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by dalke 10y ago
What is your goal? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_tank has extensive coverage, and starts with: > A think tank or policy institute, research institute, etc. is an organization that performs research and advocac
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by dalke 10y ago
From 2013, for those who remember it the first time it went around and thought this might be a new finding.
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by dalke 10y ago
niftich's comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12205158 , from when this was posted 12 days ago, is unanswered: > For what it's worth, the UUID RFC actually has a provision for using random bits inst
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by dalke 10y ago
Oops! There's a couple of missing zeros. The 2.5E6 m/s = 0.8 c should be 0.8% c. That mistake doesn't continue to the rest of the calculation.
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by dalke 10y ago
I first heard of chemtrails in the 1990s, so 20 years. As your link points out, "By 1943, it was clear that the Soviet Union was attempting to penetrate the project". That was a year after the project started. http://ww
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by dalke 10y ago
Could you elaborate on the issues you have with the current system?
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by dalke 10y ago
http://jwst.nasa.gov/faq_solarsystem.html#angularresolution says: > The specification is that the telescope is diffraction limited at 2 μm, which means a Strehl ratio of 0.8 and a wavefront error of 150 nm rms. With a 6.
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by dalke 10y ago
While you have a valid point, here's what it works out for ion engines. Assume you want 1,000 years to Alpha Centauri and your ship boosts the entire way. (It'll take a few pictures as it flies through the system.) s = 1/
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by dalke 10y ago
It doesn't work against people who believe in the 10,000: https://www.xkcd.com/1053/
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by dalke 10y ago
Hackers are not omnipotent. The IRS has decades of experience in people both internally and externally trying to abuse their systems. Far more than the DNC does. I suspect that no one wants to lose their job should an audit trail flag ident
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by dalke 10y ago
I have the impression that the real shortage is because people believe there are "talents", which encourages companies to ignore on-the-job training. There's of course good economic reasoning for this viewpoint. It forces job
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by dalke 10y ago
The Baby Boomer era is past. What you describe of your father's experience no longer really exists. If that's the only person you know, then your impressions of the career possibilities of a PhD are seriously out of date. In your
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by dalke 10y ago
Yes, and I'm arguing that it's a poor metaphor. I think the metaphor you're looking for is that they are journeymen, and the time in the Bay Area their journeyman years. In the college town metaphor, most of the students are
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by dalke 10y ago
That is concatenation. Intersection would be the ability to write something like "abc....&....xyz" and have it match the same thing as "abc.xyz".
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by dalke 10y ago
FWIW, http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008arXiv0802.2869G says: "Similarly [to complement], when constructing a regular expression defining the intersection of a fixed and an arbitrary number of regular expressions,
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by dalke 10y ago
LOL! Yes, that could work. The tricky part would be to keep it from being blown up during some battle, like the Mostar Bridge.
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by dalke 10y ago
What would count as 'authoritative'? When this came up last, at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11370895 , I found papers like http://all.net/ForensicsPapers/2012-12-07-OverwrittenMagneti
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by dalke 10y ago
Agreed. And Hammam Essalihine/Aquae Flavianae is a Roman bath which is still in use. Regarding the Pont du Gard, it's intact "due to the importance of its secondary function, as a toll bridge. For centuries the local lords an
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by dalke 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic%E2%80%93Latino_naming...
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by dalke 10y ago
Though compare the numbers standing to the many, many more which have fallen. By "still standing" do you include ruins where, say, only part of a wall remains?
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by dalke 10y ago
1) "10 years in the tech industry" is not the same as "Moving to the San Francisco Bay Area to establish a career", which you originally said. 2) People rarely get a PhD to maximize earning power, so that's a weak p
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by dalke 10y ago
What? I strongly disagree. I moved to the Bay Area to establish a software development career, and I've been in a PhD program at a major research university. The connection between them is tenuous at best. At the very least, why is it
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by dalke 10y ago
This link isn't even worthy of being called a summary. It's a single line comment pointing to http://failedevolution.blogspot.com/2016/08/the-establishmen... . The evidence mentioned in WikiLeaks August
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by dalke 10y ago
They are no strangers to sensationalism, even outside of click-bait. A 2009 cover was "Darwin was wrong." It was a sensationalist way to describe that Darwin's thoughts on a tree-of-life is incorrect, because there is also ho
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by dalke 10y ago
Or Felix Unger and Jack Klugman in The Odd Couple.
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by dalke 10y ago
Requires a login to read and uses an SEO tracker in the URL. Ditto with all 16 of the submitter's links to this domain since the account started a few weeks ago. It's a summary, with link, to the solar roads announcement from 2015
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by dalke 10y ago
I do not believe quantum computers can solve NP hard problems in polynomial time. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BQP#Relationship_to_other_comp... , "The relation between BQP and NP is not known."
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by dalke 10y ago
NP hard is defined with reference to a non-deterministic Turing machine which runs in polynomial time. A quantum computer is not a Turing machine. Yes, it can solve things in polynomial time that a Turing machine cannot do. But that doesn&#
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by dalke 10y ago
I started "as a point of order" because my followup comment wasn't about the content of the article but about aspects of your reply that do not make for a useful argument. I will address only one. You say you are suspicious b
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by dalke 10y ago
More specifically, the DeCSS case, from 2002.

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