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What might be interesting to consider is quality control in the various eras of Apple (e.g. 70/80s Steve Jobs, 80/90s Sculley, 2010s Cook). Of course, keeping in mind that Cook-era…

Source information (without animation/links): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Comparison_satellite_navi... Previously submitted by another HN'er (in 2016): https://news.ycombina…

> economists think that we need central bank policies to control the whole thing (...) but it just doesn't work in the long run. Roughly speaking, a central authority might work in…

Ian Faith: The Boston gig has been cancelled... David St. Hubbins: What? Ian: Yeah. I wouldn't worry about it though, it's not a big college town. - This Is Spinal Tap

Here's [0] a bit more thorough explanation of this concept for those who are interested. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRr1kaXKBsU&t=504 (Veritasium on Youtube: Why Gravity i…

Gravity is not a force. The surface of the Earth is moving up to the object in free-fall at an acceleration of 9.8 m/s^2. The force pushing the surface, and the pressurized atmosph…

> "The lack of experience played right into the government’s hand. Instead of portraying a leader in control of his domain and confident in his case and his company’s legal and eth…

Looking at it in terms of one of the "golden ages" of recording music - back in the 1960s, think the Beatles - this would mean only returning to what has already proven possible be…

This is an age-old domain of thought known as philosophy of science [0]. Although, by prepending your post as "meta", perhaps you are already aware of it. I should add: As a human …

The role of this "era" may be in reformulating quantum physics and, separately, general relativity in new ways that make the ideas more accessible to more people, and earlier in th…

> "The Air Force had to convince Sony to..." To be a fly on the wall during that discussion. I'm sure money wasn't an issue for the Air Force, or that Sony had some balls of steel.…

Somewhat related to some of the questions that have been raised here: - for the set of matrices that possess them ("transformation matrices that only perform stretch/contract"), ei…

I'm sure even you'll admit that they have a rather cute looking cockroach as a logo.

> This is nice but I would have expected “probability at an advanced level” to mean the measure theoretic foundations of probability. Fair point, though with no intention of being …

> Why is there a wikipedia article about this? A sort of incomplete answer would be that the article is covering an important historical fact regarding the sixth-largest miltary in…

He might just need a static-site blog from this point on.

> same task can be performed on a classical system in 2.5 days and with far greater fidelity. Currently at a much greater cost in time and space, which is why they are saying "can …

By the currently accepted definition of Computer Science (at the nexus of its core basis in mathematics and philosophy), I would say “On Computable Numbers, with an Application to …

> > To this day, industry insiders still joke, “McDonnell Douglas bought Boeing with Boeing’s money.” > That's commonly said about the Apple-NeXT acquisition too — NeXT paid a nega…