Beldin

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by Beldin 3y ago
That's a simplistic outlook. Oppenheimer was a celebrated leader of the team that invented the bomb that ended the war... and then, very publicly, had his security clearance revoked and was basically dragged through the mud by the gove
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by Beldin 3y ago
The article makes the argument that he did Nobel-level-worthy work. There are a few reasons Oppenheimer is remembered today, including reasons having to do with physics. Unlike most physicists from 1900-1950.
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by Beldin 3y ago
In this case, it only toggles settings already baked in to the original software. That should not increase your attack surface unless the settings are poorly tested. Moreover, it would not decrease your privacy unless: 1. The number of peop
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by Beldin 3y ago
Enabling WebGL makes you a lot more fingerprintable than having it disabled. See e.g. How gullible are web measurement tools? A case study analysing and strengthening OpenWPM’s reliability. B. Krumnow, H. Jonker and S. Karsch. In Proc. 18th
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by Beldin 3y ago
In addition to multiple sibling comments answering your actual question, I'd like to point out the following: > when we say that a star is N light years away and therefore it would take N years to reach at the speed of light, is th
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by Beldin 3y ago
Not OP, but: > If there is any way to transfer energy, then it can heat in exactly the same way as anything else. If it could heat up, Dark Matter wouldn't be dark . So yeah, dark matter that heats isn't quite what one would
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by Beldin 3y ago
Black hole singularities do not start right after their event horizon. The event horizon only demarcates where the black hole singularity becomes an inevitable (inescapable) point in all possible futures.
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by Beldin 3y ago
Students of the Eindhoven University of Technology designed and developed an electric car with a range of 250km, that can be charged in under 4 minutes. They achieved this by cooling each individual cell in the battery pack. This not only b
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Dutch students make e-car that charges 30 kWh in 3m56(tue.nl)
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by Beldin 3y ago
> ...producing movies that will never be watched by anyone in 100 years. I'd say you're optimistic: US copyright on works for hire expires 95 years after first publication.
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by Beldin 3y ago
> I have a pet theory that all humans spend roughly 30% of their disposable income on status products. And that there's no way to escape this. No matter how hard you try. Are you serious? Because wow that's off by a few megap
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by Beldin 3y ago
Not if the endgoal is to arrive at a profitable version of Twitter, no. So maybe that's not the goal. Or maybe it is but the CEO is vastly more incompetent than those underwriting his bid anticipated.
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by Beldin 3y ago
"Law enforcement - I.C.E. referals" This is from a slide deck on how to "protect" content, apparently by someone working for a law firm. Assuming the firm is US-based, this is literally suggesting to get immigration serv
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by Beldin 3y ago
Basically, the Cardassians were an authoritarian, fascist regime bent on destroying a species different from them. With the brutal oppression, "work" / death camps, religion on one side, fascist regime on the other, a nebulou
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by Beldin 3y ago
> > I might as well let them delete my account that only follows a bunch of people I know without ever looking at their pictures. > Both sides are reasonable, a common form of spam uses hacked accounts that have grown organically,
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by Beldin 3y ago
You mean like "free speech zones" - which seems to be defined as zones in the US where you do have freedom of speech. (Yes, I'm wondering "what about the rest of the land area" as well.) https://en.m.wiki
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by Beldin 3y ago
> There's still time for an alternative That is somewhat funny/punny, since that is (as you're probably aware) literally in AfD's name: Alternative for Germany (Deutschland).
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by Beldin 3y ago
> it's not Music or Video Weird. Around here, Prime does give access to video. I know folks around here who have prime just for that. I doublechecked just to be sure; it still is like that (according to a quick google search).
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by Beldin 3y ago
Wasn't familiar with this concept. Funny though: in my language, "5th wheel (on a car)" refers to someone being as useful as... well, the 5th wheel on a car, i.e., not useful at all. The "on a car" part is often le
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by Beldin 3y ago
No, not really. Your own safety is concern #1 when driving. For a very simple reason: if you're not safe yourself, you cannot make it safer for others. Others will have different ideas on what is safe. They may feel comfortable breakin
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by Beldin 3y ago
Websites are legally required (both e-privacy directive and GDPR) to inform users (at least those from the EU) about what user information they store/track. This pertains to cookies as well as any other methods of doing so. Since they
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by Beldin 3y ago
> In NYC the DHS intakes and beds 60,000 homeless people _every single night_. I interpreted parent's use of the term "solution" quite differently.
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by Beldin 3y ago
The explanation I've seen is that certain programs (mail, chat, forums, etc) automatically recognise urls that are not hyperlinked and convert them into a hyperlink. E.g. "example.com" becomes "<a href=" http:&#x
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by Beldin 3y ago
There would only be a need for that with ubiquitous literacy. The Roman system may well have been close enough to universally accessible and offer delivery throughout their territory for Roman citizens who were literate.
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by Beldin 3y ago
While I completely agree with you on interstellar travel, I'd like to add the nuance that you seem to assume that there is no life in the Solar system other than on Earth. That could very well be true... but we're not even confide
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by Beldin 3y ago
I'd like an .er address. That's Eritrean. Last time I looked it up, that country was a mess . No telling who'd profit from domain registration, and not worth figuring that out for what amounts to vanity plates. Not gonna ris
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by Beldin 3y ago
There are 365×24 = 8760 hours in a year. So after 1 year and 52 days, we've crossed this threshold - at current levels. So: thoroughly sterilised, if the FDA isn't totally off.
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by Beldin 3y ago
One appeal I've seen is if a ccTLD matches the last 2 letters of your last name. You can then set up a mail adres first@lastna.me. Or a personal website at http://first.lastna.me/ Not for everyone probably, but if it&
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by Beldin 3y ago
Just to add: the EU mandates certain standards that other territories do not necessarily impose. For example: turn signals on cars: in the EU, they must be separate from brake lights and colored yellow or orange. That is: (1) vendors may ab
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by Beldin 3y ago
I realise that this is the premise of the Musk takeover. How does that work in practice? Twitter was a public company, with plenty of current and former employees having shares due to compensation. Were these people forced to accept money o

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