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Yeah, rather than reaching earth’s surface directly, it’s far more likely that a given cosmic ray will collide with molecules in the atmosphere, creating a particle shower [1].

Extremely high-energy cosmic rays are sometimes detected, however. The so-called “Oh-My-God particle“, detected in 1991, apparently carried as much energy as a baseball moving at 58 mph [2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle_shower

[2]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh-My-God_particle
I just stated my point with perfect clarity. And no, gun control has been legislated almost entirely in response to perceived violence from communities of color.
Github is essentially a public library for computer code, but they happen to make money. I'm not sure I can see the difference between publishing and "doing business" in this case.
There is nothing “infrastructure” about any of the FaANGs.
> As you get closer to the event horizon, the rest of the universe appears to speed up.

Only if you are using rocket power to "hover" at a constant altitude above the horizon (and the amount of rocket power you need increases without bound as you try to hover closer and closer to the horizon). If you are free-falling in, the rest of the universe actually appears redshifted, not blueshifted.
Had the Microbrute, volca beats/keys/bass. All of them sounded awesome. The only problem is you couldn't really make songs (with distinct parts) without an additional controller (a squarp pyramid would have been cool. ) and the whole point was to not have to use a computer.

If I did it again a I'd probably go with an octatrack or mpc live or something where I could do more in a single box.
And then you what, die in the appreciated property? If you want to make money, it's already very profitable for you to sell the house for condo development but no one is doing that. Instead residents write open letters about how they moved here in 1976 and under no circumstances will allow their neighborhood to be different than back then.
Like "open source" alternatives, you mean ? ;-)

On my toy android app, I'm trying to avoid anything Google-licensed: replacing Maps by OSM for example. Just a small step... but a new mindset.

Problem is: today the US sanctionned some well-known "bad" actors (under UN scrutiny) but will sanction EU too... just because of business or strategical interest (and without any UN consensus).
From the official source:

> The observed melt rates are up to two orders of magnitude greater than predicted by theory, challenging current simulations of ice loss from tidewater glaciers.

Denial doesn't help. If you don't like the posts, you're free to go elsewhere. Civility is a two-way street.
<2 points of the difference is due to 2 generations of improvements on IPC, the other ~6 are due to the boost clock rate being 200 MHz higher from manufacturing refinement.
It's just a novelty, as my sibling comment mentions, nat64 and dual stacking allows you do everything you need.

Nat64 requires a static route added to your gateway or each node, requires a custom DNS resolver and a daemon which manages iptables on a secondary gateway host for rewriting packets to/from IPv4 destination. It's pretty clever since it uses a /96 (32-bits) on the secondary gateway to return AAAA record for all IPv4 addresses.

Dual Stack is more straight forward requiring only an additional IPv6 address to be allocated to each machine requiring access.
But startups use Oracle according to Oracle...
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I don't know either, and I am no expert, but it sounds like Github/Microsoft lawyers may have decided it on one side or the other.

I put it in quotation marks because it is my laymen's understanding of what the sanctions are intended to cover. I could be wrong and the actual boundaries could be subject to debate and disagreement.
2 things to consider...

1. Humans aren't good at random, try using a RNG or dice.

2. If you toss 10 coins, what is the probability of 5 heads and 5 tails? It isn't very likely, even though it's the most likely outcome.
Americans don't know just how bad they have it. - Multiple Anonymous authors

See also: Michael Moore's Where to Invade Next? (about things that other countries do better than the US, that it could try)
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Would that really change anything? I think what we’re seeing is the inevitable result of the internet and tech companies becoming the most important aspect of modern civilisation. We’re not a bunch of hippie geeks fooling around with open tech anymore while the political level largely ignores us. With almost everyone in the world using the internet for hours a day, regulation was simply bound to come.

Not knowing where your customers come from isn’t going to make the regulation go away, but it might make your entire company illegal.

It’s not something I think is good by the way, but the regulation and legislation is likely going to get more and more restrictive as our governments catch up.
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Maybe because people setting sanctions know that Crimea is not a victim, and most of its population supported joining Russia, and hope that making their life harder may reduce the support.
What are your thoughts on elektron machines?
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This. The ruling class in the countries can still get the products and services they want. Can someone actually point to a case where broad sanctions like this has made a difference? Cuba has survived these sanctions for decades. When politians like Marco Rubio says the regime is about to break if we keep the pressure on, I just laugh.
Vox is not a conspiracy theory laden government propaganda outlet.
> from inside the black hole, it must look like everything that has ever fallen into the black hole in the history of the universe has fallen into it at the same instant.

No, that's not correct. You can see things that have fallen in before you, but not after you. There are still distinct points on the horizon where things can cross, and distinct trajectories inside the hole.

> I'm not entirely sure how black hole evaporation fits into this

Nobody knows for sure because we don't have a good theory of quantum gravity. In Hawking's original semi-classical model of black hole evaporation, things that fall into the hole before it evaporates are still destroyed at the singularity, but if you wait outside and watch the hole evaporate, the final burst of light as the hole finishes evaporating and disappears will contain images of everything that fell into the hole, at the instant it crossed the horizon. However, it's not at all clear that that model will still be a good approximation when we have a full quantum gravity theory.
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Of course. Nobody is particularly bothered by the loss of one company's services. It's the totality of the effect that you're looking for.
You don't even need a battery; even a 220uF capacitor gives you a couple of milliseconds at USB power levels[0].

0: USB is supposed to draw < 0.5A @ 5VDC, a resistance of >10Ω. 1F*1Ω=1s, so at 10Ω, each 100uF gets you one millisecond. You do need to worry about voltage dropping off over time though.
I don't like what's going in Crimea either, and I support most sanctions against it, but I also don't understand why they should be excluded from open source software participation. On an idealogical basis I reject the idea of OSS being politicised. Otherwise, where do we stop?
You are correct, the cosmic rays you see in a cloud chamber are typically muons (and its pretty easy to make one with stuff you can get at the drug store (or apothecary if you're outside the US :-)). If you want to see the higher energy ones then shielding helps.
I think you could consider the incarcerated victims of the drug war as political dissidents. The laws exist to make sure black people couldn't vote against Nixon, which I'd say is a political imprisonment
Watch SpaceX hop StarHopper, untethered 20 meters [video]
Citation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_ray_visual_phenomena
Yeah, let's fork the client and make it decentralized[1], and write an open source version of the server[2] so people can host their own instances!

[1] https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Distributed-Git-Distributed-W...

[2] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org
FYI: It's just "Ukraine", not "the Ukraine".

"The Ukraine" referred to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in the Soviet Union.
I actually knew this guy when it happened. We were both members of the same amateur radio club in Lansing. I didn't know him well but remember fondly how the club went nuts when he succeeded. When he returned to the next meeting he was given a true heroes welcome.
I agree. Back during the cold war we used to run radio stations broadcasting into enemy territory to create sympathy and show that we are humans too. Today we seem to be doing the opposite.
If a C-level executive officer would be involved in a decision to fire a low-level developer, am I right in assuming the company was quite small? As companies get bigger, firing power and other forms of authority cannot stay concentrated only in the executive suite -- it's just not sustainable or scalable.
yeah lol why would induction be true
Shareholders own companies and a rising stock price benefits shareholders who elect the board members that run said company, a falling stock price isn't in anyone's interest who are invested in the company.

It does help with M&A, raising capital, employee stock options + bonuses.

It's rare, but sometimes you'll hear company Investors saying that their stock price is too high, like Zoom's CEO [1].

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-18/zoom-vide...
I'm coming from the Boston _area_ because I can't afford to live in Boston or Cambridge. But guess what? There are comfortably sized houses available already under $400k 20 minutes out.
Arguments like this are insane because complex behavior like lifestyle choice is not 100% (or probably even 50%) genetic. It’s like saying that the only way to have more people coding is for coders to have kids. Complete bullshit.
Fixed -- had no idea, thanks for the heads-up!
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> Would that really change anything? I think what we’re seeing is the inevitable result of the internet and tech companies becoming the most important aspect of modern civilisation.

I think what we are seeing is the implementation of authoritarian governments, something that has been on the increase nearly everywhere, in the last 20 years.

People have in the developed world had it, too good for too long. Complacency and populism is what led to this.

We voted in "strong leaders" and this is what we're gonna get, strong policies that might not really be all that smart.

What these policies forget is a lot of general citizens don't have much choice over the regime that leads them. They are just often people doing their thing.

Free software is actually something which brings us together, as it's about what we do and have in common, rather than race, religion or politics. I think that's why it feels so awful.
Anyone use any elektron equipment?
It’s a tactic that was perfect during the course of the last election. Which of course existed well before that but now it’s been refined for the internet and social media age.

I’m not looking forward to the next election.
Because they don't want to allow Russia to use it as a port or for commerce; Russia has been trying to take the Crimea for commercial purposes for the last millenium or so. And because they don't have the guts to sanction all of Russia.
It has a mild diuretic effect on nonregular users, yes.
> The success of the new method “opens the door for researchers to do this all over the world,” says Sutherland. Specifically, insight from the research at LeConte Glacier in Alaska could be used to study glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica. “Submarine melting may matter everywhere,” says Enderlin.
the UK is especially disgusting in this. For example, Chelsea is still owned by Abramovich (a close Putin’s ally) who has no trouble traveling, buying property and otherwise enjoying what West has to offer.
Tons of “Untied Russia” party members own property in Miami and London with no issues whatsoever
I always hear about these people but I never hear about the profile of the places that hire these people to do consulting.

Since you mention "Outside of the top of the IC ladders at the giant tech companies" which is about $600k or thereabouts, I am guessing this means they are billing for about $500/hr-$600/hr? So a week's rate is roughly $20k+. What kind of place is paying software engineer contractors that much?
The gallery of "killed negatives" bearing the hole indicating no replication is an interesting and curious practice.

https://petapixel.com/2016/03/28/many-great-depression-photo...

This article, however, confuses me. I've always been interested on notions of cultural identity and otherness in Japanese history - instead there's this strange constellation of disparate and only somewhat amusing historical anecdotes. The ending upsets me. I've experienced too many different variants and strains of this kind of New Age scientific mysticism clothed in a language of Japanese pseudo-Zen buzzword soup that is usually a segue into discussing their recent mushroom trip. Reading my own words back to myself, this reads as being flippant and dismissive but then I think about the number of times this has actually happened and how it makes me nauseous.

I'm being a bit harsh here, but this is more common than I'd like it to be and I'd really wish people would stop using Japanese religion and spirituality as a crutch for their psychedelic dabbling that always speaks to what feels like religious voyeurism.

I should speak more specifically as to why this is upsetting. There is a vein of thought in Japanese spirituality and to some degree, the larger whole of Asian mysticism that lends itself to this sort of ambiguity and perhaps more accessible kind of rigorous contemplation. I think a key observation would be an example like Zen koans where perhaps the pursuit of meaning and the act of moving towards insight is in itself valuable even if you never actually obtain a perfect idea of what it is you're supposed to get out of anything. As if to say, you're not supposed to suppose it at all would be one interpretation. So this cuts a few ways. On one hand, some practitioners can wave their hands around and speak profusely on very little. On the other hand, there's a great deal of credence towards what you give is what you get and ultimately who is to judge how people make sense of what imbues them with a state of wonder?

What upsets me is the tone of the article is monotonous and routine. It is all too familiar. The preamble bearing the quotations of German nihilism of some sort. A remarkably shallow critique of Japan's cultural and historical identity lacking the rigor to appropriately challenge what is deserving towards its reticence to admit its racism. And ultimately what does the passage of words sublimate into? A sandwich containing extraneous descriptions of shit and pleonasm.
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Reality dictates that politics are inherent in human society. You are not above it, and neither is your hobby. Ignoring society is a privilege that never lasts.
> unless i'm having trouble getting it down my throat.

If you have to get that far, are you certain to do the best job for your health?
Further, sanctioning all of Russia would probably break the Principle of Proportionality[1].

[1] https://opil.ouplaw.com/view/10.1093/law:epil/9780199231690/...
>Instead residents write open letters about how they moved here in 1976 and under no circumstances will allow their neighborhood to be different than back then.

I think this is the hardest thing to reconcile. I mean it's easy to get riled up against some rich white NIMBYs doing this kind of thing, but now replace those rich whites with x minority like Mexican-Americans who have lived in their Mexican-American majority Southern Californian neighborhood all their life in the same homes they've always been in. Imagine ripping on them for trying to preserve their neighborhood and therefore their culture. And for what? To make it possible for more people to move in and potentially make things worse for the people already there? If it's a minority-majority neighborhood, making it possible for more whites to move in is gentrification. How do you argue for that?

I'm not saying I agree with any of this by the way, just playing devil's advocate.
the topic follows me for the last 20+ years, I'm political active and argued in favour of reduction of co2 emission and transition to renewable energy. since I'm able to choose my own electricity supplier I chose one which only buys renewable energy. I do most of my daily things by walking and by public transit. I'm also active in a club for transportation transition and argue publicly that my town should be focus on bicycles and walking than cars. Sadly I don't see much success, because I'm confronted with a view that w/o cars it wouldn't work, that I have to be aware all the jobs my ideas would kill, and all other things. That is why I'm not very hopeful for the future.

P.S. the thing about what a single person can do is just so much, for a real impact it really needs governments to set policies which causes fundamental change. Does the government continue to build motorways, does the government sets up an environment which is benefitial for investments in renewable energy or in coal. all this has a much bigger influence then my personal decisions.
"The Boston area might refuse to let you put in new window panes if you live in a historic house ..."

That sounds like a really easy problem to solve ...

"Yes, children - of course you may play baseball in my front yard ..."
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It is a variadic function of unlimited number of variables. :)
Because US corporations and non-US corporations with major US operations tend not to want to risk it and comply with sanctions.

These sanctions tend not to be universal and some services can continue to be provided, however the price of violating said sanctions can be very severe.

I don’t know how many people who work at Github or PayPal especially senior management are willing to risk fines not to mention jail time for something as simple as some Russian officer buying a DVD on the internet while being stationed in Crimea or a local IT guy from the current pro-Russian government making a pull request.
Hasn't this already happened?

Elon: https://nyppagesix.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/elon.jpg?qual...

Lebron: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/1_YfIB-9iM8/maxresdefault.jpg
Yeah, that seems to be for values of "at home" that only includes the homes of expert CNC machinist with access to someone to write custom software for it. Otherwise, the accuracy is impressive, though it doesn't seem to approach the level of automation seen in the Kern machines.
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The replication crisis is a real example of an incentive problem rampant in the current system. However, this leads to a disproportionate emphasis on original research. Accusing it of leading to the things you talked about is a non sequitur.

Again, by no means is academia perfect. But insisting that its primary problem is that grant writers are a pack of pathological liars is both incorrect and unhelpful in solving actual problems, that's all.

And yeah. I would say that most people would benefit from regular refreshers on statistics... in or out of academia.
> Most people don't even understand how to listen to their own bodies anymore, and doctors are more concerned with prescriptions that treating underlying issues.

Well said!
It is the sad truth that doctors can be coerced by private companies into personal monetary benefits from selling their products.
Thanks for the summary.

any kind of freedom at all, emerges from the layers upon layers upon layers that make up the existence of what we call a living creature.

I don't see why layers upon layers would imply freedom. A complex Java web framework may have layers upon layers of abstractions, and that may make its operation hard to understand fully. But that doesn't mean it isn't deterministic.

Spinoza wrote: Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are determined.
The key word here seems to be "up to". It'll be interesting to see how many employees (common shareholders) are actually willing to sell their shares to the investors.

If they're holding on and the full $525M isn't raised, then almost paradoxically, I'd wager that Unity is doing really really well. If they're selling, I don't think it necessarily can be construed as good or bad without proper context.
Their Github Pages page was censored. They are unable to participate in the maintenance of an open source repository. This was done, according to Github, as a requirement to comply with the laws of its state.

If that's not a free speech issue, there are no free speech issues.
I wonder if Elon's facial hair is also a transplant.
I think your numbers are probably correct. I don't happen to know another number: how many people in Chechnya would rather be independent than part of Russia. But it doesn't matter; the Russian government is very selective about how it applies the "right to self-determination".

The Russian government is likewise selective in its interpretation of the Budapest agreement (1994) [1], in which Russia guaranteed Ukraine's territorial integrity in return for Ukraine giving up nuclear weapons.

Edit: I incorrectly wrote "Bucharest agreement"; fixed it (thanks jotm)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum_on_Securit...
Whether it is open source or not, GitHub is an American corporation (owned by Microsoft) and what it does is commercial activity.

This isn't a free speech issue. It's not even a corporate free speech issue. This is commercial activity.

Whether this is good policy or not, is another matter but it isn't a free speech matter.
Why city dwellers are seeking out second homes in the suburbs
Exactly. Why would Google risk a political storm that will dwarf this (at least for now) very minor candidate's entire campaign many times over, in terms of importance and newsworthyness?
>Republicans are strangely against giving voting IDs or state IDs for free to low income people. They also restrict early voting to make poor people choose between losing pay and voting, and are also against making election day a national holiday. They are also on record stating that the voter ID laws will help them win.

In the United States, we have 50 sovereign states that are responsible for election systems/laws. Distributing power was a key feature in the founding of the USA, and shitting on the design in order meet a goal (I personally happen to appreciate) does not justify the means.

Mis-characterizing your opponent's argument is not helpful.
when?

We don't know the TO we don't even know the date, may it be more useful to show it after it has happened?
I don't mean this to sound aggressive, but would you agree then with sanctioning the U.S. after its actual military shot down an Iranian passenger plane, inside Iranian waters [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655