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Someone on Twitter made the excellent quip, “Every government program is either too big to change or too small to matter.”

The story I’ve heard was that GPS was invented due to Sputnik. The Doppler shift in its beeps proved its speed and thus its orbit. Somebody (in the Navy?) wondered if the “reverse” could be done: could you listen to various shifting beeps and figure out your location?

“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.”

“They are uneducated, backwards, mouth-breathing bigots! My tribe was tricked by using words that we have a negative reaction to.” Oh wait.

I’ve been telling people this for years. Bookmarking is for dynamic data. You bookmark the weather website. You don’t bookmark recipes. Personally I use Evernote and its web clipper. Unfortunately it doesn’t download images, but I wrote a little program using their API to replace the img tags with embedded resources.

The Lizardman Constant: https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/noisy-poll-results-and...

Sure, but much of the fairness we argue about as adults is due to fundamental disagreements about morality or how the world should work. “It’s not fair that tax cuts benefit the wealthy.” Republicans think it’s not fair to take money from people who earned it. Democrats think it’s not fair for some people to have more wealth than they’ll ever use while others have so little. But the concept of “fairness” doesn’t do anything to help us resolve that disagreement.

Fair is a word for children. It’s unfair to the Italian restaurant that you’re eating Mexican. It’s unfair to the grocer that you’re eating at a restaurant. It’s unfair that you’re buying groceries instead of seeds. As adults have told children for thousands of years, life isn’t fair.

No, it’s not unfair to treat it as bad without any other evidence. When all you know is “Mexican restaurant” you judge by that. You can’t live your life only making judgements once you have “all” the facts, as if that’s even possible. There seems to be this unspoken assumption that the thought process must be stereotypes leading to death camps. It is possible to say, “Based on my life experiences thus far I do not enjoy the company of black people/Mexican food/whatever” without thinking “and therefore we should kill all those people”.

Does anybody actually take the SPLC seriously anymore? Violent racism having been largely eliminated from the US, they accuse ever more moderate and irrelevant groups with being the reincarnation of the Clan. I don’t want a dozen idiots who like to drink beer and play dress up with hoods and swastikas as my neighbors, but they’re not an existential threat to anybody either. When you treat these minor groups like the reincarnation of Hitler, you don’t have the ability to call out serious threats when they do arrive. When everything is Nazis, nothing is Nazis.

It’s impossible to avoid relying on third parties. Somebody has to lease you the DNS name; we’ve already seen that used to punish sites. Somebody has to host your server or sell you an internet connection. Moving to Tor is the only way to protect yourself from those means of punishment, at which point you’ve lost 99.99% of any audience you might’ve had. You might as well just go to a physical newsletter.

Assuming lithium reserves work anything like oil reserves, the quantity of reserves depends on market process. When oil sells for $20/bb, oil that costs more than that to extract doesn't count towards the reserves. As the price goes up, the reserves increase, because you can extract oil from more challenging circumstances. This is why we've had 20-30 years of oil reserves for the last 50 years.

Since reading doesn’t actually involve a letter-by-letter examination of the material, I wonder how a lossy compression algorithm that used words with the right shape would do compared to lossless compression?

A magnitude 7 earthquake releases approximately 5 PJ over less than a minute, so let's say 100TW. A Tesla supercharger provides 120KW, so even if the braking system is equivalent, you'd need 1B cars.

I feel like I'm missing something. (Or this article is just FUD.) $30B over ten weeks? That's no money. Total AUM in the US is over $50T.

Always nice to be able to log your bodyweight when you exercised

To not diminish his voting power

"Just like a biological brain the system is designed for extreme energy efficiency, It requires only 10 watts to power all 64 million neurons and 16 billion synapses."

A real human has 100B neurons and the whole body is only 100W, with the brain estimated at around 20W; theirs would require 15kW.

FreeNAS 9.10 includes 28 plugins. Docker Hub has 500,000 images.

What principle is that? Prices reflect reality, not the other way around.

Just use any David Attenborough documentary. There are several focused on different things depending on what you want

Poised doesn't mean "here's some wild ass speculation". Trump Derangement Syndrome doesn't make things true

No. The article says Trump's nominees probably want more powers. The only bill under consideration is S.3475 which is being delayed to allow more debate. A more honest title would be "We Hypothesize How Trump Will Be Awful But The Only Evidence We Provide Suggests Spying Powers Might Actually Grow Slower Than Under Obama"

I contacted their support and got several replies very quickly. Looks like they kind of slapped together the coupon thing. You can't apply the coupon until after you switch to a paid plan, so it doesn't take affect until the next billing cycle. But Dejan from Migadu was really helpful, and I expect they'd refund half of your first bill if you want it.

NewsBlur does something similar. Forward your newsletters and they appear as an RSS feed. Works with any kind of email...

Girl? It's outrageous that you would deny her agency!

To summarize SSC: If Republicans agree with you, it doesn't do anything to prove your SJW bonafides. Your dad probably thought the killing of Eric Garner was awful, yawn. But defending Trayvon, now that's a "fuck you".

More like 100W: 2000 Calories is 2000000 calories is 8,400,000 Joules. Divided by a day is 97W.

What clickbait pointlessness. We don't even really understand what causes GRBs, but they're calling this as feature? Why not call the ring much farther out in the picture a feature to? That seems only slight sillier.

To summarize: 1A was good when it was being used by liberals/Democrats, but is bad now that it's being used by conservatives/Republicans.