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by privong 9y ago
> PAN isn't short for panopticon, it's short for Palladium at Night. "Palladium at Night" is indeed on the mission patch. However, in his CCC talk Trevor Paglen says it might mean "pick a name": https:&#x2
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by privong 9y ago
> Surely we can come up with something more interesting and potentially discovery-orientated, or at least a little more awesome, such as perhaps radio astronomy or somesuch? There are a many examples of other things that people have come
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DEsktop Automation Infrastructure(github.com)
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by privong 9y ago
There's already extensive discussion (still on the front page) here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14776357
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by privong 9y ago
> Despite the misleading title, this only applies to "nonimmigrant foreigners." The title leads one to believe it applies to all travelers. The article body specifically disagrees with you: "Now, the DHS is going to be sc
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by privong 9y ago
> This means he can't have it both ways I suspect the power asymmetry of the gov't being able to decide which of its own data is subject to FOI means he can have it both ways.
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The case for free-market anticapitalism(capx.co)
1 points by privong 9y ago|0 comments
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by privong 9y ago
> I don't think it's population density. I grew up in this town called Augusta, Georgia. Every year there's this event that draws people from all over the world. Despite two hours, give or take, major cities, it draws them
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Use of Docker for deployment and testing of astronomy software(arxiv.org)
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by privong 9y ago
> So what I'm trying to say in a convoluted way is that economics should return to basics, ditch most of the mathematics with which it has become enamored and try to be a little more on the "social science"-side of things:
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by privong 9y ago
> What's with the weird shape in the bottom left? I don't suppose stars can get squished like that, so it must be some sort of optical artifact? It's possible that it could be something physical, as some of the other comm
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Longplayer(longplayer.org)
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Where Gravity Is Weak and Naked Singularities Are Verboten(quantamagazine.org)
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by privong 9y ago
There was some discussion on this article ~20 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14476474
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What makes a sport a sport?(1843magazine.com)
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by privong 9y ago
> much better :p Can you please elaborate on this?
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by privong 9y ago
> This makes me wonder about the culture I saw in graduate school where many professors seemed spend more time getting funding and publications than research. Was there a time when it was different? I don't have any objective data a
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A spy satellite buzzed the space station this month, and no one knows why(arstechnica.com)
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by privong 9y ago
The authors have made the python code for the examples in the paper available here: https://github.com/samreay/SampleSelection
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Accounting for sample selection in Bayesian analyses(arxiv.org)
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by privong 9y ago
> Spotting a 1km moon in orbit around Jupiter is the equivalent of spotting a Rabies virus at the other end of a football field. (1km at 588 million km ~= 185nm at 109m) While a relevant size comparison, this is potentially misleading c
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by privong 9y ago
> Any idea of how many people have free climbed this route? I'm really curious to know if Honnold is a one-of-a-kind climber or there are similar skill level climbers who just aren't willing to risk it without ropes? I don&#x27
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The Story of 0 A.D(play0ad.com)
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Reviews for the Journal of Open Source Software(github.com)
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by privong 9y ago
> McDonald's or bigger places wouldn't hire less people, if they could get away with lower staff levels they already would have lowered them. To zeroth order, that seems reasonable. But the added expenses might shift the cost-
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Global Positioning System History [video](c-span.org)
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by privong 9y ago
I'm aware of the context for the GW detections and the expense, etc. I was making a general philosophical point about "overpaid", not commenting specifically on the LIGO cost-benefit analysis.
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by privong 9y ago
> If you aim too high in your sensitivity aspirations, the cost hits a point where the experiment simply can't be funded. Agreed. I misunderstood your meaning then; I'd interpreted your wording to mean that "overpaid"
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by privong 9y ago
> If you're getting 10 events/second with a device like this, you probably overpaid for sensitivity Aside from issues processing and disentangling the overlapping events in a situation with that high of an event rate, more even
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by privong 9y ago
> are the rates of black holes per volume well-constrained at all? There are estimates. But two of the three LIGO detections are of black holes that are more massive than we had expected to exist (~ a few tens of solar masses). Previousl

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