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by simonh 3y ago
Industrial work underwater is commonly done in weighted, metal booted diving suits you stand and walk in, rather than finned frog man type suits.
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by simonh 3y ago
I’ve had no problem getting fixes or replacements for Apple hardware even a few years old. I’ve even had a hard drive replaced for free that was a few months out of warranty.
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by simonh 3y ago
So in theory are pixelated porn and whale meat in Japan. It was a comparison between things that are legal and their actual prevalence.
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by simonh 3y ago
The French tried this with rats in Vietnam, with the same result.
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by simonh 3y ago
I know what you mean, and you are correct in that this is why we have minutes and seconds of arc, but the linked page is literally suggesting a different definition.
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by simonh 3y ago
Seconds, minutes and hours in this system are not the same length as the standard versions.
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by simonh 3y ago
> A standard hour is broken into 60 minutes. There are 2.4 standard hours in 1 metric hour. That makes 1 metric hour equal 144 standard minutes. Since 1 metric hour is 100 metric minutes, that means 1 metric minute is 1.44 standard minut
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by simonh 3y ago
And 12 divides into 2, 3, 4 and 6. Base 12 is far superior to base 10. Those Babylonians weren’t stupid.
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by simonh 3y ago
The books are a lot more grounded. Fleming referred to Bond as the blunt instrument of government.
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by simonh 3y ago
Some black holes spin at more than 90% the speed of light. Shock waves driven by magnetic fields in the plasma close to the event horizon would probably do it.
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by simonh 3y ago
If it can have causal effects then we can detect it. If it can't, who cares.
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by simonh 3y ago
The Times of India is way ahead of you. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/thedanispost/resea...
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by simonh 3y ago
Cool. In the UK that's used for powerful civil servants.
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by simonh 3y ago
What’s wrong with gravity?
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by simonh 3y ago
How would them being 'alive' explain the binary aspect?
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by simonh 3y ago
After the planet has formed, yes. You need something Jupiter mass to already exist as a dense planet to retain those gases that way though. Before that forms the gases disperse too easily so you never get to the Jupiter mass planet stage. I
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by simonh 3y ago
It’s not that the user may have such intent, though they may and it’s hard to see how the AI could tell. It’s more that the AI has no clue what possible juxtapositions it might come up with of baby girl and rabbit, or anything else, might h
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by simonh 3y ago
Distance from the Big Bang? So zero then. But even if say energy or the speed of light are derived from other parameters, that doesn’t make the equation wrong, just incomplete. Anyway for all the phenomena we don’t have complete explanation
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by simonh 3y ago
Which of course also applies to human cognitive processes. We’ve had millions of years of evolution to prune out problems, but in many cases the problems were papered over by a kludge that introduced other problems, which were then kludged,
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by simonh 3y ago
What sort of study would you like to be done? A comparison of what the scriptures say and what the known physical evidence says wouldn’t take much study really. A problem with investigations of physical evidence of bible stories is they are
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by simonh 3y ago
I had an iPhone 3G for about 6 months and then got a job that came with a BB. I though ok, everyone raves about how good it is for email, this will be interesting. It was ghastly. The email and messaging UI was a mess, the physical keyboard
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by simonh 3y ago
>At the time of the civil war there was no country-wide consensus on the question of slavery, obviously. There was a consensus in the South. There was a consensus in the North. It's the existence of consensus at all that is the prob
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by simonh 3y ago
>The concept of a 'biologically determined interpretive framework' doesn't seem all that determined to me. The variation in our individual moral compasses and the existence of intercultural moral divides indicate that this
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by simonh 3y ago
I didn’t say the same, I said mostly the same. Cultures consist of a consensus. When the consensus shifts, the culture shifts. Politics operates within an agreed framework at any given time. At the time of the founding of the USA some peopl
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by simonh 3y ago
To quantify this a bit, the search area for Planet X is in the region of many hundreds of AU from the sun. That’s many millions of cubic AU to hunt around in. That’s a lot of chaff, without even considering how we would detect and track the
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by simonh 3y ago
He’s not saying we have instinctual ethical views. He’s saying we have a biologically determined interpretive framework we use to evaluate ethical questions. This is what he was talking about when he said we make a leap from scattered data
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by simonh 3y ago
The fact so much is don’t in the browser now makes their abusive pushing of Edge even more egregious.
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by simonh 3y ago
Right, mathematics is a language for very formally and precisely describe consistent relationships. Since the universe is persistent and consistent, it is useful to us such descriptions. I may not be possible to know why the universe is thi
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by simonh 3y ago
In a sense yes, but the things you do and say are not prompted by already expressed statements or commands. You interpret your environment to infer needs, plan for future contingencies, identify objectives, plan actions to achieve them, etc
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by simonh 3y ago
In a sense yes, but the things you do and say are not prompted by already expressed statements or commands. You interpret your environment to infer needs, plan for future contingencies, identify objectives, plan actions to achieve them, etc

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