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Journals invite too few women to referee(nature.com)
2 points by privong 10y ago|0 comments
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by privong 10y ago
It sounds pretty plausible. But, I'm not sure what benefit that gives them? The article says the cameras are trained on public spaces. So in principle they (China, Russia, etc.) could get the same information by having an agent just ha
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by privong 10y ago
> On Jan. 12 D.C. police noticed four camera sites were not functioning properly and told OCTO. The technology office found two forms of ransomware in the four recording devices and launched a citywide sweep of the network where they fou
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by privong 10y ago
I wonder why the article didn't mention that United has been doing this on a lot of its domestic flights. The international planes still have seat-back entertainment, but most of the domestic flights I've been on in the past year
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by privong 10y ago
And the squawk codes are broadcast as part of the ADS-B system[0]. These packets can be received with the inexpensive USB software-defined radios (e.g., [1]). [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_dependent_survei
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by privong 10y ago
This is a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13482107 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13462865 . The Independent article links to the New Yorker piece and doesn't really add any infor
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Politics and the English Language(orwell.ru)
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CDC abruptly cancels conference on health effects of climate change(arstechnica.com)
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Common Off the Shelf software in [astronomy] operations, is it worth it?(arxiv.org)
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Golomb ruler(en.wikipedia.org)
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by privong 10y ago
We have something along those lines, albeit not quite as long-baseline. Spektr-R is a radio satellite on a elliptical orbit that gives baselines up to 350,000 km (0.35 Gm), linked to Earth-based facilities. https://en.wikipedia.o
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by privong 10y ago
The announcement post says there are breakout boards available: > An updated IO breakout board (CMIO3) has also been launched, which will accept all three models. You can purchase yours from element14 or RS Components.
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by privong 10y ago
Please note, this is for a Square Kilometer Array pathfinder (the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder, ASKAP), not the Square Kilometer Array. Construction hasn't even begun on the latter, AFAIK.
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Saint Marcellus' flood(en.wikipedia.org)
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by privong 10y ago
Sure, but surely they can make some sort of estimates, depending on quantities, typical economies of scale, etc. Of course, I don't know accurate they'd be in the end, but it shows they've thought about it in more detail than
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by privong 10y ago
> The first reactor needs an expensive plant, but dropping in a second or third at the same location, into the same tank, would cost much less. I don't think that explains it, based on the article. Each individual module produces 50
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by privong 10y ago
> The savings would likely kick in as they manufactured more and more of the vessels. Maybe, but I would have thought that would have either factored that into the quoted cost estimates, or that they would have said something like &quot
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by privong 10y ago
> McMurdo base in Antarctica was powered by a nuclear reactor for 10 years which ended in the 70s. Yes, but I'm not sure that was an overwhelmingly positive example supporting increased use of widespread reactors: https:/&#x2F
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by privong 10y ago
It sounds like a neat idea, and potentially safer(?). But I don't understand why they're claiming it'll be cheaper: > But one company thinks that by going smaller, they could actually make nuclear power more affordable. An
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by privong 10y ago
> False. I work for a company in the education space that uses AWS. We're unambiguously bound by FERPA. It is inconceivable to me that a stricter law like HIPAA wouldn't also bind cloud-based companies. I think the GP was asser
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Searching for fast radio bursts from the Milky Way with low-cost radio receivers(arxiv.org)
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What If Time Really Exists? (2008)(arxiv.org)
158 points by privong 10y ago|204 comments
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CHOLLA: A 3D GPU-based hydrodynamics code(github.com)
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by privong 10y ago
The wikipedia page has some additional information not covered in this story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isdal_Woman
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by privong 10y ago
> I tried Darktable but the lack of basic undo functionality kept me on Lightroom. Looks like this release has basic undo functionality. I'll give this one another try. It's had undo functionality (on an individual-image basis
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Personal Application Omnipresence(tiamat.tsotech.com)
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Liquid shell gives inertial confinement fusion a smoother burn(arstechnica.com)
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by privong 10y ago
He even says as much: Those are my four areas. Under a Clinton administration, my list would have looked much the same. Trump's election just means the threats will be much greater, and the battles a lot harder to win.
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by privong 10y ago
> Some of the ACM venues give five dollar coffee mugs to reviewers if they go to the actual conference. I wonder how much of a discount that works out to per hour of review time. :) It would vary a lot on the size/complexity of the
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by privong 10y ago
> Since someone reviews my papers too, I get roughly the same value of work back in-kind. I've heard of journals that are loosely codifying this by saying they may refuse submissions from authors who serially refuse to review manusc

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