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by wbhart 10y ago
The actual article states that the BBC tried to contact the embassy by phone, but the staff there are not authorised to comment. They have thus far been unable to raise the ambassador by email. People have been down there by foot, and there
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by wbhart 10y ago
"including from US political organizations"? OK, legalese can be pretty wild, but to me, this is totally unambiguous. Which political organizations do you think they could be referring to? Alright, I suppose there was the Office o
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I'm actually not certain what you are getting at. This reads as unambiguously as any media coverage I've seen, to me at least. How could you phrase this any more unambiguously than "The U.S. Intelligence Community (USIC) is c
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by wbhart 10y ago
It's not such a tinfoil idea. The US has been pretty blunt and public about the fact that they think the DNC hack was performed by Russian hackers. RT UK's bank accounts have been frozen, and Julian Assange's internet has all
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by wbhart 10y ago
No. Dark matter is needed to explain the rotation curves of individual galaxies. That there were more small galaxies in the early universe doesn't help with this.
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I have a 3, through Bruce Berndt. One used to be able to progress to a 2 without doing additional work, but nowadays that has become close to impossible.
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They apparently got photos down to 5m (or maybe only 51m) above the comet. Here are images on the way down. https://www.cieletespace.fr/actualites/dernieres-images-de-r... https://twitter.com/C_et_E_Pho
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by wbhart 10y ago
I don't think it says anything about the Big Bang. The earth is supposed to have formed from the remnants of supernovae, not elements produced by the initial nucleosynthesis of the Big Bang. Indeed, most of the elements earth is made f
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by wbhart 10y ago
I think he's referring to commercial support for a Python environment at cloud.sagemath.com, for which there is zero setup. Just go to the link provided. SageMath is also available there with zero setup. You don't need the Sage in
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There was once a man called John Titor, who turned up on bulletin boards claiming to be a time traveller. He presented elaborate documentation to back his case, including photographs of his time machine, his uniform, detailed operations man
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by wbhart 10y ago
There need to be people to actually look at all the footage. More telescopes is not really enough. And there is significant effort involved in amateur astronomy. It takes a long time to learn all the tricks to pull the data from the photos
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Nemo 0.5 is released(nemocas.org)
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I wonder if this is because Google is having trouble recruiting people to the US, due to the crazy political system there, or because of visas or because of people with concerns about surveillance, gun control, the death penalty, lack of wh
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AI image colorizer(colorizr.io)
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In his BBC interview he seemed to avoid directly saying that he was Satoshi or agreeing with the reporter that he was claiming to be him. When asked if he was Satoshi he skirted the issue by saying that he was one of the original people.
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by wbhart 10y ago
Something has definitely gone wrong in either the study, the journalism, or with the person who wrote the headline. From the reporting here, there is nothing whatsoever that makes me believe the one minute of strenuous exertion had anything
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by wbhart 11y ago
Usually this is called pure mathematics, as opposed to applied mathematics. On the other hand, applied mathematics might also involve some pretty technical "theoretical maths", which though being applied, can be studied for its ow
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by wbhart 11y ago
I did read the posted press article and know what transcranial direct current stimulation is. I think you may not have an objection to what I wrote if I remove the words "thought patterns" and replace them with "brain activit
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by wbhart 11y ago
I find this research quite hard to swallow. It's an extraordinary claim that feeding some electromagnetic representation of the thought patterns of one person into a completely different (and perhaps differently wired) brain that isn&#
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by wbhart 11y ago
There's a large drop for both men and women between project outsiders who do not identify a gender on GitHub and those that do. So that's one very clear effect. If you want to have your contributions accepted on GitHub, male or fe
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by wbhart 11y ago
I read the final line completely differently to you. I read it as saying that the aforementioned issues were definitely legitimate and have therefore been addressed. However, like you, I noted that some of the complaints had not been accept
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by wbhart 11y ago
This article was pointed out to me, more than once now, as a user of Julia. However, I don't see that it has too much relevance to me as a user of the language, even if its quite outdated points were still valid today. I am part of a t
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by wbhart 11y ago
Many of the facts to which I am referring weren't known at the time of his UK court appearances. They emerged later when various documents were either released or leaked or the law changed. So it isn't completely surprising that t
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by wbhart 11y ago
The answer is actually quite simple. Julian Assange has not been charged with rape in Sweden. He has never been charged with a crime anywhere, yet he was put in solitary confinement, then held under house arrest for a very long time, then h
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by wbhart 11y ago
I suspect this is what will come out in the decision tomorrow. It's not about whether Assange is using asylum to dodge being questioned after the case was reopened after political interference (as has been claimed), but whether the cou
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An order of magnitude is usually 10. But Erdos only published about twice as many papers as Euler (if this is even a good way to compare their respective outputs). Also, Erdos was not so much of a theory builder but a problem solver. He als
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by wbhart 11y ago
So in short they are making the same mistakes as just about every other Government in the world. They are expecting big breakthroughs through funding yesterday's successful research and leaving out fundamental research. Whilst money in
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These sorts of videos take a lot of time to prepare and someone has gone to some trouble here. Abstract Algebra is a massive subject though, with thorough treatments running into the many hundreds of pages. So it's too much to expect t
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The description on researchgate says "work in progresswork in progresswork in progresswork in progresswork in progresswork in progresswork in progresswork in progresswork in progress". It seems unlikely that the author would write
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This shouldn't be on the front page of HN. In order to get a million dollars for one of the millenium problems one needs to have one's proof accepted by a peer reviewed journal and remain unchallenged (for two years I think). This

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