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by gaur 11y ago
Another case of a rambling article burying the lede. I skimmed the article and still can't figure out why we're weeks away from a point of no return. Is the search going to be called off? Is there a transponder that's going t
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by gaur 11y ago
Heaven forbid that top executives ever have to take a pay hit.
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by gaur 11y ago
I'm sure they'll just pass the cost (either of the ransom, or of the missed profits) onto the patients.
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by gaur 11y ago
> You can't say "it's Germanic" and then say "it's hardly related to Dutch or German". That's not what I said. I said "it's Germanic" and "it's not a child of German or D
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by gaur 11y ago
> I already speak a language (English) which is some bastard child of French, German, Dutch, Arabic, etc. It's a Germanic language (not a child of German), with significant lexical input from French and Latin. The input from "D
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by gaur 11y ago
"What language will replace python?" "No."
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by gaur 11y ago
This is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Someone tries to write an analysis routine in 3.x, but then is quickly told "nobody in science uses 3.x, because of <vague reasons>". Result: everyone sticks to 2.7, so nobody ever even tr
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by gaur 11y ago
Haha, I forgot about IDL. My very first coding project as an undergrad was in IDL, until one day a new grad student showed up to the lab and said, "WTF? Do this in python." When looking at plots in papers, there are always little
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by gaur 11y ago
What would people rather have you use? Excel?
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by gaur 11y ago
Not sure why this received downvotes. There was significant debate until the 1950s about whether gravitational waves were real phenomena or just coordinate artifacts. The sticky bead argument played a big role in settling the issue.
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by gaur 11y ago
Fine, but I find comments like "I don't really grasp what's going on, but I can show it's crap using high school logic" to be extremely low-quality, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.
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by gaur 11y ago
The instruments are intentionally constructed to be as insensitive as possible to earth motion. Implicit in the detection claim is that the signal does not originate from earth motion.
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by gaur 11y ago
> That's not to say that what the phenomena measured -- the earth resonating That's not what the detector measures. RTFA.
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by gaur 11y ago
> Gravitational waves do NOT "shake the mirrors". That depends on what gauge you're working in. What you say is true for the TT gauge, but not for other choices of gauge. See, e.g., section 1.3 of Maggiore's Gravitati
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by gaur 11y ago
The new Virgo detector is not operational yet. GEO600 is operational, but it is much less sensitive that the Ligo detectors.
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by gaur 11y ago
Correct. Now could you please edit your top-level comment some more, so that it actually makes sense? First you fake incredulity about how people aren't finding it "obvious", although it's unclear exactly what you think
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by gaur 11y ago
Yes, we are all aware of that. Nobody is saying that Olbers's paradox is unsolved; we are saying that your comment doesn't make sense. Olbers's paradox assumes from the outset that the universe is infinite. You cannot solve
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by gaur 11y ago
> Is this really not obvious to people? It's about subtended angles - simple geometry. If the universe is infinite and filled uniformly with stars, the 1/r^2 falloff in the radiation captured from each star is cancelled by r^2
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by gaur 11y ago
> No, I'm afraid you don't got it. Try reading the entire essay, perhaps, and not just the snippet? Even just the snippet I quoted is contrary in meaning to the phrasing you just used. You're rather missing the point. As y
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by gaur 11y ago
> The wikipedia definition is: "seeking to increase one's share of existing wealth without creating new wealth". I think I figured it out. "Rent seeking" means "trying to get something for nothing" econ
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by gaur 11y ago
"Getting something for nothing"? It's vague, but so is "rent seeking". From reading the examples in the Wikipedia article, it seems that almost any economic behavior in which one tries to get something for nothing
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by gaur 11y ago
So "moral hazard" means "any situation where the only thing stopping you from acting badly is your morals". Got it.
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by gaur 11y ago
> Here's why it's called a Moral Hazard: if there are no external consequences, the only thing that would prevent you from behaving worse is an internal set of rules. That sentence does not at all explain why it's called &
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by gaur 11y ago
Am I the only one who thinks that "rent-seeking" is a wildly misleading name for this phenomenon? To normal people, "rent-seeking" means "looking to collect on a payment for leased property". Same for "mor
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by gaur 11y ago
> your last sentence was unnecessary and over-the-top. People started boycotting Mozilla after he was promoted. "Disaster" is an appropriate descriptor.
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by gaur 11y ago
> At the time Eich made that donation, every major Democratic presidential candidate (including Clinton and Obama) were ALSO publicly opposed to marriage equality. So it seemed like extreme mental gymnastics to put a "hate speech&qu
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by gaur 11y ago
It's interesting to think that Eurasia and North America once had a diversity of megafauna comparable to Africa and Australia. Pleistocene rewilding seems unrealistic, but it's nice to think about.
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by gaur 11y ago
To be honest, this kind of multiphasor animation is cute, but not very useful (or insightful, in my opinion). One set of two small phasors (one rotating CW relative to the main phasor, and one rotating CCW to the main phasor) is useful for
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by gaur 11y ago
Just one more reason to never publish in or cite from Elsevier journals.
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by gaur 11y ago
This HN submission is just enabling a game of telephone by inviting people with no expertise to say what they "think" or "feel" in response to people on reddit with no expertise saying what they "think" or &quo

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