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by tizzdogg 11y ago
I think its probably the exact same rationale as crossing out "Black Lives Matter". Though if I'm being more charitable, most likely some people see this as a political article which shouldnt be on HN (whether you feel that w
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by tizzdogg 11y ago
Well it sounds like a massive ripple in the fabric of reality which passes by us in a fraction of a second, never to be seen again. So from my non-physicist point of view, no it doesnt seem like a very long lasting effect, relative to us a
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by tizzdogg 11y ago
The intent was understood, and it's a pretty minor quibble. But I agree that line threw me for a second as well, and I had to read it twice. I was expecting the next line to be "and then today our version control totally saved our
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by tizzdogg 11y ago
Thanks, that's helpful. It's hard to get my head around the idea that an event so massive can be over so "quickly", without any residual longer-lasting effects.
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by tizzdogg 11y ago
Sorry, "echo" wasnt the right term (hence my quotes). What I am trying to ask is if these behave like concentric water ripples, where from a single event you get first one peak of a wave, followed by many more repeated concentric
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by tizzdogg 11y ago
I am not a physicist, and dont have a good mental model of gravitational waves (or general relativity at all), so maybe someone can answer my laymans question: do these waves behave like ripples in water, so a single event generates multipl
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by tizzdogg 11y ago
"There are few middle-aged and effectively no old people there". Well that's just total bullshit. There are tons of middle aged and elderly people in SF, most of whom moved to the city in the 60s or 70s and bought property be
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by tizzdogg 11y ago
"they can sell high their place" It must be nice to live in a world where even the service workers own property.
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by tizzdogg 11y ago
The astronaut who tipped Kutyna off was Sally Ride. He kept that secret until after she died. He talks about it in this oral history of the disaster from popular mechanics: http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/a18616&#
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by tizzdogg 11y ago
What was the book?
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by tizzdogg 11y ago
The parent commenter is saying that there is a type of person who believes that everyone should just abstain from sex until marriage, and there should be no out-of-wedlock pregnancies. Those people are as ridiculous as someone who believes
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by tizzdogg 11y ago
I would argue that physically-based raytracers actually make things more difficult for artists, because they tend to be less flexible. Being physically correct is great if what you get out of the renderer is exactly what you want, but as so
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by tizzdogg 11y ago
Every time I've taken an Uber in San Francisco I've ended up having to tell the driver how to get where I was going. Their GPS consistently tells them to take routes that technically work but are not the most efficient. For exampl
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by tizzdogg 11y ago
Also how close is particle physics to generating anything in the eighth or higher periods? Is the leap from 118 to 119 greater than 117 to 118?
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by tizzdogg 11y ago
Doing stuff because that's the way elisp does it is a surefire route to unintentional autoemacsulation.
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What you get for the high price of “humanely raised” meat(marketwatch.com)
13 points by tizzdogg 11y ago|6 comments
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by tizzdogg 11y ago
I submitted this, mostly because I was wondering what more recent algorithms would be added to the list if you were to do a new "best algorithms up until 2015". The most recent algorithm here is from 1987. What new things from the
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The Best Algorithms of the 20th Century [pdf](siam.org)
62 points by tizzdogg 11y ago|18 comments
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by tizzdogg 11y ago
Perhaps exact figures were not the point of the comment.
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by tizzdogg 11y ago
I think the bigger issue is all the hills. They are bedrock, so arnt an issue for liquifaction, but make any underground line much more difficult to construct. For rail to get most places in san francisco its not enough to just rip up the s
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by tizzdogg 11y ago
The point is also that in fact the 'fibonacci spirals' which do show up in nature are crude approximations. There are no real perfect fibonacci spirals in nature, just a continuum of different spirals. People like to see fibonacci
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by tizzdogg 11y ago
He then spends the next few paragraphs going into detail about why seedheads actually DONT typically display Fibonacci patterns. The cases where they happen to look like Fibonacci spirals are coincidences. Those random coincidences then get
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by tizzdogg 11y ago
In this setup it looks like you can't obscure the center of the cylinder defined by the lenses. That's where the background light goes. So the cloaked region is actually a long tube with a hole through the middle, and probably wou
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by tizzdogg 11y ago
Right, but still only twleve of us have been to the moon. I think the parent commenter's point was that it's pretty naive to think that there will be no more human-driven vehicles at all. Change will happen quickly in some parts o
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by tizzdogg 11y ago
>> It's much faster to reply with a "This is not your Smith"-mail Right, and I've sent literally hundreds of those emails. They almost never do any good, because while one person may fix your address in their cont
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by tizzdogg 11y ago
I dont believe I said anything about vanity domains, so I dont know what you mean by that. I meant that email is broken in the sense that when some stranger mistakenly thinks that your email belongs to them, and continues to give it out or
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by tizzdogg 11y ago
This happens to me all the time as well. I also have firstname.lastname@gmail.com and apparently a lot of other people seem to think they do as well. Or at least, they have firstname.lastname1@gmail.com and people easily forget to add the
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by tizzdogg 11y ago
Even if it was today's hardware, we'd still be getting grainy images from this distance. It might be slightly better, but not the amazing hi-res images people on this thread seem to be expecting. Pluto is really small and far away
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by tizzdogg 11y ago
One story I've heard is that the original Tron was responsible for a lot of this. They originally tried to use computer graphics for many of the movie's effects, but it proved to be way too expensive and time-consuming using the t
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by tizzdogg 11y ago
I don't think it's possible for a thread to exist on hacker news without somebody complaining about how the web page renders.

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