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by iconjack 11mo ago
You can get more fuel by entering a negative Thrust value.
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by iconjack 1y ago
From the introduction: "At the time of writing, these notes do not contain anywhere near a proof of FLT, or even a sketch proof."
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by iconjack 1y ago
I started a TMBG fan club called Church of the Possible Giants around the time this album was released. One of the requirements for membership is that your given first name is John. If you want to join, drop me a line, convince me your name
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by iconjack 1y ago
In a Senate hearing today, CIA Director John Ratcliffe said, under oath: “One of the first things that happened when I was confirmed as CIA director was Signal was loaded onto my computer at the CIA, as it is for most CIA officers. One of t
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by iconjack 2y ago
I watched the full debate. The proposition was "Don't Trust the Mainstream Media". On the pro side were Matt Taibbi and Douglas Murray; the con side was made up of Malcolm Gladwell and Michelle Goldberg. It wasn't great.
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by iconjack 2y ago
the unnamed Trump aide cited in the book indicated that the GOP standard-bearer may have spoken to Putin as many as seven times
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by iconjack 2y ago
I believe the young economist mentioned in the article is simply wrong in his analysis. The most efficient 4-denomination set is {1,5,18,25} (tied with {1,5,18,29}) at 3.89 coins per transaction, better than the economist's {1,3,11,38}
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by iconjack 3y ago
Worth noting that 2016 election denial (Russia hacked the election!) was never banned. Here's an entertaining compilation of some of it, but there's plenty more where that came from. [1] https://twitter.com/0rf&#x2
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by iconjack 3y ago
I'm old enough to remember when Antarctic sea ice extent set a record high in 2014. The cause? Probably global warming. "So as counterintuitive as expanding winter Antarctic sea ice may appear on a warming planet, it may actually
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by iconjack 3y ago
Literally the subhed of the article: "Director has criticised the practice of re-editing older films while expressing remorse over removing guns in a later edition of ET"
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by iconjack 3y ago
Still broken for me.
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by iconjack 3y ago
Password requirements in general are off-putting. It's my password.
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by iconjack 4y ago
The verdict came in around 7pm. Anyone else find it ironic that the author submitted, and the NY Times published, a 1750-word opinion piece the very next morning, complaining that the jury was too rash in reaching a verdict?
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by iconjack 4y ago
It may save the business of baseball, but it won't save baseball itself, because the game will no longer be baseball. C'est la vie.
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by iconjack 4y ago
What are some of your stories?
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by iconjack 4y ago
Can you share a few examples out of the 30,000 entries that you consider actual lies? (not mere puffery, not trivial errors, not simple difference of opinion) Something substantive and fairly verifiable as false, along the lines of Biden&#x
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by iconjack 4y ago
Spot-checking works best if we remotely agreed on a random number, but here's one a just looked in on. Trump claim: “Every week, 300 of our citizens are killed by heroin alone, 90% of which floods across from our southern border.” WaPo
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by iconjack 4y ago
Spot check the Post's database of 30,573 lies. It's a joke. *This very sentence, if uttered by Trump, would be entered in their database: a joke is an amusing action or story with a punchline; our database is an objective list of
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by iconjack 4y ago
The author uses the Clinton email scandal as an example of how the media over-covered certain stories. "That Clinton was somehow a criminal for doing what her predecessor Colin Powell had also done—conduct government business using a p
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by iconjack 4y ago
I'm pretty sure this first appeared in Gardner's "Mathematical Games" column in the March 1962 issue of Scientific American. Gardner later collected some of his columns and published them in books, which is what you see
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by iconjack 4y ago
https://archive.is/tdKcy
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The Shameful Open Secret Behind Southwest’s Failure(nytimes.com)
7 points by iconjack 4y ago|3 comments
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by iconjack 4y ago
That is not what happened at all. In the first poll, he asked when the journalists should be unsuspended and the options were (a) now, (b) tomorrow, (c) in 7 days, and (d) longer. Choice (a) got 43%, not the majority. Choices (c) and (d) to
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by iconjack 4y ago
I watched the full debate. The proposition was "Don't Trust the Mainstream Media". On the pro side were Matt Taibbi and Douglas Murray; the con side was made up of Malcolm Gladwell and Michelle Goldberg. It wasn't great.
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by iconjack 4y ago
It's interesting that a platform of pro-worker, anti-war, anti-censorship, which used to be central tenants of the left (and I would say the best of the left), now make up the core of Trumpism.
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by iconjack 4y ago
Yes, I agree. If you are tasked for example with analyzing a coin to assess its bias, you could do a very thorough job, measuring precisely its mass distribution, its contours, etc and come up with an extremely accurate estimate that say, t
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by iconjack 4y ago
In my opinion, a fair evaluation of "expert" opinion, at least over the last decade or so, would conclude experts are almost worthless. I have no doubt there are true experts in the world, who's analysis and predictions do mu
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by iconjack 4y ago
Some good news on this front: the individual-rights organization FIRE recently rebranded itself from Foundation for Individual Rights in Education to Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression in order to widen its mission and hopefull
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by iconjack 4y ago
There are many millions of car accidents every year, with less than 1% resulting in death. The most important factor in fatal accidents is the speed at which the crash occurred. In the city, traffic density often prevents fast driving, rega
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by iconjack 5y ago
She has claimed for 5 years (and still going) that Trump is an illegitimate president. Here is a recent example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSTyHYiLtRY .

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