nautilius

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by nautilius 11mo ago
Sure, stick to the Model T, why not. It had wheels and seats, so there's that.
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by nautilius 1y ago
What’s more, it creates an incentive to accept more papers for publication, with obvious implications for quality.
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by nautilius 1y ago
To be fair, Americans use decimal already where it’s dearest to the heart: money, ammunition, and filling gasoline.
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by nautilius 1y ago
Efficiency is the standard red herring of the battery crowd - if efficiency was the prime motivation, we would all be driving bicycles and SUV or sportscars would not exist. What are your other metrics? It’s an electric drivetrain with all
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by nautilius 2y ago
Main news for me here is that this is (still?) considered newsworthy in Germany. At top US universities, I’ve been threatened with deportation, yelled at, prevented from going to faculty job interviews, credit to my work removed, papers hig
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by nautilius 2y ago
A sonic boom is not necessary when moving faster than sound, the Busemann biplane resolves that completely. There's been considerable work on sonic boom mitigation for many decades. Boom's long nose, flat underside, top engine, sm
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by nautilius 2y ago
From personal experience: in Nature Communications the handling editor and editor in chief absolutely do intervene, in my example to suppress a proper lit review that would have revealed the paper under review as much less innovative than
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by nautilius 3y ago
That's - not how that works. I suggest you look at any fluid data `riding' that border. "Super compressed" and "ideal gas" are mutually exclusive. "Equilibrium" has even less to do with any of that.
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by nautilius 3y ago
That's got nothing to do with some fluid behaving like an ideal gas or not. Also, except for very low pressures, vapor does not behave like an ideal gas.
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by nautilius 3y ago
Too bad they don't reference the actual inventor of vorticity confinement, Dr. John Steinhoff of the University of Tennessee Space Institute: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Steinhoff https://en.wiki
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by nautilius 4y ago
> The assertion of the US' founders is that such rights are inherent to all people, natural rights, and inalienable. It very obviously wasn't [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_United_Sta
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by nautilius 4y ago
“Only base 10” is already the measure of choice where it matters most for most Americans: gas, money, ammunition. It works just fine.
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by nautilius 4y ago
Let’s hope we’re not getting to “Vamos a la playa” narrative soon … https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vamos_a_la_playa_(Righeira_s...
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by nautilius 4y ago
So are there strange quarks?
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by nautilius 4y ago
He was recently on Tim Ferris and discussed his ideas.
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by nautilius 4y ago
I’m in the same camp. I love that movie but can’t bring myself to show it to my kids yet with that relationship, the rapey behavior of Jones forcing to get his kisses, and the casual killing.
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by nautilius 4y ago
Exactly! Nothing screams “Democracy!” like repeating a vote a dozen and more times until it shows the desired result!
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by nautilius 4y ago
This makes no sense. Of course sound is a pressure wave - but so is being hit by a nuclear blast wave (after the initial flash). Obviously, the magnitude plays the decisive role here and not it being a pressure wave.
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by nautilius 4y ago
> We're not jerks. We're people who notice problems. You're shooting the messenger. The definition is literally in the title: "disagreeable personalities (selfish, combative, and manipulative)". So, yes, by defin
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by nautilius 4y ago
In any case, thanks for putting it out there!
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by nautilius 4y ago
How is not “maintaining the same level of naval readiness “ not a “loss in capability”? I guess the grapes were sour anyway?
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by nautilius 4y ago
Just in time for my family! However, the instructions remain hidden behind the browser address bar on my iPhone SE, so it took me a while to figure out what to do. I thought tapping der / die / das at the bottom seemed like the mo
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by nautilius 4y ago
Sure, I guess you can hire someone to represent you posthumously to attend your child’s high school graduation or wedding.
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by nautilius 4y ago
“Surprising” refers to journals , not universities. It’s completely unsurprising (albeit unethical) that universities take the easy way.
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by nautilius 4y ago
In my experience, journals are surprisingly (?) uninterested in these sort of things. The university will then just refer to the journal and reply that the claim of plagiarism must be fabricated as the journal would surely have done somethi
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by nautilius 4y ago
I noticed I did the same thing when looking for hotels - what's the possibly best hotel out there for some reasonable price? Ooh, they have breakfast, ooooooh, but this one has breakfast and a bar, and this one even has a spa and nice
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by nautilius 4y ago
With the only tiny difference being that guns in the US kill orders of magnitude more people than driving on the Autobahn (~50000 vs ~300 annually). https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/02/03/what-t
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by nautilius 4y ago
Some people like to not hand over complete sovereignty over their bodies to their state and live in freedom instead. Oh, and the disincentivizing effect of the death penalty is a long refuted myth.
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by nautilius 4y ago
Here's another good one where some guy gets "arrested, jailed, and prosecuted because he made fun of his local police department on Facebook". https://ij.org/press-release/new-supreme-court-appeal-asks-c.
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by nautilius 4y ago
> Do you believe had if she been in the middle of the crowd or in an empty parking lot exclaiming the same with a megaphone she would have been arrested? No, that's my whole point. She said something that the authorities did not lik

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