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by wcoenen 8y ago
Some possibly relevant context: the electricity supply in Belgium has very little reserve during peak demand periods in winter. The probability of a large blackout has been growing year after year. The government has prepared a "discon
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by wcoenen 8y ago
That link is the first time ever I've gotten a HTTP 451 response. Interesting.
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by wcoenen 8y ago
But of course, the failure emails will go to an email address that was deactivated a couple years ago because an employee left/everybody fired in reorg/unused address cleanup/domain migration/technical error/... Jus
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by wcoenen 8y ago
The french are not one uniform group. Same in Belgium: in Brussels last week, there were violent protests by a few thousand "yellow vests". The next day, there was a much larger (65K people) climate change manifestation without in
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by wcoenen 8y ago
I don't know about macronutrients, but the required micronutrients would be very different. For example, spiders have hemocyanin instead of hemoglobin in their blood, so their oxygen transport is based on copper instead of iron. (Maybe
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by wcoenen 8y ago
Instead you could also POST to /star-construction to get back a link to a /star-construction/foo resource, representing a long-running creation process. This resource could be polled to get progress updates, and eventually a
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by wcoenen 8y ago
It's often a voluntary agreement. A developer builds a collection of houses, then sells them under the condition that the owner must join the home owner association set up for those houses. The idea is that the association forces its m
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by wcoenen 8y ago
Chargebacks essentially are escrow. The merchant can't stop them from happening because the money is taken from the merchant account reserve, i.e. a minimum balance that the merchant can't withdraw. Sounds similar to money held
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by wcoenen 8y ago
There is already a stronger version of this where you don't need to trust any nodes: https://www.torproject.org/about/overview.html.en China attempts to detect and block such TOR connections. It's an arms rac
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by wcoenen 8y ago
There are 12 phones in the picture, not 11 as claimed in the title.
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by wcoenen 8y ago
Quality is also about other relationships between the software and its environment. It's not just the user and one piece of software in a vacuum. Imagine being a developer of some windows software, and a QA person in your team notices
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by wcoenen 8y ago
If anti-matter would be found to be affected differently by gravity, then that would be a big problem for general relativity wouldn't it? If gravity is warped spacetime geometry, then it has to affect the path of all particles in the s
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by wcoenen 8y ago
The USA did the same in 1985 [1] and 2008 [2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solwind [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Burnt_Frost
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by wcoenen 8y ago
Right before world war I, globalization was peaking and people also thought that large scale war was impossible because of it.
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by wcoenen 8y ago
I believe you are thinking about reaction wheels. Hubble has 4 of those but it also has 6 gyroscope sensors, which is what was in the news recently. I just don't know how the specs and intended use cases of those Hubble gyros compare t
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by wcoenen 8y ago
How do optical gyroscopes compare to the Hubble gyroscopes that have been in the news recently?
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by wcoenen 8y ago
There is a cap and trade scheme for certain CO2 emissions in the EU[1], and you could try to get exposure to the futures[2] for those emission rights. I see JE00B3CG6315 is a fund doing that. Keep in mind though that the price can go to zer
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by wcoenen 8y ago
According to this article by David Darling, any surface irregularities ("mountains") would be no more than 5 mm in height. http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/N/neutronstar.html Charles Horowitz es
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by wcoenen 8y ago
> I think cryptocurrency becomes far more interesting when it's not trying to solve the problem of who gets money when it's printed This was not the goal of bitcoin. The goal was to remove the need for trusted intermediaries fr
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by wcoenen 8y ago
I find it interesting that the project team had been implementing several "improvements" that actually worsened performance, and that it took an intern to figure this out. Or are these augmentations default-on options in deep lear
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by wcoenen 8y ago
Travelling salesman is about finding the shortest/cheapest path that visits all nodes. I don't see why you'd want to involve all nodes for a payment route. If you meant "shortest path problem" instead, then it seems
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by wcoenen 8y ago
I can't. It only seems to be available for US citizens.
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by wcoenen 8y ago
You seem to know that the rules of physics should hold in any inertial (i.e. non-accelerating) reference frame. But the thing you missed is that a spinning reference frame cannot be inertial. There is centripetal acceleration when something
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by wcoenen 8y ago
For paypal, texting is even the only 2FA option for non-US citizens. Baffling.
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by wcoenen 8y ago
> The chloroplasts are not alive but catalyze the reaction of carbon dioxide to glucose. That reaction also consumes water. So, would you need to regularly mist the material with a spray bottle to keep the self-healing going?
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by wcoenen 8y ago
Too bad that they are still comparing crashes per autopilot mile vs crashes per non-autopilot mile without taking road type into account. If autopilot is mostly used on highways then that isn't a good comparison. A comparison between a
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by wcoenen 8y ago
Example of an ETF that tracks an index that adjusts weightings based on carbon footprint: https://www.ishares.com/us/products/271054/ishares-msci-acwi...
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by wcoenen 8y ago
Link to the original research: https://keith.seas.harvard.edu/publications/climatic-impacts...
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by wcoenen 8y ago
Google is a big investor in SpaceX. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/21/technology/google-makes-1... And Jeff Bezos has Blue Origin, so in a way Amazon is also funding a space program.
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by wcoenen 8y ago
Google is a big investor in SpaceX. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/21/technology/google-makes-1...

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