ArnoVW

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by ArnoVW 3y ago
I'll add a datapoint. Not a pilot, just like to know how complicated stuff works. And, like the article, I do think there are lessons to learn from aviation.
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by ArnoVW 3y ago
Having skipped to his analysis of the video, I find him pretty convincing. He explains why the video is bunk using information provided by the lab, and basic physics. And then 'replicates' using his own sheet of metal and a magnet
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by ArnoVW 3y ago
I'll admit I was lazy and did not want to look how to write "both sides of the political spectrum". Don't know who voted down, but on the off chance that it helps arrange your gripe, here's the list of statesmen and
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by ArnoVW 3y ago
in the context of pensions, "tax on companies" generally means "increasing the employer part of social charges" (as apposed to the employee part). The French system requires that the various social systems operate as sep
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by ArnoVW 3y ago
Don't know the product, but anything that acts as a force multiplier for education / healthcare without that value being 100% captured by already rich people, or quality being reduced, is a miracle. You should be proud of yourself
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by ArnoVW 3y ago
The projected annual pension defecit was 30 billion in 15 years, then gradual reduction (as people die). This was the most optimistic scenario, based on x% growth and y% unemployment. Other scenarios were analysed. Btw, these analyses were
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by ArnoVW 3y ago
And that it has been used dozens of times since, by both sides of the aisle.
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by ArnoVW 3y ago
https works because you have previously agreed on a key. The key of the Certificate Authority that signs certificates. Https (or IP for that matter) does not use the physical card to authenticate. That wouldn't make sense, except for v
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by ArnoVW 3y ago
If a bloody stalemate were the objective, that would not be questionable. It would be immoral, neigh evil. However. There are many less nefarious reasons possible. Sending more (capable) equipment costs money. It decreases your own readin
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by ArnoVW 3y ago
Read The Collapse (ME Sarotte) A lot of diplomatic efforts were made at the time. Ukraine was convinced to hand over their nukes, in exchange for security guarantees (that went well...) And in reality, the amount of US/Russian nuclear
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by ArnoVW 3y ago
In legal terms Evernote is not "data controller" but "data processor". They are not responsible for ensuring conformity with retention rules.
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by ArnoVW 3y ago
if you're based in Europe, try framing it as a GDPR issue. Article 16 says that data processors have to rectify data that is inaccurate or incomplete within 1 month. If they don't do that, you can raise it to your national privacy
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by ArnoVW 3y ago
Because if we don't, Russia will show the world that might makes right. And China will take Taiwan, etc. Like peace in society, international peace exists because aggressive elements make an economic calculation, and stay calm. Once th
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by ArnoVW 3y ago
If you like that, you'll love the cube houses (mentionned in the article, built also in the Netherlands, around the same time) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cube_house
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by ArnoVW 3y ago
Whenever we have invented new mass media (books, radio, television, social media) it has taken a generation or two to manage the impacts, on a societal level. And in many cases, the intervening period was fraught with conflict and discord (
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by ArnoVW 3y ago
Nit : you probably mean Hanlon's razor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
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by ArnoVW 3y ago
The QR code means that you can include a tracking id into the URL
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by ArnoVW 3y ago
Nit: located at the gravitational centre of the solar system. Which is not the perfect center of the sun (though still inside it) since all the planets pull on the sun too. Since that gravitational center, and the center of the pairwise sy
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by ArnoVW 3y ago
If you're European, frame it as a GDPR issue. You have the legal right to correct your information. Mail dpo@facebook.com, asking them to correct this, explaining them you have tried normal channels, and reminding them they have one mo
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by ArnoVW 3y ago
Install both? Migrate one friend at a time, starting at the ones you speak with most.
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by ArnoVW 4y ago
Agreed. Well, in theory you may have conflicts in the bucket. And recovering the bucket means a round-trip to memory, which is much more expensive than running over a list. And in any case, "n" is the length of the word, but has n
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by ArnoVW 4y ago
Oblig xkcd https://xkcd.com/1172/
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Al Jaffee, legendary Mad Magazine cartoonist, dies aged 102(theguardian.com)
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by ArnoVW 4y ago
We know people can lie. We also know that some people are more prone to lieing. Using these priors we can navigate daily uncertainty. This sort of article/post helps us (as a society, not just HN) adjust those priors re AI. Because &qu
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by ArnoVW 4y ago
Comparing us revenues with eu ones is tricky. Yes, in raw dollars those poor are better off in the US. But, and I admit to not having read any of those links, my guess is that if you compensate for things like public transport, healthcare,
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by ArnoVW 4y ago
it's not the irradiation that people are worried about. It's the pollution, in the litteral sense. In the case of a fire (to take an all but too common example), all the radioactive material is distributed as tiny particles that g
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by ArnoVW 4y ago
A typical nuclear station genrates 1 Gw. You'd need 1000000 square meters (=1000 sq km) to generate the same thing. Oh and we can only capture 20-30 % of the energy of the total light. We're going to need solar power, and fossile
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by ArnoVW 4y ago
Hi, greetings from Uithoorn. Please to meet you. I uninstalled WhatsApp when they updated their policy.
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by ArnoVW 4y ago
Note to those trying to explain to me I am wrong: note that I did not say who blew the pipeline up. Just that Russia did have credible motives, and that for Russia, blowing up the line anonymously is better than just saying "no more ga
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by ArnoVW 4y ago
No longer supplying means that they get geopolitical flack for 'using hydrocarbons as a weapon'. And will get dragged before the courts for not honoring their long term contracts. So blowing the pipeline up is the better alternati

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