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Astronomical Data Used for Litigation (FAQ)(aa.usno.navy.mil)
62 points by vba616 3y ago|20 comments
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by vba616 3y ago
>my impression is that many see some good in organized religion for the community aspects and historical continuity, but all that despite being quite certain that no god actually exists Americans don't have a lot of respect for, for
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by vba616 3y ago
What was Marx's "wrong reason"? I had the impression his point was that religion distracts people from improving this world, not that he had a substitute. > we live in a time, perhaps unprecedented in history, when the wor
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by vba616 3y ago
You've probably heard of the ceramic tiles on the Space Shuttle and how they had to inspect each one. And the story about the Soviets using a pencil instead of the US "space pen". Somewhere I read about an early space capsule
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by vba616 3y ago
http://seinfeldscripts.com/TheOpposite.htm Jerry : If every instinct you have is wrong, then the opposite would have to be right.
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by vba616 3y ago
According to the link posted in another comment, they don't look like Torx at all, and the main marketing points are: "Offset cruciform shape with straight wing walls Greater torque transfer Removal walls larger than driv
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by vba616 3y ago
It sounds like you are arguing that buying Twitter probably had a substantial negative financial impact on Musk. That sounds plausible, but I didn't intend to minimize it. What I meant was that, aside from sunk costs, keeping the websi
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by vba616 3y ago
It seems to be in a position where you can't tell how well it's doing without logging in, so getting inactive users to try again, b/c it's thriving seems like a bootstrapping problem with no obvious solution. If it'
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by vba616 3y ago
Who are you asking? Are you asking the people who quit logging in and assume it's dead but haven't seen for themselves? Or are you asking the people who will pop up and say they're still there and it's better than ever
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by vba616 3y ago
The summary seems fine as far as it goes. But I don't see any comment on the source of the moolah. From the point of view of someone who has never in their career gotten equity, options, RSUs, or whatever, all that free money is being
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by vba616 3y ago
I'm sure that the census and other researchers make a valiant attempt at distinguishing technical and scientific roles, but I don't think it's possible. How can you determine that a something something service analyst at a ra
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by vba616 3y ago
Questions: 1. Does the restriction of no law enforcement or military mean no government use, assuming the government user belongs to e.g. a state or country with law enforcement and military? 2. Does the license allow use by nonprofits that
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by vba616 3y ago
I don't wish to argue with you that "[y]our job is to make the best judgement call as you see it" but if you are going to avoid the obviously, superficially, relevant Bible verse, it's as conspicuous as if it was written
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by vba616 3y ago
If you want to create a car that appeals to men, it's important that the designer has a very manly name like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harm_Lagaay . It's practically a hate crime just to say it. And it&#x2
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by vba616 3y ago
Here's an interesting link: http://www.bmwism.com/bmws_designers.htm Juliane Blasi, a "German designer educated at Pforzheim University of Applied Sciences in Design, Technology and Business" says: “If you lo
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by vba616 3y ago
I swear I remember that a woman succeeded Chris Bangle at BMW and the subsequent designs were a lot better looking. However, when I google it I see that Adrian van Hooydonk came after him. >an in-joke gone too far "Donny, these men
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by vba616 3y ago
The Prius C didn't have a rear view camera when almost every other car did, right before it became mandatory. That's a significant part of why I never bought one.
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by vba616 3y ago
And what comes out?
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by vba616 3y ago
<Applies envelope to forehead> The unprecedented 2022 Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai eruption?
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by vba616 3y ago
If nobody ever negotiates the terms of a pre-fabricated contract, then there is no freedom of contract going on, as a matter of common sense. Have you ever been part of a corporate re-org where you were technically laid off and rehired and
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by vba616 3y ago
The experience with Chernobyl is interesting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_exclusion_zone
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by vba616 3y ago
Experts say there are rare galaxies that act like they have no dark matter. I thought that was what put the end to taking MOND seriously. Isn't the whole point to explain the alleged dark matter by some uniform rules instead of local c
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by vba616 3y ago
A thing that seems incredibly rare these days, in my perceptual bubble anyway, is an online address form that lets you enter US states on the keyboard with the standard postal abbreviation.
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by vba616 3y ago
I think it is? I don't have much python experience, but I think that inner expression is equivalent to ignore_collateral ? balance.available_ignoring_collateral : balance.available Personally I would agree that it would be clea
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by vba616 3y ago
"Some have wondered why Wang chose such a seemingly arbitrary number as $65,355,999,994" int((2^16 - 180) * 999999.9999 + 1) = 65,355,999,994
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by vba616 3y ago
Maybe it's the weeds that are evolving.
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by vba616 3y ago
Responding to you and not the submitter because I'm not sure what they mean either: An AI that generates binaries directly is a compiler. Or a compiler/assembler/linker in one, whatever. So it raises the question of what lang
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by vba616 3y ago
>Both the US and China have committed to fission-powered spacecraft in the near term. It’s probably the most important area of superpower space competition in the sense that it’ll enable space resource exploitation far beyond what’s poss
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by vba616 3y ago
>Surely a lot of the dangerous testing could be replaced with simulation During the cold war, starting in the 1960s, weren't there dozens of fission reactor satellites launched into orbit? I don't mean spontaneous decay devices
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by vba616 3y ago
Google, at least as of a couple years ago, provided chat support and painless warranty replacement on Pixel phones that actually broke.

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