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If Boeing goes under, then Airbus becomes a monopoly.

> the new capacity had caused all of the servers in the fleet to exceed the maximum number of threads allowed by an operating system configuration. [...] We didn’t want to increase…

You can convert between financial loss and loss of human life using implied cost of averting a fatality [1], which is about $10 million. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_of_…

Yet somehow the 1st or 5th Amendment are applied across all states uniformly, unlike the 2nd.

I'm using quasi-random generators where I can, and MCG 128 where I can't.

> disarm the police > they can exercise their right to carry a personal firearm at their own expense That's not disarming the police, just making them pay $500 out of pocket.

2020! alone is 5,802 digits long.

Snowden is against government surveillance. It's hard to argue he can be used to justify SORM.

To be fair, by going after Snowden the US painted itself anti-free speech and pro-surveillance.

No capital letters, though. It is important to follow all security rules. Weakest link and such. If only his password was Maga2020!, it would be impossible to hack.

Let's see: * Letters - check * Numbers - check * Special symbols - check So the new, secure, password should be Maga2020!

> if you know the modulation and the frequency the receiver uses Number stations on short waves all use AM, so you know the modulation. But you don't need to know it, superhet work…

You can make a small (relative to wavelength) loop antenna that has a sharp minimum, but it will be very inefficient. You want your directional antenna to have a sharp maximum (hig…

There is a big difference between spectrum analyzer hooked up directly to the input of the radio and an antenna in a van several blocks away, with reflections and noise thrown in.

A directional antenna has to be much larger than wavelength. Won't fit in a van if we're talking about HF (with wavelengths measured in tens of meters).

Initial amplifier does not let much energy flow backwards. More importantly, there's a lot of background noise on HF bands that will mask that weak signal.

Only if it's poorly designed (leaks local oscillator frequency back into antenna) and not shielded. Modern receivers use quadrature sampling detectors rather than traditional super…

I expected to see something along the lines of vans with directional antennas driving around Moscow listening for spurious emissions from local oscillators of superheterodyne recei…

There's a good reason why many laws in math and physics have two or three names. They are oftentimes discovered simultaneously by several people and it's not always possible to tel…

The underlying assumption behind false positive rate is that tests are independent and identically distributed. If in practice this is not the case, then false positive rate become…

The tests themselves are fine, false positives are due to human error: "The high specificities (usually 100%) reported in PCR-based tests for SARS-CoV-2 infection do not represent …

That's not a new idea. Walter Greiling projected back in the 1950s that world population would reach a peak of about nine billion, in the 21st century, and then stop growing [0] [0…

No, that would be a pointer to a pointer.

> we were taught about the idea of overpopulation in school That's a problem with school education. They give the wrong models. Exponential growth is impossible in nature because a…

Snowden does not have the files. Did not have them when he arrived in Russia. That's why it took so long for the Russians to let him in. They could not believe he did not take any …