I eye-balled the chili and cayenne powder in my chili and have made it painful to eat. What should I use to counteract this? I tried adding pasta sauce and cheese to a small serving, but it wasn't very effective.  According to the question "" the heat is coming from capsaicin:     Capsaicin, the heat-producing compound in most types of hot peppers,   is the highest on the Scoville Scale; extremely piquant and can   produce a "burning" sensation in very small quantities. It is also   poorly soluble in water, but is far more soluble in fat, especially   oils. Adding some olive oil or a good quantity of butter to your   recipe is a good bet for reducing capsaicin/capsicum heat.   From some various discussions on the internet, I've also heard dark chocolate and sour cream can be effective.  What can I add in minimal quantities without affecting the taste drastically?
I made chili and it's too hot! If I cook it longer will the heat calm down?
In ideal gas model,  is the measure of average kinetic energy of the gas molecules. If by some means the gas particles are accelerated to a very high speed in one direction, KE certainly increased, can we say the gas becomes hotter? Do we need to distinguish the random vibration KE and KE in one direction?  Furthermore, if we accelerate a block of metal with ultrasonic vibrator so that the metal is vibrating in very high speed with cyclic motion, can we say the metal is hot when it is moving but suddenly become much cooler when the vibration stop? C# equivalent to wildcard imports in Java Is there a way in C# to import everything inside a namespace like there is in Java with the wildcard character?  import java.awt.*; How do I determine the size of my array in C?   That is, the number of elements the array can hold? Get the cartesian product of a series of lists? Should I sign, watermark or otherwise label a framed print? And if so how? 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The console output is:                                              Sorry, but we couldn't connect to our servers. Please make sure that you are online and that Minecraft is not blocked. (CertificateNotYetValidException:NotBefore:Tue Apr 08 20:47:05 CST 2014) I have filed my 2012 tax return jointly with my wife, along with my wife's ITIN application, back in late March.  In April, I got a letter for IRS ITIN department saying that we should send my wife's original passport to them. So we sent my wife's passport on May 15th. USPS tracking number confirmed that IRS received it on May 20th.  However, last week (end of June) we have received another letter from IRS ITIN department saying that our ITIN application has been rejected, rejected because we have not sent the original identification document that they requested!  Okay, let's put our tax return and ITIN aside. Where is my wife's passport? Right now my wife does not have her personal identification, nor proof of legal status in U.S. Could IRS have lost it?  I tried to call the IRS several times. One time I waited for 1 hour and 20 minutes to talk to a person, and that person said he has only 10 minutes to talk before he has to leave. He said they'll investigate and someone(?) will call us back soon, but never called back. I wrote them a letter, but no response. I tried calling several times more, but machine is saying 'sorry too many calls right now, we can't accept your call'.  What can I do? How do I split a string, breaking at a particular character? What to do about rep inflation? Overall reputation scores are headed nowhere but up.  Pretty soon there will be thousands of mods.  What to do?  Thoughts on possibilities:   Thousands of mods is fine.  Carry on. Adjust the threshold values for high-level SO privileges. Do a straight-up inflation adjustment.  You had x rep, then at the turn of the year we applied the Consumer Rep Index to all scores, now you have (x / inflation) rep. Implement a rep decay mechanism, so that inactivity sheds some of the overall rep that's built up. What is the justification for locking votes? Why am I not allowed to change my vote after some period of time? There are times when I go back to things I voted on, and decide they didn't deserve that specific vote. (I get wiser as I grow older) How do I implement a retro-style password-based "savegame" system? Is it possible to install Ubuntu on my Windows 8 computer without any CD or USB drive? Structure of groups of order $pq$, where $p,q$ are distinct primes. I don't know about the Sylow Theorems.  But I have been wondering about a proof of the fact that a group or order $pq$ where $p$ and $q$ are distinct primes must be cyclic. I can't quite work out the details, but here is the general idea. I would like help with filling in details. I assume that it is already known that $G$ has subgroup(s) of order $p$ and subgroup(s) of order $q$.  If $G$ is a group of order $pq$ ($p\neq q$), then I know that $G$ has a subgroup $H$ of order $p$ and a subgroup $K$ of order $q$. Then $H\simeq \mathbb{Z}_p$ and $K\simeq \mathbb{Z}_q$.   But then $H\oplus K \simeq \mathbb{Z}_{pq}$, so I would think that $H\oplus K \simeq G$. I guess one could do an internal direct product instead of an external direct product, but I don't know that $H$ and $K$ are normal subgroups.  I am asking for help completing this argument.  Edit: I see from the comments below that I might need to assume that the smaller prime does not divide the larger prime minus $1$. Or maybe it is enough to assume that the primes are greater than or equal to $3$ (Still distinct). Can a black hole absorb photons whose wavelengths are greater than the BH horizon size? I need a bit of help with this.      She is a photographer but that camera is her brother's-in-law     or:        She is a photographer but that camera is her brother-in-law's   I am aware that I could change the construction to make things easier, like:      She is a photographer but that camera belongs to her brother-in-law       However, I would really like to find out what's the correct way to write the sentence. Remote Linux server to remote linux server dir copy. How? What is the best way to copy a directory (with sub-dirs and files) from one remote Linux server to another remote Linux server? I have connected to both using SSH client (like Putty). I have root access to both. Suppose I'm given the mean and one quantile (e.g. the 20% quantile) of a random variable $x$, and I want to find the parameters $\alpha$ and $\beta$ of a Beta distribution that has the same mean and quantile.  Is there an efficient way to do it?    Using just the mean, I know that since $\bar{x} = \frac{\alpha}{\alpha+\beta}$, we have $\beta = \frac{\alpha}{\bar{x}} - \alpha$.  So we only really have one parameter to estimate.  But I'm unsure how to use the quantile information to take the next step.  Maybe there's something I can do with the Incomplete Beta when I know the ratio $\frac{\beta}{\alpha} = \frac{1-\bar{x}}{\bar{x}}$?  I have access to R myself, so I could use a numerical optimizer for this, but ideally I need a method that can be carried out in Excel in someone else's environment.  Excel does have BETA.DIST() and BETA.INV() functions available.  A look-up table would be fine, but a closed-form formula would be better if it's possible. One can show that $\mathbb{P}^n\times \mathbb{P}^m$ is birational to $\mathbb{P}^{n+m}$ by making note of the Zariski topologies and the canonical isomorphism between affine spaces $\mathbb{A}^n\times \mathbb{A}^m\to \mathbb{A}^{n+m}$.   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The example above shows    device_1 was down from 09:00 to 09:30 (total 30 mins),   device_2 was down from 09:15 to 09:45 (total 30 mins)   What I need  Need to calculate the total amount of time for the whole breakdown for owner_1 will be 45 mins (from 09:00 to 09:45) instead of 60 mins (30 + 30).  device_owner   total_breakdown_min owner_1        45   What I've done  Currently I can define a breakdown time for each device separately (device_1 = 30mins, device_2 = 30mins). For this I transformed the table using LEAD over partition by device_owner, device_id and date part from timestamp:  device_owner  device_id     timestamp        status lead_timestamp   lead_status owner1        device_1     2001-01-01 09:00   0     2001-01-01 09:30     1 owner1        device_1     2001-01-01 09:30   1     NULL                 NULL owner1        device_2     2001-01-01 09:15   0     2001-01-01 09:45     1 owner1        device_2     2001-01-01 09:45   1     NULL                 NULL   So the datetime difference between timestamp and lead_timestamp in sum gives me the total breakdown time for a device.  ;WITH LeadStatus AS (     SELECT         D.*,         lead_status = LEAD(D.status) OVER (PARTITION BY D.device_owner, D.device_id, D.date ORDER BY D.datetime ASC),         lead_timestamp = LEAD(D.datetime) OVER (PARTITION BY D.device_owner, D.device_id, D.date ORDER BY D.datetime ASC)     FROM         #DeviceStatus AS D ) SELECT * FROM LeadStatus   It is the same device list for any owner. The data snapshot is to be taken between 2 dates (StartDate, EndDate). The records are written to a DB each n seconds and also when the device status changes.