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by wumpus 4y ago
After 17 hours, it's curious that no one has upvoted me back to 1. Embargoes are important.
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by wumpus 4y ago
If only 1% of citizens are denied their fundamental rights, is that not very important?
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by wumpus 4y ago
Censorship is more complicated than "people who burn books" and "people who do not burn books".
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by wumpus 4y ago
When I was a child, I was allowed to go into the adult library. In a conservative, Southern US state. It's a shame to see the UK being more right wing than the most conservative parts of the US.
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by wumpus 4y ago
The actual article title is "An approximation to determine the source of the WOW! Signal"
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by wumpus 4y ago
I like calling it the "angry orange bagel".
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by wumpus 4y ago
Among my VLBI colleagues, we used to call these things "maps", but now we mostly say "images". "photo", while rare, is not considered wrong.
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by wumpus 4y ago
The EHT observes supermassive black holes.
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by wumpus 4y ago
I hope not. By the way, it's a global news conference, the ESO is one of many organizations involved.
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by wumpus 4y ago
I've flown United in every status, from nobody to the highest level of their frequent flyer plan. The problem isn't their people: it's that their airline has shitty policies. I switched to Delta, and I'm much happier.
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by wumpus 4y ago
You said: > If we'd started building reactors when we first said it'd take too long, we'd have all the reactors we need. Instead of saying it's going to take too long, let's just start :) ... and apparently you d
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by wumpus 4y ago
This appears to be a "no, we didn't spend the same amount of money on solar and wind." Glad you don't care nuclear is more expensive! That's a winning argument.
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by wumpus 4y ago
It's a shame that so many people are still pushing hydrogen for individual vehicles despite its total failure in the marketplace... despite significant subsidies.
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by wumpus 4y ago
How does this work with solar panels and wind turbines? I know that fossil fuel plants have a lot of waste heat that enables cogeneration, but I've never heard of that with solar or wind.
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by wumpus 4y ago
Nuclear subs involve small reactors that are very expensive and dangerous to operate.
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by wumpus 4y ago
Did you spend the same amount of money on solar/wind instead? How did that turn out?
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by wumpus 4y ago
Mid-career developer in the US government, yes.
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by wumpus 4y ago
Prince Humperdinck: Surrender. Westley: You mean you wish to surrender to me? Very well, I accept.
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by wumpus 4y ago
I've frequently read in news articles that the lifetime of the Soyuz spacecraft on orbit is limited by H2O2. You appear to be saying that's false. A while ago I looked at Wikipedia and saw that the Soyuz spacecraft article didn&#x
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by wumpus 4y ago
Have you ever met a lawyer who thinks that kind of TOS is valid in any way?
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by wumpus 4y ago
I have never seen a lawyer give an opinion about that. One way to read the GDPR is that it outlaws all search engines, for this reason. More likely it is a huge barrier to entry for new search engines.
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by wumpus 4y ago
My favorite part of HN is when someone posts something I webbed in 1995, and then a ton of people complain that their browser defaults make the content look ugly. But they're complaining about me, not their browser.
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by wumpus 4y ago
That's actually somewhat close to the California way -- if a corporation wants you to not compete, they can volunteer to pay you your full salary to sit at home. But then the California twist is that the employee can choose to end that
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by wumpus 4y ago
You're in luck! Most wild salmon is actually farmed these days. Many newspaper articles about that. On the flip side, farmed salmon doesn't have the health benefits of wild, because they don't eat things with a lot of omega-3
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by wumpus 4y ago
That famous photo of the scientist with the ring image on their laptop screen was exactly that: after all 4 teams had tuned their algorithms to make sure they could accurately image the simulated data (ring, crescent, disk, double point sou
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by wumpus 4y ago
Applesoft II fit in 10 kilobytes of rom and had to be able to run in as little as 4 kilobytes of ram. The one thing that Microsoft was an expert at (in that era) was sacrificing features to fit. There was no special version for machines wit
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by wumpus 4y ago
I did a search on arxiv and I see people are writing a small number of modern papers on that exact topic. Are you familiar enough with them to summarize?
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by wumpus 4y ago
> iMessage’s encryption (though I stand by that it is gimmicky to only offer for iPhones, and I despise that) What security guarantees would iMessage have if it ran on arbitrary hardware instead of only iPhones and Macs? To some people,
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by wumpus 4y ago
> Black holes themselves are, obviously, impossible to image. What we observe is the "shadow" of the black hole. The expectation is that the flux from the shadow should be consistent with zero. For M87* the observed flux ratio
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by wumpus 4y ago
As someone who has studied GR (at the grad school level) and music, no, that's a terrible analogy.

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