GeorgeRichard

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by GeorgeRichard 6mo ago
Are you suggesting that he was targeted before he became the director of the FBI? That seems unlikely. Once he became an obvious target surely the FBI should have secured his past, present and future communications. But I have no idea what
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by GeorgeRichard 10mo ago
>>decorum and professionalism Yes, the hallmark of the Trump administration.
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by GeorgeRichard 2y ago
Surely it can only calculate its current position, calculating its future positions would seem to require a divination machine.
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by GeorgeRichard 2y ago
This is great fun--and accurate. My lettuce floated just like the picture I drew when I tested it in the bath.
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by GeorgeRichard 2y ago
Yes, the article does seem a little sketchy: > Even by the standards of 1914, Russia was a backward country. Most of its citizens were serfs, often tied to the land they worked, like serfs in the Middle Ages. Russian serfdom was abolishe
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by GeorgeRichard 3y ago
> NUCLEAR WEAPONS laboratories don’t often help solve serial-killer cases. Because mass murder is their specialty...
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by GeorgeRichard 3y ago
This is a world that I have no knowledge of so I expect my comment is commensurately naive, but it does remind me of the days when I was an avid race-goer. If I bet on a horse to win that's all I wanted it to do; if the horse and jocke
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by GeorgeRichard 3y ago
The rather good YouTube channel "Our Own Devices" has a couple of interesting episodes about these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNhjfk9BTNA&pp=ygUcb3VyIG93b... https://www.youtube.com/watch
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by GeorgeRichard 3y ago
Fair enough, I must remember to wake up properly and think before I type. I suppose it was the lack of a preposition that threw me. The jibe about the quality of their journalism was gratuitous nonsense and which I regret and apologise for.
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by GeorgeRichard 3y ago
This is the second time that I have notice a title change in HN where the original article has "The Man..." or "The Woman..." changed in the HN title to "A Man..." or "A Woman...". Why is this done?
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by GeorgeRichard 4y ago
I don't know anything about facial recognition software so I'm probably underestimating the difficulty of alerting the system and it's operators to the interesting possibility of giraffes and zebras wandering around the urban
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We Have a Real UFO Problem. and It’s Not Balloons(politico.com)
5 points by GeorgeRichard 4y ago|0 comments
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The cargo hauling aircraft with no pilots on board(bbc.com)
3 points by GeorgeRichard 4y ago|0 comments
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by GeorgeRichard 4y ago
> propelling you to a flood of potentials I've been looking for this for a long time, the exquisite, electric pleasure of bathing in a flood of potentials...
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by GeorgeRichard 4y ago
Your wife loves you very much and/or your nasty food poisoning had very nasty external effects.
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by GeorgeRichard 4y ago
Why is it a thought experiment? After all envelopes, cash, experimenters etcetera exist. It could be a real experiment. On the other hand what theory or hypothesis would it be testing? What’s the problem with Monty Hall? The solution (switc
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by GeorgeRichard 4y ago
> Imagine you are given two identical envelopes, each containing money. One contains twice as much as the other. You may pick one envelope and keep the money it contains. Having chosen an envelope at will, but before inspecting it, you a
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by GeorgeRichard 4y ago
Hackaday has an interesting article about this: https://hackaday.com/2022/05/23/fighting-back-against-dodgy-...
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by GeorgeRichard 4y ago
> I probably acquired close to a thousand books on mentalism I'm surprised/skeptical that so many books on this subject exist.
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by GeorgeRichard 5y ago
At the 1940 New York World's Fair Westinghouse displayed a machine, the Nimatron, that played Nim. From May 11, 1940, to October 27, 1940, only a few people were able to beat the machine in that six-week period; if they did, they were
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by GeorgeRichard 5y ago
> the first video footage gathered by an uncrewed surface vehicle (USV)
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by GeorgeRichard 5y ago
Bolshevism has nothing to do with "an onslaught of random chaos". Maybe you have it confused with a crude understanding of Nihilism.
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by GeorgeRichard 5y ago
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is a short novel by the Russian writer and Nobel laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, first published in November 1962. The story is set in a Soviet labor camp in the early 1950s and describes a single day
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by GeorgeRichard 6y ago
"A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism." The Communist Manifesto
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by GeorgeRichard 6y ago
Yure credebility as en xpert is somwat deminished if you cannot spell weight or axle. Yup, yeah.
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by GeorgeRichard 6y ago
English: dictionary French: dictionnaire HN: dictionnary
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by GeorgeRichard 6y ago
You might find this of interest - it seems to be a cottage-industry spectrometer selling for £67: "The i-Phos can see wavelengths from approximately 420 - 980nm and their relative (though not their absolute) intensities." http:&#
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by GeorgeRichard 6y ago
> he escaped when the zoo was bombed in 1943. His whereabouts were unknown until 1946, when British soldiers found him Extraordinary that an alligator could survive for over two years in wartime Berlin. Where did it live, what did it eat
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by GeorgeRichard 7y ago
I know nothing about this field, however when I looked up "invasive mechanical ventilation" Wikipedia told me: "Mechanical ventilation is termed "invasive" if it involves any instrument inside the trachea through th
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by GeorgeRichard 7y ago
"One of the great white hopes of the part of the Unix world that never liked X Windows was Sun's NeWS." I searched Wikipedia and found that "Great White Hope is a nickname or epithet originally applied to boxers who were

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