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Re:SpaceX Crew Dragon Docks with International Space Station
on Monday March 04, 2019 @04:34PM (#19305790)
Apparently the Earth's orbit places us in the hot end of the inhabitable zone, so only a relatively modest increase in received energy makes us go the way of Venus.
Re:SpaceX Crew Dragon Docks with International Space Station
on Sunday March 03, 2019 @02:24PM (#19296269)
It's actually in about 100 million years as the sun gradually increases in luminosity.
Re:Acute high intensity interval exercise reduces colon cancer cell gr...
on Sunday March 03, 2019 @12:26AM (#19292919)
Some of the research showed significant health improvements from 3 days a week of 3 reps of 20 second standing bike sprints. So only 3 minutes per week.
Re:Sting Operations to Expose Celebrity Psychics
on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @03:07PM (#19257873)
Doing it != success
Re:Is Matter Conscious? (2017)
on Sunday February 24, 2019 @06:34PM (#19241375)
No, but information is.
Re:How Reliable Are SSDs?
on Thursday February 21, 2019 @05:00PM (#19220927)
Yet another article with a focus on gradual wearing rather than suddenly turning into a brick, which is the actual common real-world case.
Re:All late projects are the same (2011) [pdf]
on Monday February 04, 2019 @02:22AM (#19074551)
We sure don't want it to go over time and budget like the last 10 projects.
Re:A Study on Driverless-Car Ethics
on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @10:00PM (#19041912)
Hope they will be taking minutes in all the meetings where the business requirements are collected.
Re:Office 365 global authentication outage
on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @08:46PM (#19031824)
24 days a month, 7 hours a day, what's your problem?
Re:Minikanren – An embedded DSL for logic programming
on Monday December 17, 2018 @04:30PM (#18702391)
Some related fun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=er_lLvkklsk
Re:Chinese hi-tech researchers ‘told not to travel to US unless it’s e...
on Friday December 14, 2018 @04:58PM (#18685214)
We smuggled those silkworms out of China and can make our own silk now!
Re:People who disagree aren't trying to make things complex
on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @08:54PM (#18660729)
Wot no vectors?
Re:The Snowden Legacy, part one: What’s changed, really?
on Thursday November 22, 2018 @05:52PM (#18513077)
With enough data you can often "de-anonymize" to discover actual identities.
Re:The present phase of stagnation in the foundations of physics is no...
on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @02:37PM (#18496940)
You really want to look into the delayed choice eraser... it's mind blowing.
Re:The present phase of stagnation in the foundations of physics is no...
on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @02:36PM (#18496928)
Also, all the non-MW interpretations say "and then choose a random outcome" without any clue as to how randomness might occur. MWI can propose an actual mechanism for randomness: sampling a space of alternatives, aka the Sleeping Beauty approach. To me this is pretty close to a knockdown argument in favour of MWI.
Re:Italy’s olive crisis intensifies as deadly tree disease spreads
on Monday November 19, 2018 @07:20PM (#18490905)
Can you invert a binary tree?
Re:UFOs spotted off Irish coast under investigation
on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @01:17AM (#18439023)
Now that everybody has a cellphone camera there are fewer UFO sitings instead of more, so it seems.
Re:Ask HN: Developers, how do you estimate projects and write proposals?
on Monday November 12, 2018 @03:38PM (#18435525)
Badly
Re:Rocket Launch in New Zealand Brings Quick, Cheap Space Access
on Sunday November 11, 2018 @03:59PM (#18428553)
A variation of a couple of degrees during launch would rip the Shuttle's wings off, so "ignore" is not the right word here.
Re:China can apparently now identify citizens based on the way they walk
on Wednesday November 07, 2018 @03:20PM (#18402036)
Can they tell if I'm a women's man, no time to talk?
Re:Ads just work, no matter what you think
on Wednesday November 07, 2018 @02:37PM (#18401649)
John Sculley, then CEO of Pepsi, failed a blind taste test in front of reporters.
Re:Your DNA Is Out There. Do You Want Law Enforcement Using It?
on Sunday October 28, 2018 @04:48PM (#18323084)
Police states exist. It's a genuine possibility that your "nothing to fear" argument ignores.
Re:DeBroglie – Generate tile-based maps using wave function collapse
on Sunday October 28, 2018 @04:43PM (#18323048)
Pedantic note: wave functions do not collapse; decoherence occurs.
Re:The Many-Worlds Interpretation Has Many Problems
on Friday October 19, 2018 @03:06AM (#18254707)
Re:How Lisp Became God's Own Programming Language
on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @01:42AM (#18226872)
I think the vast majority of coders would struggle to write anything like SHRDLU.