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MassMine(massmine.org)
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Whales are stressed out by climate change, and it shows in their earwax(arstechnica.com)
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by privong 8y ago
> Luvoir is expected to launch in the mid-2030s For others who are not familiar with the NASA studies, "expected" is probably too strong a word and "proposed" is probably more accurate. LUVOIR is one of four flagship
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Direct Conversion Receivers: Some Amateur Radio History [pdf](w7zoi.net)
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by privong 8y ago
It would probably help to know why you're asking – people could give more specific/tailored advice. I my case, I would still have majored in physics. It provides a lot of good fundamentals for problem-solving, including mathematic
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Indonesia 737 crash caused by “safety” feature change pilots weren’t told of(arstechnica.com)
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by privong 8y ago
For what it's worth, on a not-too-old Mac: $ uname -v Darwin Kernel Version 13.4.0: Mon Jan 11 18:17:34 PST 2016; root:xnu-2422.115.15~1/RELEASE_X86_64 $ grep --version grep (BSD grep) 2.5.1-FreeBSD I don't have
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by privong 8y ago
> Wasn't Horn's trip last year the first unsupported crossing of Antarctica? It may depend on the specific definitions ("unsupported" vs "solo unsupported"), but the first unsupported crossing I'm awar
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P-Orridge Has Always Been a Provocateur of the Body. Now She’s at Its Mercy(nytimes.com)
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by privong 8y ago
> What the actual hell? You can sign up online to get mail scanned… without any physical verification you're at the address, with only a physical notification being sent after-the-fact? I signed up for Informed Delivery a couple wee
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Develop Windy Plugin to Extend Functionality of Windy(community.windy.com)
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by privong 8y ago
I did see those from a link elsewhere in the thread. The cost and uncertain delivery timeline make that a non-starter for me, though.
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by privong 8y ago
> They need to make a new Spacesaver model (one without the numpad) Yeah. I'm in the market for a new keyboard and am thinking about a TKL. Just spent some time on the Unicomp site looking for a TLK version to no avail.
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Neanderthal teeth reveal lead exposure and difficult winters(arstechnica.com)
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by privong 8y ago
There's a lot of input on this from previous ask HN's too: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=ask%20note%20taking&sort=byPop...
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by privong 8y ago
> This comes up regularly. All the enthusiasm for micropayments comes from people who want to collect micropayments. Not from the users who would pay them. All the enthusiasm for ads only comes from the people who want to show/sell
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by privong 8y ago
> the proposal funding rate is so low on account of the resource/PI ratio that many U.S. researchers are moving to Europe where there is greater promise of hard funding. Funding rates are low in many (all?) fields of science in the
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by privong 8y ago
> I'm not qualified to answer your question, but the observation of Oumuamua alone doesn't give a large enough sample size to estimate how often large interstellar comets or asteroids pass through our solar system. It's a
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ArXiv Looks to the Future with Move to Cornell CIS(cis.cornell.edu)
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Fujiwhara effect(en.wikipedia.org)
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How social-media platforms dispense justice(economist.com)
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The Destructive Politics of Pseudo-Boycotts(wsj.com)
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by privong 8y ago
> The prize, FWIW, wasn't just for the discovery of pulsars but for the aperture synthesis interferometry technique that made it possible. Ryle's participation in the prize was for aperture synthesis interferometry while Hewish
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Dataset for What College Students Think about First Amendment Issues Poll(heterodoxacademy.org)
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Am I Paying Too Little for Stuff?(wsj.com)
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by privong 8y ago
> The photosphere is no more well defined unless you specify a particular wavelength, or you admit defeat and accept averages as perfectly fine physical properties. That stellar spectra (ignoring absorption lines) are broadly consistent
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by privong 8y ago
> Also: temperatures of things that are ill defined, like the ”temperature of the surface of the sun”. This has more to do with phrasing it as the "surface" of the Sun rather than the temperature being ill-defined. The proper
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by privong 8y ago
> While I get it that we can't always be persnicketty about the definition of (thermodynamic) temperature I find these alternate, phenomenological temperatures often do more harm than good. It's not just that it results in misl
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The Diplomatic Couriers Who Deliver America's Secret Mail(wired.com)
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by privong 8y ago
Not likely, since the intervening material probably lets most of the radio emission through. So the radiative coupling between the synchrotron emission and that material is too weak to raise the temperature by much (if any). > There&#x27

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