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> The chip projected a roughly 125-micrometer image of the Mona Lisa. This may seem small (barely visible as a dot to the naked eye), but that's also the geome
by cubefox 7mo ago
> The chip projected a roughly 125-micrometer image of the Mona Lisa.
This may seem small (barely visible as a dot to the naked eye), but that's also the geometric mean of the Planck length and the diameter of the observable universe. So average size actually.
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- jacquesm 7mo agoI really can't follow your comment and I've been trying. Would you mind a longer explanation of what you're getting at here?
- venv 7mo agoThey mean 125um = sqrt(a*b), where a is the Planck length* and b the size of the observable universe (I didn't verify). Implying, 125um is some sort of middle ground. *Often said to be the smallest length with physical meaning.
- jacquesm 7mo agoOk, so it's a bullshit comment. Thank you. You could say this about everything that is not 'Planck length', it's about as useful as Douglas Adams' 'the universe is empty' (only he had a sense of humor). Oh, even worse they are repeating it in different threads. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47749957 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47749957
- walletdrainer 7mo ago[dead]
- jacquesm 7mo agoI'm upset at lots of things. For instance that you are still on this website after posting this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47743276 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47743276 But then again, we get anti Islam posts by prominent HN'ers as well so I guess that evens things out.
- walletdrainer 7mo ago[flagged]
- jacquesm 7mo agoBecause some of these are clear choices, others are not. You can be critical of Israel and I'm fine with that - and I'm plenty critical of Israel myself. But to say 'Most Jews are lunatics' is absolutely beyond the pale. You could say this in more general terms about all people that are religious but you didn't do that and FYI Jews don't generally have a choice about their Jewishness, just like you don't have any choice about which family you were born into. You could even make the case that most religious people had no choice in their adoption of that religion, but most people have the theoretical option of letting go of their religion if they so desire, but you can not stop being a Jew. This little detail was baked into the religion and it is a serious problem for those that are Jewish and that wish to get away from it - and these people really do exist -, but they can not change their identity to a degree that they themselves would recognize as sufficient, besides, their environment usually also does not recognize it. In the interest of furthering your knowledge about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off_the_derech https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off_the_derech and https://brill.com/display/book/edcoll/9789004331471/BP000006.pdf https://brill.com/display/book/edcoll/9789004331471/BP000006... I get all this is complicated, and maybe you really can't follow this in which case my apologies but there is a significant choice between who you work for (say, Palantir, Facebook, OpenAI or Twitter) vs what family you are born into. As for political beliefs: yes, I'm critical of those that carry water for Trump, Putin, Netanyahu and their cronies, they're out to destroy the world as we know it and if you help enable that you are imnsho part of the problem.
- cubefox 7mo agoSure! It was a joke :)