TerraHertz

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by TerraHertz 14y ago
So how is the mystery of observed isotopic decay rate variations (with Earth/Moon/Sun spin/orbit period correlations) going these days? That's now two solid results that indicate things we thought were constants, are not. What's the bet the
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by TerraHertz 14y ago
Annnnd.... once again when we want to read the actual paper (paid for with public funds) we hit a damned paywall. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6118/417.full Can anyone suggest a free source?
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by TerraHertz 14y ago
Actually, there is a physical mechanism in cellular life that sets a lifespan limit, by roughly constraining the number of replications most differentiated cell lines in a body can support. Thus the correlation between slower metabolism and
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by TerraHertz 14y ago
"I remember vividly clutching at the door to my room, trying to hold on to something while the world spun around." Some commenters treat this as if it must be hyperbole. But what Aaron describes is a typical reaction for someone who's just
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by TerraHertz 14y ago
Actually it's been easily possible for years. Just forget about buying new equipment and buy older Tektronix or HP sampling scopes on ebay. For eg the HP 54121T, a 20GHz scope with TDR, able to characterize trace impedance absolutely workab
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by TerraHertz 14y ago
I agree. The consistency of their changes that always disadvantage small sellers, reveals intent. But I don't agree with your suggestion that eBay-PayPal is doing this just because they are greedy. I think eBay-PayPal is run by people who t
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by TerraHertz 14y ago
"jobs that don't move the country and humanity forward, but just move cash from one pocket to another without benefiting anyone but the people moving the money." The accumulation of such 'societal overheads', as entrenched systems act to gr
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by TerraHertz 14y ago
I spent ages going over the hi-res image looking for any damaged cable sheath. Still wondering where that scrap of the sheath insulation tape they noticed on the ground in a photo a while ago came from. No doubt the external, unprotected ca
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by TerraHertz 14y ago
Perhaps someone could patent the business method of patent trolling. Then sue the trolls for patent infringement. I suppose this is wishful thinking. No doubt some patent troll company has already patented the idea of suing patent troll com
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by TerraHertz 15y ago
OK, now this is just exploring an idea about WHY this might have been done. Rough details: Google doesn't develop business web sites, but the callers were offering that service. Obtaining their business contact database, and misrepresenting
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by TerraHertz 15y ago
What do you expect from a US forum? Anyway, FEMA is activating the camps, hiring staff. And the 'military can arrest and hold anyone indefinitely in the US' act is about to become law. So they'll all get what they deserve. Will be interesti
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by TerraHertz 15y ago
http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1544.htm China Joins Russia, Orders Military To Prepare For World War III Extract: Further evidence in these diplomatic pouches, this bulletin says, reveals that the United States is preparing an “ultima
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by TerraHertz 15y ago
The practical limits are much more esoteric than Malthus imagined. First limit: that population limit that some group of people with the power for force their beliefs on everyone else, thinks is ideal. Not like some group, of, oh, let's cal
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by TerraHertz 15y ago
"The world today has 6.8 billion people... that's headed up to about 9 billion. Now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent." -- Bill Gates (in
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by TerraHertz 15y ago
"In the first step of Delft University's new technical approach, the human waste will be dried. Then the waste will be gasified using plasma, which is created by microwaves in tailor-made equipment." I can't help reading this with a shockin
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by TerraHertz 15y ago
Considering Bill Gate's previous on-record comment about how improved vaccination programs could _reduce_ population, I wouldn't be surprised if there'll be some 'accidental consequences' of this system. How much fertility reduction do you
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by TerraHertz 15y ago
This Ji person turned out to be quite the allegory of the present moral state of humankind, didn't he? Is there any aspect of the original concept he didn't corrupt? What's the bet he either didn't actually play the game, or played several
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by TerraHertz 15y ago
Easy. Any biometric sensor. Fingerprints for instance. If the machine detects the same person trying to play again, it just refuses to run. Or... (if I was designing this) kills them where they sit. Next person that reaches the game's remot
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by TerraHertz 15y ago
If someone wanted to extend this concept a bit further, how about a one-play-only game that could only be passed on as a bequest. That is, no one else gets to play it until you are dead, for real. Bit of a technical challenge, to ensure the
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by TerraHertz 15y ago
This thread not getting much attention because most HN readers are young and therefore don't think about their own impending mortality.
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by TerraHertz 15y ago
I don't suppose you have a spare power cord for a HP 5061A cesium beam atomic clock? Uses a weird round mil-style connector, never have been able to find one.
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by TerraHertz 15y ago
This looks like so much fun. Not to mention a way to get rid of excess accumulated 'junk', that I can't bear to just throw out. Too bad I'm in Australia, and it could never work here.
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by TerraHertz 15y ago
HTML email allows people who are incapable of expressing their ideas in readable plain text, to ALSO impose their barbaric stylistic tastelessness on you, the recipient.
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by TerraHertz 15y ago
It is precisely because I'd rather never read anything from 'business executives and marketing depts' that I use a text-only email client. Email is for concise communication of ideas via text. If you need pictures and pretty layouts to sell
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by TerraHertz 15y ago
Yeah, I've since found out about the 'divisible' aspect. Don't understand it yet. In particular, how different people can own fragments of one cryptographic unit, without there being any central coordination point. As for storing in the clo
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by TerraHertz 15y ago
Only ruins it for you. And only because you apparently don't know much about the FED. Here's some reading material. http://everist.org/archives/links/!_FED_US_Federal_Reserve_l...
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by TerraHertz 15y ago
I've only recently begun paying attention to Bitcoin, and am still evaluating. Have yet to read the technical details, for instance. So I have nothing to say on the validity of the technology. However I can offer some comments from a politi
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by TerraHertz 16y ago
Nice. One suggestion- make the title or something clickable to restore the clean table after using this to examine some site's code.
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by TerraHertz 16y ago
Ha. Quite a few people getting upset about my post. <yawn> 'huge stream-of consciousness ascii list', etc. Ha ha ha! Points: * It's TWO lists. Pay attention. * They're not 'stream of consciousness', they're chronological archives of
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by TerraHertz 16y ago
Oh, and 'crazy conspiracy theories' is an oxymoron. It's the NON-conspiracy theories that are crazy. The world operates primarily by conspiracies. Maybe the lady passenger was just practicing her skills at grading conspiracy probabilities.

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