error page. Otherwise the URL itself should be secret.  EDIT: if the URL is secret, it will probably contain a generated token that has a limited lifetime, e.g. valid for 1 hour and can only be used once.  EDIT (months later): my current preferred practice for this is to use UUIDS for IDs and expose them. If I'm using sequential numbers (usually for performance on some DBs) as IDs I like generating a UUID token for each entry as an alternate key, and expose that. Construct ideals in $\mathbb Z[x]$ with a given least number of generators {genealogytree} How to model my Cousins How to convert every pixel of raster picture to square objects in Illustrator? What is the probability of rolling $n$ dice until each side appears at least once? We roll a die until each side appears at least once, then we stop.     What is the probability of rolling exactly $n$ dice?   I guess the answer is  $$6-6\left(\dfrac{5}{6}\right)^n\;,$$  but this may be wrong.  In trying to solve this problem, I read , but I couldn't solve the problem. What are the fundamental differences between the mainstream *NIX shells? What are the fundamental differences between the mainstream *NIX shells and what scenarios might prompt you to use one over the other?  I understand that some of it probably comes down to user preference but I've only ever used Bash and I'm interested to hear where another shell might be useful. Also, is there an impact on user-written shell scripts when running under one shell or another or is it simply a matter of changing the shell at the top of the file?  My instinct says it's not that easy. Does there exist a polynomial $p(x) \in \mathbb C[x]$ such that $p(x) \notin \mathbb R[x]$ and $p(x)p(-x)=p(x^2)$ ?  I have noticed that if $a_n$ is the leading coefficient of $p(x)$ then $a_n=(-1)^n $, so the leading coefficient cannot be imaginary; also $p(0)^2=p(0)$ so the constant term also is real. Please help. Thanks in advance.