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by Hayvok 4y ago
This approach was tried by Britain and France in the 1920s and 30s. Didn’t end well.
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by Hayvok 4y ago
I come across that dioxygen difluoride article of his every few years and it still makes me laugh (and shudder) every time. Thanks for providing my 2022 reading of it. Looking forward to next time.
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by Hayvok 4y ago
As a kid I would get bored and skip the Tom Bombadil section - it was only years later as a young adult and I was starting to get deeper into the lore that I found him to be a fascinating character, with deep implications. Absolutely agree
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by Hayvok 4y ago
> more precisely, "if we assume dark matter is a form of matter that behaves like normal mass in all ways except that it doesn't interact with light > you make it sound like scientists are making things up rather than just d
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by Hayvok 4y ago
Not sure what org you were in but Apple engineering orgs I was in always seemed to “power down” around Thanksgiving. Trying to schedule meetings or get new things done was tough. Tim got in the habit of giving everyone Thanksgiving week off
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by Hayvok 4y ago
> but the majority of mass in the universe is somehow dark matter! Forgive me, but shouldn’t it be, “the majority of gravity” we observe? > through numerous experiments, other theories get ruled out while dark matter survives We keep
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by Hayvok 4y ago
That was how I read it - the MOND camp is dubious that the WIMP theory will work out.
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by Hayvok 4y ago
Just imagine what Disney or Amazon will be doing to this property in thirty years time.
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by Hayvok 4y ago
Props to the language creator for showing us example code right away, at the top of the page. Half the time a new language gets introduced here and I spend 15 minutes hunting for some page somewhere on the site that deigns to share what the
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by Hayvok 4y ago
Thanks for writing this (and teaching me what an eggcorn is) - it made me laugh. However, I think I'll chalk my use of "queue" rather than "cue" to it being 1 AM when I wrote the comment. :)
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by Hayvok 4y ago
And queue the first Opium War. The Chinese did indeed start a crackdown on opium trade after this, including sending troops to seize warehouses full of it. This action sparked off the first Opium War with Britian, and kicking off the so-cal
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by Hayvok 4y ago
Agreed. “The government does it, why can’t we?” is just being deliberately naive. In the hands of the U.S. government it’s monetary policy - in mine it’s literally a scam. There’s a fascinating lesson and wake-call in monetary theory and ph
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by Hayvok 4y ago
Agreed, Tor is a very respected publishing house in the sci-fi/fantasy genres. He’s joining company with works like Enders Game, Wheel of Time, Mistborn, and Stormlight Archive, and a dozen more I’m not able to remember off the top of
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by Hayvok 4y ago
> The protests coincided with a parliamentary vote on a proposed £22bn programme to halve agricultural emissions of nitrous oxide and ammonia by 2030.…close to nature reserves, the policy is tougher still, with 70-95% reductions targeted
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by Hayvok 4y ago
People aren’t giving the article a full shake - you need to read past the first three paragraphs. The agonizing over woke terms is trying to show the rigor of the lexicographers & that they are trying their best to keep the work current
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by Hayvok 4y ago
JPL uses metric for calculations. It’s an education article, and the author mentions he first got the question from (presumably American) students so it makes sense he would answer in imperial units that an American middle schooler could un
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by Hayvok 4y ago
Summarized answer from the article. > For JPL's highest accuracy calculations, which are for interplanetary navigation, we use 3.141592653589793 > by cutting pi off at the 15th decimal point… our calculated circumference of the 2
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by Hayvok 4y ago
If you want to play in the science sandbox and be taken seriously by the other scientists, you don’t get to ask for “evidence of absence”. We haven't done science that way for four hundred years . If you have an issue with that, that’
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by Hayvok 4y ago
“Mutually assured destruction” is still the defense in this particular case. Anybody who thinks that America wouldn’t retaliate and turn half of east-Asia into a sheet of radioactive glass is kidding themselves.
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by Hayvok 4y ago
“That crowd” being people who think that the leftist intelligentsia in the U.S. is off their rocker? It’s a big crowd, and getting bigger.
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by Hayvok 4y ago
> giving people Elon fatigue is his politics. > I really get the sense that people are increasingly getting sick of hearing from or about him. YMMV. YMMV indeed, because every conservative I talk to is seeing him as a hero who is fina
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by Hayvok 4y ago
The comet theory seems to be gaining some traction as the research is done and more data becomes available. A few years ago it certainly seemed fringe-y. Good on them for doing the science. Entertaining and fascinating are the right words t
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by Hayvok 4y ago
Clarification: We have no idea if the hallucinogenic effects of the place were real, if they were mere theater, or something else altogether. That a succession of women served as Oracles in the Temple of Apollo (for hundreds of years) is
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by Hayvok 4y ago
> Even worse than the previous paragraph. Aircraft carriers did not render battleships obsolete at Pearl Harbor, which involved a fleet of old battleships at a state of low readiness. If the Japanese thought battleships obsolete, why did
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by Hayvok 4y ago
The seaworthiness of Monitor or Merrimac was immaterial to the contemporary discussion around ironclads. It was a transformative moment. There were plenty of sea-worthy ironclads already in European fleets but there had not been a batt
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by Hayvok 4y ago
This reminded me of an article in WSJ a few years ago that “Bridge is the ultimate war game”. > Great bridge players are great liars—as are brilliant military leaders and diplomats and politicians. > No board game can replicate the co
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by Hayvok 4y ago
> I'm not sure why people complain about SPAs. … say hello to Rust with custom UI based on WebGPU transpiled to webassembly If this is the future, then no wonder everyone is running back to just shipping HTML over the wire. All this
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by Hayvok 4y ago
The book I recommended in original comment (A World on Fire) will give you a good inside-look at the British political thought & decision making during that time, including Parliamentary debates & communiques between Palmerston and
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by Hayvok 4y ago
That's a good question, and I don't know the answer. However, whatever that need was (to hedge against the British) should have been completely necessary, and really goes to show you just how valuable a strong diplomatic corps c
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by Hayvok 4y ago
You could argue that the Confederacy actually started the Cotton Famine, on purpose. Early on the Union blockade was essentially a paper blockade, and therefore of dubious international legality. There were laws regarding blockades, but tho

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