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What I've read says that this is a modular system, likely some variants will launch small air to air missles, and others use large shotgun shells to take out drones.

The plug didn't have to be reversible - it could just have had a trapezoidal cross-section. No significant cost.

Terrific. Maybe not the most alluring framing. Could be titled "Hate Elon? OMFG would you have hated Edison! He was way worse!" Scientists didn't start getting in the way of progre…

Multilayered mirrors are another approach. https://inis.iaea.org/collection/NCLCollectionStore/_Public/...

The closest real world example of the Chinese Room I know about is Richard Feynman's adventures teaching physics in Brazil. His students memorized the textbooks and could manipulat…

Also posted 12 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35808792

Someone needs to sue any manufacturer that uses blue leds on anything that might have to be on at night.

I might mention that, believe it or don't - a living skull is translucent, and our brains can detect light all by themselves. So a mask is good, but not nec a whole solution. In ol…

Right. But a dark room is a room in which, if you put your hand in front of your face, you don't see even the faintest outline of a hand.

How poignant, that the obvious solution is the worst "solution" of all, due to human nature.

Not to mention the wooden beams, under the portico, which are also original. They of course, are out of the rain; so are a solution to a lesser problem, where aging is concerned.

The famous example illustrating PD created by Albert W. Tucker does have no communication - so that parties don't coordinate and cooperate with each other - but in this case with t…

Taking the fuel out of the wings and thinning them makes sense. You couldn't make this fly in 1959; but I'm willing to bet that you can now with computer control. We should all be …

For that to happen, it can't be gravity that keeps a single molecule near long enough for that to happen - dipole forces at a fairly large distance in vacuum over enough time... ma…

This fits with a previous study showing that soluble fiber altered biota and reduced symptoms. https://www.inverse.com/mind-body/diet-rich-in-beans-legumes... FWIW, other research …

It is different - not metaphysically or entirely, but... echolocation for humans is rather long-wave (although it's experienced as vision.) You can't - I couldn't - see a door edge…

Kinda fact-free. Intel is just now going EUV - why decide in advance that Intel is going to faceplant when they do?

I've done this. Re Occam's Razor when that principle was sacrosanct. Wouldn't do it again, I think. Those willing to reword what I wrote more strongly, got the credit, for one thin…

Both views are true, his first philosophical book got no traction. Then his Histories made him very famous, and a rewrite of his philosophical views was much better received.

These days the topic falls under "Secure attachment" as part of "Attachment theory." The phrase "unconditional love" proved thorny and IMHO ill-judged, misleading. https://www.very…

Whereas, middle and South America did have a tradition of alcohol in Pre-Columbian times. However, alcohol was often exclusively reserved for those who had attained extreme old age…

It's a very recent trait evolutionarily but seems to predate deliberate alcohol production for the most part. It's been thought that when the human population became very small dur…

All organic solvents are a cancer risk for the same reason: they imitate water (an inorganic solvent) inside our cells, but they're not water. Therefore, every single chemical reac…

Survivor accounts from Hiroshima and Nagasaki make it clear that people who saw the blast and quickly shielded themselves by getting behind a wall and under a mattress did well; th…

Indeed. Took me a while to find route around. These issues are forcing me off Microsoft products in general. What a pain, and a betrayal of long-time customers. Interfering with pe…