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by thisrod 5y ago
Australia is really stable. The edges of the Australian plate are in New Zealand and Java, which aren't. But tectonic plates are big, and we're in the middle.
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by thisrod 5y ago
If it's true that transgender people didn't think about this until the directors came out, the metaphor can't have been a very good one. That's likely more the fault of the studio than the directors. A point of comparis
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by thisrod 5y ago
Authorship is the metric that scientists get paid for, so of course it has been thoroughly corrupted. Fake papers and plagiarism are the most blatant form of corruption. They tend to come from certain, let's say, large countries with
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by thisrod 5y ago
> Is there any way the authors could have kept your definition, and somehow credited you, even anonymously? It's not uncommon for the acknowledgements section of a paper to thank an anonymous reviewer for, e.g., suggesting the autho
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by thisrod 5y ago
> You really need to read the link above I don't like claims to authority, but maybe you should read the papers I've published about Bell inequalities too? :-p It sounds like you're saying that, in principle, physical pro
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by thisrod 5y ago
I agree with this. But it's worth pointing out that lots of good physicists don't. It's a statement of the Everett/relative state/many worlds interpretation, which is simply too weird for many people to accept. T
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by thisrod 5y ago
I use Abine Blur for this, and I think it's a great idea. I have two concerns, though. First, I have to place a lot of trust in Abine. They get to see everything! It would be nice if the EFF or FSF audited these services. Also, it w
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by thisrod 5y ago
> Then there is a 100m column and a 95m column forcing the water through the membrane In that scenario, why do you think it helps to put the membrane 100m deep, instead of 5m deep?
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by thisrod 5y ago
> the oceans own water pressure, pushes water through the membrane and up into the tank on the beach Unfortunately, that's not how pressure works. There's a 100m column of water above the salt side of the membrane, but there&#
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by thisrod 5y ago
Every desalination process uses a lot of energy, too! However fancy a membrane they're using, they need to force the salt water through it, and push hard enough to beat the osmotic pressure. This is a reversible process, as you can ge
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by thisrod 5y ago
Going by the title, I think I can guess the proposed solution to global warming. Anyone else thinking along those lines?
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by thisrod 5y ago
For the past few years, Australian police have been loudly whinging to journalists about their inability to tap encrypted messaging apps, and demanding parliament give them all kinds of Orwellian powers to force developers to add back doors
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Global police sting cracks open ‘encrypted’ app(theage.com.au)
6 points by thisrod 5y ago|0 comments
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by thisrod 5y ago
> Distilled alcohol is recent—it became widespread in China in the 13th century Go Ghengis! That's quite interesting. Lots of Mongol rulers drank themselves to death. The timing had world historic consequences: they tended to cark
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by thisrod 5y ago
There must be lots of textbooks that approach finite difference formulae from an applied perspective. This one is free of charge, but is there anything else remarkable about it? The cost of a second-hand mathematics textbook is immaterial
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More than a quarter of Australians leaving Delhi have Covid(theage.com.au)
3 points by thisrod 5y ago|0 comments
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by thisrod 5y ago
> Using "official" numbers alone Those are corroborated by sentinel cases in Australia. The rate has risen to the point where quarantine is struggling to cope, and the doctors' union has suggested a complete ban on flight
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by thisrod 5y ago
This is indeed a problem, but there is a very simple and effective solution that Australians call "youth wages".
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by thisrod 6y ago
In the version I heard, Russel says: "I am one, the pope is one, therefore the pope and I are one." I doubt he ever said that, but it sounds like him.
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by thisrod 6y ago
That says more about the ruling class from which presidents are selected than it says about universities. No doubt the management of AT&T said similar things about Bell Labs, even after they invented the transistor.
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by thisrod 6y ago
Here's Australia taking the piss out of woke: https://iview.abc.net.au/show/why-are-you-like-this I don't know if iView works overseas, but I think the show is on Netflix too.
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by thisrod 6y ago
To put it in context: the lockdown cost a billion dollars, and Australia and New Zealand are going through this about once a fortnight. Could NASA please send out the space shuttle software team, and build us a reliable public health infor
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Cracks emerged in digital contact tracing system days before five-day lockdown(theage.com.au)
2 points by thisrod 6y ago|1 comments
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by thisrod 6y ago
I teach first-years in Australia, where boys from private schools call me "sir". When I'm feeling mean, I tell them to drop and give me ten pushups.
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by thisrod 6y ago
Doesn't a 15 year ban on publishing in ACM journals speak for itself, in any language?
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by thisrod 6y ago
I think both sides are in the wrong here. One of them is Mark Zuckerberg and the other is the Morrison government, for a start. But not only because of that. The Murdoch family's claim ... I mean, Australia's ... is ridiculous.
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by thisrod 6y ago
> 128 bits ought to be enough for any IP address, right? Here's something I find really amusing. In the late 90s, when IPv6 was being introduced, the joke was that 128 bits would suffice until we all had massively parallel wrist wa
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by thisrod 6y ago
> such courses might be more successful at extending students’ mobility in avalanche terrain That's the point. It's very easy to travel through the snow without exposing yourself to any avalanche risk: just stay away from snow
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by thisrod 6y ago
> I’ve been told that many have been abused and are not treated as urgent any more There is an old type of PLB and a new type. That was a problem for the old type, in principle. In practice, the search coordination centres got pretty g
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by thisrod 6y ago
Since I read Seeing Like a State , I've started to think "charlatan" whenever I hear the word "science". As in "scientific forestry", "climate science" (scientists who study Earth's climat

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