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Zong Massacre(en.wikipedia.org)
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by lisper 9mo ago
Heavy rain is usually very localized. I live in Norcal and I've seen many situations where we were getting hammered with multiple inches an hour while a few dozen miles away it wasn't raining at all, and vice versa. So even in a
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by lisper 9mo ago
Ironically, the rest of the country is having a drought: https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026/01/18/winter-dro...
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by lisper 9mo ago
If you have to ask, you aren't ready to know the answer. There are some things you have to figure out on your own. This is one of them.
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by lisper 9mo ago
Apparently no one has mentioned the Vasa here yet, so I'll do it: https://www.vasamuseet.se/en Not quite as old but preserved almost intact and now restored on dry land. Well worth a visit.
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by lisper 9mo ago
Can't argue with that, but Dilbert first appeared in 1989, and Adams publicly jumped the shark in February 2023. So May 2022 is hardly "always there".
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by lisper 9mo ago
> The racism and the provocations were always there Were they? Can you cite an example? Because I also grew up with Dilbert, and I was never aware of it.
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North America's Elevator Problem [video](youtube.com)
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by lisper 9mo ago
> You’re fixated on a particular model of aether Well, yes, of course. This is a discussion of Michelson-Morley interferometers. In that context the word "aether" has a very specific and well-established meaning, and it is no
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by lisper 9mo ago
> My comment is just applying that theory to interpreting the Michelson-Morley experiment. Really? Where in the Standard Model do I find the luminiferous aether that you suggest the apparatus is made of?
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by lisper 9mo ago
> The Michelson–Morley experiment was indeed very important, but it has not proved in any way the non-existence of ether. It has just proved that the ether does not behave as it was previously supposed, i.e. like the materials with which
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by lisper 9mo ago
> Another interpretation is that the apparatus ... is made from ether Or maybe an invisible pink unicorn is sneaking into the lab at night and tweaking things.
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by lisper 9mo ago
More specifically MM showed that earth is not moving relative to a hypothetical medium through which electromagnetic waves propagate. So either the universe is geocentric or there is no such medium.
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by lisper 9mo ago
Source? Because Wikipedia says: "A few Savery pumps were tried in mines, an unsuccessful attempt being made to use one to clear water from a pool called Broad Waters in Wednesbury (then in Staffordshire) and nearby coal mines."
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by lisper 9mo ago
Yes, that was it! Thank you! How did you know?
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by lisper 9mo ago
I remember reading an analysis of that a while back but I can't remember where I saw it. The upshot was that the industrial revolution turned on more than just innovation, it also required just the right combination of natural resourc
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by lisper 9mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knob-and-tube_wiring
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by lisper 9mo ago
> Newcomen, Jerónimo de Ayanz y Beaumont ... and Hero of Alexandria Thomas Savery too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Savery
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by lisper 10mo ago
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/18-03-differential-equations-spr...
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What Being a Billionire Looks Like [video](youtube.com)
4 points by lisper 10mo ago|1 comments
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Peter Gutmann – Why Quantum Cryptanalysis Is Bollocks [video](youtube.com)
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AI Feynman: A physics-inspired method for symbolic regression (2020)(science.org)
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by lisper 10mo ago
Actually, it's even worse than that: the design of the clock makes it so that the cesium atoms doing the actual time keeping are in free-fall while they are being observed. So it is physically impossible for any gravitational influenc
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The Book: The Ultimate Guide to Rebuilding Civilization(global.hungryminds.com)
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by lisper 10mo ago
A chicken is an egg’s way of making more eggs.
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by lisper 10mo ago
These claims are bullshit. You can get technical details about the clock first-hand at this link: https://www.nist.gov/pml/time-and-frequency-division/time-re... and you can see a photo of the actual installation
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by lisper 10mo ago
The difference being that stocks and real estate have at least a tenuous connection to actual production. Crypto has none.
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In one of the driest places on Earth, recurrent floods have become deadlier(washingtonpost.com)
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by lisper 10mo ago
> The response.getheader method in urllib has been deprecated since 2023 because the response.headers dictionary is what should be used instead. Then response.getheader should just do that. There is no reason to expose the implementatio
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A Comprehensive Guide to How 2 and 4 Stroke Engines Work and Differ [video](youtube.com)
2 points by lisper 10mo ago|0 comments

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