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And pgp certificate signing

I just assumed they were tapping them on their phone and had some kind of app, or website something

>In addition to that, there are strong political incentives for ‘distributing’ contracts widely, Government/Defense contractors can track their suppliers and tell Congress exactly …

The space shuttle was refurbishable. It needed an army of 5000 engineers a few months to get it flight worthy after each launch. And ultimately that wasn't enough for safety.

No. Once moving an object keeps moving unless there is force that pushes it. There is nothing in space to apply force on particles. One would also presume these tachyons don't inte…

That reminds me of Pak Protectors from Larry Niven's Known Space stories https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pak_Protector

Yeah. Think teleporter instead of warp drive

that's probably true. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%E2%80%93green_distinction...

My question is, how long until we have automatically dubbed anime?

It might be because the radio DJ in the town and the songs he plays after waxing philosophic.

You don't happen to work for Setec Astronomy, do you?

The bit towards the end with Millie and Wolfwood makes me cry.

double a letter to add ephasis or indicate a long vowel. Reefuse / refuse, Permit / Permmit, Record / Reecord

Lord of the Rings is boring until they get out of Rivendell. Once they actually start their journey it's a fun read.

a small amount. Not the obscene amounts we eat here in America

by 'vector' they just mean a list of numbers (ex. [32,5,8,11]). By dimension they mean the number of items in the list. In the above example it's a 4 dimensional vector. Make the n…

Spherical cows in a vaccuum

28*13(+1)=365 (or +2 on leap years)

Holy shit, Litestep! That takes me back.

The main Proton-Boron reaction produces charged particles instead of neutrons. You can capture the charged particles directly as a source of voltage with no intermediate step. Just…

all fun and games until some jack-ass spoofs the GPS and moves a road 20 feet to the left. https://www.wired.com/2012/07/drone-hijacking/

Can any of this be beaten into a way to verify group membership? Say you want to prove you are a member of the AMA or IEEE, or Bar? Could you set up a large group for the associati…

To help keep proprietary company communications from getting out?

You can buy the here: https://knowm.org/product/

like an audio PDF or something.