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by kmm 10y ago
Black-body radiation has the interesting property that it is invariant under redshift. I.e. a redshifted black body spectrum stays a black body spectrum, but for another temperature
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by kmm 10y ago
We still have the homologues of the old regeneration genes that are still active in lizards and such. However, they're not usable because of our strong tumor suppression genes. We're at least a thousand times bigger than a small l
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by kmm 10y ago
They're not the basis of aging, they're just a component of it. Even with immortal cell lines, your body would still sag and decay, as there is so much we have no regenerative capability for. We can't even regenerate small pa
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by kmm 10y ago
They're probably counting on the average person infected with ransomware not being able to do this
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by kmm 10y ago
What would have been the options if one is not able to perform this magnificent feat of reverse engineering? Buying a new GPS unit? Is that a serious investment?
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by kmm 10y ago
Interesting, but too bad it's not much more than the basics. I struggle to find a good explanation of how harmony works, i.e. what they mean by the terms "resolution" or how chords are made, in short: how a musical piece is b
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by kmm 10y ago
> For instance, we already understand tidal forces - that bodies can become tidally locked, that there is an inertial frame shear that drags bodies along around a rotating centre of mass, and exchanges energy between an orbiting body and
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by kmm 10y ago
I'm surprised the fingerprinting is so reliably repeatable that you can use an exact hash, like SHA-1. I would have guessed that noise or especially filtering could shift the peaks a few hertzes around. Why isn't this a problem?
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by kmm 10y ago
It shows that they were over their worst estimate total volume in one day. Were they really expecting less than a few million user-days in total?
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by kmm 10y ago
The US has 1.7 representatives in parliament per citizen. Compared to countries in Europe, that's very low [1], but even in Europe there's a clear trend for larger countries to have proportionally less seats, e.g. compare Estonia
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by kmm 10y ago
I think that can't be because a torus doesn't an edge, and the figure clearly still has one
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by kmm 10y ago
I'm not entirely sure how copyright works, but does this imply someone has the exclusive right to Boltzmann en Schrödinger's articles? 142 years seems way beyond any term limit
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by kmm 10y ago
I always enjoy a discussion about semantics, but only when both parties are very clear about the fact that it's semantics they're talking about, and not fundamental nature of existence. I'm very wary of people trying to use p
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by kmm 10y ago
Neat! I've been putting off learning how to use those `-M` flags to automatically generate dependencies, but it looks like it's not that hard :) What I also like to do is hide the actual compilation command with recipes like this,
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by kmm 10y ago
> - It looks like the predicted delta from going from a "nosleep" day to a "sleep" days is about 1.4 pounds (sleep coef minus nosleep coef). That seems fishy, or at least like it will stop working fairly soon because
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PAC-MAN on the Sequoia AVC-Edge DRE Voting Machine(jhalderm.com)
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by kmm 10y ago
Neat :) I had almost the same idea when I was trying to figure out whether every matrix is the sum of a symmetric and an asymmetric matrix. The decomposition being very similar: A = (A + A')/2 + (A - A')/2, with ' d
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by kmm 10y ago
A Tesla is also probably a much safer car than the average, skewing the statistics even more. And neither does Autopilot work in heavy rain and in other circumstances that are possibly higher in risk (although I'm not sure driving in t
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by kmm 10y ago
I like the animation. You can see crises percolate backwards in time
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by kmm 10y ago
Oh, changing the filter definitely changes the timbre, but that's not what I meant. Even with a symmetric filter using only two values[0], there will still be an audible difference. The point of using the symmetric filter wasn't t
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by kmm 10y ago
Fascinating. I implemented a small proof of concept of Mathematica and it sounds remarkably well, especially for such an extremely simple idea. Maybe a small nitpick, but by using the filter described in this article (taking the average wit
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by kmm 10y ago
It's still a useful distinction. That's like saying all software is hardware because the bits and bytes are stored in magnetic moments on hard drives etc... Or that biology and chemistry are the same thing because all living thing
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by kmm 10y ago
The mathematician in me is somewhat relieved to see there are some things I'm better at than Terry Tao :)
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by kmm 10y ago
That sounds insanely illegal as well. I don't know about the US, but I think in most places in the EU it's illegal to even post videos of people driving dangerously or way too fast online.
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by kmm 10y ago
I find that the Problem of Evil is troubling in an atheistic worldview as well, as it's hard to avoid ending up in nihilistic absurdism. To be honest, I don't feel like either side answers the question very well
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by kmm 10y ago
I don't know about the parent, but you'd guess that wrong about me. There are a ton of subreddits I sort of politically align with that I can't join because I don't align with their brand of feminism. Besides that, I thi
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by kmm 11y ago
I don't doubt that most of them worked very hard and took a lot of risks to get where they are now. I respect these people immensely. But no human could work hard enough or provides enough of a service that they deserve to earn tens of
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by kmm 11y ago
But then you have an extra hop.
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by kmm 11y ago
No they don't, because they're giving an actual argument. They're probably not again disagreement, but against mass disagreement without requiring to substantiate that disagreement.
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by kmm 11y ago
Funny thing is that the repo is only 7 MB gzipped (or 4 with lzma). Not that surprising, since it's just metadata of course. They say they have about 1 million fetches/clones per week, so that would make about 16 TB per month. I&#

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