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Volkswagon’s Campaign for ‘Clean Diesel’(nytimes.com)
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by fmihaila 9y ago
> I don't want to live in a world where there's effectively a traffic camera pointed at the contents of my phone. [...] Would you consent to having a microphone embedded in your driver's license that the FBI could "on
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by fmihaila 9y ago
> Average draw in the US is ~1200 watts. Peak draw is more relevant, though, than average draw. My point was that in a hypothetical town with a single 50MW generator you cannot sustain 50k households, due to daily peak usage exceeding th
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In California, Where Cancer Warnings Abound, Coffee Is Next in Line(wsj.com)
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> 50MW of power is powering roughly 50K homes for a year. This may seem pedantic, but the relevant measure is power when speaking of generators, like this reactor, and energy (in addition to power) when talking about storage, like say, t
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Don’t treat all cases of gender dysphoria the same way(theglobeandmail.com)
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Canadian Chris Urmson and his SV startup are racing to launch the driverless car(theglobeandmail.com)
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Private landowners blocking access to public lands in the American West(theguardian.com)
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by fmihaila 9y ago
The way I understand it, frame-dragging is negligible if, as in your example, the bucket is by itself in deep space, far away from any massive object. Frame-dragging affects the nearby space around a rotating massive object (that induces a
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by fmihaila 9y ago
I posted an explanation on the top level that some may find useful.
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(Apologies for the long post. I can’t point off the top of my head to a textbook reference, but [1] may be enough for a start.) This is not an unsolved problem. The key is to understand how inertial motion and inertial forces are explained
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US police arrest two boys after vandalism killed 500k bees(bbc.com)
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Microsoft researchers build an AI that draws what you tell it to(blogs.microsoft.com)
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CTE study: Repetitive head impact, not concussions, triggers disease(usatoday.com)
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Big Brother on wheels: Your car company may know more about you than your spouse(washingtonpost.com)
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The Guardian, Britain’s Left-Wing News Power, Goes Tabloid(nytimes.com)
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Inside Uber’s $100,000 Payment to a Hacker, and the Fallout(nytimes.com)
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German Engineering Yields New Warship That Isn’t Fit for Sea(wsj.com)
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Model 3 owners accuse Tesla of bait-and-switch on premium interior materials(autoblog.com)
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Julian Assange is made an Ecuadorian citizen in effort to resolve impasse(theguardian.com)
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House rejects effort to curb NSA phone surveillance(cnn.com)
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Advisers at Leading Discount Brokers Win Bonuses to Push Higher-Priced Products(wsj.com)
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Julian Assange's stay in London embassy untenable, says Ecuador(theguardian.com)
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Trump-appointed regulators reject plan to rescue coal and nuclear plants(washingtonpost.com)
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The case against GDP: time to change the way we measure the wealth of nations(ft.com)
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The Strange Brain of the World’s Greatest Solo Climber (2016)(nautil.us)
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Superhuman AI in heads-up no-limit poker: Libratus beats top professionals [pdf](science.sciencemag.org)
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Th Slow Death of the American Mall(wsj.com)
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Jakarta Is Sinking So Fast, It Could End Up Underwater(nytimes.com)
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‘Porch Pirates’ Steal Holiday Packages as They Pile Up at Homes(nytimes.com)
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