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by JBorrow 5y ago
Is it just me or is this article entirely unreadable due to the in-page scrollable HP ads in the background? The page breaks aren’t calculated correctly so I can’t see half the text. Sigh.
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by JBorrow 5y ago
What you just described is a 'Challenge Trial'. These have been avoided for COVID and would likely be avoided for other diseases too on ethical grounds. For a common cold, or other lower-impact disease, you could do a challenge tr
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by JBorrow 5y ago
SUBSTANTIAL PORTIONS can mean the core five lines of some key algorithm buried deep in a 1000 line wrapper library with a bunch of language wrappers.
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by JBorrow 5y ago
See this discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27710287
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by JBorrow 5y ago
Landfill
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by JBorrow 5y ago
One thing on the rhyming - you say on one page it rimes with 'lover' and on another that it rhymes with 'hover'. In many people's accents, these are spoken quite differently...
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by JBorrow 5y ago
But they are through CCTV
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by JBorrow 5y ago
Well a lot of venues ask to see your ID to verify your age for entry. How is this any different? It's not like it contains any contact information.
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by JBorrow 5y ago
Human riders can kinda do that too (track standing)
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by JBorrow 5y ago
I hate to be that guy but isn't that just... Radio? Isn't what you've described basically BBC Radio 4, or any of the NPR stations?
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by JBorrow 5y ago
Max Planck - sorry I didn't define that ( https://www.mpg.de/institutes ).
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by JBorrow 5y ago
You should read up on the Max Planck institutes in Germany, and on the Flatiron Institute in New York. As others have said your problem will be attracting talent. You're best off organising free conferences, in collaboration with a MP,
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by JBorrow 5y ago
What is your stake in crypto?
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by JBorrow 5y ago
No, gravitational potential energy is linearly proportional to the height over which you raise the weight. http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/gpot.html
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by JBorrow 5y ago
That's not really how it works. Nobody's out there 'approving' research (well, not seemingly small projects like this), especially at the university level. Professors (all the way down to PhD students!) are usually left
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by JBorrow 6y ago
A large proportion of the carbon emissions from flights come from takeoff (you have to haul the plane, full of fuel, up through the gravitational potential)
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by JBorrow 6y ago
Can you clarify why you think that makes the article deserve to be flagged? I see it as not spam; it’s a timely post about why a senior member of the open source community is not suitable for a leadership position that they have just taken
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by JBorrow 6y ago
Difficult to run true HPC software like this as a 'grid'. High speed, low latency communication (with MPI) is required.
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by JBorrow 6y ago
Well the reason that we would build the one 3 bn telescope, rather than 10 100-200 m telescopes, is because they can tell you fundamentally different things about the Universe. In many ways, to move forward, we must go bigger with the tech,
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by JBorrow 6y ago
AO improvements over the past decade have made ground-based astronomy provide better images, with large enough apertures, than Hubble. You are correct - the NIR is blocked by the atmosphere. That is why we are launching Webb. Optical, howev
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by JBorrow 6y ago
As another commenter said, they are designed to work for 5ish years. That we have had Hubble so long is essentially a miracle. Same thing for the Mars rovers that limped on for years despite only being designed to last months. Also your cla
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by JBorrow 6y ago
The reason it is so expensive is, as I said in my other comments - the instruments. These are one-off, heavily tested prototypes.
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by JBorrow 6y ago
Also - we are currently launching another Hubble, called WFIRST. This was provided by a 3 letter US agency and required a mirror redesign. Launch costs are not a factor now, and weren’t then either.
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by JBorrow 6y ago
2m is pittance for professional astronomy. Hubble may have a 2.4m mirror, but remember that is a 1980s era telescope. Current and future telescopes target 10-30m mirrors, purely for light capture reasons. We’d need to put something that big
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by JBorrow 6y ago
A lot of the cost for space based missions is also in instrument design. When you make a telescope, you don’t need to just design the mirror and the stuff that holds it up, and a camera with a series of filters. You need to design spectrogr
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by JBorrow 6y ago
In the UK, you upload a photo from your phone of yourself (that it checks to make sure is valid), you put in your old passport number, and you send your old passport by post to the office. Then in a few days you get your new passport with t
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by JBorrow 6y ago
Why not? It seems like a pretty clear cut move to increase privacy, drive up consumer satisfaction and loyalty, and increase sales. Yeah, they're doing it to sell more iPhones, sure, but I don't see how that's a bad thing.
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by JBorrow 6y ago
If all you are focused on is web development, then no - python is likely not the language for you. Especially if you want to do frontend. The reason that python is popular isn't because it has particularly unique features. It's th
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by JBorrow 6y ago
Try using a plaster (to-american: band-aid) to ensure your nose bridge is clamped properly to your nose. Works quite well.
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by JBorrow 6y ago
I'd also add to Omni Group that Panic are a company that follows similar principles, to their benefit.

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