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by nealabq 7y ago
UC Berkeley switched from quarters to semesters in 1983 ( https://dailybruin.com/2018/06/08/the-quad-the-long-convolut... ). At the time I thought it was because spring quarter is over later than spring semes
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by nealabq 7y ago
Don't miss the link at the bottom asking organizations to sign a letter objecting: https://savedotorg.org/
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by nealabq 7y ago
The Netherlands chapter of the ISOC is objecting to the .ORG sale ( https://domainnamewire.com/tag/internet-society/ ): We believe that the 2019 decision of ISOC Global to sell PIR to private equity firm Ethos Ca
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by nealabq 7y ago
Or this: https://edwardtbabinski.us/whales/dolphin_limbs.jpg
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by nealabq 7y ago
The authors also make the book available at MIT press, but not as PDF. Thanks! https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/index.html https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default&#x2
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by nealabq 7y ago
The phrase "well-trained idiot" appeared in an HN comment earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21123542 Although they mean different things -- a confident idiot is uninformed but convinced he is the
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by nealabq 7y ago
The paper you cited above calls 20, 39 and 59 inches of SLR by 2100 the low, intermediate and high scenarios. And 39 inches is close to a meter. But since the paper is from 2013 I should have used 87 years. So 1000mm/87yrs = 11.5mm&#x2
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by nealabq 7y ago
The paper you cite is dated 2013 and says SLR has been 3mm/year since the 1990s. It mentions the possibilities of more dramatic rises by 2100 but doesn't go into much detail. If we're talking about a meter of SLR in the next
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by nealabq 7y ago
I assume you're talking about the app where you could find out if your neighbors were registered R or D. I don't think that info should be made public, but I can't find any evidence that the app was illegal. Can you clarify?
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by nealabq 7y ago
If the ship travels tens of billions of light years will it eventually be traveling away from it's starting point at greater than c due to the dark-energy expansion of space itself? Or will the ship just red-shift more and more but nev
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by nealabq 7y ago
I was born in 1960, and I think I became a hipster when I graduated college (Berkeley) in 1982. That was when I moved to Portland because the only San Francisco jobs used Cobol. I didn't like SV and car culture. But I always had troubl
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by nealabq 7y ago
Discussion from January 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16080907
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by nealabq 7y ago
Should the US consider selling perpetual bonds, with no maturity date? I know Britain used to do this (the bonds were called Consols). Is this form of finance now discredited?
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by nealabq 7y ago
The site's down for me. I got a 404 and a few minutes later a Firefox "Did Not Connect: Potential Security Issue" followed by this explanation: Firefox detected a potential security threat and did not continue to potatofr
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by nealabq 7y ago
#32 is in the works: https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/llcdfactsheet.final...
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by nealabq 8y ago
> fit a bunch of ugly angels on a pointless pin. It just feels so pointless. A pointless pin would indeed be pointless.
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by nealabq 8y ago
If the light is being radiated from a black body surface, then you cannot make something hotter than that surface. But you're right, the light from the moon is reflected sun light, plenty hot to start a fire. The moon also radiates lik
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by nealabq 8y ago
I'm pretty sure this manual was written by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Espinosa Source: He was a highschool and college friend.
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by nealabq 8y ago
How would this work? A pointable mirror is in an equatorial low-earth orbit could shine on a city for a few minutes every 90 minutes or so. Except when it's in earth's shadow. Is that what they have in mind? I suppose it could ill
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by nealabq 8y ago
I am surprised that taking a baby aspirin every day may turn out to be harmful. It's been common wisdom for years, and now it may (or may not) be wrong. Like the advice that chocolate and red wine is good for you.
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by nealabq 8y ago
Does ASA stand for Alcohol Septal Ablation?
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by nealabq 8y ago
From Sleeper (1973), set in a future USA: Dr. Melik: This morning for breakfast he requested something called "wheat germ, organic honey and tiger's milk." Dr. Aragon: [chuckling] Oh, yes. Those are the charmed substances tha
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by nealabq 8y ago
Experimentation suggests the scores are always even and range from 0 thru 128 (inclusive). And the initial layouts usually score between 70 and 100. I would expect the initial layout scores to center around 64 instead of 84. My sample size
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by nealabq 8y ago
My father worked at HP in the 70s in Tool&Die, and made some of the molds for plastic pieces of the HP 35. He bought an HP 21 in '76. It's now my son's. It still works perfectly, except the battery is lost so we run a wir
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by nealabq 9y ago
According to https://phys.org/news/2016-09-cold-black-holes.html a black-hole greater than the mass of the moon would have an apparent temperature less than that of the cosmic background radiation, so it wouldn't
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by nealabq 9y ago
Yow! Are we having fun yet?
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by nealabq 9y ago
You mean they're fleeced like cash cows?
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by nealabq 9y ago
Because otherwise the water slams into your crotch. Crossing your feet or keeping them pressed together directs the water away.
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by nealabq 9y ago
Waymo has driven 2.7 billion miles in simulation [1]. Is that enough to give them some idea of how many deaths to expect? [1] https://waymo.com/ontheroad/
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by nealabq 9y ago
There may eventually be standard test suites that can be applied to any of the self-driving systems in simulation. This would give us a basis of comparison for safety, but also for speed and efficiency. As well as some core set of tests tha

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