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by yk 8y ago
Well attributing Roman statues is hard, in particular because every single collector, antiques dealer and museum curator in the last 2000 years had a strong incentive to identify his statue as one of the big guys. [0] And additionally, they
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by yk 8y ago
As a quick summary for people who look into the comments because it says German in the title: Zyxel had several thousand phone calls on a publicly accessible server. A ZDnet reader tipped of ZDnet, and they verified the story and published
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by yk 8y ago
May be a larger Google problem, I just wanted to stuff a German link [0] into Google translate to post it here, and Google translate gives me a 403 Your client does not have permission to get URL / from this server. (Client IP address
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Zyxel Germany: Recorded telephone calls publicly available(translate.google.com)
62 points by yk 8y ago|6 comments
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by yk 8y ago
On behalf of everybody who had entirely too much fun during internet of shit talks at the ten or so last congresses: If only somebody told us that would happen!
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There are of course quite a few crazies among singularitarians, however some are not. On the other hand, almost all critiques of the singularity are squarely in the "they have to be wrong, or I would need to sit down and read a book&qu
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by yk 8y ago
The trouble is, there are things that are easy and things that are hard. That people lived in the past in what is essentially a different Kuhnian paradigm is one of the really hard things to understand, it takes quite a bit of reading prima
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by yk 8y ago
Classicism pro tip, if someone says Mary Beard is wrong about Rome, they should be a very accomplished classicist. Taleb in particular would need a lot of study of history to understand in which way he is wrong. Beard's argument is, th
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by yk 8y ago
Well NK has committed to denuclearization[1], while the US also talk about denuclearization[2]. In general, that is what makes half of foreign policy reporting semi-useless, newspapers rarely report in which sense diplomats use the words. (
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by yk 8y ago
They have lost their test site because they demonstrated thermonuclear capabilities. NK is a nice position with their nuclear program, because they demonstrated last year that they have the ability to set of a thermonuclear explosion and th
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How did this advocate of e-waste reuse end up behind bars?(washingtonpost.com)
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by yk 9y ago
It is actually when the primordial black holes are too large, that we can't find them with lensing, we know the mass density of dark matter and if the black holes are large on average, then we would not see them with lensing because le
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by yk 9y ago
Yes, antimatter has mass just like normal matter and therefore can contribute to a black hole like normal matter does.
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by yk 9y ago
A few month ago I clicked through quite a few youtube [0] lectures on "system dynamics," the 1960ies hype technology, and the people who did system dynamics back then are entirely reasonable, well aware of its limitations and the
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by yk 9y ago
The plasma hits the wall, cools rapidly and you have to deal with hydrogen gas and a slightly warmed wall. The thing about fusion reactors is, that the energy densities at any given moment are actually not that high at any given moment, it
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by yk 9y ago
The German copy right law was quite noticeable written with companies in mind, and had originally a right to private copies to get private people out of the reaches of the law. You could copy an entire book, or a movie, give it to a friend
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by yk 9y ago
Hyperinflation in 1923, Hitler in 1933, that is ten years later. In that ten years Hitler was imprisoned, wrote Mein Kampf , reorganized the party worked on building paramilitary forces and the party started its rise in 1929. On the other
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by yk 9y ago
Well context is important, the people who operate planes know exactly what autopilot in a specific plane means, the people who operate cars are generally aware that there are cars.
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by yk 9y ago
Considering some of the comments I wrote at three in the morning, I guess that the actual engineers had a quick break after the social media person went home.
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by yk 9y ago
Comprehensive list of "earth shattering" theories in fundamental physics of the last 50 years, discovery of the standard model as a gauge theory, first discussion of gauge theories in the 20ies, completion with observation of the
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by yk 9y ago
Quite simply, when the specialist tell you that it is not news worthy, then it is probably not news worthy. Otherwise we get all these new particle discovered clickbait, where the journalists just neglect to mention that the "particle&
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by yk 9y ago
Well, there are other techniques for anything that is not a crystal, and they are similarly developed as x-ray diffraction, if nothing else, take an atomic force microscope and identify each individual atom directly. > that doesn't
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by yk 9y ago
Quite simply, x-ray diffraction tells you the distribution of electrons in the unit cell of the alloy. So you just put an sample into your spectrometer and it will print out the chemical elements and how they are assembled. And even if ther
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by yk 9y ago
Details. So for starters, the EU currently regulates a lot of what may be sold as food, regulations that just no longer apply if UK leaves. So they have to go through all the EU regulations first just to determine which are necessary to kee
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by yk 9y ago
> If security researchers are (legally) prohibited from investigating EME technologies in browsers, then EME extensions become a big vector attack, and standards-compliant browsers that include them, become much less secure than browsers
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by yk 9y ago
Medium works nicely without JS. (Granted there are a few sites that rely on JS to display text, but in my experience there are a lot more that do something stupid, like breaking copying or breaking search than those.) Also NoScript reliably
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by yk 9y ago
> What the orcas were exploiting to their own advantage is a curious phenomenon known as “tonic immobility” (TI). I would argue that qualifies as hacking great white sharks...
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by yk 9y ago
These are not death as in murder, these are a statistical measure called excess death and it is usually very model dependent. I looked a bit into the models for nuclear accidents. There the problem is, that there is just no good data in the
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by yk 9y ago
Last year was a release at a Norwegian research reactor. First of all, that was an impressive feat of analytical chemistry, that they could detect a fairly insignificant leak all over Europe. http://www.world-nuclear-news.org&#x2
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On one hand, 100 TBq is less than a thousands of a gram of Ruthenium 106. On the other hand, anybody handling radioactive samples with terabecquerel activity will be very very aware that they are handling a lot of radioactivity. So my guess

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