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by mkstowegnv 9y ago
You ask your readers to believe that academia, the mainstream media and Wikipedia all have the same bias. An alternative hypothesis is that A) all three have albeit imperfect self correction mechanisms and are on average as close to reflect
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by mkstowegnv 9y ago
There is also Gotenna [1] and numerous projects mentioned on Wikipedia mesh networking pages [2, 3] This would be a perfect application for "Shadow Dance" - a long shot project to create futuristic festivals inside the shadow path
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by mkstowegnv 9y ago
All the sources I know of [e.g. 1] say there is no danger looking at the "sun" during 100% totality, and I have stared at the corona for minutes each of all three times I have been fortunate enough to experience totality and I app
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by mkstowegnv 9y ago
Since you provide no links, one must assume that you are motivated by a vague awareness of controversies tied to the Clinton Foundation. However, these controversies do not involve Haiti or missing money, and for balance I suggest readers
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by mkstowegnv 9y ago
Gallileo support in new cell phones only barely started this year https://www.gsc-europa.eu/galileo-gsc-overview/services/gali...
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by mkstowegnv 9y ago
For many years prior to the current mindfulness wave, I have been practicing and preaching what I call "weather transferance". We humans do not become angry when harm comes to us because of weather, and so to avoid useless negati
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by mkstowegnv 9y ago
Agree with the exception of mainland China where processed food is even more race to the bottom than in the US. Recommend that you assume food served on internal flights is inedible and plan accordingly.
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by mkstowegnv 9y ago
Fortunately for those who are generally considered unattractive you are correct for most people most of the time but 'the race is not always won by the swift'. As I try to impress on particularly lonely young people - the best wa
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by mkstowegnv 9y ago
I think the theories in the other comments are more likely and I would prefer that this one was not correct: Seattle is one of the largest sanctuary cities close to the US border and a spy plane would be one way to try to gather evidence of
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by mkstowegnv 9y ago
I should have said domestic history. The proposal briefly mentions inviting the creation of monuments to international suffering. See more comments below.
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by mkstowegnv 9y ago
The Trail of Tears and Sullivan's island leapt out at me the very first time I saw a map of the shadow path and I have for years thought that an honest painful day of atonement around the world would be healing and humbling and a good
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by mkstowegnv 9y ago
My summary is oversimplified but if you look at the legend on the map it indicates that the prisoners at the camp were forced to build the Minidoka Irrigation Project which crosses the shadow path from the south where the Camp was located a
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by mkstowegnv 9y ago
Sorry I do not really understand your question. I hope I made it clear that I do not attach any supernatural significance to the fact that the Aug 21 eclipse includes "dark" history in its path. By chance it includes historical s
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by mkstowegnv 9y ago
I started a group with a long shot dream that some day total solar eclipses will be properly celebrated in the form of giant high tech festivals http://shadow.dance . But in addition to celebration, they are opportunities for so
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by mkstowegnv 9y ago
And if a black hole falls into another black hole and no LIGO was listening, did it really produce a gravitational wave?
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by mkstowegnv 9y ago
This is slightly off topic but because of this story I went looking for my FCC comments [1] and decided to search for all recent (last week) comments from my small-population, somewhat-limited-ethnicity zip code, and discovered hundreds of
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by mkstowegnv 9y ago
Never stop working to change the system but reject cynicism and pessimism and honor all those who make even small contributions. Thank you. Thank you for buying a little time. The problem grows exponentially as tundra defrosts and releas
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by mkstowegnv 9y ago
My (obviously unmodelled, hypothetical) low-earth-orbiting solution would be to use 'intelligent' rings of what I will call "dancing shadow leaves" (akin to the 'shadow square' system that provided day/nig
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by mkstowegnv 9y ago
The "New River Gorge Bridge was for many years the world's longest single-span arch bridge; it is now the third longest" is similarly in the middle of nowhere in West Virginia and was even more so when it was completed in 197
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by mkstowegnv 10y ago
sorry but how can someone/some group shadow ban a story and who do you suppose would be behind shadow banning this one?
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by mkstowegnv 10y ago
There is nothing surprising, technological or policy relevant in this article. Although better than a previous similar HN story (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12674976 ), it is just a run of the mill tabloidish O
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by mkstowegnv 10y ago
Commenters who are framing this story in left/right/utopian politics are missing the point and not letting the brutality of the situation sink in enough to suppress their need to grind philosophical axes. It is a shame that appar
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by mkstowegnv 10y ago
It's turtles all the way up. Or in this case It's Turing Machines all the way up.
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by mkstowegnv 10y ago
You are assuming unlimited computational resources. At some point the computer required is bigger than the universe and exceeds the limits of what our current knowledge of physics and cosmology allows us to speculate about in any kind of m
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by mkstowegnv 10y ago
IMHO as a biologist infused with awe of the natural world from observation and reading, it is laughable that gods or computers could design or simulate the infinite levels of mind numbing complexity and unimaginable patterns that evolution
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by mkstowegnv 10y ago
Only open this if you like paranoid conspiracy theories (children not remembering where they were), paranormal possibilities (so many Devil names) and lack of critical thinking (no links for most claims), and if you like supporting politica
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by mkstowegnv 10y ago
"Jeannette Wing, corporate vice president at Microsoft Research. “Any natural language is inherently ambiguous." Lojban (nee Loglan) is a conlang designed to be syntactically unambiguous but as usable in speech and thought as a na
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by mkstowegnv 10y ago
Anecdata: from my travels in indigenous areas in various parts of the world, and from my experience with organic farmers in the US (not really comparable I know), I would say that the variance is high. With modern medicine and transportati
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by mkstowegnv 10y ago
Maybe the most frightening thing is that this person apparently went through medical training and never learned rudimentary field biology. Tour guides in wild areas all over the world have a "this is not Disney World" or equivale
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by mkstowegnv 10y ago
My unprovable assumption is that only beings who value knowledge and cooperation highly enough will get to the point of crossing the difficult technological threshold of achieving singularity or space travel. I think the more likely Achill

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