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901.
by ISL 5y ago
When you are looking for a job, are up for promotion/tenure, or applying for grants, a long publication record in prestigious journals is helpful.
902.
by ISL 5y ago
I believe that this is generally correct. Relativistic particles impinging upon even dilute gas will have bright signatures in many bands.
903.
by ISL 5y ago
When The Man gets a warrant to monitor your communications, arrests you, takes all of your electronic devices, and then chats with your friends and colleagues, there is a chance that they might uncover your "hidden" wallet. Or, in
904.
by ISL 5y ago
I suspect existing anti-money-laundering law will cover this somehow. Outfoxing governments through technical cleverness rarely (but sometimes!) works in perpetuity. An example: If any future >$10k transaction can be traced back to a wa
905.
by ISL 5y ago
For many decades, people have observed jets of hot gas spewing from the centers of some galaxies. There are multiple theories as to how those jets form. Radio astronomers got together and built a synthetic telescope the size of the Earth in
906.
by ISL 5y ago
Will that override command-A for select-all? (which would be ctrl-A on most other platforms) Looks like maybe-not, through redirects?
907.
by ISL 5y ago
I do love that the command-key allows terminal copy/paste without overloading Ctrl-C (and was overjoyed when I center-clicked by reflex and the Terminal did the right thing :))
908.
by ISL 5y ago
I've been using Debian almost-exclusively since 2001. A new job requires that I work on MacOS, which has been fun. The primary things that I am struggling with are the keybindings and loss of true fluxbox sloppy focus. zsh and the BSD
909.
by ISL 5y ago
Some classes of (mostly older) neutrino-detection experiments detect single radionuclides in many tons of material. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestake_experiment is perhaps the most-famous, but GALLEX and SAGE use
910.
by ISL 5y ago
Small moves, ...
911.
by ISL 5y ago
It makes very little sense to argue whether respiratory infections might be limited by wearing face-masks, and yet... here we are.
912.
by ISL 5y ago
I'd add that if you loved Contact, there's a good chance that you'll love the book, too. It is written for everyone, but if you have advanced physics knowledge, there is another level of richness awaiting you.
913.
by ISL 5y ago
"We did not realize that the toe we poked was attached to an extremely large bear. Furthermore, we had never even realized that our chimney's diameter was slightly larger than that of an AGM-65. For that, we and our protectors are
914.
by ISL 5y ago
I rented the 1.2 this winter. It's kinda soft, but the rendering is beautiful . If you're going to work at f/8, the 1.8 STM or 1.4 are both as good or better. Wide open in heavy snowfall at night, there's nothing I&#x2
915.
by ISL 5y ago
Sounds like the 40mm f/2.8 might resonate for you :).
916.
by ISL 5y ago
Many of the Ls are metal on the inside. A tough lightweight plastic shell can have major advantages (lighter, impact resistance, etc.) For a great example of a sharp modern L, check out the 16-35 f/4 IS. I'm not an ultra wide phot
917.
by ISL 5y ago
Facebook annual revenue is ~$47/daily-active-user . The number for US users is comparable.
918.
by ISL 5y ago
BRK.B also votes, but with much-less voting power. It isn't to discriminate on class (which is a definite side-effect), but rather to discriminate on time-horizon. Berkshire plays the long game and has taken great pains to attract&#x2F
919.
by ISL 5y ago
It is a rare day that holding BRK.B is preferable to BRK.A. Perhaps today is one of them. If NASDAQ has this problem, there is a good chance that a number of brokers and back-end systems do too. Edit: The more I think about this, the more I
920.
by ISL 5y ago
Landers are generally sterilized to avoid precisely that contamination: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_protection (This strategy works until a human arrives. Once humans are there, we'll be bringing with
921.
by ISL 5y ago
In space, legs are not required. To get out of a gravity well, being light is good.
922.
by ISL 5y ago
Nope -- if we're comparing market-caps as priced in dollars, the USD market-cap will always be the number of dollars in circulation. If we're comparing market-caps in gold bars or cheeseburgers, it is a different story.
923.
by ISL 5y ago
I'm not sure I follow all the arithmetic here (I'm pretty sure that, at fixed margin, revenue would only need to increase by 3x to increase earnings by 3x), but I did follow up to see what Berkshire had paid for Coca-Cola. This th
924.
by ISL 5y ago
As recently as 2011, KO had a P/E of 9. https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/KO/cocacola/pe-rat... There are two ways that a P/E can return to a quasi-normal value. Either the price can go
925.
by ISL 5y ago
I'd preface that first sentence with " Some ". Some stocks that don't pay dividends (or buybacks, or reinvest) straight-up consume investor's capital.
926.
by ISL 5y ago
I'll have to look into that -- it might work.
927.
by ISL 5y ago
Unfortunately, Chromebooks also disable perpetual screen-sharing (in order to prevent very-real scam behavior), too. :-/.
928.
by ISL 5y ago
The biggest problem we have faced, unfortunately, is the proliferation of modern security features. Chromebooks are awesome in many ways for the elderly, but the fact that you can't disable password entry at startup has been a dealbr
929.
by ISL 5y ago
Surely maintaining first-class hardware, software, and marketplace ecosystems has at least a little associated cost?
930.
by ISL 6y ago
How well do structures like these perform in earthquakes? I can imagine that they might outperform some masonry but be inferior to modern stick-built?

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