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by ArnoVW 2y ago
If you have young kids that you would like to infect with the virus of mathematics, I highly recommend "the story of 1" by Terry Jones (of Monthy Python fame) They cover how we went from objects to abstract concepts, and how 1 and
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by ArnoVW 2y ago
Or ‘pile’ in French, which is homonym for ‘stack’ because a battery is a stack of alternating materials.
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by ArnoVW 2y ago
Yes. If memory serves this is the first event that LIGO detected. Two black holes of 20-30 solar masses each, joining and releasing 1-2 solar masses worth of gravity. Which resulted in the earth (and space) being stretched by less than a fr
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by ArnoVW 2y ago
Any negative news that can influence the share price is material information. A hack, involving payment means, of 500M users is definitely material information. Also. As the excellent Matt Levine never ceases to repeat : everything is sec
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James Webb Space Telescope Finds Most Distant Known Galaxy(blogs.nasa.gov)
148 points by ArnoVW 2y ago|55 comments
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by ArnoVW 2y ago
Russia changed sides when Hitler invaded Russia. Not sure we can count on Putin making that mistake.
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by ArnoVW 2y ago
Every country has the government it deserves. - Joseh de Maistre
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by ArnoVW 2y ago
I think the idea is that the GDPR requires that companies allow users to delete or correct data about them. And the GDPR scope is determined by the user, not the company. You can have your company based on the far side of the moon, with 99.
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by ArnoVW 2y ago
OK. So now we have established that americans have bigger and less efficient cars. How do you think that that effects your GHG emissions? If you want more data, the Congressional Budget Office has a great page that shows that fuel economy i
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by ArnoVW 2y ago
You could of course try to find some information yourself. But I spent 30 seconds and found pages on the NYT and the Economist. Will that do? https://web.archive.org/web/20240429104301/https://www.econo..
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by ArnoVW 2y ago
I typed into Google "co2 emissions per household europe vs us" and the 1st and 3rd results were these pages. https://palanan.com/blogs/news/why-does-the-u-s-have-twice-a... https://www.zerofy.
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by ArnoVW 2y ago
The Dutch have 0 nuclear. That still leaves a factor of 2. With respect not to an ideal but with respect to a country that itself is emitting too much to be sustainable. Nuclear is part of the solution, I fully agree. But it will not solve
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by ArnoVW 2y ago
The question was “what does cutting emissions mean in real terms”. I answered that question. I never said that it was the one and only thing to do, nor did I say that it would solve everything. There is not “one” thing that will solve this
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by ArnoVW 2y ago
In real terms this means that we change some of the habits that bring us marginal happiness and comfort, to allow others to rise out of poverty, and leave our children a world to live in. Lower your thermostat (hint : put on a sweater), iso
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by ArnoVW 2y ago
In many countries there is the idea of bankrupcy. You make the debtor suffer for a couple of years (to ensure incentive against it) and then wipe the slate. Bankrupcy is no fun. All your assets are wiped out (house, cars, etc). Sometimes yo
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by ArnoVW 3y ago
“Sure you have nothing to hide from this state. What if <their political extreme opposite> comes to power and starts to <their nightmare image>. Because they will inherit all the powers that the current, good state has” Jewish D
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by ArnoVW 3y ago
I'm sure that more creative versions exist, but a very common way is the WiFi deauth attack. The advantage is that it works on the protocol level, so you don't have to nuke the entire spectrum for the entire neighbourhood (which w
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by ArnoVW 3y ago
That. Plus the fact that everyone (Russia included) gave Ukraine security guarantees when in the 90s we convinced them to give their nuclear missiles to the country that had occupied them just before. At the time everyone was very nervous a
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by ArnoVW 3y ago
From what I gather they not only called the bank, but actually went to a branch in the Philippines. They spoke to a clerk, took a picture of a screen showing a balance. But the branch office was fake. https://www.ft.com/co
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by ArnoVW 3y ago
I know this will blow your mind, but where I do my shopping (France) this exists in many places and there are no queues. It takes 1 minute more to fill a bag or bottle. But it prevents a heck of a lot of packaging. And I can take precisely
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by ArnoVW 3y ago
You are of course entirely right. humanity will continue to exist. That is not what the people are saying. What will happen, and what is in fact already happening : food gets more expensive, people have to migrate because their current loca
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by ArnoVW 3y ago
As much as I hate Apple for their repetitive NIH syndrome, Bluetooth has never worked flawlessly, and increasing filesizes made it increasingly maladapted.
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by ArnoVW 3y ago
For the same reason Wikipedia needs a trademark, or any successful open source project. To prevent grifters from hitching a ride off your word and muddying the water / confusing users of your service or product
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by ArnoVW 3y ago
Not the original poster, but in my case it's always mobile. Thank you for your tireless work. HN is a breath of fresh air compared with the rest of the internet thanks to it.
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Flotsam, Jetsam, Lagan and Derelict(en.wikipedia.org)
7 points by ArnoVW 3y ago|0 comments
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by ArnoVW 3y ago
Not an historian or American but Reaganism predates the 90’s Don’t know when the Americans became anti-government but it’s been a while in the making. Hell, rabid anti-communism famously took root in the 50’s
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by ArnoVW 3y ago
If memory serves, the police were using swabs that was marked sterile but not rated "for use in forensics"
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by ArnoVW 3y ago
To quote Wikipedia In law, standing or locus standi is a condition that a party seeking a legal remedy must show they have, by demonstrating to the court, sufficient connection to and harm from the law or action challenged to support that p
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by ArnoVW 3y ago
Civil aviation is beer money to Boeing. They make the brunt of the money in military. That’s also where the margins are. The US government will never let Boeing go bankrupt, the impact on their supply chain (specifically nuclear) would be t
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by ArnoVW 3y ago
I am not an expert by any means, but my understanding is that stealth generally does not work by rending surfaces transparent, but by absorbing the energy or reflecting it in a very, very focused way (away from the origin). If you send a ra

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