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> The crew of a 99.9% lightspeed ship doesn’t experience time dilation until they return home. That's not true. They see the universe around them moving much faster. Time dilation …

But from our perspective, the outside observers, why do black holes gain mass? It would take an infinite amount of time from our perspective for any mass to even touch the event ho…

Your numbers are outdated. Thin film = 23%, multi-junction are 46%. "Standard PV" is probably what's available in bulk and cheap, is around 22-25%. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wik…

That's the thing that never made sense to me about the black holes. The closer you are to the event horizon, the faster the time passes for the universe around you. So reaching the…

I feel like they will get sued for that extremely quickly, considering their dominating position (Chrome) and being in the ad-serving business at the same time. https://upload.wiki…

Why would any reasonable company decide to warn people of red light cameras? People who go through red lights are freaking dangerous.

> I don't know if there's an easy way to share keys in a decentralized way Blockchain. Namecoin, in particular.

It's still extremely useful, even with those false positive rates. You will scare a few people, but they will just retest and maybe will improve their lifestyle.

Maybe even more, if they invested ALL the dollars into bitcoin since their inception. That would be smart of them in hindsight. If that's the case, they could be sitting on $5B+ wo…

Just start an ICO, there are not that many medical ones. You already have all the right buzz words to raise a few billion ;)

I looked at the i7/16GB/512GB/UHD version, it's over $2K. Why not get a Surface Book instead for $1600? https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0163GNS5S/ Or Gigabyte Aero? https://www.amazon.c…

And 100% of glitch music.

Vlad the Astrophysicist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9kbcGfX35M

There's a huge difference between what evolved organisms can adapt to, and the conditions necessary to start life. Look, humans already adapted to being in space for prolonged peri…

It's not the noise that prevents us from seeing distant planets, but the diffraction limits. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffraction-limited_system

But what a joke. Compare: https://www.noon.com/en-sa/search?q=i7-7700hq https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?field-keywords=i7-77...

That's a good thing. Low-end GPUs suck anyway, but add so much weight and power consumption.

So is this a good PRNG? f(i) = SHA256(i + salt)

But corporation collections as paperclip maximizers is a bad analogy. Corporations generally produce something large numbers of people want (be it solar panels or cars in his examp…

It works in commercial cameras like Hasselblad H4D-200MS.

Being a programmer, but not an engineer, I always wanted to try to create a camera with the ability to micro-shift the sensor in both directions, increasing the resolution. If you …

That's what I don't get. Which websites are radically slower on iphone 6+ compared to 7+? And the camera - what use case are you talking about? Taking family photos to post on Face…

I understand it's "fast", but what do you use that speed for to justify spending so much more money? I understand if you're so wealthy, you're willing to pay $800 more to open Face…

An $800 graphics card has an immediate use case: high FPS for games at high resolutions and high settings. Which is very important in competitive gaming, for instance. I don't see …

If I want a low-light camera, I will buy a DSLR/mirrorless, and no smartphone comes even close to something like Sony A7s (~$1100 used). I used to do commercial portrait photograph…