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9,801karma·1,821submissions·April 12, 2011
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> Well, last time someone lighted a cigarette on a plane ... There are also designated non-smoking zones that are not due to immediate (as opposed to long-term) safety concerns.
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There was also this one, a bit earlier, "Observing Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays with Smartphones". https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.2895 I (thought I) signed up to be inform…
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> Luvoir is expected to launch in the mid-2030s For others who are not familiar with the NASA studies, "expected" is probably too strong a word and "proposed" is probably more a…
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It would probably help to know why you're asking – people could give more specific/tailored advice. I my case, I would still have majored in physics. It provides a lot of good fundamentals f…
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For what it's worth, on a not-too-old Mac: $ uname -v
Darwin Kernel Version 13.4.0: Mon Jan 11 18:17:34 PST 2016; root:xnu-2422.115.15~1/RELEASE_X86_64
$ grep --version
grep (BSD g…
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> Wasn't Horn's trip last year the first unsupported crossing of Antarctica? It may depend on the specific definitions ("unsupported" vs "solo unsupported"), but the …
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> What the actual hell? You can sign up online to get mail scanned… without any physical verification you're at the address, with only a physical notification being sent after-the-fact? I sign…
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I did see those from a link elsewhere in the thread. The cost and uncertain delivery timeline make that a non-starter for me, though.
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> They need to make a new Spacesaver model (one without the numpad) Yeah. I'm in the market for a new keyboard and am thinking about a TKL. Just spent some time on the Unicomp site looking for…
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There's a lot of input on this from previous ask HN's too: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=ask%20note%20taking&sort=byPop... …
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> This comes up regularly. All the enthusiasm for micropayments comes from people who want to collect micropayments. Not from the users who would pay them. All the enthusiasm for ads only comes fro…
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> the proposal funding rate is so low on account of the resource/PI ratio that many U.S. researchers are moving to Europe where there is greater promise of hard funding. Funding rates are low …
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> I'm not qualified to answer your question, but the observation of Oumuamua alone doesn't give a large enough sample size to estimate how often large interstellar comets or asteroids pa…
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> The prize, FWIW, wasn't just for the discovery of pulsars but for the aperture synthesis interferometry technique that made it possible. Ryle's participation in the prize was for apertu…
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> The photosphere is no more well defined unless you specify a particular wavelength, or you admit defeat and accept averages as perfectly fine physical properties. That stellar spectra (ignoring …
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> Also: temperatures of things that are ill defined, like the ”temperature of the surface of the sun”. This has more to do with phrasing it as the "surface" of the Sun rather than the te…