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satt comments on Open thread, August 4 - 10, 2014 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: satt 09 August 2014 04:43:17PM *  0 points [-]

And that is more time than I wanted to spend rehashing this old nonsense.

Fair enough. I have to chip in with one last comment, but you'll be happy to hear it's a self-correction! My comments don't account for potential translational motion of the wheels, and they should've done. (The translational motion could matter if one assumes the wheels experience friction with the belt, even if there's no internal wheel bearing friction.)