mirimir

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by mirimir 6y ago
OK, not a physicist. But what about this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_electron_radius
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by mirimir 6y ago
I was blessed by The Mother, during one of her US tours. She seemed to be a very sweet old woman.
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by mirimir 6y ago
The point is to think for yourself, I think. "Question reality", as they say.
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by mirimir 6y ago
> It was a civil war, initiated by the North, in which mostly Vietnamese killed other Vietnamese. No. It was initiated by the South, when it refused (with US support) to participate in a national UN-monitored election, which Ho Chi Minh
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by mirimir 6y ago
FYI: https://www.wbur.org/npr/851712311/u-s-field-hospitals-stand...
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by mirimir 6y ago
Yes, vacuum energy. But that's still probability distributions, and so almost all of the vacuum is empty at any given time. Most physicists would likely say that there's no point trying to visualize this stuff in mundane terms. Or
337.
by mirimir 6y ago
Well, that space is filled, but only because of quantum interactions, and not because it's empty.
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by mirimir 6y ago
Yeah, they're probability distributions, not fields. So electrons, protons and neutrons are still tiny, even though their positions are uncertain. And so atoms are still mostly empty space.
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by mirimir 6y ago
Maybe Trump Jr ;)
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by mirimir 6y ago
> Even theorizing biologic differences exist makes you a sexist. Eggs vs sperm -- plumbing aside -- is a fundamental biologic difference. And bringing a pregnancy to term, and delivering without bleeding out, sort of requires a uterus. B
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by mirimir 6y ago
> At first, I was repelled — it seemed like a gross display of obsequiousness ... It always makes me cringe, whether it's about people deferring to others, or to me.
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by mirimir 6y ago
Huh. Is that more or less recent? I guess that I'm a few years out of touch. There's no ID requirement in the US, I think.
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by mirimir 6y ago
Yes, it's Zoom's Chinese connections that rule them out, for me.
344.
by mirimir 6y ago
I guess that it's because I liked Chris and his team, and so I'm trying to be generous.
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by mirimir 6y ago
One can run reverse Tor to clearnet proxies that are both anonymous and ~disposable. That is, knowing the proxy IP doesn't compromise the Tor onion server, and the proxy retains no PII, and can be readily replaced if taken down.
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by mirimir 6y ago
Couldn't the FCC just rescind approval if there's interference with GPS? Or at least, with DoD GPS?
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by mirimir 6y ago
So npr.org won't let me read unless I agree to be tracked. Which is illegal under GDPR, I think. But in any case, I've realized something. In the URL, just replace " https://www.npr.org/sections/money&#x2F
348.
by mirimir 6y ago
Tox. Each user runs a Tor onion service, and they talk to each other.
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by mirimir 6y ago
> So if every country passes something like EARN IT, Signal shuts down, how is that resilient? That's not a forgone conclusion. Maybe it is for Signal, but not for chat overall. There's this thing called Tor. If you're car
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by mirimir 6y ago
> It would apply to them if they were or served US citizens, ... Sure, but only if they could be identified. So obviously any such volunteers would make sure that they remained anonymous. Otherwise, they would suffer the consequences.
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by mirimir 6y ago
> I'd be very surprised to learn that I could purchase a burner phone, give you the phone number, and have you be able to tell me my address and criminal history. OK, so even if you pay cash, there's video surveillance in the s
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by mirimir 6y ago
> It's that everyone who uses Signal already has a local contact list keyed on phone numbers ... Well, that's precisely why I don't use Signal. In that I don't use smartphones. I could probably run Signal in an Andr
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by mirimir 6y ago
But there's no anonymity in Matrix by default, right? Can Matrix servers be run as Tor onion services?
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by mirimir 6y ago
> We can't expect all of the internet to operate like Wikileaks and The Pirate Bay. Why not? That's just what it takes. > If the justice system is broken, then the people aren't safe. It is, and they are. After 50 years
355.
by mirimir 6y ago
That's true for US citizens. But not so much otherwise. Edit: Someone disagrees? Consider Guantanamo Bay, third-party renditions, and drone strikes. If China did drone strikes, there'd be a huge outcry.
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by mirimir 6y ago
Well, they are pitching this as bringing secure stuff to the masses. So it's arguably not all that inconsistent with what Chris etc have been saying about Keybase.
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by mirimir 6y ago
Sad. Very sad. It was such a great approach to associating GnuPG keys with social media. And their chat etc were also pretty cool. But Zoom is beyond the pale. So what now? Maybe someone could clone the GitHub repos. And/or are GnuPG k
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by mirimir 6y ago
> ... with an ethanol-activated adhesive brushed onto one side ... I wonder what they use. And how they know that it's long-term stable. Searching "tengujo ethanol adhesive" just gives me TFA and derivatives.
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by mirimir 6y ago
I got basically the same advice from my adviser about collecting data for my thesis. "If too many experiments are failing," he said, "just do more of them, and faster."
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by mirimir 6y ago
I'm distinct from the voice in my head.

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