pwatsonwailes

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by pwatsonwailes 2y ago
The second point isn't accurate. You're thinking they're all static, rather than orbiting. There's times when each is closer than the other.
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by pwatsonwailes 2y ago
If you want to do some research on the subject, you're looking for violations of homogeneity, as implied by the Lambda-CDM model of the universe. The lambda in this case is the cosmological constant. You'll need to read up on that
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by pwatsonwailes 2y ago
The Lense-Thirring effect is absolutely a thing, and we have direct evidence for it. To be clearer (I totally wasn't clear enough on this tbf), there's nothing we know of which can do it at the required scale to allow for time t
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by pwatsonwailes 2y ago
You're on the wrong thing there. I could be wrong but I think you're outside your field on this one.
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by pwatsonwailes 2y ago
No, is the short answer. What you'd need is space-time rotating, not something physical rotating. If you could make the things rotate because space-time was rotating, not because they were, then yes, but there's no mechanism we
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by pwatsonwailes 2y ago
Structures yes, but not at this sort of scale. For reasons*, there's a soft limit on the scale that you'd expect structures** to scale to. There's no technical reason why they can't get bigger, it just becomes spectacula
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by pwatsonwailes 2y ago
I say this with love but, you've never worked in construction have you. Architects drawings are little more than nicely descriptive hopes and sketches of an intended idea, which a good contractor has to turn into an actual plan of work
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by pwatsonwailes 3y ago
Nah, they need Rockwell Automation's retro encabulator. The inverse reactive current it produces (designed for use in unilateral phase detractors) should also be capable of automatically synchronising cardinal gram meters. My guess wou
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by pwatsonwailes 3y ago
I can't be bothered to try and meet people whom I could, because I think they might be different to me isn't the flex you seem to think it is. If you want to be a misanthrope that's fine, but that's on you, not your loca
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by pwatsonwailes 3y ago
I'm allowed to say that much. I know my NDAs very well.
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by pwatsonwailes 3y ago
Apple absolutely does do this. I have first hand knowledge of doing it for them.
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Can This Model Rocket Land More Than Once? [video](youtube.com)
2 points by pwatsonwailes 3y ago|0 comments
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Ulez: London mayor Sadiq Khan hails High Court ruling(bbc.com)
2 points by pwatsonwailes 3y ago|0 comments
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by pwatsonwailes 3y ago
Ops professional here. The parent is basically correct, and I'm not sure this is a fair take on what they're saying. To wit, the challenge isn't at the functional level, it's at the integration level. The individual elem
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Animation vs. Math [video](youtube.com)
2 points by pwatsonwailes 3y ago|0 comments
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by pwatsonwailes 3y ago
Not dumb at all. The participants are basically everyone in the market. Everyone buying and selling and speculating on the thing in question. What they might be waiting on - imagine you have a business wanting to invest in something - new e
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by pwatsonwailes 3y ago
I mean, shit is still going to hit the fan if the contract isn't honoured, but in the simplest terms, yes, he'll still get paid by the insurer if the contract party defaults on the contract. (As a massive scale version of this, se
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by pwatsonwailes 3y ago
They don't have anything to do with hedging. Good questions, just off-topic, which isn't something HN tends to like.
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by pwatsonwailes 3y ago
Because it's an example you can use to explain a forward contract, which is easily understandable as a form of hedging risk. Vast amounts of the value of crops are hedged, either through forwards, futures or derivatives. Crops aren&#x2
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by pwatsonwailes 3y ago
Sure. You mitigate risk on speculation by hedging. I'll try and give a similarly simple (if not perfectly accurate and far more lengthy) explanation. Someone mentioned farming financials in the comments around this, so we'll use t
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by pwatsonwailes 3y ago
Depends how many people come back willing to sell their loans, and what that does to the liquidity position of the bank, and their current intentions regarding investment and the capital requirements to execute that.
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by pwatsonwailes 3y ago
Whilst arbitrage is certainly something which exists in the financial markets, the vast majority of what's done isn't arbitrage. Arbitrage assumes differing views on valuation of an asset today . So I can buy something from perso
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Dark matter is not a theory(youtube.com)
1 points by pwatsonwailes 3y ago|0 comments
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by pwatsonwailes 3y ago
It does a similar sort of thing - asymmetric offset propellors shunt the frequency of what gets emitted way down. It still emits a similar amount of energy, but the direction of emission changes, and with the lower frequency, there's a
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by pwatsonwailes 3y ago
There's some interesting research around toroidal propellers which move the same amount of air, but create far less turbulence and so make a less annoying noise. However, they're not going to get significantly quieter until the en
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by pwatsonwailes 4y ago
You can actually see a short clip of them animating the fire in the video
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The Strongest Magnet(youtube.com)
1 points by pwatsonwailes 4y ago|0 comments
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by pwatsonwailes 4y ago
Interesting comparison. The Dadaists looked at a similar idea but at a social scale - what is art in society? Or what does society consider art, and how do we value it? There's a mockery of the social conceptions of art in their work,
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by pwatsonwailes 4y ago
What a wonderful concept. Feels like the sort of thing Yves Klein would have done. The stamp in particular is a wonderful guesture. I wonder to what extent do you think that the viewers appreciation of, or interpretation of the work is base
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Show HN: I made a tabletop RPG for remote groups
3 points by pwatsonwailes 4y ago|0 comments

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