handol

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by handol 6y ago
There's no emitting magnetic fields, no diverging fields allowed. The right analogy is between mass and electric charge, only mass is limited to positive values.
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by handol 6y ago
If you're walking at 1 meter per second with a 1 meter stride. The space-time interval between your footsteps is: sqrt( (299,792,458m)^2 - 1m^2)) 299,792,458m is for the distance traveled by light in one second. The -1m is for the
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by handol 6y ago
Reminds me of the library modernization drive in 'Rainbows End'. The book digitizer is basically a wood chipper with lights and high speed cameras in the debris chute.
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by handol 6y ago
If the photos span the camera's full position-orientation vector space, I don't see why you can't put the camera anywhere in the scene.
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by handol 6y ago
That gets into politics, history, sociology, how the subject of economics itself interacts with politics and affects history. Best to move on quickly and discourage the students from thinking about it.
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by handol 6y ago
What about the criminal who mounted the screen next to the road and hooked it up to the internet?
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by handol 6y ago
I suspect flashing a stop sign sized image of a stop sign for 500ms on a tv mounted where the stop sign goes, at an intersection that should probably have a stop sign, would get most people to stop.
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by handol 6y ago
Hopefully as we pile on more and more examples of different materials exhibiting superconductivity, we can understand it well enough to find a practical high temperature one. Though I think we could go a long way with the liquid nitrogen te
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by handol 6y ago
Couldn't the pinch effect be used to crush two superconducting filaments into each other? My rough calculation is something like 5 MA(in each conductor, spaced by 1mm) would do the trick, assuming that much current and B don't int
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by handol 6y ago
Suppose God is running multiple identical instances of the universe on several machines. Are we in a particular one?
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by handol 6y ago
While I'm sure state organizations like FSB, CIA, MI5 do attempt to influence the Q-anon movement, it's obviously become a genuine popular movement akin to the satanic panic of the 80's.
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by handol 6y ago
Neuralink v1.0 has all the hardware for self-driving.
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by handol 6y ago
> If you thought that easy access to welfare was bad for people then you'd have met a hell of a lot of leftists who want "racist" policy. If you thought water was piss you'd have met a lot of people that like to drink
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by handol 6y ago
> Note that the improvement only happens after consuming exactly 1.5oz of cognac. Anything more than that and performance drops precipitously. Anecdotally, this appears to be true for billiards as well.
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by handol 6y ago
300 kilowatt-hours per hour
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by handol 6y ago
> Crackpot theories are also new and news worthy. Only when the crackpots have wealthy benefactors.
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by handol 6y ago
I've literally never heard the term used by anyone except as wink wink I mean the Jews. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/03/the-ori...
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by handol 6y ago
> So, "silence is complicity"? That's pretty accusatory and offputting. Yeah people don't like facing their complicity with the horror of the world, especially since it's not at all obvious how to fix it. It can
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by handol 6y ago
from: https://archive.org/stream/twospeechesbykar00marx/twospeeche... He's saying don't be fooled by people picking up our talking points, a revolution in Germany will be hard pressed to prevent the coun
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by handol 6y ago
Marx considered the Paris Commune to be a good example of what he had in mind. "The Commune itself–the government formed by the workers–was made up of representatives of the various wards of Paris, elected by the citizens and recallabl
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by handol 6y ago
"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim." - Dijkstra
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by handol 6y ago
Compromise isn't necessarily a positive way forward. Sometimes there is no way forward but to fight for power and the victors impose their will on the losers. Look at the compromise of alternating slave and free states to prevent a rup
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by handol 6y ago
> I am curious how long until US congress starts blaming anyone who is unemployed for "being lazy", and stop providing financial assistance, or only provides the bare minimum $7.25 an hour. That sentiment was certainly there fr