Ankaios

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by Ankaios 4y ago
For anyone new to Babylon 5 that wants the authentic experience: http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/lurker.html
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by Ankaios 4y ago
Shuffleboard?
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by Ankaios 4y ago
I like Wayland, but I avoid using it because (last I checked) a crashing or killed compositor takes the whole desktop down with it. Meanwhile, under X I can restart Gnome Shell (or equivalent) if it's having trouble due to a memory lea
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by Ankaios 4y ago
Here's one: https://catalst.net/
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by Ankaios 4y ago
The hard part about flat-packing walls of space habitats isn't the mechanical connections, it's the seals to hold in atmosphere. I don't see that addressed in the story.
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Telegram: Where Russians Turn for Uncensored Ukraine News(nytimes.com)
4 points by Ankaios 4y ago|0 comments
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by Ankaios 5y ago
Great idea! This is exactly the sort of thing many people hoped Web "user agents" would do. Also, I was just thinking this morning about how much I missed Hipmunk. Good luck!
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by Ankaios 5y ago
Our user interfaces are still not as good as a memex for research.
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by Ankaios 5y ago
Yeah, there's a limited window over which antibody testing is useful. I hadn't heard that it was only a few months, but that wouldn't be shocking, especially if you want a low rate of false negatives. Hopefully someone readin
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by Ankaios 5y ago
Your understanding is correct. PCR tests can only tell if you are currently infected. (Or at least have been so recently infected that enough remnant mRNA is still lingering in your body to be detectable.) Antibody tests can determine wheth
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by Ankaios 5y ago
At least anecdotally, the mRNA vaccines do appear to provide some protection against infection. I know three people who are mRNA-vaccinated who were recently extensively exposed to omicron. (They spent multiple hours in a single room or car
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by Ankaios 5y ago
My understanding is that Moderna basically started as a result of a venture firm recognizing that mRNA drugs might lead to valuable new things ( https://www.flagshippioneering.com/companies/moderna ).
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by Ankaios 5y ago
Another option to address the same basic issue is to fix estate taxes, which might be an easier fix. (Among other things, change the cost basis for the estate taxes to be the price when the asset was originally acquired, not the price when
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by Ankaios 5y ago
Everything and immediately, is generally how it works. I think Ukraine should demand more than returning to the pre-invasion state. I don't know exactly what, but it seems like they should shoot for some verifiable changes in Russi
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A wartime plea to Western satellite companies: “We need this data, please”(arstechnica.com)
43 points by Ankaios 5y ago|14 comments
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by Ankaios 5y ago
RT is a well-known Russian propaganda operation. The fact that your response to it was "it never was anything that gave me pause" is a sign that you did not detect the propaganda and that it may have been working on you.
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by Ankaios 5y ago
A basic program walked into a bar... ... and the bartender asked, "why didn't you RUN?"
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Federal Zero Trust Strategy [pdf](whitehouse.gov)
3 points by Ankaios 5y ago|0 comments
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Comparing Project Outcomes – Venture Funding and the NIH SBIR Program (2009)(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
1 points by Ankaios 5y ago|0 comments
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by Ankaios 5y ago
As hard as it is to imagine a rat punchline, I find it even harder to imagine the tiny little cups they'd put the punch in.
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by Ankaios 5y ago
https://www.congress.gov/ As an example of the information on each bill, here's the entry for last year's American Rescue Plan Act: https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill
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by Ankaios 5y ago
It's humanity's self-unwrapping Christmas present.
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Tensions with Russia Are Complicating the International Space Station(washingtonpost.com)
5 points by Ankaios 5y ago|0 comments
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by Ankaios 5y ago
"I think Fermi also had the unreasonable assumption that interstellar aliens would figure out how to get past the speed of light..." The Fermi Paradox does not involve faster-than-light travel. "We still have this problem of
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NASA delays human lunar landing to at least 2025(spacenews.com)
4 points by Ankaios 5y ago|1 comments
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U.S. Solar Photovoltaic System and Energy Storage Cost Benchmarks: Q1 2021 [pdf](nrel.gov)
5 points by Ankaios 5y ago|6 comments
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by Ankaios 5y ago
And this page links to the executive order requiring open access for work funded by all of the major Federal research agencies: https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2013/02/22/expandi...
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by Ankaios 5y ago
Maybe it's just me, but Facebook seems to have more in common with the Snow Crash virus than with the Metaverse.
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by Ankaios 5y ago
Good question—DARPA has asked it, too: https://arstechnica.com/science/2013/01/darpa-unveils-roboti...
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Medals per Capita(medalspercapita.com)
3 points by Ankaios 5y ago|0 comments

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