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Coffee: A Love Affair with Failure(nonprophet.media)
2 points by privong 7y ago|0 comments
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Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is not disintegrating, physicist claims(arstechnica.com)
1 points by privong 7y ago|0 comments
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Ohio Submarines Were Designed to Be Drone-Carrying Clandestine Command Centers(thedrive.com)
68 points by privong 7y ago|33 comments
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Astronomers Despair as SpaceX Starlink Ruins Observation of Nearby Galaxies(forbes.com)
19 points by privong 7y ago|6 comments
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Qualia(en.wikipedia.org)
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The version of Star Wars on Disney+ changes the canon once again(arstechnica.com)
1 points by privong 7y ago|0 comments
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by privong 7y ago
> Probably, you could have just patched the address with an easily removable piece of tape and that would definitely trigger a human attention, and delivery would go where it should Fair point. And that was the advice given to me by the
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by privong 7y ago
Post people know how to read, but I think now most nail sorting/routing is done with computers and OCR. I sometimes get mail addressed to people who used to live at my address but have long since moved. I tried writing “return to sende
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by privong 7y ago
That’s true, but not unique to sidewalks. Much of the same arguments likely apply to bike lanes.
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by privong 7y ago
> Cyclists are much more likely to be hit by cars when riding on the sidewalks, Is this actually true? I haven't seen data one way or the other, so I'd be interested to know. I can see reasons why it could go either way.
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by privong 7y ago
> commenting so I can find this again. If you upvote the GP's coment, you can find it that way too. If you go to your account page (by clicking your username in the upper right on the page), there's be links that say "upvo
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Okavango Delta(en.wikipedia.org)
11 points by privong 7y ago|0 comments
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by privong 7y ago
> What if they took the JWST design ($10 billion in development costs!) and made 10 or 100 more copies? How much would each additional copy cost to build and launch? There's presumably a way to estimate that. But you'd also wan
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by privong 7y ago
> Hubble and Kepler and James Webb are plenty fine for me. Those facilities have resulted in lots of discoveries. But Kepler wouldn't have been such a success without lots of follow-up observations from ground-based telescopes (e.g.
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by privong 7y ago
> Once launch costs are down to $50/kg or so, whatever loss we have in earthbound astronomy can be more than compensated by large telescopes in orbit and on the far side of the moon. I don't think launch costs are the dominant
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A “Radio Sundial” for the Jansky Large Array in New Mexico(science.nrao.edu)
1 points by privong 7y ago|0 comments
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The Long, Strange Tale of California's Surf Nazis(nytimes.com)
2 points by privong 7y ago|0 comments
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by privong 7y ago
> Normally this means no copying from Google Maps or Google's satellite or street-level imagery. Just to note for general use that the standard web-editor for OSM pulls in Bing satellite imagery. So one can use satellite imagery wit
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by privong 7y ago
The Mauna Kea site is a better one, in terms of observing conditions. It's higher, drier, has fewer cloudy nights, better atmospheric turbulence conditions, etc.
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by privong 7y ago
Pleasantly surprising to see. In all the universities I've experienced recently, the trend is strongly in the opposite direction. One of the admins' bio on the MIT instance states that they're at math and comp sci major at MI
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by privong 7y ago
> ditto for anyone else in the public sphere currently publishing status updates via walled garden platforms (elected officials, agencies, educational institutions, et cetera) I like this idea. But I think it's unlikely to happen. U
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by privong 7y ago
About 2 weeks ago there was some discussion on the Nature "News and Views" piece discussing this result: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20909056
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by privong 7y ago
> Either way, it wont suddenly turn "on" overnight. These things ramp up and down instantly on cosmological scales, which means many thousands/millions of years in our world. Some supermassive black holes have been caught
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Climate change could put insurance firms out of business(economist.com)
1 points by privong 7y ago|0 comments
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Toss Bombing(en.wikipedia.org)
50 points by privong 7y ago|6 comments
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by privong 7y ago
> Cosmology involves distances that are so great that it seems like it's pouring a whole bunch of smart people's efforts down the drain in an ultimately futile waste of brain power that will never amount to anything much at all
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Visual Programming Codex(github.com)
2 points by privong 7y ago|0 comments
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Jagdfaust(en.wikipedia.org)
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by privong 7y ago
2600: The Hacker Quarterly[0]. I probably end up reading only about half the article and the quality varies widely. But the magazine covers a wide range of topics and I always learn something or hear about something I wasn't previously
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Racket v7.4 Released(blog.racket-lang.org)
1 points by privong 7y ago|0 comments

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