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by ars 1y ago
The big companies really don't seem to care about low bandwidth users. I attempted to use Teams website once over a very low speed hotspot. It utterly failed. It just kept reloading the same resource over and over and over, maybe it di
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by ars 1y ago
> GDPR You mean that thing (or is that another law?) that forces me to find that "I really don't care in the slightest" button about cookies on every single page?
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by ars 1y ago
Just because they occasionally (and even frequently) do good thing, does not mean that overall their policies don't harm them own economies.
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by ars 1y ago
They tried that with Koko, it didn't work. It did not make the gorilla any smarter, it was an animal, and remained an animal. If you read the criticism about the Koko project, it's that Patterson prompted her to make certain signs
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by ars 1y ago
> they are no more or less safe than they were before. I disagree. They think they can call 911 from it, so in an emergency they will try that, and fail, and try again (because things fail all the time in today's world), wasting a
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by ars 1y ago
Agreed, I would be much more likely to buy this if I had some kind of assurance it would not stop working. Maybe instead of a flat $75, charge $5/month for the first 15 months.
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Is it possible to call 911 from a phone that doesn't have an incoming phone number assigned?
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by ars 1y ago
The covers the cost of calling actual phone numbers, which probably does cost the company something. The direct calls are free, and don't have a fee, because those go over the internet.
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by ars 1y ago
>> This is an alternative to the concept of instantaneous, or "non-local" action at a distance. Notice the word "alternative", instantaneous action at a distance is a concept that was suggested at one point in the
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by ars 1y ago
You're not quite understanding me, and I can see it's because I was not very careful in how I wrote, and that's on me. But I'm going to let this drop because I would basically have to start over to explain myself, and I
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by ars 1y ago
> How do you look at a quote stating explicitly that action at a distance is, by definition, instantaneous, I clicked to the Wikipedia article, I did not see this quote. > And how has the gravitational attraction of your hand gone mor
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by ars 1y ago
You are not actually measuring the accuracy of the clock, rather you are measuring the magnitude of the noise. The clock source itself is something physically fundamental and unchanging, but it gets mixed with noise. For example even very s
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by ars 1y ago
I think most apps are written in Java, and according to the blog post will not be affected. It's only the apps written in c++ that need to be compiled, and those are probably large games and heavily performance critical apps.
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I'm not seeing where any of this requires faster than light travel. But here's something that might help: We'll use gravity for our example, and I'll be non-technical for ease of typing. The gravitational force that leav
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The second one is much more correct, notice how it freezes before they actually merge because they time dilate out to infinity.
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by ars 1y ago
Your question is confusing. Action at a distance does not imply going faster than light, it means there is some sort of field connecting the two things.
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by ars 1y ago
> and after a while it will be a nice sphere Time doesn't exist for black holes, so "after a while" is not something you can say about them.
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by ars 1y ago
That electron would take an infinite amount of time to reach the edge, since time dilates to infinity with gravity that strong. > a sphere instantly The concept of instantly doesn't work with time dilation like this. What you see wi
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My understanding is they just spiral into each other forever. From our point of view nothing can actually fall into a black hole, instead it time dilates into nothing. "It is true that objects that encounter the event horizon of a blac
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by ars 1y ago
That's not true. I just checked on it, and they used to be subsidized, these days not so much. A lot of them are hybrid models with some capitalism, mixed with the socialism. So I guess it sort of confirms your opinion that these thing
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by ars 1y ago
Sort of correct? Time is halted inside the black hole, so the waves made inside it never show up. Static gravity does show up though, but changes do not.
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by ars 1y ago
No, those jets look amazing from a distance, where you are looking at a galaxy sized object. But up close they are very thin and you probably would not notice passing through one unless you were checking carefully.
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by ars 1y ago
Suns can also kill from a long distance. From even a reasonable distance those jets are quite diffuse, you could pass through one and not notice.
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by ars 1y ago
You would not notice even a strong wave. The wave moves your entire body, and the ground, all at the same time. You would not notice anything because it all moves together. OK, not at exactly the same time - but you need specialized equipme
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by ars 1y ago
Gravity does action at a distance. That's its thing. The reason these waves are not generated from inside the black hole is that, to us, time stops there. For example these black hole mergers aren't actually merging, they are gett
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by ars 1y ago
The Kibutz model in Israel seems to work. What makes that different?
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I was deferring to the judgement of the local people. I was not making my own decision on the tradeoffs. Also, your implication that the tradeoff is lives is unfair, I don't think that's the tradeoff, rather I think they were expe
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Gravitational waves also can not escape. Those waves carry energy, and it's actually energy that can't escape. The waves are actually made just to the outside of the event horizon.
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It wouldn't do anything special actually. A black hole from a distance does nothing a sun can't do. Black holes only become destructive/powerful when you are very close to them. To elaborate: A black hole is mass, a sun is ma
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by ars 1y ago
> What is your alternative to the early warning system with better tradeoffs? I know little about this, I'm simply responding to the people who constantly demand that people do something, anything, and insist that all possible actio

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