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by sleavey 9y ago
Here's my almost pure Python equivalent [1]. [1] https://github.com/SeanDS/cryptoquote
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by sleavey 9y ago
Death knell for US internet innovation. Other countries with net neutrality might take up the vacuum left by decimated Valley startups. Obviously without the US market accessing your services at full speed you'll not grow as quickly,
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by sleavey 9y ago
Agreed. There was never a time when using GitHub that I thought "man, I wish there was an official forum where I could ask something about GitHub".
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by sleavey 9y ago
While I'm with you on safety concerns, does that rule still apply to forward facing seats? Most crashes happen when the aircraft is flying forward - so on forward facing seats the thing your head will eventually hit if it whips back is
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by sleavey 9y ago
I doubt they'd go for that. Airlines have to have flexibility to swap aircraft running a particular route to account for delays. If they swapped to a smaller seat pitch aircraft between a customer's booking and takeoff time, that&
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by sleavey 9y ago
I'm often surprised just how much more expensive premium economy tickets are. I get that some people are willing to pay more for extra legroom, free/better food and drink and so on, but the cost is often 5x that of standard econom
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by sleavey 9y ago
Naively I'd assume that the improvement in time accuracy GPS clocks provide must be greater than the harmful effect on accuracy created by network latency, even within data centres: you can't guarantee that a packet will arrive
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by sleavey 9y ago
With public and home/work WiFi everywhere, and data packages big enough for my needs available for a few pounds a month where I live, I've long since given up on expensive monthly contracts. SIM-free smart phones with all the feat
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by sleavey 9y ago
Shameless plug, but check out WikiTribune [1]. It was started by Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia founder) as an attempt to democratise and wikify news. It just entered public beta, but they solicited recurring donations over summer and are still acc
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by sleavey 9y ago
I wrote a guide to using WordPress to run an academic labbook [1]. It's basically just a case of installing some free plugins, and you've turned it into a collaborative platform. I've thought about combining the plugin code t
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by sleavey 9y ago
I guess my statement that drug companies are only interested in long term treatments was a bit sensational, but as we both agree, they need a return on their investment. I understand that developing drugs is both intellectually hard and ext
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by sleavey 9y ago
So a promising treatment for the cold was dropped by the drug company because it was too expensive to develop, and the potential payoff too small. Drug companies' profit models pretty much require them to focus on developing drugs that
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by sleavey 9y ago
I run my own email server and set up a catch all address so I can give any website a new email address at my domain. It was a bit of a pain to set up initially, getting other servers to accept sent emails, but maintenance is pretty straight
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by sleavey 9y ago
Ugh... what's wrong with a good old fashioned submit button? Whatever behind-the-scenes JS is going on to find results isn't working for me.
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by sleavey 9y ago
So is this giving the developers the control instead of - as with Bitcoin - the large mining pools? Is that any better?
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by sleavey 9y ago
I am particularly impressed by the efforts of the rest of my colleagues when it comes to public outreach. Our members attend loads of local events around the world, sharing LIGO outreach material across the collaboration; members are often
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by sleavey 9y ago
LIGO collaboration member here. We're delighted to take questions from the public - just email question@ligo.org!
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by sleavey 9y ago
I agree with parts of the article, that big breakthroughs are rarely these days individual efforts, and that praising only the ones at the top is misleading and potentially damaging; however, as a member of the LIGO collaboration, I think t
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by sleavey 9y ago
I don't know what everyone's problem was with Firefox. I never noticed significant slow down with the browser, or at least the slow down I saw I blamed on Javascript bloat on websites these days (it started around the time Bootstr
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by sleavey 9y ago
Add to that, there's a popup asking for my email address for their mailing list as soon as I start to scroll. Seriously, has anyone ever entered their email address in order to get rid of a popup instead of clicking "X"? Is t
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by sleavey 9y ago
The required time is due to how complicated the instruments are, and how hard it is to tune them such that they achieve the sensitivities they are designed to achieve across such a wide frequency band. In the downtime until O3, new optics a
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by sleavey 9y ago
(LIGO collaboration postdoc) There have been plenty of technologies pioneered by the collaboration in the development of the detectors - control of optical cavities via radio frequency signals being one big one, and low thermal noise monoli
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by sleavey 9y ago
LIGO made an unofficial response via the blog of Sean Carroll [1]. The problem with the analysis in the paper that questioned LIGO's results was that they misinterpreted the filtering that had been applied to the data shown in the orig
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by sleavey 9y ago
This is only the beginning of the excitement. There's loads more stuff out there that LIGO and Virgo can see - binary neutron star inspirals being the big one.
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by sleavey 9y ago
Here's a skymap [1] that really drives home the point about how much having a third detector helps. [1] http://www.virgo-gw.eu/skymap.html
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by sleavey 9y ago
I was in a very similar situation to you a few years ago when I went to university. I had a summer job working in PC World before I started, and I was lucky enough to transfer to the shop in my university city. I worked Wednesday evenings f
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by sleavey 9y ago
That's the crux of this whole gig economy debate - for some people, these kinds of jobs are ideal: zero hours contracts, with the ability to work more or less depending on what else is going on in your life. That being said, some peopl
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by sleavey 9y ago
To be fair, a few motorbikes/bicycles temporarily waiting next to each other is not such a big deal to me in comparison to the fact that roughly half of every street in every big city in the UK is dedicated to parked cars. Putting asid
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by sleavey 9y ago
"The leader of a team that rebuilt Colossus in the 1990s showed that, in its wheelhouse, [Colossus Mark II] would still easily outperform a 1995-era Pentium processor." I find that utterly incredible. What a feat of engineering fo
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by sleavey 9y ago
The question was specifically about developed countries. If you look up the Wikipedia entry on wealth inequality [1] and sort the first column, looking down the list the USA appears to be the highest ranked country for inequality (ratio of

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