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by jl6 1y ago
No, it’s finished.
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> To further support their observations, Lagrange and her colleagues ran computer models that visualized the potential planetary system. The simulations yielded images that aligned with the ones captured by the telescope. “This was reall
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by jl6 1y ago
There’s still a fortune to be made by whoever can crack seasonal storage. This is the ur-problem of humanity: to pay for the winter using the summer.
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by jl6 1y ago
I’m not sure which is worse, the impersonal, automated, regulatory padded cells of US gov/tech hegemons, or the potentially very personal attention of a local lord with very strong opinions[0]. [0] https://news.ycombinator.c
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Eh, he’s right though. You could get sidetracked quibbling about the edges of the definitions, or you could just use their centers and see that there obviously are some modern works of art that are immense team efforts and substantially jus
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by jl6 1y ago
You don't need to rank strictly and linearly. An objective ordering need not exist. It's enough to see that on shortlists of "great" works, common themes emerge. Is The Great Gatsby better than The Catcher in the Rye
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> Books like Pride and Prejudice, War and Peace, The Brothers Karamazov, etc still sell many thousands of copies every year, more than even big hits in contemporary literary fiction. I think the author skips past the real answer right he
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by jl6 1y ago
This show is a great example of how good TV comes from good writing, not high budget.
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On iOS?
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by jl6 1y ago
I tried Signal, but it wouldn’t let me export chats, meaning the data is trapped within the app. Did they fix that?
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The starlink streak issue is real, but isn’t this type of survey uniquely well suited to compensate for it, because it takes repeated exposures in relatively quick succession, meaning the odds of a given pixel being obscured by a streak in
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by jl6 1y ago
Probably about 10 racks if using dense HDDs.
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Health insurance companies could sequence every random bit of DNA in a given area, and then raise premiums in zip codes with higher than average rates of congenital disease. Of course, that would be totally unethical and illegal, so they’d
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by jl6 1y ago
I had a great-ish result from 2.5 Pro the other day. I asked it to date an old photograph, and it successfully read the partial headline on a newspaper in the background (which I had initially thought was too small/blurry to make out)
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The modern version of History Channel shows with titles like Ancient Nazi Alien Secrets Exposed.
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I’m not going to cry hard about stealing from one of the scummiest industries on the planet, and a good hack is a good hack, but man, what a wasted opportunity to disconnect! I guess OP is a kid and gets the FOMO itch from being offline. I
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The codec can be tuned to use a very long keyframe interval (e.g. ffmpeg’s -g option), but whether that’s worth the effort is another question.
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by jl6 1y ago
What? Nobody is retaining AI people by giving them UX work. These are very different skills.
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by jl6 1y ago
The article seems to imply that UFO disinformation was a previous strategy that they are trying to move away from. Plausibly it went too far, causing a backlash against UFOlogists, making pilots wary of reporting genuine anomalies for fear
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I didn’t understand whether the author is implying that this happens to all black holes or whether the model only applies in some circumstances. I definitely didn’t understand whether this is suggesting that expanding universes can be con
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by jl6 1y ago
It's clear that many commenters here are operating from completely different factual bases, in terms of who did what, and in what order. Fog of war seems to be in effect.
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Mansa Musa’s headline story is that his spending caused inflation in Egypt. I understand that estimate of Augustus Caesar’s wealth is based in part on him considering Egypt, in its entirety, to be his personal possession. It feels like “own
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by jl6 1y ago
Great to see someone putting in the effort to do this. It’s really difficult for consumers to evaluate the quality of “cheap” electronics that don’t get in-depth attention from major review publications, which themselves are dwindling. RIP
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In UK law, it is generally considered sex discrimination to exclude someone on the basis of their sex, unless that exclusion is a “proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim”. It’s fairly well understood that women have sex-based ne
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Pascal’s middle children of history.
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Get disdainin’!: https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/adding-years-to-life-...
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Why is base 10 annoying?
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Nobody likes paying more and getting less, and it’s perceived as some kind of societal decline, but it’s more like a correction. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the high birth rates in developed nations declined, roughly, in conjuncti
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The only thing that can work (which is also what is happening in practice) is to continually adjust the “pension & welfare” age upwards to achieve the necessary balance between working years and retirement years. The upshot is that ever
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Maybe time to fix the ponzi approach to pensions and welfare instead of continuing to assume unlimited population growth on a finite planet. Edit: it’s not that I don’t believe the population projections showing a peak later in the century

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