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> So tossing in antimatter would not do much. It would never cross the horizon in an external observer’s reference frame and thus would never interact with anything and thus would produce no effects.

It would never be directly seen crossing the horizon by the accelerated observers you are thinking about (it just gets redder and dimmer), but it sure crosses the horizon, and this can be seen by those observers indirectly: the mass term of the BH metric describing the exterior spacetime changes, with observables like the Einstein lensing subtending a greater angle and a change in the apparent location of the ISCO.

Consider the act of throwing a smaller black hole of mass M_small into a larger one of mass M_big: General Relativity tells us that within about a light-crossing time of the sum of the diameters of the two BHs there will be a larger BH of M_merged \lt (M_big + M_small) with the missing mass dumped into a large dynamical perturbation of your choice of background metric. (Linearizing this picture is literally how gravitational waves are studied; with the present detections of gravitational waves, we can be pretty confident that neutron stars do in fact cross into the horizons of black holes rather than gathering up as some structure microscopically close to the horizon, and even more clearly not as a long-lived bump near the horizon of a BH where J \gt 0).

There are of course other observers who could outright see the infallers cross the point of no return.

(Power-orbit yourself close to the horizon of an ultramassive black hole where the tidal forces at the horizon are even less than those we experience here on Earth. Poke your little finger through the horizon. By virtue of your orbit it will slice right off, and using a highly sensitive gravimeter you would detect it behind you as you continue on your orbit. If you don't believe in gravimeters that sensitive, feel free to substitute a prominent mountain on a rocky planet for your finger and you, and you could then use existing technology. (Also, you could use a highly elliptical orbit instead of a highly powered circular one) In either case, a distant outside accelerated observer has to contend with the redshift, and so won't directly see what happened, and might not be patient enough for you to communicate your results. Additionally, the "bump" will only survive for a fraction of your orbit around the BH, since the bump is hair that will be balded within about a light-crossing time. The ringdown will propagate as gravitational radiation which will get to distant outside accelerated observer sooner than you, or a message from you, will.)
And they recently ruined the design of it on both the app and the website :(
> People are surprisingly easy to reprogram.

Not you, though. No way could YOU be under the influence of a totalitarian ideology despite the fact that you are openly advocating restricting basic human rights.
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science can never prove anything as a matter of principle. it can only disprove all the alternatives. math and logic can prove, but only within the model it has built up, which has been shown to contain unprovable axioms that one must simply accept.
I respectfully disagree. In the 70’s, IBM 360s / 370s and such were “mainframes”, while PDP11s and the like were “mini computers”. As 8080 / Z80 machines started to appear, they were always “microcomputers”, eventually evolving into “desktops”, with higher-end ones “workstations”.

But “mainframe” was exclusively used for big batch and time-sharing iron sitting in a “machine room” that you weren’t allowed into unless you were employed as an “operator” or the IBM serviceman doing scheduled weekly PM (preventive maintenance), during which time no jobs ran.
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I've never had T4 in a project where I didn't immediately have problems. It also doesn't seem to really be a thing for .NET Core...
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For fun? Strange question. Almost as if you were asking rhetorically.
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> people making their purchasing decisions might

Board members and shareholders might (some day -- hopefully) care, too.
To relate it to the main article: public housing in Singapore is affordable and an investment.

You can sell it and prices are somewhat market driven but with complicated taxes and limitations to prevent speculation (flipping). It's affordable because, as public housing, there are numerous subsidies, incentives, etc that the government provides to make the initial down payment and subsequent installments as easy as possible.
Thanks for posting that. Wish I had a reference to when Gates made that statement.
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The great thing about free software is you can install whatever you want regardless of whether Corporation X decided it’s still cool or not.
I am advocating the right for private organizations to ban fucked-up ideologies from their services. That this is being framed as some sort of totalitarian assault on free speech shows just how far the right-wing rot has gotten.

The balance fallacy will be the death of democracy in America.
I wrote Snake in 100 lines of ClojureScript for a talk at UCT a few years ago and used that shape of data structure: http://theronic.github.io/cljs-snake/

For anything more complex, I immediately reach for DataScript as a client-side Datalog DB.
Muslims are not a coherent whole like your opening statement might make out.
I get people who prefer not running desktop environments but I just like the convenience of using one. Every need I haven't anticipated is fulfilled. Integration of everything is here out of the box. I can tweak anything I would want to tweak but it turns out the default configuration usually pleases me.

And it's fast and never gets in my way.

Actually it's faster than no desktop environment: I have to use an USB key? Just plug it in, and it's mounted, I just need to click on the notification at the bottom right of the screen to open the file manager. I have a nice eject button to. No need to set this up myself or to launch mount commands. I can sill use commands if I want to.

I would argue that outside of desktop environments, it's fast to do what I don't need to do in a desktop environment.

I don't use a tiling window manager because my windows are always full screen anyway (or side by side), but I guess it would be possible to just run a tiling window manager instead of kwin in plasma or xfwm4 on xfce. (Gnome 3 may be different).

The session is a bit slow to boot and that could be improved, but that's just a few seconds once in a while.

I say all this knowing how to use a GNU/Linux system without a desktop environment perfectly well.
And - how or why would I care that stripe processed infowars transactions, unless I was actually in the process of buying something from infowars?
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Is the Optane SSD storage referenced in this article different from this Optane storage that GCP just announced support for?

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/partners/available-firs...
> Gab would like to use Stripe or Paypal because they are trusted payment providers, but those networks felt they'd stop being trusted payment providers if they let Gab stay on.

What does that even mean "stop being trusted payment providers"? If their API works and payments go through, that seems trustworthy to me.
So you just built a barebones, frankly sort of ugly UI around an RSS feed of /r/UpliftingNews/?

Is this a bootcamp application project? How did this end up on the front page?
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What makes the 'deplatforming' threat viable is that so many critical aspects of an online business are a choice between private-enterprise players. Stripe or Authorize.net. AWS or DigitalOcean. GoDaddy or Namecheap.

As you suggest, they have no individual legal obligation to serve a business that may cause bad press/high risk/whatever. But when you can enough of them pointing in the same direction, it creates the chilling effect-- a business that's technically legal but can't get the services they need. It basically creates am unspoken private regulation well beyond the actual law of the state.

I tend to think the answer might be non-profit or state-run "service providers of last resort" -- charter-bound to provide service for any legal purpose, no matter how distasteful. Not necessarily cheap or slick, but they won't pull your plug because people complain about your content. Such a provider would defang the deplatforming strategy pretty fast.
>Previous deplatformings (Milo, Alex Jones) haven't produced any visible negative consequences for the platforms.

Anecdotally, these deplaformings are shifting my worldview further right. And I know for a fact that it is having the same affect on many of my peers. Some might call that a negative consequence.
> Hi-Dpi support, in particular, is properly broken in KDE

Not true. I use KDE everyday on my primary computer (an HP Envy 17t laptop), and have so since June this year. It works excellently on my 4K display. (You even get to pick a non-integer scaling factor.)

Just FYI, I run Arch Linux, and am (consequently) always on the latest version of KDE.

Everything worked out of the box with KDE. Including my laptop’s various hot keys, sleep/wake, networking, etc.

KDE was quite incredible compared to the 1 kLOC xmonad that I’d been using in my previously laptop. Zero configuration. Everything working perfectly with no headache.
... Except that Edison succeeded.

What kind of failures should we celebrate? There are two kinds that I can see: a failure to produce a result because of a lack of skill or knowledge and a failure to produce a result because of a demonstrable or provable reason. The last one is actually a success because that kind of failure produces new knowledge. But we have a culture in far too many fields where this is seen as not publishable.
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Little of what I do, even with the most rigorous methods available and the best practices from both software development and computational science, proves anything.
My advice is not to plan it as a RTW trip.

Pick a good city at the edge of a continent (Bangkok, Cape Town, Lima) and book a one way flight. Travel slowly overland, talk to people you meet, and let your trip plan itself and evolve as you go.

Most important is to never put a date on the calendar. Dates wreck plans and make you rush past things you really should have taken the time to see right.

Chances are you'll cover a lot less ground than you expect in a year. That's fine. You can (and will, I guarantee) come back before long. Travel is addicting that way. I sometimes used to book my flight back home as a round trip back to where I'd left off.

Good luck!

Edit: I wrote a bit more about this idea a few years back:

http://www.blogabond.com/CommentView.aspx?CommentID=8226

... and I touched on where to go here:

https://www.expatsoftware.com/articles/2008/05/laid-off-one-...
I assume it means the mass of people might stop using those services (like paypal) because they don't want to support sites that talk about racist things like happens with gab. gab is different than say reddit to me because while reddit might have some people posting racist things or threatning to kill someone or rape them, but reddit will ban them or the group - but allowing for that kind of speech ends up appearing to be the main reason for a site like gab to exist.
It can run Android and Linux apps.

It's a shame we can't customise it as much as Android, despite it seemingly replacing Android on tablets.
If that guy was an "otherwise typical" user of gab, and gab has ~500,000 active users(per wikipedia), why hasn't there been more than one story about gab-user-gone-wild in the media?
This is essentially a meaningless question.

Whatever issues other people conflict with, they are by definition already known to be no problem for you. It's either things you don't want or care about, and so never tried to do, and you wouldn't think it was important when descibed, or it's things that work fine for you, by your happy good luck of not having whatever combination of configs or hardware or usage pattern or sunspots etc where it fails.

I don't blame you for wondering. It's just that I think it's almost automatically impossible to answer the question and have any other result than you say "oh, that's all?" It's even fine for you to have that reaction, it's just that, what's the point if there is no possible other reaction? That's what I mean by meaningless question.

If you are happy in a Prius, because it does everything you want, then what do you care if I say it can't drive over curbs or be pop-started?

It's like when anyone else asks why you run linux instead of windows or mac, or why you root your android phone. Whatever you tell them, none of them ever thinks it adds up or makes any sense.

What am I missing on Windows? "On linux you can do whatever you want." But what else would I want to do? "Anything. I have no idea. Probably nothing by the sound of it."
I don't want my tax money used for that. Not because I object to the content, but because it's a waste of money and government officials have more important things to focus on.
most. offline people doing podcasts and games probably don't emmit much less.
A friend who is in the Singapore market right now mentionef that his mortgage payments would be nearly the same as his rent, thanks to the incentives the government gives for home ownership
Neither are gab users though. It's not like there is a "hates jews" requirement in the TOS to sign up.
The general populations would have to learn about thousands of people then in hundreds of fields. This notion that the general population "needs to know XYZ" is a requirement to keep celeb culture afloat, more than actual value to society. We live in the info age, which means people who are interested in a subject will easily find the people who made significant contributions.
The Governor decided that three telescopes would come down. One of these is the tiny UH Hilo education telescope, so it's not really anything like the others. Many people think that this particular telescope, the only one whose purpose is directly aimed at educating the local astronomy students, should not be the one sacrificed on the altar of the TMT, especially since its local impact is practically zero.
Based on my experience on Academia Stack Exchange, in a parallel universe there is a student complaining that their advisor made them rework everything the night before a presentation.

Candidly, I probably would have told you to present it as is, and add a caveat to the last slide that this was work in progress (most internal presentations are assumed to be so) and you're still chasing down some problems in your code. The reason for this is two-fold:

1) It's the night before. Many students I have known and mentored aren't at the point in their career that they can "wing" a major presentation. It would be setting them up to fail in a way I couldn't shield them from (I can deal with changing results, but a bad presentation is largely on the student).

2) The quality of your checking is likely to be poor the night before. There's a number of times I've found an error as something was being prepped for presentation/poster printing/etc. and been convinced it changed everything, only to discover after 48 hours of thought and more checking that the difference in results was pretty negligible - especially in the sense of the qualitative take aways from a presentation.

This, of course, may not have been your exchange with your PI. But I thought it was worthwhile that there are reasons not to have you change everything the night before that aren't the result of villainous fraud.
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> And when a single company has similar control over the internet, even for a particular group of people such that they are otherwise unreachable

ICANN?
Domain names aren't mandatory. IP addresses still work.
Containerization is not simple to use for many users of scientific code.

Hell, I'm pretty sure in my department, the first response would be "What's that?"
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Presumably that point was somehow related to Ratatouille?
Agreed, the step up in tax basis at time of inheritance is really the problem with that though. Which is a problem regardless of depreciation.

The new tax law that was passed I thought might eliminate that loophole, but the proposal was nixed in the final bill.
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Can I ask, would a system like the NHS in the UK ever be viable in the US?

It's not perfect, but it certainly gives us UK residents surety that we are always fairly protected if we were to become unhealthy. Also, they literally don't stop providing care until you're either better or pass away. In that sense, the NHS is really quite amazing.
Yeah, I'm aware of the strict theory.
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Zoning laws get a lot of negative on HN, but I think they serve an important, good purpose.

Here me out.

I work from home. Yay.

I live in a residential area in US, near an elementary school across the street, with an apartment building in the way. I can hear kids out running around and playing in the yard. They get pretty noisy, but I'm fine with it.

Right next to the elementary school is an apartment complex where a guy seems to be running a motorcycle repair business based out of his apartment's garage. The garage faces the street, facing my home.

He tests the loud motorcycle engines about 1 - 2 times running a few minutes each time, about 3 - 5 times a week. One of these days, I'm going to super glue his garage shut so that he can't get the motorcycles in and out of the garage.

Ok, well, just kidding. I will just have to deal with it. But still, it is dang annoying to hear the motorcycle engines revving up as described above. I can't imagine how I can deal with a motorcycle/car repair shop across from my home.

Zoning laws are often used as a tool by people who practice NIMBYism, but the laws were introduced for a reason, and I support zoning laws because it would mean keeping certain types of businesses bit placed away from homes.
An interesting twist on KDE is to replace kwin with i3 as the window manager. If you like both KDE and a tiling wm then it's pretty neat.
Part of the thing to keep in mind is that things like accusations of fraud are potentially career ending.

People, including professors, understandably react poorly to other people trying to end their careers. It's important to recognize that something like that is coming out swinging.

Also, in my experience, there's a tendency with many graduate students to conflate "unethical" with "I don't like this". Not saying that's true in this case, but an "incentive to root out professors" is likely going to result in some pretty strong undesirable outcomes as well.
And he wrote the "Undoing Project" to explain why this happens. Not his best book but a decent laymen intro for those interested in Behavioral Psychology.
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I heard many many commuters who work in Tokyo actually live pretty far away, commuting via the bullet trains. So the housing market in Tokyo is not in tremendous demand.
Tablet oriented UIs only work if you're solely consuming material. They really don't work for producing it. That's why Windows had to bring back the start menu, and many larger applications still don't use Metro.
I know. And I think it's a problem for science...

Logical proofs will never happen for software development, but surely standards for scientific programming can be tightened up a few levels!

I think I heard of some reform proposals from the Reproducibility Crisis reformers.
Gnome came after (this was a good move, KDE was then based on non free software).

I used gnome 2 and really liked it, i switched to kde before gnome 3 and now I just like KDE apps and Plasma more (and I regularly try gnome 3 out of curiosity). Imagine how much more wonderful KDE would be if gnome developers worked on KDE instead.

I guess it's a matter of taste and personal experiences.

I sure would appreciate that most of the work could be shared but the world is not perfect and the ability to explore and try different things in different ecosystems is valuable too.
KDE has never worked fantastically on Ubuntu especially its long term support release. Ubuntu persistently ships out of date libraries with bugs that have in fact already been fixed in newer versions that wont be updated for months/years until the next long term stable release. KDE's releass aren't delivered in sync with ubuntu's calendars so it has always worked better with a more up to date distro.

Widgets on the desktop seem to be a pointless dead end that we keep revisiting in lots of different environments. Maybe faddish stuff like that is more interesting to work on than spit and polish. That said

"Microsoft did not abandon Windows, they didn’t rewrite from scratch,"

They actually did this more than once in more ways than one that you believe this is so is more of an indication of their obsessive focus on backwards compatiability. Fro example Windows started out as an app running on dos, windows NT/XP was a completely different OS from 95 98. The underlying layers used to build the windows experience have changed multiple times. The ui has been given a substantial overhaul with vista/8. The way drivers worked changed a lot with vista.

"The desktop Linux is freaking horrible and obviously what people have been doing in the last two decades doesn’t work. So yes, let’s corporatize it, let’s make it boring and reliable. Because people want a working desktop, not freaking widgets."

As someone who has been using desktop linux for 15 years now I'm a little confused. KDE 3 was quite usable. KDE 4 was kind of annoying to use 4.0 - 4.3 which was about the begining of 08 through mid 09 but at the time kde + compiz was a thing and was honestly much better.

There are now actually a variety of simple and complete environments all of which work well. Of the ones I have currently sampled. Cinnamon, Plasma, i3wm, bspwm, mate all work well. I have 3 different linux distributions running in my house right now. All work well. The only one that was work to install or maintain is a derivative of gentoo which honestly has been less effort than running windows. What's horrible? We have an embarassment of riches. We have too many aweesome things to choose from.
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I have always wanted a 'Journal of Cautionary Tales', for studies that were well thought out, approached correctly, and just didn't work.
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The issue isn't whether you in particular care or not.

The issue, as I'm reading the parent comment, is that it's beginning to appear that no one is willing to stand up and say "look, it's not that I support this or that view, it's just that, well, if people are going to spout nonsense it might as well be here where can all observe them", because doing so would be so against current social normal it would be irresponsible.
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