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also, lying requires intent - saying somthing you know to be false, and is not the same as making mistakes, errors, etc.

not exactly modern, or dystopian - see also paper money, for instance, which may be owned by you, but is controlled by another entity and contains features making it hard to modify or duplicate.

the analogy is flimsy, i suppose (paper thin, lol?) but the problem is that the user cannot be trusted to be non-malicious. however, with esim technology i had assumed the trust was assured using keys owned by the proivider, so i'm not sure whether there's something else going on here?

the first twitter video link in a comment above looks like dashcam footage?

i thought the same thing as go comment - remember "it's" is an abbreviation for "it is", reading the article it looks like the author intended the title to be "Disinformation: Its History" - or am i reading too much into a grammatical nitpick?

edit: covered in the comments elsewhere, i see!

taking a page from Carl Barks and Scrooge McDuck, the trick is to collect as many pennies as your can, melt down almost all of them and sell the remaining, now incredibly rare, few for a larger amount of money. see [0] for further details, including pitfalls of retaining only a single coin and the joys of pie fights.

for reference (spoilers, but the story is from 1954, so...) the outcome of hoarding and destroying [dubious, discuss] all but one 1916 US quarter was to raise the price to one skyrillion [conversation to SI prefix uncertain] dollars, resulting in failure to realise the cash value of said asset. but, pie fight.

0. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_of_Atlantis

in the UK, the term RTA (meaning road traffic accident) was used by the police to describe a car crash in their reports. this has now largely been superseded by RTI or road traffic incident [0] in order to better convey the idea that these situations are often not simply blameless accidents, and there can be a wide variety of different reasons for their causes or precursors.

i have also seen RTC or road traffic collision used - however, this seems inaccurate when describing, say, a vehicle skidding or sliding out of control on the road but stopping without actually hitting anything, thus startling a pedestrian who then reacts by steppng backwards and falling off a bridge?

0. https://www.policeconduct.gov.uk/research-and-learning/key-a...

But even with the same cut of meat, fat cointent, etc. the USA style of cooking burns it to a crisp, which ruins the taste of good bacon...

100% agree; and as an alternative, for only GBP 0.45 you can get the Sainsburys own-brand equivalent which is just as good - and then go one better with their Hot and Spicy [0] variant, which is my suggested replacement for anything baked-bean related...

0. https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/sainsburys-five-...

i simply listed my perfectly ordinary residential flat's address in the uk. and, as far as i can tell from the text in the link i gave above, they are giving these away to anyone who wants one as an educational public service, hence the fact that it's the philanthropy department that runs the scheme.

> We believe all people should have access to important scientific information to help their research and education. [...] Roche provides copies as a free service to the public.

they are pretty cool to have, with very high quality two colour printing, and you also get a wee booklet with an index to the two posters to help you find things. there's also a book [0] by the same author with much more detail, and obviously much more portable, but sadly much more expensive ;(

so, i'd try asking for them again, if i was you.

0. https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/9780470146842

and here [0] is where you can order it. you can ask for paper copies of the poster to be mailed to you (free) from the roche philanthropy department! it took about a month for mine to arrive, i think, but they're really awesome looking and i now have the 'cellular and molecular processes' one hanging behind me in my front room, so that i look impressively clever on zoom calls ;)

0. https://www.roche.com/sustainability/philanthropy/science_ed...

what you are missing is that there are two sets of graphs, since there are two ways of measuring performance: number of calls (scales as n^2 with no backoff) and time to completion (scales linearly with no backoff) and an unjittered backoff will improve the number of calls while making the time to completion hugely worse (exponential?) - but jittered backoff looks to drop the number of calls substantially and also scales almost linearly, while still not doing too badly on time to completion.

this introduced me to the awesome 凹 and 凸 kanji characters in japanese/chinese, meaning concave and convex respectively; plus 𠱂 which apparently means 'to rebuke/retort' i.e. a 'sharp' response (lol?) - see https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%87%B9 and https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%87%B8

If you only care about fission weapons, a practically viable weapon is easy, and does not require testing.

This was demonstrated by South Africa, who developed a fission weapon, using an indigenous and entirely novel isotope separation technique and no outside help. They produced a stockpile of around five weapons, with absolutely no testing. The Vela incident often referred to is outwith the relevant timescale, being in 1979 and the weapons program ran from 1984 to 1994. The devices themselves were gun-type bombs using uranium, similar to the 'little boy' (Hiroshima) design, with improvements in safety primarily.

This was as a hedge against Soviet agression in the Angolan civil war, and they were intending to detonate one of the bombs as proof of their capability if the situation ever became desperate. As a pariah state due to Apartheid, the idea was that the US and allies would be forced to abandon their arms embargos and step in to help with conventional assistance in order to prevent World War III. This never happened, and South Africa is still the only state ever to have developed a viable nuclear weapons capability and then voluntarily given it up.

The details are available in an excellent book by David Albright of ISIS (not that one, the Institute foir Science and International Security...) at https://isis-online.org/uploads/isis-reports/documents/Revis...

> flight regimes that have only been done one other time (intentionally anyway) in commercial aviation

TIL the Tu-144 was designed, built and then operated commercially entirely by accident...

> lockpicks are regulated

you think?

finally? imaging a silicon chip has never been a problem and home-build STMs are not needed.

not an engine, but (in the name...) a transmission - a mechnism for transmitting power from the engine to the wheels. normally cars use a gearbox (automatic or manual) and possibly a driveshaft (to connect to the wheels that are at the other end from the engine.)

> uninterpretable

therefore (as i assume is the tradition with all archaologists, alien or otherwise) classified as 'for ceremonial or religious purposes' - and, since it was for a presedential inaugiuration, they're not wrong either...

So, is car insurance a tax, then?

> the unique nature of how the BBC is funded.

of course, other funding sources are available...

didn't stross also work as a programmer at digicash, which admittedly entirely failed as a digital currency, so there's that...?

Well, their website claims "90% lower emissions than a vessel with a diesel engine" so evidently they use some form of engine, or they'd be claiming 100% lower! i would guess it's like most sailing boats, and it has a small(-ish) engine and prop for use when docking/maneuvering up close/no wind, and also a genset for onboard electrical power.

> I don't need to be able to short his inventory

that's because it wouldn't do you any good. if, however, the used car salesman is engaging in fraud and selling expensive cars way under their market value while buying inventory at inflated prices, you could expose this by borrowing a friends mercedes, selling it for USD 100000 (then buying it back at USD 1000, so you can return it to your friend) making a nice profit along the way.

3 PHz is way into the UV part of EM, near IR is about 30 THz so 300 Gbps max on a NIR channel using your numbers?

Instructions unclear - I got a bunch of threatening letters from the alleged 'owners' of the twitter.com domain. Do you have some more details on how to uninstall someone else's website, please?

Not strictly true, you must sample at 2x the frequency and at sufficient resolution in the amplitude domain, i.e. an ADC that samples at 44 kHz but with only one bit of resolution (outputs a 1 for positive input voltage and 0 for negative, say) would be pretty awful...

Moore's law was stated originally as the doublinkd of the number of transistors per integrated circuit per year, later modified by him to a doublingevery two years. Reading the article where he first proposed the rule (cited in the wikipedia article linked in parent) this confirms that definition, as opposed to transistors per unit area or other measures.

I'm sure there are many people who are going to jump at the chance to finally be able to loan their USD 75000 worth of computer out to a throwaway HN account...?

their website has an online shop [0] where you can purchase the things and have them shipped to you, to (ab) use as desired - so hardly 'only (carefully orchestrated) tech demos' any more.

0. https://shop.bostondynamics.com/spot

1. seems unlikely. I don't think there's any mainstream browser that presents http://myrandomsite.whatever/ as an SSL error, in the same way as, say https://google.com/ having an invalid certificate, nor is there ever likely to be.