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You haven't been reading the news if you don't understand what's happening with privacy and big data right now. I can say with conviction that we don't have privacy. What I can't point to is exactly who has this information and what they're doing with it, because... privacy.

Perhaps Y Combinator would care to share their IP access logs and tell you which servers appear to be scraping these posts? You could do it yourself, if only... oh yeah, privacy.

I look forward to FOIA-liberated records the NSA, HS, CIA, FBI, and local law enforcement agencies have on us. I also look forward to reading the FOIA-liberated transcripts of all the backroom deal-making where it seems the government is actually being governed from.

Do you think individual privacy helped bring us together as a nation to nominate the best candidates and elect the best President? Or do you think individual privacy helped us vilify each other in this election?
Centuries of internalized repression.
Ah, so you created a new account because you are from TU Dresden. When I was in academia it was OK to call out other institutes without doing so anonymously. Has this changed?
> Will the world really just accept this from Trump?

Well, trump wants to cancel/renegotiate trade deals. Maybe we could add carbon taxes to those since lax environmental regulations could be considered an indirect subsidy to american companies.
Not to be flip, but if you've ever walked by this building this news has to be amongst the least surprising things I've ever read.
my attempt at a thought experiment that seems to suggest elliptical orbits are better in this regard:

if you have an efficient insulator, you could absorb an arbitrarily large amount of heat at the perigee, and retain it for the remainder of the orbit.

if you were in a circular orbit, you'd only be able to absorb up to the ambient temp.
Well, if you want to model our universe, you have to model our universe. If you decide to use 5 dimensions - do you mean 5 or 4+1 dimensions? - the simulation will have 5 dimensions but that will obviously have no effect on our universe. I actually don't understand what you are aiming at.

Nobody knows whether the universe makes use of randomness or not. Quantum mechanics is essentially deterministic, the evolution of the wave function is described by a unitary operator, the Hamiltonian. Randomness only enters in the Copenhagen interpretation due to the Born rule and the collapse postulate. Note that the unitary evolution of the wave function and wave function collapse are not really compatible. What or who decides whether something constitutes a normal physical process with unitary evolution or whether it is a measurement that leads to the non-unitary collapse of the wave function? So this is definitely an open question whether the universe is deterministic or not.

I don't understand the rest of your comment, from the thing with the magnetic field around particles on, and that again doesn't sound right to me. Especially the uncertainty in the Heisenberg uncertainty relation on the one hand and the uncertainty in the description of a many particle system due to ignorance of the microscopic states on the other hand are of very different nature. The former one is fundamental, the later one is just due to ignorance.

I have seen those videos and they are kind of nice models for simple quantum mechanical systems, but one should really not try to stretch them to far, there is no way those system can accurately model quantum mechanics. They are classical systems and we know from the violation of Bell's inequality that quantum mechanics is not classical, so it is certain that those models will break down at some point.

By the way, IANAP.
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Personally, 2001 (the movie, haven't read the book) was the only depiction of aliens I actually like. IMO, FTL travel might require harnessing such crazy physics (negative energy, for instance) that any civilization advanced enough to do it would be completely different from anything we know, or might be even past the need of actually going anywhere.

But instead science fiction often makes spacefaring civilizations exactly like our own, but with spaceships intead of trucks.
Nice job! Some prior projects have done similar things as well:

[1] (2011) http://stephendnicholas.com/posts/quicker-video-qr-codes

[2] (2014) http://thruglassxfer.com/

[3] (2014) https://github.com/Neohapsis/QRCode-Video-Data-Exfiltration
Intel's wearables push always seemed more like a PR stunt than an actual, thought-through business tactic. They put a great deal of effort into stuff like Arduino support and sponsoring BMX championships, a TV show (America's Greatest Makers), conceptual clothing lines, etc but apparently people who actually wanted to use their hardware in products had trouble getting support or chips and the specs just didn't seem to stand up (when they were available at all).
"Basic Physics" means the underlying principles of physics. AIAA is reputable, but "underlying principles" is simply not a thing they do.
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I highly doubt it. It's not like there is any leftover space inside these laptops. They made them thinner, and took out some of the screen bezel, making it a smaller width and height as well. The battery life did not get worse, since they also use lower TDP chips (4980HQ -> 6920HQ on the highest end) and made other power improvements.

A change to the battery size is definitely not a last-minute design decision you could make, since it depends on the logic board size and case size.
> It's so frustrating. One micronewton per kilowatt. All that power going in, and so little force coming out. All it takes is some tiny noise effect to get that much force. The effect is so weak and they're so near the noise threshold.

Yep. Reminds me of psi. You can set up mechanical radiation-decay powered RNGs with pre-set runs of numbers in pre-registered double-blind experiments with remote audit logs analyzed carefully with permutation tests and randomness test suites, and all of the huge effects claimed by regular people and psychics go away... but you still get on net a slight excess of bit flips in the psi direction. Is psi real? Seems highly unlikely. But what could possibly be left - publication bias, fraud, or what? No one knows. At some point, effects become subtle enough that you just can't believe studies finding it on net - there's some sort of epistemological 'noise threshold' where stuff is happening but you don't know why or can come up with causal explanations.
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I will be happy once this wearable meme dies out
Not to be flip, but given what Snowden told us, I'm pretty sure this registry already exists.
We need large and widespread forest fires to combat the beetles and rejuvenate these biomes. There's a reason the beetle epidemic coincides with expansive human habitation of the West and poorly considered forestry policies.
This is genius in that it starts by seeming to be a portentous talk about the evil other and turns the tables to show that the enemy may be us: How do we let ourselves be robots? Do we really like social control? Why do we expect the technology that got us into these problems to get us out of it.

I don't think we are really in a terrible place. In so many ways the world is better than it was. But we are kind of blind to the problems we are creating. Read this.
Carnegie built public libraries across the country

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The paper you linked is from 1983 before any genetic and even epidemiological studies were conducted, AIDS was clinically observed in the US in 1980 or 1981, it wasn't even called AIDS until 1982, and HIV was only identified in 1983.

So what's exactly the surprise in the fact that an article from 35 years ago that was written at the dawn of HIV and AIDS research doesn't exactly fit with our modern understandings of the disease?
Wait, what? I thought Bell's Theorem made local hidden variables a no-go? Care to elaborate?
I'm excited by the prospect of more competition for Broadband. This could do the world a lot of good. :)
But in reality, the server would have to emit

<image-carousel delay="10" images="['...', '...']" end-behavior="cycle">

Thus making us no more free from the details of the component than we were before.
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So, it's somehow okay in your worldview to put a self-described racist in one of the most important government positions because he "can't reintroduce slavery"? For real?
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Actually, yes!

By special relativity you can't break the momentum conservation principle without breaking the energy conservation principle.

Somehow most people feel more comfortable dismissing the momentum conservation principle, but they are intertwined.

A carousel with Emdrives like the described in the previous comment should be a perpetual mobile and create energy if it's spinning in the right direction. (It will destroy energy in the reverse direction, so be careful.)

[Anyway, I think that the emdrive doesn't work and the conservation of energy and momentum are safe.]
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This paper that investigates how the EM propulsion drives might generate thrust, and as a side effect, the theory explains certain phenomena that we attribute to dark matter and dark energy. i only have undergrad physics degree, but it sounds interesting. anyone with more experience have any thoughts about this?

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1604.03449v1.pdf >McCulloch (2007) has proposed a new model for inertia (MiHsC) that assumes that the inertia of an object is due to the Unruh radiation it sees when it accelerates, radiation which is also subject to a Hubble-scale Casimir effect. In this model only Unruh wavelengths that fit exactly into twice the Hubble diameter are allowed, so that a greater proportion of the waves are disallowed for low accelerations (which see longer Unruh waves) leading to a gradual new loss of inertia as accelerations become tiny. MiHsC modifies the standard inertial mass (m) to a modified one (m_i) as follows:
m_i = m (1-(2c^2)/(|a|Θ)) = m (1 - λ/4Θ) (1) where c is the speed of light, Θ is twice the Hubble distance, ’|a|’ is the mag- nitude of the relative acceleration of the object relative to surrounding matter and λ is the peak wavelength of the Unruh radiation it sees. Eq. 1 predicts that for terrestrial accelerations (eg: 9.8m/s2) the second term in the bracket is tiny and standard inertia is recovered, but in low acceleration environments, for example at the edges of galaxies (when a is small and λ is large) the sec- ond term in the bracket becomes larger and the inertial mass decreases in a new way so that MiHsC can explain galaxy rotation without the need for dark matter (McCulloch, 2012) and cosmic acceleration without the need for dark energy (McCulloch, 2007, 2010).
We actually have insurance like that already [0], you get a generally low starting monthly rate, and it adjusts if you speed, start and stop suddenly, are shifting lanes fast, etc. You install a little chip in your car and you can see monthly feedback. If you drive "safe" you actually save a decent amount of cash.

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In high school my physics teacher taught us about induction and eddy currents. My group got to build a variation on a Gauss gun using a circular projectile that sat over a magnetic coil which an alternating current passed through. With the right frequency and voltage you could launch the ring across the room.

My armchair crackpot theory is that's not what's going on here, but some other similar principle is at play. Some other physical law is behaving in a way similar to eddy currents, and the force comes from the field working against itself at a small delta-t
I did a double major in math and physics, many years ago. At the time, I didn't know if I was more interested in one than the other. I loved proofs. But I also loved the lab. So I just took all of the courses that were offered in both departments.

A few other people have mentioned that computation is missing from the list, and I agree. I was lucky that while studying my school subjects, I was also actively pursuing electronics and programming as hobbies, which drastically influenced my graduate studies in physics, and my subsequent career. But I didn't get that from my coursework.

I think that computation should be incorporated wherever possible in all of the coursework, all the way back to kindergarten. My rationale is simply that it expands the range of ideas that can be explored, and it's fun.
They've been cutting trees in Yosemite for hazard prevention. Driving is like playing frogger.
Not really, I think. There's no good example of scale that I can find, but those balls and chains look far too large to fit in a naval gun or a field piece, and chain shot, as a specialist dismasting load, went out with the Age of Sail in any case. (And certainly you wouldn't want to use it in anything remotely like a modern naval gun! It'd be hell on the rifling, and you can't just rebore a five-inch gun the way you can Pappy's .308.) For dealing with infantry at close range, you'd be better off with chain than with nothing, but given your druthers you'd have no reason not to prefer grape or especially canister shot, both of which are designed for specifically that purpose and would be far more effective at it.

That said, if a citation exists for the idea that this kind of drag was developed from or inspired by naval chain, I'd be most interested to see it.
> In Europe, they no longer have that tool.

Funnily enough, in the UK we're about to pass into law a ridiculous bill that forces ISPs to store the last 12 months of browsing history for every user. This is amongst other wide sweeping powers such as being able to ask companies to do the impossible (Apple to break into a phone). Definitely something I personally will be finding out the finer details of.
> I think trash might be a bit strong

Unfortunately, the Gutenberg version is mangled in places. Ctrl-F for the "~" character, or check out this example:

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2680/2680-h/2680-h.htm#link2H...
Maya has always been the gold standard for animation.
Modeling, not so much.
Softimage has been discontinued by Autodesk.

After all we've seen from Autodesk (buying out and discontinuing the competition and forcing the customers to migrate to subscription licenses) I think it's unwise to ignore Blender if you are serious about 3D.
why should conservatives care about California, at state that consistently votes lib?
Well, good for them, but why should I have to go anywhere? What's the point?

From experience, I enjoyed vote-by-mail for years, and I can tell you it's a huge step backwards to have to go somewhere again to vote.
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> Shouldn't crazy stuff be exactly why we fund tenured positions?

Crazy stuff becomes an option after one is granted tenure, it doesn't necessarily make one more likely to achieve tenure. On the other hand, theoretical physicists aren't very expensive -- they only need a blackboard and an eraser. Compare that to a philosopher -- much the same but without the eraser.
with a narrow margin...oh the irony?
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No, we don't have a non-zero measurement where the prediction was a zero measurement. There are all kind of possible source of parasitic effects, especially because the measured signal is so close to the noise floor. The prediction for the ideal experiment is zero, actually it probably is not due to the impulse of the emitted photons, but for the real experiment the prediction is certainly not zero and the paper discuses and compensates for various parasitic effects.
There were multiple studies some in islands, others in jungles.
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100521/full/news.2010.259.ht...

It's important to note that even if the location is not isolated it doesn't matter, and we do have proof that it is, what we look at is the molecular clock of the virus basically it's molecular structure based on the mutation rate of each virus.

When you calculate the drift between different strains you can estimate the age, more isolated populations help since they tend to have less types of infections, while it's not common to find a primate with multiple strains on the mainland primates in the deep jungles of south america and on isolated islands off the coast of africa usually only have a single strain due to their relative isolation from other primate populations.
> "The Alt Right believes we must secure the existence of white people and a future for white children."

This is literally a white supremacist slogan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteen_Words

You are absolutely correct that that, in the abstract, those words could describe a perfectly reasonable and honest sentiment. But one wouldn't stumble on these exact fourteen words by mistake when trying to express that sentiment.
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My take on the reason for the US's endless warfare is that it is simply a way to transfer billions of dollars of tax money every year to arms manufacturers and their political allies.
If you'll notice, everything in that statement was strictly factual. While the Mussolini vibes Trump gives off are moderately concerning, I'm much more concerned that our government is already configured such that you can plop a dictator in the cockpit and they don't have to do any extra work for totalitarian surveillance.

Also you're right, the president does not have total power over this country. Which is why it's fortunate for the president elect that he has a cooperating house and senate.
No need for IO guilt!

Living in IO saves you from learning transformer stacks early too. Admittedly I find the monad transformer and free monads etc a bit confusing.
I agree, you can go into higher granularity a-la-carte on both fronts.. but I don't think "spot pricing" is that, and neither are local SSD + magnetic storage (take a look at my local SSD post in this thread).
I doubt Mr debunkit is from TU Dresden or he would probably have posted the link to the article first (though it could have been a ruse of course).

In any case, I am not from TU Dresden and have only a passing acquaintance with Tajmar, but I do agree that credit and recognition is not going where it should in this case.
I see the brace goes on the next line, as it should:

if(condition)
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expression...
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instead of the obfuscated form:

if(condition) {
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That is the AT&T long lines building. It was built to handled telephone switches. Of course unlawful domestic surveillance happens there.
New elements? That's what XHTML does since 1999
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There will be a time in the near future where a CEO of a large company similar to Google will have the ability to control a billion robots, Google has over a billion android phones that it could subvert if it wanted to. Such level of power would effectively allow such a company or CEO to take over the world.
I don't know where you get the Utopian / changing-everyone conclusion from. I don't see any Utopian solutions, but I do see the potential for dramatic improvement.

Improvement requires more information, not less. Democracy is about equality. You don't have equality when you don't have equality of information. The only way to have a level playing field is to have everyone's information publicly available.

Once you do that, you have to emulate the benefits of privacy in some other way. Tolerating more and respecting the wishes of others is I think the best way forward.

If you've got a better way to emulate the benefits of privacy, I'm all ears, but don't try to convince me we can have privacy back, not in this age of the internet of things, drones, Uber, Google, Facebook, smart cars, cell phones, big data, big corporations, big government. It's just not going to happen.
Yep, that's also a great option, but I like the proximity of Sweden to Europe and to my country of origin Tunisia. It makes visiting family much less of a hassle.
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I have several old VCRs, when they break I just throw it on the pile and get another from the thrift store for about $20. I noticed one day that although electronics of the VCRs vary widely, the spinning heads all seem the same. So I had one with a damaged head, replaced it with a head from another one (different brand, different electronics) that was broken in another way, and it worked perfectly.
This is nothing but speculation, and represents the nullification of science by providing the answer: "It's Aliens!" It is functionally equivalent to arguing for intelligent design.
that's the whole point of the GP: it's not the tech or the money that's the goal, it's the helping out part that drives both the tech and the money. i agree that this doesn't look usual and i applaud Musk for becoming rich and still being focused on his original goals instead of trying to make more money.
Firmware can be another issue.

My parents have a washing machine with busted power transistors and MCU which drives them. The MCU could be replaced but without FW it's a brick.
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I feel that if a victim is being harassed and / or abused then an authority should take action. This doesn't necessarily have to be the owner of a platform. For example, I would not expect the Royal Mail to stop delivering letters from a criminal who committed an offense via post. A separation of duties I suppose.

Though with international platforms jurisdiction with law enforcement can be tricky, I'm sure I remember cases brought to court successfully off the back of Twitter abuse.

Not disagreeing with your points entirely though. Perhaps there is middle ground in the platform providing analytics of this kind to law enforcement?
Dislike Obama all you want, but he's let the states experiment with legalization. He's freed some people sentenced to harsh terms for non-violent drug offenses. I expect a huge wave of pardons and commutations of other non-violent offenders as his term ends.

As for Trump, he's put a nazi (or alt-right if you prefer) in the White House. He's nominated another racist for AG: Sessions who was considered too racist to be a judge, in a confirmation hearing in 1986. The judiciary committee was led by none other than Strom Thurmond. Thurmond and company thought he was too racist. Thurmond! Let that sink in.

Speaking of foreign donations, the President-Elect has 'invited' foreign dignitaries to stay at the Trump Hotel (the Old Post Office) in DC. Which they are doing so in an effort to gain favor with the new administration. Profits from their stays, of course, goes straight to Trump. Unfortunately for him, this will be quite illegal, and un-Constitutional according to the emoluments clause, as soon as he takes office. This clause will also apply to his foreign holdings, many of which remain in the dark because Trump has decided to be as non-transparent as possible.
Wow, since I went back to school recently I've lost touch with the HTML/JS news, so I've been completely unaware of browsers starting to integrate these features. Will this mean less dependence on React in the near future, or am I missing something?