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trainingaccount··on SpaceX Crew Dragon Docks with International Space Station
Apparently the Earth's orbit places us in the hot end of the inhabitable zone, so only a relatively modest increase in received energy makes us go the way of Venus.
trainingaccount··on SpaceX Crew Dragon Docks with International Space Station
It's actually in about 100 million years as the sun gradually increases in luminosity.
trainingaccount··on Acute high intensity interval exercise reduces colon cancer cell growth
Some of the research showed significant health improvements from 3 days a week of 3 reps of 20 second standing bike sprints. So only 3 minutes per week.
trainingaccount··on Sting Operations to Expose Celebrity Psychics
Doing it != success
trainingaccount··on Is Matter Conscious? (2017)
No, but information is.
trainingaccount··on How Reliable Are SSDs?
Yet another article with a focus on gradual wearing rather than suddenly turning into a brick, which is the actual common real-world case.
trainingaccount··on All late projects are the same (2011) [pdf]
We sure don't want it to go over time and budget like the last 10 projects.
trainingaccount··on A Study on Driverless-Car Ethics
Hope they will be taking minutes in all the meetings where the business requirements are collected.
trainingaccount··on Office 365 global authentication outage
24 days a month, 7 hours a day, what's your problem?
trainingaccount··on Minikanren – An embedded DSL for logic programming
Some related fun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=er_lLvkklsk
trainingaccount··on Chinese hi-tech researchers ‘told not to travel to US unless it’s essential’
We smuggled those silkworms out of China and can make our own silk now!
trainingaccount··on People who disagree aren't trying to make things complex
Wot no vectors?
trainingaccount··on The Snowden Legacy, part one: What’s changed, really?
With enough data you can often "de-anonymize" to discover actual identities.
trainingaccount··on The present phase of stagnation in the foundations of physics is not normal
You really want to look into the delayed choice eraser... it's mind blowing.
trainingaccount··on The present phase of stagnation in the foundations of physics is not normal
Also, all the non-MW interpretations say "and then choose a random outcome" without any clue as to how randomness might occur. MWI can propose an actual mechanism for randomness: sampling a space of alternatives, aka the Sleeping Beauty approach. To me this is pretty close to a knockdown argument in favour of MWI.
trainingaccount··on Italy’s olive crisis intensifies as deadly tree disease spreads
Can you invert a binary tree?
trainingaccount··on UFOs spotted off Irish coast under investigation
Now that everybody has a cellphone camera there are fewer UFO sitings instead of more, so it seems.
trainingaccount··on Ask HN: Developers, how do you estimate projects and write proposals?
Badly
trainingaccount··on Rocket Launch in New Zealand Brings Quick, Cheap Space Access
A variation of a couple of degrees during launch would rip the Shuttle's wings off, so "ignore" is not the right word here.
trainingaccount··on China can apparently now identify citizens based on the way they walk
Can they tell if I'm a women's man, no time to talk?
trainingaccount··on Ads just work, no matter what you think
John Sculley, then CEO of Pepsi, failed a blind taste test in front of reporters.
trainingaccount··on Your DNA Is Out There. Do You Want Law Enforcement Using It?
Police states exist. It's a genuine possibility that your "nothing to fear" argument ignores.
trainingaccount··on DeBroglie – Generate tile-based maps using wave function collapse
Pedantic note: wave functions do not collapse; decoherence occurs.
trainingaccount··on The Many-Worlds Interpretation Has Many Problems
Some counterpoints:

https://www.hedweb.com/manworld.htm

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9cgBF6BQ2TRB3Hy4E/and-the-wi...

trainingaccount··on How Lisp Became God's Own Programming Language
I think the vast majority of coders would struggle to write anything like SHRDLU.
trainingaccount··on Dear Moon
Actually for Apollo 17 it was found to be easier to train a geologist to be an astronaut than the other way around.