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by saboot 10y ago
A basic thing, but glad they updated console to support more colors and basic vt sequences. Currently I just have X11 server on startup and through some scripting have a shortcut to launch an xfce4-terminal instead of the native console.
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by saboot 10y ago
I had a longer response until I read that you are happy to let universities die off. I agree that MOOCs are great for several fields, but everything is not computer science. Even many engineering fields need the physical lab space to get th
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by saboot 10y ago
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/fancy-dorms-arent-the-m... "All of those trends add to the cost of college, but not by that much. At most, about a quarter of the increase in college tuition since 2000 can be
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by saboot 10y ago
A better off student coming from either wealth or parents with college experience have more resources from their families and peers in figuring out the logistics in going to college. How to get housing, financial aid, how to sign up for cla
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by saboot 10y ago
Perry has been speaking about this for many years. http://www.wjperryproject.org/ If you want to disagree with him, then give an argument. However if you want to do a quick smear and dodge then keep repeating that it's
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by saboot 10y ago
Dismissive comments like these miss Perry's concerns entirely. We've been on this sleepwalk towards increasing nuclear risk long before Trump. There are many existing risks which are still inadequately addressed. Loose material be
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by saboot 10y ago
Did you read the entire article? He makes a point to discuss expectation values as the metric to judge the seriousness of addressing a nuclear event, not the statistical probability value > Perry wishes more people were familiar with the
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by saboot 10y ago
I encourage everyone concerned about nuclear weapon safety to watch the Jan 10 premiere of the documentary version of Eric Schlosser's book "Command and Control" http://www.commandandcontrolfilm.com/
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by saboot 10y ago
I had to "vouch" it, something I haven't done before. Previously it was dead/flagged.
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by saboot 10y ago
Meanwhile the recent article on scaling back the house ethics committee is flagged/dead..
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by saboot 10y ago
This is the kind of answer I was looking for.
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by saboot 10y ago
Why was this flagged/dead? I'm not sure how the voting system works here, and saying "it's political/not relevant to HN" is not a good reason, considering the anti immigration article on the front page from the
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by saboot 10y ago
Okay I'll pretend to give a benefit of the doubt here.. what's the possible upside or positives for doing this? I'm having a very hard time conceiving of them.
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by saboot 10y ago
This is less far off the mark than some downvoters will admit. Newt Gingrich is REALLY into going back to the moon, wants a moon base and everything.
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by saboot 10y ago
No, I am not https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projection-slice_theorem
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by saboot 10y ago
This is a good idea, each thread is basically a single point in the 2D fourier transform of the image so an approximate image would sample that space accurately. Not sure what accurately means exactly since the fourier space isn't 1 or
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by saboot 10y ago
Yeah, this is the something awful forums model. It's not perfect but better than most places.
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by saboot 10y ago
Oh man, this is PERFECT for me. Previously I would just run VS Code and periodically build my current markdown document while writing LaTeX in it, and have a browser window refresh on changes (using the LivePage addon for Chrome). This save
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by saboot 10y ago
Yes, it is vague. NASA's research is invaluable and cannot be done in a different agency. It is in agreement with NASA's research directive. It does not prevent any other area NASA engages with including space exploration. You are
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by saboot 10y ago
I don't care about the FDA. NASA plays a very important role, one which they have great expertise at, in instrumentation for measuring earth's climate from outer space. It's irresponsible to disregard all of that for a vague
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by saboot 10y ago
All for making publicly funded research more accessible. Also, if impediments on continuing climate research are put in place, at least some nonprofit privately funded grants could continue what they can.
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by saboot 10y ago
Good? NASA plays a very important role in climate science by providing and researching satellites and instrumentation for monitoring earth's climate.
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by saboot 10y ago
SICM also goes into way more physics than this course page does. Lagrangian / Hamiltonian mechanics, canonical transformations leading to symplectic integration, phase spaces, and perturbation theory.
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by saboot 10y ago
All it teaches is Euler's method (and the euler-cromer variation)? That's .. not much and pretty basic. I'd expect a lot more from a comp. physics course. Usually you see at least something like symplectic integration, solvin
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by saboot 10y ago
I mean physically, having to move several times and being too crammed while taking classes, I have lost several classes of notes. Digitally it's always on dropbox/gdrive.
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by saboot 10y ago
Very much want one, if it materializes I will feel very jealous of today's college students. This would have been a godsend, I would take notes in class, but organizing them was always a pain. I've lost several class notes I wish
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by saboot 10y ago
Yes, authenticating a first one is required. However, if this bothers you, consider what we do currently on verifying nuclear warheads -- nothing.
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by saboot 10y ago
There's a lot of security applications for zero knowledge proofs that go beyond just cryptography. Nuclear Weapons verification using ZKP has been getting quite popular http://lnsp.mit.edu/zero-knowledge-warhead-verific
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by saboot 10y ago
It's pretty amazing how much extra cost most glasses cost. And this comes at a very steep cost for most people. I've worked with a charity organization called Remote Area Medical (RAM) which provides free medical, dental, and visi
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by saboot 10y ago
Try RTFA: The government’s attempts to undermine the country’s constitutional tribunal, for instance, set off an investigation by the European Union. The resulting report warned that the government’s actions “endanger not only the rule of l

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