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by hanche 6y ago
I guess it's just the Reality Distortion Field at work.
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by hanche 6y ago
I would state it even more broadly: Politics is everything concerning how society is organised. Of course, government is a big part of that, but it is not the whole. For example, how mutual trust in society is created or eroded is a politic
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by hanche 6y ago
A Nobel prize is often rewarded for work that was done a decade or more ago. That alone makes it difficult to anticipate winning it. Also, there will usually be many worthy candidates. On top of that, the list of nominees is kept secret. So
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by hanche 6y ago
When the Mosers won the prize, Edvard was flying. Needless to say, when he turned his phone on, it overflowed with text messages.
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by hanche 6y ago
Those are optional settings.
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by hanche 6y ago
“[…]divided by a common language”. (Commonly attributed to George Bernard Shaw.)
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by hanche 6y ago
I used es as my login shell for over 20 years, until I switched to elvish a couple years ago. I only gave up on it due to some signal handling problem that I never managed to figure out. Other than that, however, it gave me all the flexibi
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by hanche 6y ago
It’s not quite that simple. A garbage incinerator is not something you can turn on and off according to when you need the energy. It has to be kept going continuously, since it takes a long time for it to get up to the temperature required
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by hanche 6y ago
I remember reading about someone who fasted for an entire year . Of course he was morbidly obese when he started, he took supplements, and he was under strict medical supervision for the duration of the fast. (Sorry, don't remember th
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by hanche 6y ago
You didn't cause the downvote. Really. But in any case, there are more important things in the world than HN karma. And keep up your Greek lessons. That's one language I'd love to learn, if only I had the time. But I unders
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by hanche 6y ago
Oops, sorry, I apologise for the mistake. I have seen too much bad behaviour on the 'net, so naturally I assumed the worst. It's a valuable lesson at the modest cost of a few karma points. (I guess I violated HN guidelines too, th
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by hanche 6y ago
Maybe dial back the sarcasm a notch or two?
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by hanche 6y ago
Good analogy. And even factory made fireworks is dangerous if you don’t follow instructions. And so it is with cryptography.
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Your Honor, What about the Mac?(lapcatsoftware.com)
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by hanche 6y ago
I should have tried it before replying, but did not have easy access to my laptop. Now I redid the experiment. Starting with a 24 page scanned pdf, I deleted the first page using Preview, then saved and closed the file. It swelled from 2 MB
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by hanche 6y ago
It’s been years since I stopped using Preview for PDF files, generally using Skim for reading and pdfpen for editing them. Perhaps something changed since then? That is good news, if so.
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by hanche 6y ago
I have seen pdf files swell to ~ ten times the original size when I edit them with Preview. Apparently, Preview will reencode images upon saving, often choosing a less efficient encoding than original. The most extreme cases I encountered w
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by hanche 6y ago
You should be able to determine the constant experimentally by running controlled experiments. Preferably with smaller amounts of explosives. (It’s been too long since I read Taylor’s paper. I thought he had relied upon such experimental da
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by hanche 6y ago
And data from smaller explosions of known magnitude, in order to determine the dimensionless constant that cannot be determined from Buckingham’s theorem alone.
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by hanche 6y ago
I can sympathize with that. Unfortunately, the opinion of the supreme court is a force to be reckoned with, whether we agree or not.
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by hanche 6y ago
I never said otherwise.
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by hanche 6y ago
So our error estimates should have error estimates of their own? ;-) More seriously, though, both numbers are acceptable, and quite like far from the truth, but yours gives off an aura of accuracy with little or no basis. That’s not a probl
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by hanche 6y ago
Corporations aren’t people, but from a legal perspective, they have some rights in common with persons, which is why you often hear statements saying they are. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood
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by hanche 6y ago
In this case, 29 million seems reasonable. One factor was given as 11 million, after all, not 11.00 million. And don’t take my comment too seriously. It’s a minor nit, but one that frequently bugs me.
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by hanche 6y ago
Totally agree. What’s more, if you discover that guitar playing isn’t for you, you can always sell it if it is a decent one. It may not cost you more in the end than if you bought a cheap one and threw it away or let it rot in the attic.
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by hanche 6y ago
A “ballpark guestimate” with four significant digits? (Not to detract from your main point in any way.)
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by hanche 6y ago
I thought you were making a point about death statistics, not about policy. Now I could be wrong, but I think that the timing and location of early hotspots is pretty much random. Later, once the epidemic is firmly established in the popula
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by hanche 6y ago
The explanation/excuse I recall seeing, was about space, not thickness. The headphone jack takes up space inside the phone that they’d rather put to other uses, like more battery for example. At least, that seems to make a bit more sen
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by hanche 6y ago
Maybe that is because those countries were hit earlier than the US?
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by hanche 6y ago
> It's not for you to decide where anyone derives their meaning and happiness in life or how many hours they should work. You can only decide this for yourself. Everyone decides these things for themselves indeed, but that shouldn&#

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