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Comment · 1 year ago
Assuming shuffled list: estimate of mean, estimate of cardinality etc etc
Comment · 3 years ago
I thought that smell was chloramines, rather than chlorine itself?
Comment · 3 years ago
"HNHTD"?
Comment · 4 years ago
I’m sorry to have to let you know that the pied currawong is in fact parasitised by the channel billed cuckoo (the world’s biggest cuckoo in fact).
Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
+1 for this, and for the equally good (but slightly different in tone) New York Review of Books
Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
> ...without being invaded by a dictatorship.

Why only dictatorships?

Comment · 5 years ago
IIRC the light coming from in front of you gets blue shifted, each photon increasing in energy, and the count increases because of the geometric changes you see in the video (the angles in front seem to shrink).

Light from the rear red shifts (each photon has less energy), and there are fewer as some of the (formerly incident) photons "rotated" to the front.

(edit: typo)

(edit: didn't read the question closely, this is about approaching c, not exceeding it)

Comment · 5 years ago
Who's talking about "imminent terror attacks"? Do you think that is the majority of intelligence work? Do you need it to be to justify blackmail?
Comment · 6 years ago
Can you give more detail about the fluorescing nucleus? I'm honestly amazed by this (and I have a degree in physics, which I guess is your point).
Comment · 6 years ago
It looks totally fine to me (lines are wrapping normally). Are you sure it's not something to do with your own browser?
Comment · 6 years ago
zipped file, with 33000 rows, and most columns chosen from a list of options, so it looks very easy to compress.
Comment · 6 years ago
This is beautiful.
Comment · 6 years ago
I only ever seem to see stories that look a whole lot like propaganda from thedrive.com. Who's behind this site?

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