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by sprash 11y ago
Except for neutrinos dark matter is NOT part of the current standard model. There has never been a single measurement of a dark matter particle in the lab. E.g. LHCb specifically build to find SUSY particles, so far has found ZERO events. A
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by sprash 11y ago
I know of two occasions where the money was eventually spent on researching some sub 1% effects in particle physics, which the kind of "real" (meaning boring) physics you do today. Of course in that process the exclusion limits fo
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by sprash 11y ago
If you are looking for any funding for your new Astronomy or Particle Physics project always somehow throw the popular buzzword "Dark Matter" in the mix. Nobody knows what you are actually looking for and nobody expects you to fin
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by sprash 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish "Embrace, extend and extinguish" was a widely employed anticompetitive strategy used by Microsoft for a long time as some court documents show. Not
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by sprash 11y ago
No an inferior product put them out of business. The employee lawsuits were just a symptom.
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by sprash 12y ago
This is the worst idea ever. I'm generally a pretty negative person for a reason. Negative feedback is necessary for anything to actually get better. And who or what decides what is "gratuitous". This is a recipe for despotis
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by sprash 12y ago
> Raising the minimum wage would simply make 2.6% of the working population better off at the expense of their employers. But never the less those 2.6% percent will be directly responsible for the inflation since they barely get by now a
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by sprash 12y ago
Sadly, even the chairmen of central banks ignore the most important contribution to inflation: wages. The reason why we have deflation in Japan and Europe despite almost zero rates and even additional quantitative easing is because nominal
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by sprash 12y ago
Also interesting the debian package "usbmount": auto mounts plugged in sticks as "/media/usb"
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by sprash 12y ago
Red Hat is a military contractor based in America. This means they can be forced to introduce vulnerabilities under a gag order.
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by sprash 12y ago
Support sinit ( http://tools.suckless.org/sinit ). Look at the source and you understand the whole system within a minute. All of it.
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by sprash 12y ago
Maybe social mobility is low everywhere because smart parents breed smart kids. But considering genetics is deemed to be politically incorrect.
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by sprash 12y ago
If you fear your credit card info has been stolen, enter it here and you can find out for free. Avoiding fraud has never been easier!
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by sprash 12y ago
So how do I hack the framebuffer/X to use each color channel as a separate screen?
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by sprash 12y ago
It exists since ages: ne ( http://ne.di.unimi.it/ )
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by sprash 12y ago
This actually convinced me to never use Emacs as C/C++ IDE ever. The amount of unnecessary complexity is astounding.
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by sprash 12y ago
Don't worry, we will collide with Andromeda before our Sun will die. So at least one other Galaxy can be "explored".
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by sprash 12y ago
It is pretty simple to get a permanent position in Physics here. All you need is a vagina.
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by sprash 12y ago
For example: * Installation of multiple versions of the same program is trivial * Uninstall programs just by deleting a Folder
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by sprash 13y ago
Well they responded to all criticisms fairly reasonable and also introduced a vulnerability reward program. If you find a flaw you get up to 10000 €.
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by sprash 13y ago
WebM is clearly a far inferior experience compared to gif on firefox: - at the start there is a stupid "fade in" effect. - the loading animation does sometimes not disappear even though the video has fully loaded. - the loading an
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by sprash 13y ago
> A kernel is just one component of the OS among many, and ultimately an implementation detail. -- Lennard Poettering
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by sprash 13y ago
Why not use Primecoin or Riecoin algorithms? Those won't work on GPUs/ASICS either and produce some actual scientific value.
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by sprash 13y ago
A real alternative to floating points would be a Logarithmic number system ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logarithmic_number_system ) which has been shown to be a "more accurate alternative to floating-point, with i
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by sprash 13y ago
Very easy. The price for bitcoins will be very low at that MtGox 2.0 exchange and many people will take the risk and buy themselves cheap coins.
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by sprash 13y ago
I don't like Emacs. Emacs key-bindings are neither ergonomic nor do they make any sense in any way. They are barely consitent across modes, only if you are lucky. They are the way they are because they are old. And old people don'
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by sprash 13y ago
> I would be pretty happy if someone came along, took the super extensibility of emacs (which at first glance atom appears to do) and spun up a sexy, modern, not-lisp-using alternative. Like Textadept ( http://foicica.com/
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by sprash 13y ago
If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won. -- Linus Torvalds
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by sprash 13y ago
So bitmessage it is then...
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by sprash 13y ago
Title should have been: "Homogenization of scientific computing – Python 2.x is eating other languages’ lunch" Nobody cares about Python 3 in the scientific community.

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