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Re:The Fancy Rug Dilemma on Saturday August 23, 2025 @05:23PM (#44999254)
I was thinking more of something like mechanical watches - more expensive than a quartz watch and less accurate.
Re:Einstein's Other Theory of Everything on Sunday September 01, 2024 @08:02PM (#41421363)
This recent presentation from Kepler Airospace claims that Einstein was on the right track and a goes even further, stating that gravity can be manipulated through EM. I've graduated in Physics but not quite sure what to make of it.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/383609891_Gravity_M...

Re:Public US hearing on UFOs [video] on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @02:13PM (#36882305)
It becomes easier when science can be millions of years ahead.
Re:Public US hearing on UFOs [video] on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @01:59PM (#36882061)
If all major governments keep it secret, the conclusion would be that the phenomenon wants it that way. The US wouldn't be in charge. But apparently something changed.
Re:Public US hearing on UFOs [video] on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @01:53PM (#36881949)
There may not be much of a difference left then between machines and biologicals. Generations would alternate like a jellyfish does between polyp and medusa. No need for generation ships.
Re:Public US hearing on UFOs [video] on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @01:46PM (#36881805)
It could be the phenomenon that has the astonishing competence.
In the country I work it goes like this: the employers are members of an IT association, once a year each employer sends over the anonymous salaries for each job title. The associations aggregates them and sends back the distribution, which HR then uses as a reference. Similar result, but no direct collaboration between employers needed. You can even buy the report for each position as an employee for a fair price.
The system survived the partitions, there was no widespread blackout. Further, the system is not organized by the EU, but the ENTSO-E and contains e.g. countries from North Afrika.
Re:Choosing the Management Track on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @10:48AM (#24919333)
Switzerland a notable exception.
Re:Solar’s Future is Insanely Cheap on Thursday May 14, 2020 @06:37PM (#23186431)
The forecasts from the IEA are my favourites, predicting a decline in PV expansion every year. https://www.pv-magazine.com/2018/11/20/iea-versus-solar-pv-r...
Re:Solar’s Future is Insanely Cheap on Thursday May 14, 2020 @06:33PM (#23186382)
Energy is cheap, power is expensive - you can already get energy for free sometimes on the intraday market, but you still pay if you need delivery at a certain time and the grid fees for peak power consumption stay expensive. I am looking forward to Tesla's million-mile battery!
Re:The Unstoppable Rise of Sci-Hub (2019) on Friday January 10, 2020 @02:30AM (#22009069)
The research institutions would of course save money on the journal descriptions that could then be used to pay for open access submissions.
Re:France to Raise Pollution Tax on SUVs and Trucks to €22k on Monday December 23, 2019 @04:59AM (#21862596)
Your neighbor will be fine. The taxes start at 160 g CO2/km. The Vitara has between 121 and 172 g/km.
Re:US Navy's Railgun Now Undergoing Tests in New Mexico on Thursday June 27, 2019 @05:21PM (#20298903)
Nitpick: the velocity grows linearly, not exponentially.
It seems the grandparent (authored by Linus, too) in the email thread is not available any more. Did Linus delete it?
Re:China to Overtake U.S. Economy by 2032 on Tuesday December 26, 2017 @01:15AM (#16007414)
Some British may not like it but the UK is a European country by geography, too.
Re:World's steepest funicular railway opens in Switzerland on Sunday December 17, 2017 @05:17AM (#15945127)
If you plotted the altitude with a function f(x), it's just the derivative f'(x) expressed in percent.
How does a nuclear plant produce renewable energy?
Re:Best attempts so far to skin Schrödinger’s cat (2016) on Saturday September 30, 2017 @07:13AM (#15372296)
The thing about quantum theory is that it's not just about propabilities. The double-slit experiment, for example, cannot be explained by adding propabilities alone. Instead the wave function gets added, with the phase considered. This is why an unobserved quantum state is more than a classical state hidden in a box and why we get results that seem paradox.
For London it would also help to increase the density of housing. Large areas of the city are still built with Victorian houses.
From a landlord's perspective, they prefer if you do not spend more than 1/3 of your income on rent.
The air cools down when raising in the chimney because the air pressure decreases, leading to adiabatic expansion.
The physical theory is close to perfect, it's the interpretation that leaves room for questions.
Re:Cmd/compile: Go 1.8 regression: sync/atomic loop elided on Monday February 20, 2017 @09:00AM (#13687237)
One point of view is that the removal of the atomic increment is justified because the programmer cannot rely on the execution of the go routine that contains the increment. If you add an explicit call to the scheduler the problem is fixed. However, the justification is a bit of a stretch and it looks like it will be changed back to old behavior by the go developers.

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