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Open Skies: National Radio Astronomy Obs. and Its Impact on US Radio Astronomy(link.springer.com)
2 points by privong 6y ago|0 comments
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Sail Freight Projects Around the World(sailingdog.org)
104 points by privong 6y ago|72 comments
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How much energy do we need?(lowtechmagazine.com)
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by privong 6y ago
It might be worthwhile to shoot Gwern an email: https://www.gwern.net/Links#contact
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Sail Freight Projects Around the World(sailingdog.org)
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by privong 6y ago
Correction: > In the case of a particle accelerator, that means doubling the amount of time. This should say: "means quadrupling the amount of time" [to double the S/N].
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by privong 6y ago
> If there is new physics to study let us keep the experiment going as is to study that for a generation or two. If there is no new physics from the last experiment, why do we think that building a bigger microscope will be any differen
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by privong 6y ago
Don't forget "ski ballet"! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ski_ballet
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A Biological and Cultural Evolutionary Analysis of Covid-19(heterodoxacademy.org)
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by privong 6y ago
And pulsars spin rates slowly change over time do to energy losses. But I don't think these things would cripple a pulsar-based navigation system. Presumably any network of pulsars used for this purpose would be regularly monitored and
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by privong 6y ago
> There are lots of naturally occurring ones such as pulsars, enough to the point they could be used for 3D navigation, if you can find your distance to them. There's work towards this, from the X-ray emission of pulsars[0]. I don&
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by privong 6y ago
> Nagging me about it isn't going to make me purchase anything. I wonder about this. I feel the same, but wonder if it's true for everyone? I kinda assume it must work some of the time, otherwise they wouldn't do it.
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by privong 6y ago
> This is going to be really unpopular but you could allow people to write their papers in Microsoft word . Many journals do allow Word submissions. Nature, for example[0] [0] "we strongly encourage you to incorporate the manuscrip
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Mersenne Twister(en.wikipedia.org)
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Eleusinian Mysteries(en.wikipedia.org)
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Criminals and the Normalization of Masks(schneier.com)
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by privong 6y ago
There was some good discussion about this kit two days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23196177
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by privong 6y ago
I've had a friend say he could tell it was me approaching, based on my gait (I hadn't seen him in several years and his eyesight was such that he couldn't see my facial features from that far away, but apparently my gait was
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Improve your walking technique(suunto.com)
222 points by privong 6y ago|122 comments
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by privong 6y ago
> since we can't actually see how fast our arm is spinning. It's tougher, but we can. We know that the Sun has an orbital speed of approximately 220 km/s relative to the center of the galaxy. And we can measure the relativ
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by privong 6y ago
> I wonder at what point we can spot the SMBHs/supernovae that had given rise to our own solar system Likely never, if you mean an actual supernova remnant that released the enriched material into the interstellar medium. Partly bec
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Why Conservatives and Liberals Are Not Experiencing the Same Pandemic(heterodoxacademy.org)
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What to Ask Instead of ‘How Are You?’ During a Pandemic(theatlantic.com)
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by privong 7y ago
I've been using a similar setup for probably 8+ years now. It started out with an ownCloud instance on a Raspberry Pi B+ (but has since evolved to nextCloud and a VPS, which I also use to run other things). I've been incredibly ha
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Covid’s Other Casualties(reuters.com)
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by privong 7y ago
> Why would your collaborators have to install any software to use Jitsi? (It should work in a browser AFAIK) Honestly, I didn't know that there was in-browser capabilities. The last time I used jitsi was via the java desktop clien
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by privong 7y ago
> I think the real reason is "it's just what everyone else was doing." I can't speak for others. But for me, using Zoom is really because it worked better than everything else I'd tried (Skype, Google Hangouts, W
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Personal Protective Equipment Burn Rate Calculator(cdc.gov)
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Low Earth Orbit Satellites and Impacts of the SpaceX Starlink Constellation(arxiv.org)
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KeyV2: A Parametric Mechanical Keycap Library(github.com)
58 points by privong 7y ago|8 comments

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