ArnoVW

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by ArnoVW 6y ago
There seems to be this idea that Galileo is too expensive. I was curious so I looked up the cost for the US version. I found this: "it had cost $10–$12 billion to fj eld the system,and the uSAF estimated the cost annually of sustaining
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
Plato called it dialectic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectic
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
My guess would be that they use the same technique as radar-detector-detectors. Essentially sniffing out the RF radiation emitted by an RF receiver https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar_detector_detector
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
Ah? In the Dutch version she drinks it: "Then she drank several big gulps. Anika, who knew that some bottles had written on them "External", was getting anxious. 'But Pippi' she said, 'how do you know that ther
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
Well there are bits where pipi mixes up a whole bunch of medication to make a nice drink. She resists the authority of the state. Today this is (too?) popular, but in centrally led France of the 50's... For me I suppose it's like
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons. Fyodor Dostoevsky
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
This exemplarises so well american exceptionalism. We don't have to use our imagination. This sort of experiment is being run in multiple countries around the globe.
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
Thanks for the interesting link. Ars at its best. Though my interpretation of the article is more that the risk / reward ratio simply has become too poor, nothing to do with inflation. I suppose it is easier to rob a 150k watch from an
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
Or that police departments in dangerous areas have to resort to buying more lethal equipment. Thus ending up killing more no-good dangerous criminals. I'm more inclined to belief the first version, but it's good to keep in mind th
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
It is true that Norway has an advantage, having the money to allow them to make this sort of investment. But rightly or wrongly, the entire economy is currently awash with credit to fight the pandemic-induced economic crisis. But money is n
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
Give them a break. They don't have the luxury of a highly-structured field, purposefuly constructed by humans (engineers & mathematiciens on top of that) with only 50 years of legacy. They have to deal with a field that was haphasa
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
I've always understood it to be a plate. That way the vector of the forces is in the direction of travel. A parabolic shape would have to resist sideways forces. A bit like this: https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2016&
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
Reality is, as often, more complex. I highly recommend the feature length fly on the wall style documentary 'divorce iranian style'. Entirely recorded in an Iranian divorce court: https://youtu.be/BBm8GqMNwXU
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
Orion was essentially an "external combustion engine". I.e. you have a huge piston that is driven by repeated explosion of nuclear bombs. With a spring mecanism to even out the whallops. And no "engine block" around it.
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
In fact, there is considerable concern over nuclear, precisely because it looks like it is underpriced due to underestimation of the decomissioning costs. The economic lifetime of the first commercial installations is only now starting to
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
The real killer is beef. Simply replacing beef with almost anything else will have huge impacts (see page by FAO). If elimination is too much of an effort to make for our kids, doing it n% of the time will still bring n% improvements. I mig
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
Hey Fazal, LTNC =) Before you arrived in NL I had similar issues with EuroNet management. I remember you telling me about your Java applet to access Minitel from the web. Good times. Hope you are well. My mail is in my profile =)
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
The story of three hackers that used the LinkedIn password hashes to hack the Twitter account of Donald Trump, in 2016. It's originally a Dutch article, and the link goes through Google Translate. The quality of the translation is pret
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
it's an algorithm for projecting data to lower dimension. I.e. you have an Excel sheet with 20.000 lines (representing customers for ex) and 200 columns (representing blood pressure, height, weight, etc). What you want to do is "v
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
Second that. Left me in a state of shock for weeks when I saw it. Compared with threads, "the day after" is kids stuff. https://archive.org/details/threads_201712
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
I remember Christmas cards produced in China, containing secret 'help me' messages from prisoners that were used as cheap labor: https://www.npr.org/2019/12/23/790832681/6-year-old-finds-me...
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
I would imagine because "two wrongs don't make a right" and because "doing like the others" validates their doing. Giving up the moral high ground is not a move of a superpower, and aides in destabilising the geopol
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
Parmalat invented 15 billion euros, between 1990 and 2003, having an annual revenue of 5 billion. Everything started breaking down only when they defaulted on a 150 million dollar bond, despite reporting 4 billion in liquid assets assets.
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
While we are on tumbleweed, I suggest this video on tumbleweed by the excellent GCP Grey: https://youtu.be/hsWr_JWTZss
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
I guess you meant Aqua Regia? Not at all well versed in biology, but that seems less of a challenge than the other materials proposed (heavy metals, etc). Aqua Regia is a mixture of Nitric Acid and Hydrochloric Acid. At least the first seem
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
They exist today, but they were added after AVX. Every year we figure out how to cram more transistors on a cubic cm, and once the low hanging fruit was added and we knew how to add more transistors, we decided to start putting more and mor
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
Unfortunately we do not have an inexhaustible supply of fertilizer. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_phosphorus
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
Small nit : the founder of Ikea is the eigth-richest person in the world (58G$). Though I suppose it's easier to amass wealth if one does not pay taxes. https://nomoretax.eu/ikeas-founder-paid-tax-for-the-first-ti...
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
Seems coherent to me: you are not taking ownership of something without a contractual basis. It would I think constitute 'misuse of corporate assets' though.
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
Amazing isn't it? I really appreciated 'archives of the universe', which describes the chronological advancement of astronomy since the ancient Greek. Often by simply annotating the original works or papers. Amazing to see ho

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