Qem

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   by Qem 3y ago

   Not sure. But to map polar ice in mercury it was necessary to use the Arecibo radio telescope as radar[1], with the benefit we knew previously where to point the instrument, exactly. Given planet nine is hundreds of times more distant, it w
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   by Qem 3y ago

   Detecting planets or other cold objects is hard, when they are far from the sun. Illumination from the sun falls with inverse square law (~1/r^2). When the reflected light does the return trip, it also falls with (~1/r^2). The eff
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   by Qem 3y ago

   > “Many of us like to ask ourselves, ‘What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?’ The answer is, you’re doing it. Right now.” (The message,
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   Self-sinking capsules to investigate Earth's interior[pdf](iodp.org)

   1 points by Qem 3y ago|0 comments
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   by Qem 3y ago

   > On Tuesday, health minister Cho Kyoo-hong issued this threat amid the ongoing protests by approximately 9,000 junior doctors, who have been absent from their hospitals for eight days. They are opposing the government’s proposal to incr
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   An Assessment of Visual Material Presented by the Israeli Legal Team at the ICJ(forensic-architecture.org)

   4 points by Qem 3y ago|1 comments
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   by Qem 3y ago

   Archived: http://web.archive.org/web/20240228162639/https://content.fo...
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   Brazil's Fordlandia: Tracing the roots of Amazon deforestation(aljazeera.com)

   1 points by Qem 3y ago|0 comments
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   by Qem 3y ago

   I wonder how does North Korea is faring when compared to its southern rival. Are they experiencing problems on this front too?
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    by Qem 3y ago

    It's pure Python, so you can run it under PyPy.
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    by Qem 3y ago

    > It's a running joke that Wolfram is a jobs program for math PhD's. Nice. The PhDs just need take care their contributions aren't misappropriated. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_110
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    by Qem 3y ago

    > I have a simpler theory. The apparent speed of the passage of time is inversely proportion the number of memories being accumulated. I had this same realization. In other words, our internal clock is not like a mechanical, or a quartz
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    by Qem 3y ago

    > children would likely drink proportionately less water all things considered Children tend to be more physically active, and have higher surface area to volume ratios, so proportional to body mass their water intake must be higher.
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    by Qem 3y ago

    Lossy compression. Educators must squeeze knowledge humanity collectively developed over ~6000 years of written history into ~15-30 years of formal education. So lots of details end skipped over. Mortality sucks.
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    by Qem 3y ago

    Archived: http://web.archive.org/web/20240226053631/https://time.com/6...
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    by Qem 3y ago

    > One cop (white shirt, maybe security, it’s not clear) begins spraying him with a fire extinguisher, the cop with gun drawn remains stationary. White shirt yells “I don’t need guns, I need fire extinguishers!” More cops arrive, as do EM
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    by Qem 3y ago

    Do white people had right of self determination in apartheid South Africa? Did that give them the right to treat black people the way they were treated?
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    by Qem 3y ago

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartography_of_Palestine#/me...
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    by Qem 3y ago

    > He drew some surprising conclusions: the writers were less likely to carry on, whereas some of the greatest artists, Michelangelo, Titian, Rembrandt van Rijn, J. M. W. Turner, Paul Cézanne, Claude Monet, Henri Matisse, and in our day,
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    Old Age and Creativity(inference-review.com)

    1 points by Qem 3y ago|1 comments
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    by Qem 3y ago

    Archived: http://web.archive.org/web/20240223160138/https://www.ohchr....
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    by Qem 3y ago

    > The biggest thing with the older ones is the lack of assumption of Internet, so the book will refer to itself instead of referring to online/other documentation. I also miss this aspect of old books. They were more self-contained.
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    How Not to Govern the Commons. The Reasons of 50 Years of Failures(senecaeffect.substack.com)

    3 points by Qem 3y ago|0 comments
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    by Qem 3y ago

    > The Ministry of Defence confirmed an “anomaly” that was “event specific” occurred during the test off the coast of Florida, but refused to provide further information on the grounds of national security. Shouldn't fishing be stopp
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    by Qem 3y ago

    They already sucked, hope they are not tempted into setting LLM bots as fake matches to retain more people.
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    by Qem 3y ago

    Make them feel safe the cord won't be pulled on them, unless there is absolute certainly they are in a unrecoverable state. At least for me talk of new developments where medics don't wait for brain death is scary: https:/&#
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    by Qem 3y ago

    > PEP 594 (Removing dead batteries from the standard library) scheduled removals of many deprecated modules: aifc, audioop, chunk, cgi, cgitb, crypt, imghdr, mailcap, msilib, nis, nntplib, ossaudiodev, pipes, sndhdr, spwd, sunau, telnetl
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    Crisis in Gaza: Scenario-Based Health Impact Projections [pdf](gaza-projections.org)

    6 points by Qem 3y ago|1 comments
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    by Qem 3y ago

    Archived: http://web.archive.org/web/20240220053241/https://gaza-proje... > The projections are not predictions of what will happen in Gaza but provide a range of projections of what could happen unde
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    by Qem 3y ago

    On this conflation, I think the best discussion I read up to now was this: https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-weekend-essay/in-the-shad...