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by c7b 4y ago
Needs a (2014) tag. Also, I am baffled that this is apparently a Nature publication, sounds more like an op-ed for a newspaper. What was the research result that was communicated in the article? It's barely exhaustive enough to count a
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by c7b 4y ago
Interesting, why is it that it's "so obviously inspired by the tactics of videogame football"? It sounds like a pretty good (albeit annoying) tactic for a real game. In European football it's actually very common for pla
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by c7b 4y ago
my understanding was that it would be an electromagnetic signature (ie we could detect infrared radiation from the heat generated as a byproduct of metabolism, or, at least, whatever energy transformations they perform in their technology,
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by c7b 4y ago
hmm, I think what I read about was something different, rather to do with metabolism.
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by c7b 4y ago
One thing I don't understand about the 'quiet' aliens mentioned in the article - I thought pretty much any lifeform worthy of that name (ie using/converting some form of energy) would necessarily give off some hints of t
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by c7b 4y ago
Have you tried a few other images / descriptions to confirm that it is indeed only Signal that's not being shown?
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by c7b 4y ago
Monetary velocity is defined as the price level times real output over the money supply. There is a mechanical relation with inflation (which is the delta of the price level), but saying that's a unidirectional casual link is a disin
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by c7b 4y ago
Think about it: if inflation is caused by a higher growth rate of the money supply than the real output growth rate, as you suggest, then how would higher prices change anything about that? The money that you leave in the shop doesn't
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by c7b 4y ago
Never mind the almost unbearable cringe of incrementing a buzzword by not one, but two counts - do you have an explanation what exactly warrants this increment at all? The only thing in there that I don't remember as "web3" a
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by c7b 4y ago
How do you turn solar panels on (or off)? I thought they just generate energy whenever light shines on them - if you don't take it out as electricity, they'll just heat up instead. Is that what you meant?
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by c7b 4y ago
Interesting, thanks!
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by c7b 4y ago
> Can YT premium still have multiple accounts? Not that I'm aware of, at least not for a single standard subscription. There's a family option with up to 5 accounts that might work, but it's probably not how that's me
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by c7b 4y ago
I recently got YT premium in response to their push, but it's messed with my YT enjoyment in a somewhat unexpected way: I hadn't realized to what extent I'd become used to having different sets of recommendations and being ab
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by c7b 4y ago
> Obviously hydroelectricity is massively damaging to ecosystems. Can you elaborate? To me it always seemed like we're basically replacing a river with a lake, which doesn't seem so bad. Sure, it requires adjustment to a new eq
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by c7b 4y ago
> Natural gas prices just dipped below zero. > Those ships [are] carrying about $2 billion worth of LNG. Really?
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by c7b 4y ago
Well, as a repair worker you're also not really supposed to mess with settings that are frankly purely subjective (yes, about:blank loads faster, but if people want to always go to MSN first, you've just increased the time and f
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by c7b 4y ago
Nonsense. As ever so often, the German language even has an own word that kids use to deride peers who are too invested in learning stuff, or even just commit the offense of having better grades in school. Similar for other countries, I&#x2
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by c7b 4y ago
Other posters commented that it's not even true, so 'purely incidental' is arguably euphemistic (instead of 'false').
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by c7b 4y ago
Electromagnetism, to take your example, is very much a theory that we can use to make predictions about a new system once we can write down its description. Yes, we sometimes make new discoveries and we have to develop new theories for thos
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by c7b 4y ago
A strange comment to be coming from a pseudonymous account with no contact info. Why are you hiding your identity on HN if that's how you feel?
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by c7b 4y ago
That's purely incidental, though. There is no hard choice betweeen "all your data has to be public" and "you can be totally screwed by identity theft if your private data is leaked". The US system could be fixed muc
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by c7b 4y ago
> We still don’t know its full effects, but thanks to understanding its chemical composition, we have a better idea of what we’re dealing with. That's the small grudge I have with chemistry, especially organic - yes, it's the
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by c7b 4y ago
Really depends on what your threat model is, no? To anyone who doesn't even know whether there is something to look for, it's definitely far less suspicious than a TrueCrypt container.
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by c7b 4y ago
> After all I know that button isn’t committing me to the job or the purchase until I complete I used to think that too, until I clicked a similar button on Amazon...
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by c7b 4y ago
> there is a process in place to hand over the project to a trusted party in the worst case scenario. Sorry for being a pedant, but it's hard to overstate how insignificant this timeframe is compared to "forever". Even if
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by c7b 4y ago
WhatsApp and Cloudflare on the same day?
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by c7b 4y ago
Strange - normally you use pooling to even out the distribution, not to take from the poor to give to the rich.
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by c7b 4y ago
Would be interesting where they get their data from, wasn't entirely clear to me.
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by c7b 4y ago
What's the source for your knowledge? Your claim is diametrically opposed to what the article claims.
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by c7b 4y ago
TrueCrypt still works and doesn't have any known vulnerabilities afaik. For low-risk files I also sometimes use WinRAR, which according to the docs should have ok encryption (AES-256). Curious for other suggestions too.

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