sclarisse

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by sclarisse 3y ago
Relativity is insane. Einstein literally rewrote the formula for “add two velocities together”. You know, like 20 km/s + 20 km/s, WHICH YOU WOULD THINK just turns into 40km/s, but it’s actually ever so slightly less. It goe
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by sclarisse 3y ago
Lewis Carroll wrote a gag about people using words like this.
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by sclarisse 3y ago
On the contrary. The URL you post here has been submitted to HN several times (plus my attempt to make the title a little catchier as I linked to the GitHub issue #28, which I titled “Don’t add website DRM to Chrome” in a defensible attempt
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by sclarisse 3y ago
> Why do some stores need a pin on my debit card, and some do not? Oh that’s easy enough. If they need a PIN it’s actually being run as a debit card over the debit card network. Otherwise it’s being run as a “check card” over the credit
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by sclarisse 3y ago
Signature.
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by sclarisse 3y ago
You send the money to a literal mailbox instead. That’s how. (Using a check, the very infrastructure we’ve been talking about!!)
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by sclarisse 3y ago
The brain finds amusement when it detects a discrepancy between expectation and result. https://youtu.be/Tflm9mttAAI I think this one especially is simple enough of an error, and the consequences are so disastrous, that it’
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Don’t add website DRM to Chrome(github.com)
4 points by sclarisse 3y ago|0 comments
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by sclarisse 3y ago
Issue #28: Don’t. https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/...
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by sclarisse 3y ago
> having 10 million single window units blasting walls of heat into a crowded city very quickly becomes an arms race where nobody wins (except perhaps the AC manufacturers). Is this more or less energy than would be used for heating, in
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by sclarisse 3y ago
Christianity is heavy on the guilt. If you’re self-flagellating, that’s a sign it’s guilt, not shame. East Asian cultures are more about the shame. And try not to go anywhere where the social order is based on Fear.
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by sclarisse 3y ago
Idk, it seems reasonably obvious that there is activism and litigation and nonprofits and bureaucracies all studying environmental issues, and these are all operated by people, many of whom get more money and attention was a result of the c
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by sclarisse 3y ago
Yeah :(
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by sclarisse 3y ago
Note that the half-mile statistic is connected to underwater cables, not buried cables. It is certainly an overcount, but it is probably not trivial to assess the local hydrology and the extent to which children’s play areas might be expose
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by sclarisse 3y ago
This is part of a series that’s been running in the WSJ for a week now. There are still lead lined cables all over the country, with little awareness of the risks they pose; the first article in the series discussed cables going past playgr
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by sclarisse 3y ago
If you need speed and money is of limited concern, consider fiber. There are some nearly invisible configurations that stick onto the walls, and baseboards or crown molding can be a channel as well. It’s possible you could sneak it under a
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by sclarisse 3y ago
> and right about now, someone is about to reply with 'ride a bike, cars suck!' Naah, I wouldn’t do a thing that. I’ve lived in low-bike suburbs — hated it, but I know the score. :)
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by sclarisse 3y ago
> Certainly I would have expected the orbit to go higher the faster the planets moved? Is that not the usual effect of increasing speed? That rather depends on what you mean. The usual effect of increasing speed in a circular orbit at an
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by sclarisse 3y ago
Easy. Nuclear. Oh, wait … you’re telling me they just phased that out? :( But yeah, as it turns out energy prices matter; it’s not just corporate overlords of the fuel companies spreading astroturf when people point out the still-high costs
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by sclarisse 3y ago
As others have noted, the speed of light (in a vacuum) will always constant. To be nice and pedantic, you can always slow it down by making that light go through a medium, where it will go slower (e.g. any prism that makes a pretty rainbow)
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by sclarisse 3y ago
This is literally within the boundaries of the city of San Francisco, where having a car is only a prerequisite for success if your job is “driving”. If you’re going to lament the car-focused society we have created, I understand and sympat
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by sclarisse 3y ago
I see your John Goodenough, and I raise you the Outerbridge Crossing. At the southern edge of New York City, way down near the bottom of Staten Island, it’s named after the first chairman of the Port Authority: Mr. Eugenius Harvey Outerbrid
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by sclarisse 3y ago
In the 1970s it was also popular to fear grave resource shortages here on Earth. Turning to space was an easy low-imagination solution when you weren’t seriously considering the logistics of how to make it happen. It’s more a manifestation
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by sclarisse 3y ago
The economic profit is literally defined as the accounting-type profits, minus the opportunity costs. When the opportunity cost is large like that you are describing negative economic profit.
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by sclarisse 3y ago
That’s economic profits that approach 0. You can still run an accounting profit, it’s just not bigger than it would be if you invested your money somewhere else, like land or mining or coffeeshops or whatever.
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by sclarisse 3y ago
Other coverage in the past few hours: WSJ with original exclusive reporting (paywall): https://www.wsj.com/articles/sam-altman-backed-nuclear-start... FT (paywall): https://www.ft.com/content/cd599
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Nuclear Startup Oklo to Go Public in US via Sam Altman's SPAC(economictimes.indiatimes.com)
1 points by sclarisse 3y ago|1 comments
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by sclarisse 3y ago
Drywall is paintable. It’s repairable. It’s durable and can take a real beating. You can put new holes in it and close them back up almost like they were never there. It’s seamless. It lasts many decades. And it’s $0.40 a square foot. What
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by sclarisse 3y ago
Better the mall than the office, I’ll give them that much.
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by sclarisse 3y ago
I sure hope so. I’m earning 10x what some of my European programmer friends are. For it to continue like this is unjustifiable.

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