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Trombone12··on Corviale, a one-kilometer residential complex in Rome
That would be a research project in the architectural world, archdaily is more content-from-a-distance type publication.
Trombone12··on FCC Bans Authorizations for Devices That Pose National Security Threat
In the sense that it is official US government policy to describe China as a rival, as distinct from even the neutral "partner". Most recently this is said in the US national security strategy from October, which declares that it is a central task of US foreign policy to oppose Chinas vision for the world.

Another examples is that the DoD has for quite a long time declared China as the primary adversary, or as they politely say it "pacing challenge".

Trombone12··on Death by hockey sticks
Don't forget the infinite families of higher order polynomials that can have arbitrary shapes beyond the point the observed data ends.
Trombone12··on Death by hockey sticks
What are you trying to achieve by pointing out one of the ways to construct an incorrect model of the passenger pigeon population?
Trombone12··on Britain should scrap its online safety bill
You guys got a constitution now?!
Trombone12··on Why is the nuclear power industry stagnant?
> Opinion pages don't mean they lie, it means they will use facts to back up an opinion the writer is expressing

This is simply untrue of the WSJ opinion pages, they've been publishing climate change denials for the last 30 years, so "factual" is absolutely not something you can just take for granted if you find it there. This is why I found it incredible that you implied it would be a mark of quality.

Trombone12··on Why is the nuclear power industry stagnant?
> This is a common theme that the WSJ opinion pages push.

Am I reading this correctly when I take it to mean that you think something being on the WSJ opinion pages gives it credibility?

Trombone12··on What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physicists (2016)
Alchemy sired Chemistry and Medicine, not Physics. Physics comes from the natural philosophers pondering ballistics and not the people hoping to make gold out of lead.

Anyway, Newtons contribution with Principia was to collect facts known in his time and put them into one unified mathematical framework, he didn't actually discover any of "his" laws (as predicted by Stigler's law).

Trombone12··on Why federated protocols don't work (2016)
The original title was a bland thing conveying naught but the thin idea that the world changes. A better objection is that the submitted title does not accurately reflect what is clearly Marlinspikes thesis statement:

> "I no longer believe that it is possible to build a competitive federated messenger at all"

Personally I think the new titles stays pretty close to the thesis statement, but it might be a bit exaggerated as clearly Marlinspike doesn't mean "technically impossible" but rather something more like "socially unworkable".

Trombone12··on Mysterious object unlike anything astronomers have seen before
No, the reason JWST is better for ultra deep space is because the expansion of the universe redshifts the peak of the light emitted by the really old stars into the IR band. Also it has a bigger mirror so it can see fainter stuff, which things further away tend to be.
Trombone12··on Mysterious object unlike anything astronomers have seen before
The abstract of the article suggests it is a magnetar, which depending on your mood could be counted as a type of pulsar, though it's probably more sensible to label both as types of neutron stars.

> By measuring the dispersion of the radio pulses with respect to frequency, we have localized the source to within our own Galaxy and suggest that it could be an ultra-long-period magnetar.

Trombone12··on Society has a trust problem. More censorship will only make it worse
Which are the classical platforms? I'm not sure we've had any instances of wide reach distribution systems that completely lacks editorial oversight before internet companies figures out how to monetise raw traffic.
Trombone12··on UK’s largest flow battery energised
Guessing blindly here, but maybe the liquid is pretty expensive still?
Trombone12··on Former Harvard chemistry chair to stand trial for allegedly hiding ties to China
It says "chinese" for a reason dude, and the problem is obviously that you are harassing innocent people.

And if you don't see that as human rights problem, consider you're wasting your finite intelligence resources on dead ends and so you're not finding the traditional spies that's just some dude that's been bribed.

Trombone12··on Former Harvard chemistry chair to stand trial for allegedly hiding ties to China
Sorry what? I post stories about the FBI harassing academics with Chinese connections while not finding any crime, and you accuse me of framing IP theft as something mild?

Have you also spent most of last year accusing George Floyd protesters of downplaying the importance of paying for cigarettes?

Trombone12··on Former Harvard chemistry chair to stand trial for allegedly hiding ties to China
Maybe, but it's in a context of strong Chinese = Enemy thinking that has been plaguing American academia the last years: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/28/world/asia/china-universi... https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/wrongly-prosecuted-chine...
Trombone12··on Catholic church's proposed redesign of Notre Dame interior provokes outrage
Most of the effect must surely be attributed to the conscious choices explicitly designed to make you feel small and pious, right? Though I think for some people a fair bit of the experience comes from thinking it is very old and holy, so if you tell them it's a 1:1 replica they'd be disappointed.

Probably the original craftspeople would be hella jealous about reinforce concrete and insist on building some big towering monstrosity that doesn't respect the architecture around it. That was after all what they set out to build, a big hopping temple to god that puts everything around it to shame: give those guys a big budget and reinforced concrete and you have a new flight hazard in the middle of Paris.

Trombone12··on Catholic church's proposed redesign of Notre Dame interior provokes outrage
What's so bad about fire safety?
Trombone12··on Catholic church's proposed redesign of Notre Dame interior provokes outrage
How far back is the "original"? Is it to the state before the 1840's restoration?
Trombone12··on Catholic church's proposed redesign of Notre Dame interior provokes outrage
> Last Friday, the British conservative newspaper The Telegraph denounced the reimagined Notre Dame as a “politically correct Disneyland” and an “experimental showroom”.

Some sort of reverse psychology plot to get the French to go ahead with the plans I presume?

Trombone12··on Why are cross-country train tickets in EU still so complex?
That would require some detail about where you grew up to answer, I think Interrail is fairly well known in Europe. Or do you simply mean the latest changes to the terms?
Trombone12··on The Truth Shall Make You Free: Catholicism and the CIA
It's a book review, and the title references the subject of the books. If one book gets more attention than the other you can probably conclude that it was the more interesting one.
Trombone12··on Why does no one ever talk about Sweden anymore?
Denmark has more than twice the cumulative deaths per million people of Norway, are you saying that is still to be considered the same outcome?
Trombone12··on Notes Regarding Dupuis’ 1910 Elements of Astronomy [pdf]
The Earth by Hubert Krivine (ISBN:978-1-78168-799-4) does exactly this for the case of the Earths age and motion around the Sun, so that's a start.

If your ambition is a more detailed history of science account of the establishment of the distance ladder (up to some slightly distant point in time, as work is still ongoing, see the famous Hubble tension), try googling for articles about history of science and the distance ladder. That activity gives me this preview that might be interesting: https://www.jstor.org/stable/24536521

A full version can probably be found online.

Trombone12··on Notes Regarding Dupuis’ 1910 Elements of Astronomy [pdf]
Other 1910 astronomy questions: how do star work? How are they powered? Do they just cool forever from their birth? Do they contract to the point of becoming liquid?
Trombone12··on Music streaming payouts comparison
I think the real savings are on the distribution side, but at the same time what actually counts as a "sale" is pretty blurry on streaming services.

Anyway, the real question is how the net income compares to living expenses, and how that had developed over time.

Trombone12··on Is the atmosphere an upside down ocean? [pdf]
Well, that was a very complicated way of saying "no". Though I did learn of a few similarities I didn't know of previously in between all the equations.
Trombone12··on Combatting online racist abuse: an update following the Euros
Say it's a great tragedy and if only people had more firearms at hand thins would be different?
Trombone12··on Elon Musk’s anti-union tweet from 2018 must be deleted: U.S. labor board
How could the organisers know what future members want then the company spend much effort on preventing workers from talking to each other?
Trombone12··on Hacker's Guide to Numerical Analysis
Sure, but there is no typographical convention for how to indicate that a number is following such a norm so you can never tell from the number alone.
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