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Ciro Santilli was touched by this, and then watched several other documentaries by Curtis.

Part of Ciro asks if it is all a big conspiracy theory. But it feels and sounds so right.

Notably the part of the governments have lost all power to companies, and can't do anything meaningful anymore to actually represent the people, because globalization reduces the power of governments.

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Capital flight Updated 2025-07-16

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Electric guitar player Updated 2025-07-16

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Allan Holdsworth

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Software bug Updated 2026-04-25

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Video 1.

Edsger W. Dijkstra's request to programmers

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Arithmetic logic unit Updated 2025-07-16

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Electrical connector Updated 2025-07-16

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jq Updated 2025-07-16

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Yet another awk-like domain-specific language to do things from the CLI in a ridiculously short humber of character? Oh yes.

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Chinese art Updated 2025-07-16

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Journey to the West Updated 2025-07-16

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This is just the most charming of the Four Great Classic Novels.

The definitive television series adaptation is obviously Journey to the West. It just manages to capture all the charms of Sun Wukong and Zhu Bajie.

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How to reference a book in Wikipedia markup? Updated 2025-07-16

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Their reference markup is incredibly overengineered, convoluted, and underdocumented, it is unbelivable!

Use the reference:

This is a fact.{{sfn|Schweber|1994|p=487}}

Define the reference:

===Sources===
{{refbegin|2|indent=yes}}
*{{Cite book|author-link=Silvan S. Schweber |title=QED and the Men Who Made It: Dyson, Feynman, Schwinger, and Tomonaga|last=Schweber|first=Silvan S.|location=Princeton|publisher=University Press|year=1994 |isbn=978-0-691-03327-3 |url=https://archive.org/details/qedmenwhomadeitd0000schw/page/492 |url-access=registration}}
{{refend}}

sfn is magic and matches the the author last name and date from the Cite, it is documented at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Sfn

Unforutunately, if there are multiple duplicate Cites inline in the article, it will complain that there are multiple definitions, and you have to first factor out the article by replacing all those existing Cite with sfn, and keeping just one Cite at the bottom. What a pain...

You can also link to a specific page of the book, e.g. if it is a book is on Internet Archive Open Library with:

{{sfn|Murray|1997|p=[https://archive.org/details/supermenstory00murr/page/86 86]}}

For multiple pages should use pp= instead of p=. Does not seem to make much difference on the rendered output besides showing p. vs pp., but so be it:

{{sfn|Murray|1997|pp=[https://archive.org/details/supermenstory00murr/page/86 86-87]}}

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Archaea Updated 2025-07-16

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Josephson junction Updated 2025-07-16

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A device that exhibits the Josephson effect.

Figure 1.
Electron microscope image of a Josephson junction its I-V curve
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Josephson equations Updated 2025-07-16

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Two equations derived from first principles by Brian Josephson that characterize the device, somewhat like an I-V curve:

I (t) = I_{c} sin (φ (t)) \frac{d φ ( t )}{d t} = \frac{2 e V ( t )}{ℏ}

(1)

where:

$I_{c}$ : Josephson current
$φ$ : the Josephson phase, a function $R \to R$ defined by the second equation plus initial conditions
$V (t)$ : input voltage of the system
$I (t)$ : current across the junction, determined by the input voltage

Note how these equations are not a typical I-V curve, as they are not an instantaneous dependency between voltage and current: the history of the voltage matters! Or in other words, the system has an internal state, represented by the Josephson phase at a given point in time.

To understand them better, it is important to look at some important cases separately: