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Relativity is insane. Einstein literally rewrote the formula for “add two velocities together”. You know, like 20 km/s + 20 km/s, WHICH YOU WOULD THINK just turns into 40km/s, but …

Lewis Carroll wrote a gag about people using words like this.

On the contrary. The URL you post here has been submitted to HN several times (plus my attempt to make the title a little catchier as I linked to the GitHub issue #28, which I titl…

> Why do some stores need a pin on my debit card, and some do not? Oh that’s easy enough. If they need a PIN it’s actually being run as a debit card over the debit card network. Ot…

Signature.

You send the money to a literal mailbox instead. That’s how. (Using a check, the very infrastructure we’ve been talking about!!)

The brain finds amusement when it detects a discrepancy between expectation and result. https://youtu.be/Tflm9mttAAI I think this one especially is simple enough of an error, and t…

Issue #28: Don’t. https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/...

> having 10 million single window units blasting walls of heat into a crowded city very quickly becomes an arms race where nobody wins (except perhaps the AC manufacturers). Is thi…

Christianity is heavy on the guilt. If you’re self-flagellating, that’s a sign it’s guilt, not shame. East Asian cultures are more about the shame. And try not to go anywhere where…

Idk, it seems reasonably obvious that there is activism and litigation and nonprofits and bureaucracies all studying environmental issues, and these are all operated by people, man…

Yeah :(

Note that the half-mile statistic is connected to underwater cables, not buried cables. It is certainly an overcount, but it is probably not trivial to assess the local hydrology a…

This is part of a series that’s been running in the WSJ for a week now. There are still lead lined cables all over the country, with little awareness of the risks they pose; the fi…

If you need speed and money is of limited concern, consider fiber. There are some nearly invisible configurations that stick onto the walls, and baseboards or crown molding can be …

> and right about now, someone is about to reply with 'ride a bike, cars suck!' Naah, I wouldn’t do a thing that. I’ve lived in low-bike suburbs — hated it, but I know the score. :…

> Certainly I would have expected the orbit to go higher the faster the planets moved? Is that not the usual effect of increasing speed? That rather depends on what you mean. The u…

Easy. Nuclear. Oh, wait … you’re telling me they just phased that out? :( But yeah, as it turns out energy prices matter; it’s not just corporate overlords of the fuel companies sp…

As others have noted, the speed of light (in a vacuum) will always constant. To be nice and pedantic, you can always slow it down by making that light go through a medium, where it…

This is literally within the boundaries of the city of San Francisco, where having a car is only a prerequisite for success if your job is “driving”. If you’re going to lament the …

I see your John Goodenough, and I raise you the Outerbridge Crossing. At the southern edge of New York City, way down near the bottom of Staten Island, it’s named after the first c…

In the 1970s it was also popular to fear grave resource shortages here on Earth. Turning to space was an easy low-imagination solution when you weren’t seriously considering the lo…

The economic profit is literally defined as the accounting-type profits, minus the opportunity costs. When the opportunity cost is large like that you are describing negative econo…