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by vba616 5y ago
Maybe you could refer to some history more specifically? Are you saying networking technology was developed in advance of a concept of what it's useful for? Or is it that a global network of networks was a qualitative step beyond simpl
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by vba616 5y ago
Yes, I'm wondering when/how "smearing" became widely accepted, since the Wikipedia page on leap seconds only says that there is a proprietary method that Google uses, and another that Amazon uses. "UTC-SLS was propo
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by vba616 5y ago
>Since the inception of leap seconds the rotation of the earth has accelerated, not slowed Ok, I'm not sure if you are correcting what I wrote or not. There is a sense in which what you write is correct, I think. But the long term t
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by vba616 5y ago
I remember little from French class in junior high, but I do remember "Q: Comment ça va? A: Ça va." It struck me many years later, that people at work were saying almost a literal translation in English: "How
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by vba616 5y ago
>You can't really tell your friend you love them You might say in English to a friend "I love you" meaning "I'm bemused by your quirks, but I'm fond of you anyway". I wonder how that translates.
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by vba616 5y ago
>levenslust I'm not sure of the origin, but "lust for life" is an expression that's been used in English for at least a century, it seems. It was the name of a biography of Vincent Van Gogh. The earliest reference on
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by vba616 5y ago
A book I liked that intersects with drugs, history, and South America was "Cocaine: An Unauthorized Biography" by Dominic Streatfeild.
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by vba616 5y ago
I was under the impression that it's fundamentally impossible to determine leap seconds in the future because the rate at which the Earth is slowing down its spin varies unpredictably.
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by vba616 5y ago
>When a leap second occurs, NTP servers will smear that second over 12 hours or so Since when? I mean that literally, I only heard of this concept recently and didn't think it was a general standard, yet.
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by vba616 5y ago
I'm less certain than you. I think I read somewhere that people collect old stock certificates for the artistic value. Just checked eBay and there appear to be thousands for sale. And aren't baseball cards art? Wouldn't Andy
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by vba616 5y ago
If I'm reading that right, then when considering the general function, 0 is grouped with negative numbers, but when considering integers only ("Discrete form" a ways down) then 0 is grouped with positive numbers (that is, t
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by vba616 5y ago
"The possibility of gravitational waves was discussed in 1893 by Oliver Heaviside" I was trying to find a motel once and was directed onto "Sample Rd". The street was real, but when I got to the supposed location of the
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by vba616 5y ago
If it dilutes the electrolytes in your body too much, it can affect brain functioning and even be lethal. You should always check a MSDS for any chemical. I just went looking for the LD50 and some sources say >90 and others >150 ml&#x
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by vba616 5y ago
I took leap seconds for granted, then I read about Google "smearing" leap seconds. And then (on HN) I read about someone else working on a standard for smearing them differently than Google does, just because. ...aaaand there&#x27
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by vba616 5y ago
By "challenges dark matter theories" do you mean "challenges the theory that there is dark matter" or "challenges theories of how dark matter originated and is distributed"?
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by vba616 5y ago
I think I recall reading that it bothered Newton greatly that gravity wasn't made of anything, but he decided that it didn't matter.
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by vba616 5y ago
I don't understand the sentences that contain "observe and interact". What does "observe" mean to you? It's a sticky philosophical question, but I think that consistency in definitions is essential.
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by vba616 5y ago
I'm not qualified to say if it's constitutional, but it would seem that it's widely accepted as constitutional if existing insider trading law applies to similar situations. Can you explain the reasoning more? And why making
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by vba616 5y ago
The available evidence includes many galaxies. "Seems to have too much mass" and "seems not to have too much mass" are both things that a correct theory has to explain. It's not sufficient to explain one at a time
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by vba616 5y ago
I'm not sure I saw the basic yin/yang tension explicitly described that I would like to see. Back in the 80s, the earliest Mac interface guidelines said something to the effect of "eschew modes". There were lots of reaso
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by vba616 5y ago
All my life, I was always under the impression that it was normal for modern people once they're in their 50s or 60s. Never heard of the medieval studies before this.
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by vba616 5y ago
>Dont we see two sleeps in the older generations, known colloquially as the afternoon nap? Interrupted sleep in the middle of the night for a bit is something I always thought was a normal occurrence as you got older, based on my family.
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by vba616 5y ago
Maybe. And maybe homeownership is crossing the Rubicon in that respect.
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I think what is novel, is the proliferation of residential cameras. I don't think the police started requesting camera footage of crimes from private citizens recently. It's just that they turned to businesses with security came