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by ahelwer 6y ago
I was going to say, this wouldn't explain it because the electric field strength is projected to the polarization axis (with strength 0.707 at 45 degrees) but to match quantum measurement it should be 0.5 strength (0.707 squared). But
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by ahelwer 6y ago
This is incorrect [edit: it isn't] - see the standard "three polarizing filter" experiment [0] which is impossible to explain with classical mechanics [edit: it can actually be explained, see coolgod's comment below]. Po
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Basically: yes, absolutely. Canadians in general love their healthcare and my personal experience with it has been nothing but positive. My frustration with American healthcare is augmented by how much better I know it can be. I pay $500&#x
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Currently: high salary and partner is in medical residency for the next number of years. After the only candidate who actually wanted to fix your ridiculous healthcare system dropped out of the presidential primary, my desire to continue li
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Pretty easy to imagine this happening to control access to fresh water & arable land as climate change progresses. The corn belt is shifting north.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
As a Canadian living in the US: it really isn't. The US wants to believe it isn't a dumpster fire but beyond its natural beauty (literally the Chinese name for America means "beautiful country", of which I'm jealous
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Unlikely. That isn't how hacks or outages are punished in large software service orgs, unless it was intentional or due to negligence like disabling a failing test to get something shipped to prod.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Actually, quite a few people (including myself) believe there is a vast gulf between doing actual work and making money off of the people doing actual work - aka investing in property (especially to rent it out) or stocks. I have little sym
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Those protocols are designed for surgical masks where the objective is to protect the wearer from droplets. The objective of cloth masks is to protect other people from your droplets (although there is a small protective effect for the wear
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by ahelwer 6y ago
This is a good analysis. You aren't seeing a constant drumbeat of bad China news because the US suddenly cares very deeply about Muslim lives - otherwise we'd be hearing a lot more about India, for example. China threatens the US&
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Easy way to make vscode choke: hold down ctrl+alt+up/down to enable multi-line editing. Let the cursor run up or down the screen for a bit. It lags a lot. This might be because of the vsvim plugin though, itself the source of a lot of
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Unbelievable with all the money sloshing around in tech that nobody has funded this. The museum was a very special place.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Yes, things seem to be coalescing around raddle.me.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
With all those words you typed you could have done a whole lot of googling to find a source befitting your standards. Reddit sends you warnings, several of them, before banning your account if you upvote things it doesn't like. I know
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by ahelwer 6y ago
It isn't all right wing stuff. The recent banwave took out probably the largest leftist community on the internet after a long period of banning users who upvoted opinions there, such as: * Slaveowners deserved to die * John Brown is a
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by ahelwer 6y ago
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/techwatch/corinne-weaver/2...
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by ahelwer 6y ago
I think the whole point is that politicians were already bold-faced lying, and everyone knew it, and politicians knew everyone knew it (see the quoted definition of a hack in the article). But we all played the game. See Hypernormalization
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by ahelwer 6y ago
If this sort of narrative-media-centered analysis of society appeals to you, you'd probably enjoy Slavoj Zizek. His documentary The Pervert's Guide to Ideology is quite enjoyable. I honestly wondered whether this was a Zizek pie
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by ahelwer 6y ago
I have yet to encounter a single person IRL that wants to live in a society where the authorities know their exact location at all times (yeah yeah cell phones are gps trackers, whatever, you can leave them at home but you can't leave
860.
by ahelwer 6y ago
As always with facial recognition, the use case is total surveillance & tracking of a population.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
People perpetually forget that the order to fire was issued before Namir peeked around the corner to take photos of the humvees. We can go on and on about what the real war crime was but for my money it's that this incident was not u
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by ahelwer 6y ago
There was nothing to indicate these men were insurgents beyond them being armed. The order to fire was already given before Namir pointed his camera at the humvees. One charitably supposes you wouldn't be quite so cavalier with ending
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Let's consider the factors which decided the death sentence of these journalists and their companions (and so many others in the middle east): 1) They were military-age males Say you have the ability to rain death miles above at whim.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Don't threaten me with a good time!
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by ahelwer 6y ago
You break the law many times per day, we all do. Enforcement of law is always discretionary and thus political.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Once the police have used LRAD the protest has ceased being non-violent. Defending yourself is completely in-bounds unless you have a martyr complex.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Not something to brag about. Facial recognition has very few applications outside of total surveillance. We should not respect those who lend it their time and effort.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Blur looks better.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Nobody wants their father to be publicly known as a racist, and it's a pretty common WASP family dynamic to never talk about politics anyway.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
There's a very long way to go before safety is comparable. Last time I looked into it, you have better odds skydiving from a small plane than landing in it.

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