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by bell-cot 9mo ago
Sadly, that's a very low bar.
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
Not an astrophysicist - but don't Primordial Black Holes, if fairly common in the solar system as the article suggests, have major "then why don't we see..." problems? Interactions with normal matter (asteroids, planets
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
Depending on circumstances, you might save considerably more in other areas - being covered as a spouse on the other's employer health insurance, reduced car insurance rates, state & local tax savings, ...
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
If anyone's looking for a quick "airport security is mostly theater" argument, without getting into the weeds of weapon & explosive & detection technologies - notice that pagers and similar electronics are not on th
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
Between the lines, it sounds like German academia doesn't bother to warn - formally or informally - its researchers that failing to have working backups can be a train wreck for their careers.
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
I recall hearing "she saved everything for her doctoral thesis on that one floppy disk, and then..." warning stories back in the 1980's USA. Is anyone familiar with current academic culture in Germany, to comment on how (or i
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
Ask anyone who was a power user of dBase or Lotus 1-2-3 back in the '80's.
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
At what point should the headline be "Dollar falls below 0.0002 ounce"? Back in the day, a dollar was worth 0.05 ounces - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Head_double_eagle - 250x more.
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
Even the Economist and FT are underwhelmed by the performance of many of England's privatized water utilities: https://www.ft.com/content/bda390bc-8cc4-4fa4-9a90-36af08651... https://www.economist.com&#
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
> aqueduct from the great lakes to california? Talk to a civil engineer about the lead times, length, flow rate, and elevation changes you'd need - nope , zero chance of any project that expensive and long-duration ever becoming op
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
At that scale, I'd bet that selling (even if buying at home) would be obvious to professional traders in the gold market. And quickly hit the headlines. Which is exactly the scenario you'd want to avoid, if you were concerned tha
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
Yep. Which is the secret of preventing 99%+ of sudden mechanical failures of pretty much any type of infrastructure.
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
The rules are rather different when your economy is mostly oil - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrostate
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PragmaticVillain...
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
Back in 2013, a rather different regime held power in the US.
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
Given a certain President's thin skin, and inclinations toward dramatic and confrontational behavior - if the Europeans actually wanted their gold back, it should have been done very quietly. Probably with obfuscated paperwork, or o
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
Back when the danger was natural and physical - how much defeatism was there in Holland about building the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Works ? Why the difference?
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
Like the life-long couch potato who wants to exercise daily and really get into shape...there is that dratted gap between "wants to" and "does"
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
> With Starlink's peer-to-peer capabilities, hitting every single ground station and keeping the satellites from working through new ground stations may actually be quite difficult. Yes-ish? I was thinking the command & control
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
For people like your patient, is it useful to try to give them any sort of physical agency, control, or tasks?
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
Idea: For long-term storage & preservation of rare "treasures" (whether they be museums pieces, library books, national archive documents, or whoever), invest in oxygen-depleted facilities. At low-enough O2, nothing aerobic
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
"Circle with the satellites" is not how orbits work. Do a Google image search for satellite ground tracks, and observe how those tracks repeatedly cross each other. In LEO, a 90 degree orbital crossing represents a relative velo
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
> it would cost $30,000 to replace the floor. IANAL, to comment on the court's ruling. But $30k seems kinda high to just get rid of the offensive symbols. If stuck in the homeowner's shoes - I'd quietly ask local rabbis f
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
Not quite how it works, unfortunately. Once you've got even hundreds of satellites in non-equatorial orbits, trying to provide global coverage - their ground tracks very frequently cross each other. Even if they're all at the sam
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
If it's WWIII, and you're using ballistic missiles against satellite constellations, then either: - You are not targeting individual satellites; you're setting off nuclear warheads in space, and relying on the EMP to disabl
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
Sure, it helps many poorer people - but "UBI trial"? For starters, where's the demographically matched and random control group?
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
> opposition parties have seized the opportunity to pile pressure on the government. > “This is too much,” the head of the rightwing Popular party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, wrote on X as he demanded an “immediate clarification” of the st
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
Amusing idea: To do UBI research at scale, with out the political drama, just disguise your UBI research as lottery research. Partner with some state lottery which wants to understand its customers better, and distribute the limited run
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
If you see two police on the corner and think... Not to speak highly of the NYPD - but it is the character of most violent criminals to refrain from attacking you when police officers are standing close at hand.
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
Not to say that Western countries are second to anyone at self-sabotage - but China's worst enemy has always been itself. And there's another 3/4 century to go here.

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