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It looks like the current road tax frameworks of many countries use either CO2 emissions or car price as a main factor for road tax, which presumably correlates with weight - excep…

Yes, the noise level is measured on the ground directly below the flight path of the plane. Interestingly, it’s not just the volume but also the pattern of the boom that can be alt…

There is a great part in “Now it can be told”[0] which discusses the counter intelligence efforts of the Manhattan Project - specifically when trying to figure out how far along Na…

I also looked into this and ended up being successful when searching for photography lights and corn cob LEDs. Corn cob bulbs at 40-60 Watts each are cheap (~20USD in the UK), prov…

That was some of the best accessible scientific writing I recently came across - thanks for sharing! What an exciting time to work in that field. Their article on the Ötzi discover…

I would recommend reading this article by The Guardian on palm oil: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/feb/19/palm-oil-ingred... (It is also available in podcast form) From the …

> "the father of sociobology" I will never understand why people write articles without a spell-checker.

Same here! Sadly they don't seem to be made any more...

A good book on this topic, which discusses this particular study is "Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise" by Ericsson and Pool.

Interesting point re the zone-programming and being a cowboy programmer. I don't think that 'in the zone'-programming has to produce bad code, though (if that's what you are saying…

I generally disagree that the university network is unimportant. "85% of All Jobs are Filled Via Networking"[1]; the network in most cases (certainly mine) will consist of people t…

This is a good point - what strikes me about these arguments, however, is that the biggest problem (IMHO) stems from the fact that the economy often relies on local optimization, n…

This is a very good point. The only problem would be if people with an ASD are highly self-selecting into the technical field, thus being a significant influence. Below is what I c…

The way that I understand it, the SQL databases are not empty and the mining process, if similar to standard blockchains, will mean that the block's hash has to be of a specific fo…

Very broad question but related: this blog [0] discusses how a modelling product was used to simulate the internet backbone. If your aim is real-time reaction modelling of actors, …

(Related) How to Backdoor Diffie-Hellman Discussion which contains a number of good comments about weakening DH: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11973365 Paper: http://eprint.…

I agree, it is a similar situation in most European countries atm. However, the fact that the service is not great now should not be taken as an indication that the service cannot …

Improbable's SpatialOS is not a VR platform in the Oculus-way. Real-time simulations can be (and are) used as the backbone for super-expansive game universes which are visualised u…

Besides games, there is potential to run real-world simulations. If you can describe the behaviour of a single agent, you can accurately predict how a large number of such agents, …

Interesting, I am not aware of what happened re the US$13B bill (quoteed this figure in GBP in my prev response). As I indicated, this is not tax aversion but simply "clever" struc…

The article may be referring to 'sweetheart deals' Apple struck with Ireland: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/apple-ordere... According to the article, Apple paid a…

Wikipedia lists this fund as the developer: http://www.goldenbrickcapital.com/en/Aboutus.html

I would encourage you to read up on what the gene-centered view actually states. > that doesn't make any sense If you look at the criticism leveled against this theory you will fin…

In many ways, the tooling around web development is far superior to other languages (e.g. golang with delve). Most browsers ship with excellent debug tools. The caveat obviously be…

> old people ... eventually seem to stop catching up to the rest of society If (happy to be proven wrong here) we can assume that this trend has to do with an age-related decrease …