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by grkvlt 9y ago
Also, even if we detect a system with N > 3 exo-planets, we often cannot tell if there are more than N, but below the threshold of detectability, making the plots incomplete and incorrect.
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by grkvlt 9y ago
That's why the second graph on the page is 'Our Solar System with Ceres' showing exactly that.
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by grkvlt 9y ago
These days it would be browsing and displaying web pages, I suspect: "Every program attempts to expand until it can browse the web. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can."
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by grkvlt 9y ago
Or, not malicious at all, simply a bug. The 'delete user' functionality is going to be rarely used, so it gets hardly any QA test coverage, compared to the news feed page functionality used by many hundreds of millions of people.
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by grkvlt 9y ago
This is, conservatively, once an hour while awake, which doesn't seem all that much. You are the outlier here, I think. Many people check Facebook much more frequently than hourly.
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by grkvlt 9y ago
As to point C, I think the problem you have is that you are following or associating with people whose opinions do not agree with your own. There are many opinionated people who are insightful, intelligent and interesting. Volume of posti
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Welcome to Powder Mountain – a utopian club for the millennial elite(theguardian.com)
2 points by grkvlt 9y ago|1 comments
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by grkvlt 9y ago
From the actual link [0] Like many retailers, we use a third party to help prevent losses by detecting improper returns [...] Reimbursements on returns lacking proof of purchase may be denied or limited and state sales tax and fees will not
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by grkvlt 9y ago
Unfortunately this then enables fraud by allowing the manager to collude with someone and override the 'no' for fake returns by them, perhaps splitting the 'profit' generated. Perhaps the loss from this sort of white col
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by grkvlt 9y ago
NP. There's a lot of urban legend style stories about the military (multi thousand dollar hammers, that sort of thing) passed around, both in the US and the UK, and I think it's important that where there are cases of actual inc
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by grkvlt 9y ago
I'm not convinced about the 'pulling wings off of F-18s from museums' story - you're suggesting that aircraft about to deploy (in two weeks time, no less) had no wings and therefore combat missions ended up being flown
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by grkvlt 9y ago
> invisible monsters are breeding all around us [...] before they wipe out the human race See also, the germ theory of disease.[0] I think we have this covered already... 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germ_theory_
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by grkvlt 9y ago
I am based at Codebase [0] in Edinburgh, a tech incubator office complex, with lots of startups based there as well as co-working and hot-desking spaces, where I work at a cloud orchestration company [1] where I am building a new blockchain
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by grkvlt 9y ago
I remember Jolt Cola [0] which was a super-caffienated cola drink, which I drank in the late 80s/early 90s when it was available in the UK (at least I found it in Edinburgh and Glasgow) from a few select delis that did US imports. Appa
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by grkvlt 9y ago
Interesting, in the UK (in fact, most of the world except the USA, I think) the term Faculty still means a branch of a university dealing with a particular subject group, like 'Faculty of Arts' or 'Faculty of Science' wi
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by grkvlt 9y ago
Not sure about that. ESGN is old technology, since submarines don't need that much accuracy. For example, space probes, ballistic missiles, smart artillery shells/rockets/missiles and so on would all appear to have multiple
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by grkvlt 9y ago
1/3 of a second in 100 hours is basically 1ppm, or TXCO levels of accuracy, so pretty good i'd have thought, even for a submarine INS?
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by grkvlt 9y ago
> weak public signal like GPS i'd assume it could, since GPS is military, and a mobile missile system is exactly the sort of thing that wants to know where it is, so would have the keys to the (higher resolution) encrypted GPS signa
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by grkvlt 9y ago
A better way of thinking about the event horizon is that it is the boundary beyond which events happening cannot be assigned a 'when' in our universe - i.e. the object falling 'in' to the black hole is never seen to pass
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by grkvlt 9y ago
no mention of the (apocryphal) story of people using dogs (dingos?) to keep warm when sleeping in the australian outback, where a cold night is known as a 'five dog' night. not sure how true this is, see http://www.meta
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by grkvlt 9y ago
A bunch of people decided to do the equivalent of scrawling graffiti over an A-list celebrity art piece. These are people whose, to quote 'pg, only way of making a mark on the world is by literally writing their name. It just seemed ch
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by grkvlt 9y ago
That's not what he's saying. He knows go can use all processors if GOMAXPROCS is set correctly, the argument seems to be that there will be race conditions just like any other threading, which seems pretty self evident to me: yes,
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by grkvlt 9y ago
Exactly. The pawn shop doesn't commit a crime by buying stolen goods in good faith. Neither does Amazon here.
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by grkvlt 9y ago
Amazon is in a difficult position. If their response to being informed was, instead, to re-issue the IRS form with a declaration that the account owner did NOT receive the money as income, then they have instead invented a way for people
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by grkvlt 9y ago
Sure, that's right, and my point was pretty much the same; any EULA that the end user is forced to or has to accept automatically is invalid, such as click-though or shrink-wrap licensing. It's really just the terminology, since E
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by grkvlt 9y ago
Is there the equivalent of Reynolds number for this? I'm guessing something based on a characteristic length and velocity? It looks like I want the Walking Froude Number [0] which is Fr = u^2 / g.l it seems... 0. https:/&#x2
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by grkvlt 9y ago
No, click through EULAs are not always enforceable. But generally, EULAs are certainly a valid and enforceable form of contract throughout Europe - how else would things work, if not through a contract describing an agreement with the e
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by grkvlt 9y ago
My point is that private companies are perfectly within their rights to track you on their own property, whether by computer or manually, and if you have a problem with it your only recourse is to avoid those companies. I have zero proble
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by grkvlt 9y ago
Only when using the handset, and on connections without sidetone. With speakerphone style conversations there would be no perceived need to yell.
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by grkvlt 9y ago
OK, would you have a problem with Argos using CCTV to track you via ML that identifies different individuals and records their path through the store? What about CCTV that is displayed on a monitor and a minimum wage drone views, and record

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