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9,801karma·1,821submissions·April 12, 2011
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> Do we have example of naturally ocurring space object with such low density? Depends what you mean by "object. Assuming the mass is mostly protons, that corresponds to a density of ~3e19 par…
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I haven't heard of anyone doing this as a project, I bet it would be a challenging, and I think it would be awesome for you to try it.
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Have you tried contacting the developers themselves? http://www.bluez.org/contact/ That page links to a sponsors page ( http://www.bluez.org/development/spons…
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> I really wish I'd read these comments and realised the experiment isn't finished before scrolling up and down the article for five minutes trying to find the conclusion. Gwern.net has u…
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> No conclusion? What's the point of doing research or reporting it if you learned nothing? This attitude is (imho) a major problem in research/academia. If you've done research int…
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Lots of discussion here already: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18776883
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The article states that the tomb has been, "untouched for 4,400 years". Other articles (e.g., [0]) have explicitly stated that the tomb has not been looted. [0] https://www.reuter…
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This blog post is related to Robin Hanson's recent post, "Can Foundational Physics Be Saved?"[0] Hanson has also posted a follow-up in response to the HN-linked post by Hossenfelder. T…
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> I’m willing to believe this, having paid a lot of attention to the topic over the past few years. Can you elaborate on this? Some more information and/or references would be helpful.
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Okay, that makes sense and makes me feel better about it. Thanks for responding and clarifying.
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> That is like saying ice cream makers should focus on the 'core' tastes, claiming that that is banana and vanilla because you like those. From my point of view, I'm suggesting the …
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> Most of those features are optional. So if you don't care about some functionality just uninstall the specific 'App'. That's true, but unless there are new developers joining …
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Not only related, but that submission is just a different mirror for the same emailed release announcement.
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Interesting that it also seems to handle false positives well: > Among other things, the new method makes it possible to detect "a false sit" (when a dog sits to signal that it has found …
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> is there really a distinction between ‘>’ and ‘<‘? Is only one really the ‘greater’ than sign? The convention I've always seen is that `>` is "greater than" and `<` is …
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I see I misunderstood that you were specifically questioning the equivalence for this postulated negative mass. I thought your statement was a more general one.
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> That assumes that inertial mass = gravitational mass, which is assumed to be true, not not proven. The assertion has been tested experimentally. Inertial and gravitational mass are seen to be equ…