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841.
by grkvlt 10y ago
> electromagnetic feelings What do you mean by this? And also, I'm sure I won't be the only one to point out the lack of a link between correlation and causation.
842.
by grkvlt 10y ago
Interestingly, when talking about SpaceX, the CEO is almost always 'Elon' rather than 'Musk', and I'm sure there's some sort of point that could be made about that...
843.
by grkvlt 10y ago
Species isn't a fixed concept. If you think what's expressed as someone's phenotype is more important that the person themselves, don't be surprised if refusing to refer to someone as a dragon, and subjecting them to obj
844.
by grkvlt 10y ago
It seems the point they are trying to make is that for (wrong, according to them) reasons, a person's internal gender perception is privileged over other types of internal identity, such as the false belief that one is the messiah or N
845.
by grkvlt 10y ago
Not just rigorously; easily studied, and checked. I haven't seen a single response here that says something along the lines of: 'Hey, I just did exactly the same as they reported the woman doing in the article, and she's ri
846.
by grkvlt 10y ago
Exactly! Also: never clean the keyboard or wipe off any coffee or marmalade spills; that way the thief will probably decide they don't want it after all, hand it back and go looking for a shiny, well looked-after one...
847.
by grkvlt 10y ago
If you're a smoker, then not so much. In order to smoke at Heathrow, for instance, I have to go landside (sometimes through passport control) and back, with no problem, sometimes more than once if a flight is delayed for a long time.
848.
by grkvlt 10y ago
I don't think anyone would be happy with 'British Airways Counter-Terrorism and Intelligence Services, plc.' and friends running surveillance, SIGINT and other spy operations to gather threat intelligence. And, unfortunately,
849.
by grkvlt 10y ago
This isn't 'lying' or 'deception' in any sense of the words. News outlets are calling it a space shuttle because they are either misinformed, confused, or just trying to find a form of words that will be familiar to
850.
by grkvlt 10y ago
See also the VAX. It had an assembly instruction to evaluate a polynomial based on a table of coefficients in memory: POLY http://uranium.vaxpower.org/~isildur/vax/week.html
851.
by grkvlt 10y ago
That's just one band per slit, depending which one it went through...
852.
by grkvlt 10y ago
Surrealistic Bohm Trajectories is referenced in the article, as the ESSW paper, after the authors. Here is the PDF link: http://www.degruyter.com/dg/viewarticle.fullcontentlink:pdfe...
853.
by grkvlt 10y ago
Intuit (sic) actually have fifty words for different types of _taxes_, the snow thing is a myth...
854.
by grkvlt 10y ago
People are afraid the cars will follow traffic laws, and drive legally, even when no one else is? And, I find it hard to believe that everyone disobeys the posted speed limits on freeways. For example, trucks with speed-limiters, people w
855.
by grkvlt 10y ago
What's the difference between 'the stingray told us' and 'we got an anonymous tip-off that you were in the house' which is then verified by interviewing all the neighbors and only the interviews are presented to the
856.
by grkvlt 10y ago
Interesting. Apparently, during the 'euphemisms' the public bus service was often disrupted by terrorism or bomb threats, so sharing rides in black taxis became common in Belfast as an alternative.
857.
by grkvlt 10y ago
> at least one adult has to take to and pick up kids from school until 11 or 12 years old where I am from Where is this? Do you mean by law, or is this just some social expectation? I find it hard to imagine how one would go about enforc
858.
by grkvlt 10y ago
I think it says exactly what it is meant to say. It's 'pre- hated ' as opposed to 'pre- loved ', that being a common euphemism for 'second hand'. The implication being that BA sold on a bunch of old, beate
859.
by grkvlt 10y ago
And also, of those two, only the U2 is still in service. All SR-71s have been sent to museums now, sadly. This includes NASA's which were the last in service, operated until the mid nineties. Interestingly, NASA _does_ operate a varian
860.
by grkvlt 10y ago
I don't think the prospective terrorists would be chugging away at their bottles of Exploditall (tm) liquid though. The fear is that the smarter terrorists (i.e. the ones that didn't start the day with a celebratory shot of Explod
861.
by grkvlt 10y ago
No retina scan for anything, actually. NEXUS uses iris scanners [1] for biometric identification. In fact, pretty much anything that is reported as using a 'retina' scan is probably not, and is also an iris scan. Retinas are pre
862.
by grkvlt 10y ago
> some college students were asked to design a nuclear weapon Also known as the Nth Country Experiment . See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nth_Country_Experiment for details, also the final report [1] is interestin
863.
by grkvlt 11y ago
And just imagine doing it with property which often costs ten to one hundred times as much as a vehicle! A sort of AirBnB for houses, if you will... Just think of the unbelievable number of ways that could go wrong: Renters could mess u
864.
by grkvlt 11y ago
Yes, that's pretty much how military anti-jamming works. You have a steerable (via phase switching, not physically moving) antenna that can form a beam with nulls pointing at the sources of interference/jammers. See https:/&
865.
by grkvlt 11y ago
> torschlusspanik What an awesome word! TIL that it's German for 'gate-shut-panic', [1] or 'fear that time is running out' apparently. Literally the feeling that medieval peasants had when the castle gates were c
866.
by grkvlt 11y ago
I thought an RPG _was_ an EFP? The round is just a shaped charge with a copper liner that penetrates the armour. So the slatted armour stops both RPGs and EFP-based IEDs.
867.
by grkvlt 11y ago
> wrist-chafing You've been wearing your watch wrong, I think. A watch strap should be adjusted to give a comfortable fit on the wrist, I bought a cheap GBP 10.00 stainless steel band for my LG Watch R (Android Wear) that I then got
868.
by grkvlt 11y ago
> The NSA has tapped fiber backbones [...] If you think there is already no privacy, post [etc.] I'm actually OK with the idea of sending my full name, address and a picture of myself in the shower to the NSA, CIA, SIS or similar, t
869.
by grkvlt 11y ago
I remember when camcorders with flip out screens started to appear, and everyone commented the same thing - people only think something is real if they are watching it on their camcorder screen. I guess the smart-phone has replaced the camc
870.
by grkvlt 11y ago
> largely be traced to the topological properties of the subway lines See 'A Subway Named Mobius' [1][2] for some of the problems this might cause in the future! [1] http://www.iblist.com/book12352.htm [2] htt

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