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by Steuard 12y ago
Creating a second Gmail account and setting it up to forward to your primary account is already a pretty straightforward procedure, so that probably won't be much of a problem. (There would presumably be a need for some user educatio
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by Steuard 12y ago
I think their point is that Yelp reviews are usually anonymous. So how do they know which wedding you're talking about? Do they just assume it's the one that happened yesterday?
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by Steuard 12y ago
Experiments this delicate are very difficult to get right. And it is very difficult to overstate just how much established physics would have to be scrapped if momentum conservation turned out to be violated. (Just for starters, relativity
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by Steuard 12y ago
How on Earth is $110,000 a reasonable value for this level of vulnerability? (And with a multi-thousand dollar up front cost to boot.) I'm not remotely an expert on security, much less nefarious black-market hacks, but I would think th
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by Steuard 12y ago
Previous discussion, including comments from the game's designer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6412780
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by Steuard 12y ago
From where I'm sitting, this is an inappropriate level of spoilers to include in a comment here. Could you perhaps edit (or cut) your next to last sentence?
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by Steuard 12y ago
http://parahumans.wordpress.com/f-a-q/ Q2: Will there be an ebook version? A2: I hope to self publish and sell some somewhere down the road. Going to finish the story first and edit things as thoroughly as possible f
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by Steuard 12y ago
The article says that the mother of the girl filed the complaint. It doesn't indicate whether anyone has filed one in the other direction; perhaps the guardians of the boy find the idea of prosecuting this behavior repugnant. (And I th
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by Steuard 12y ago
I have often seen pedestrian signals where the countdown ends when the red light turns on (so the countdown is still going during the yellow). My reading of the article was thus that the rear-enders are choosing to run more yellow lights, n
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by Steuard 12y ago
Interestingly, I saw more than one fantastic teacher get denied tenure in my graduate department (a top research university), and there was always a rumor floating around that it was because they spent effort on teaching that could have i
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by Steuard 12y ago
I'm honestly not sure what outcome he's asking for, though. This paper did capture the public imagination! He put it on arXiv.org (where it was accepted after their very minimal but non-zero peer review), and within days he was
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by Steuard 12y ago
" Might as well theorize fairies from another dimension materialized into ours to poke fun at internet search analyzers. " Good point! Just to be clear, as far as I can tell this work wasn't ever published in a peer-reviewe
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by Steuard 12y ago
Because (for example) I, as a physicist, didn't even know enough to immediately suggest topics like "network science, internet research, web science", and instead said the work was "sociological(?)". For all we kn
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by Steuard 12y ago
I almost posted a response along these lines: how distinguishable are precognition and time travel from a fundamental physics perspective, anyway? It's all about information flow. But then I realized that precognition has an alternate
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by Steuard 12y ago
My decision to use the weasel word "competitive" there was based on very much this point. My reading of the article suggested that this author was submitting his article to fairly prestigious journals: two of the three were "
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by Steuard 12y ago
The biggest issue that I see with publishing this work in a physics journal is that although time travel is certainly a concept in physics, the research involved here is not physics research. I'd describe it as sociological(?) resear
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by Steuard 12y ago
Reading his developer blog, I was completely caught off guard when he said (weeks in) that he had only then realized that there was a second phase of the game. Good for him for not just saying, "Oh, wow, never mind!" at that point
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by Steuard 12y ago
I know nothing about their theories, clearly. But if I had a nickel for every suggestion I've heard for somehow extracting energy or momentum or something useful from quantum vacuum energy, I'd have, well, a couple bucks. The thin
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by Steuard 12y ago
Thanks! I knew someone must have analyzed this before.
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by Steuard 12y ago
You know what? I take that back. At some point, I'd had the impression that Alcubierre's solution required a fixed velocity (so you couldn't start or stop the spaceship), but evidently that's not the case. It gets to be
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by Steuard 12y ago
Bob's argument is (more or less) that it's easy to set up a thought experiment in which you imagine setting up closed causal curves, but that the devil is in the details. Earlier in the paper, he argued that the new physics will s
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by Steuard 12y ago
Here's a link to a good discussion of some related issues by cosmologist Sean Carroll: http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2011/09/24/can-neut... (It's in the context of that mistaken &quo
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by Steuard 12y ago
Thanks for the thorough reply: I appreciate it! Was there any consideration of making this feature JS-only? From the linked article (and some of the discussion here), it sounds like using this in an actual stylesheet may not be easy to do w
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by Steuard 12y ago
Heck, the browser could even do a lot of things that wouldn't even be an option via CSS. For a transition set to occur on :hover, the article suggests that a human might want to add a will-change attribute to :hover on the containing
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by Steuard 12y ago
Is there a way to make this a JS-only interface or property, then? Heck, the article made it sound like using it directly in stylesheets would often be a bad idea anyway.
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by Steuard 12y ago
I hadn't heard about this before; I'm clearly out of the loop these days. With buy-in from smart people at Webkit and Mozilla, I've got to assume that it really will be an improvement over the status quo. But, boy, it feels a
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by Steuard 12y ago
Speaking as a professional physicist, this page feels awfully light on actual information. And as far as I can tell, that's merited: there's not a lot of solid science discussed on this page, or even especially tantalizing ideas f
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by Steuard 12y ago
I have not the slightest familiarity with Bro or its competitors, and I wouldn't dream of pretending to. My comment here is entirely from the perspective of an outsider hearing about the project and trying to figure out whether learn
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by Steuard 12y ago
I hate to say it, but despite their prior claim to the name, today's reality means that the name will be a persistent distraction from the underlying product. It's not remotely fair, but that doesn't make it untrue. Just ask
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by Steuard 12y ago
Someone else has already commented that populations have tended to stabilize quite quickly when childhood mortality drops. Worries about exponential growth always seem to fizzle out within a generation. So I don't think this is a pract

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