dotancohen

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by dotancohen 3d ago
Typo corrected, thank you!
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by dotancohen 3d ago
CYA in case of litigation.
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by dotancohen 3d ago
Light is not a particle, nor is it a wave. However, under some circumstances it does behave like a particle - we even have a name for that (photon). However for purposes of this type of discussion - how it travels long distances - we need t
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by dotancohen 3d ago
> What blows my mind is that 20 million light years also means that what we're observing something that happened 20 million years ago. Well... Not really. It took the entirety of the book A Brief History Of Time to even gras
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by dotancohen 4d ago
The link is just smaller, and I think the text is now something to the effect of "Can't Download App" or similar.
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by dotancohen 4d ago
While the conclusions of the observation are interesting, what really stood out to me was the observations themselves. That black hole is 20 million light years away, in another galaxy! And we have multiple high enough resolution observatio
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by dotancohen 4d ago
That's not how things work when you are participating in hostilities in an active war zone. What a ridiculous statement to make.
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by dotancohen 4d ago
Parent comment is implying that an ally (Israel) is performing a holocaust. In fact, there have been a good dozen genocides in the past century which I would agree fit the term, but not the conflict that Israel is involved with. The anti-Is
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by dotancohen 4d ago
To other readers: Parent is suggesting that the 6000 Gazans who breached the Israeli border on October 7th 2023 and killed 1200 people, mutilated bodies, beheaded humans and dogs alike, raped women, and took over 250 hostages including infa
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by dotancohen 4d ago
Hamas claims that the journalists are Hamas, not Israel. And I'm not declaring any journalist "good" or "bad". I'm stating that a Hamas member is a valid target. Him moonlighting as a journalist does not change
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by dotancohen 4d ago
Israel never set out to exterminate, Israel set out to get her hostages back - including babies under a year old. You know who did set out to exterminate? Hamas, who in their very own charter state their intention to eradicate the Jews: ht
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by dotancohen 5d ago
Your Holocaust inversion is not only morally wrong, it is also factually incorrect.
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by dotancohen 5d ago
I was waiting to see how long it took for someone to "make this about Palestine" - their strategy is to inundate all discussion with the topic. Over half the journalists in the Gaza Strip are affiliated with Hamas. Many of them in
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by dotancohen 5d ago
Me too. I don't connect my phone to my Google account. I understand that the Play store is enticing, but there are other options. Some of which are actually better.
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by dotancohen 5d ago
> failsafe timers and dead-man switches when testing new things. Aircraft and spacecraft are more than anything, mass constrained. Such failsafes are welcome in software, but neither the bleeding-edge engineers not even the test
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by dotancohen 5d ago
Details, details. That's mearly an implementation issue.
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by dotancohen 5d ago
This is probably one of the most important comments on HN, seriously. A concise summary that once we get the model right, the emergent behaviour matches observations. Very reminiscent of the Casimir effect experiments.
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by dotancohen 7d ago
No, the AI is still our responsibility.
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by dotancohen 7d ago
Or he believes that other labs might get there first, and he is working to counter that threat. This is the Manhattan Project again.
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by dotancohen 8d ago
> Wait until you learn how many other SaaS and web 2.0 and cloud based things are also run by assholes. Though it's not the real acronym, Larry Ellison himself has stated that Oracle stands for One Real Asshole Called Larry
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by dotancohen 8d ago
Why Libreoffice? Does your diary contain advanced formatting, tables, images, or other involved content? Or just for the encryption? I ask because I also keep a diary and have refined how I store it and secure it, over 25+ years. Only recen
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by dotancohen 8d ago
They have absolutely zero regard for system resources. I understand why, but such things were once considered unfeasible - and very recently were also considered undesirable. I still use a laptop with a 100 GiB hard drive - only 80 of which
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by dotancohen 9d ago
I did mention that the coin fanboys think so. Do you invest in any coins?
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by dotancohen 9d ago
Thank you
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by dotancohen 10d ago
The rhetorical trick was not mine. There are numerous people in this comment thread that used the word guarantee as a synonym or implied outcome of the word right. What do you think a right is, if not a guarantee?
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by dotancohen 10d ago
That's why I said "one of the considerations for establishing a community". > Worrying about pottable water should be a solved problem in a first world country. I see that you've never lived somewhere with wate
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by dotancohen 10d ago
Very likely from Pomodoro. In Arabic P is pronounced B or F.
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by dotancohen 10d ago
Are the Vietnamese and Chinese languages related? Or perhaps one of the two cultures was introduced to that fruit by the other, and thus preserved the name?
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by dotancohen 10d ago
Interesting, thank you.
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by dotancohen 10d ago
Thank you! In Hebrew we literally call the potato תפוח אדמה which is "ground apple". Now I know where the idea comes from.

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