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Yes, it is indistinguishable. But it seems that actual black hole is more like a hollow crust in this setting and not a point of mass.

How would you ever observe black hole to grow/accreate matter then?

If you are not an American citizen you are still a citizen of some other country, which has its own obligations before its citizens to uphold their human rights, even when they cross someone other's border.

This may end up ugly for the USA if they try to abuse that decision. Not every country in this world is Mexico.

You seriously do not think that you can override Human Rights agreements with some "congress bill", do you?

For some time you might act that way, but you are trespassing.

There is no right to cross the border, but there's loads of other rights, human and otherwise, that you still undeniably have while being at the border.

You can just say "no". And smile. Will be completely correct on your part.

Say who? Did you notify the UN about these findings?

Yes, but did not they teach you to think before talking?

They are free to not let you in, but you are free to ignore any irrelevant or intimate questions.

I don't see a single reason why you can be forced to incriminate yourself. If confession equals conviction, laws about right to remain silent should also apply.

I would happily say "no" and smile if I was you when asked about what you did in a different country that they have no business knowing.

It is very often overlooked, but "The Little Golden Calf" is awesome. It is an amazingly fun read yet it is full of deep insights into pre-war Soviet Union's everyday life. The character is basically a superhero who goes through this society as a hot knife through butter. Yet it is much more serious than "Twelve Chairs" which is basically a sitcom.

There's an autobiography book by Danelia (the director) where he explains how some of the things in that movie were filmed. I doubt it was translated, tho.

E.g. they used half of a plane hull with construction foam on top of it.

Beauty of hash tree is that hash(commit) = hash(parent commit) ∘ hash(changes). You could compute that by hand if you wanted. But you can't compute merge by hand since it involves basically rebasing commits to a different tree which is non-trivial and prone to introducing errors. If there is 3-way merge you add some changes on top of that.

I don't know what's FF merge, what's no-FF and what you do when your FF merge turns into no-FF.

No it is not, because there is no mystic handwavy commit involved. You just apply a patch basically.

Much less this handwavy commit exposed to uninterested parties.

Merges is the stupidest thing there ever is in the land of source control. Contrary to the author I struggle to find even a single use that would make merge merited.

My main point is that merges are not easily computable. comm3 = merge(comm1, comm2) is not a kind of function you can run and see for yourself. Instead it is a kind of hand wavy magic in which we declare that those two apples plus a lemon equals three mangoes. You throw the beauty of hash tree out of the window like an overdue christmas tree.

> a consortium of companies using patents and licensing to recover their investment

If this is their model, I expect them to be straightforward about it and I expect that most everyone will not touch their standards with 10 ft pole. Standards are not in short supply. I expect "this food contains known poison" sort of explicit label on their wares.

Instead they make it look like community effort, stay silent about strings attached.

We don't want their RnD under such terms.

Pushkin rules over the province of Russian letters and not Tolstoy. You could have article "The Russian Tolstoy" about him.

I don't see how criminal law will not also be activated after them if they try.

Did you try to see a doctor?

Not if it's the seller's market.

Many many species pairs only have pre-zygote isolation[1], meaning they could have common offspring but avoid doing so, as such mixed offspring would be at disadvantage.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reproductive_isolation#Pre-cop...

I don't know, Celsius is actually very nice. I think there is another problem, where same dimension is used in fundamentally different contexts.

Let's talk about mass. For small quantities you can use grams all right, though one gramm is still to small to be useful unless you're dealing.

But you surely need kilogram (pronounced kilò in Russian), and for bulk shipping you need megagram (nobody ever uses this word, but you have ton fortunately).

Again, meters are useful for heights and sizes, but useless for distance. Here you need kilometer. No shorter word for that, buddy. And for large distance you need thousands of kilometers. Nobody ever uses megameter, again.

You can have single 10-based system but you still need different words for quantities differing by three or four orders.

As a person living in mosquito-prone area, I would say that those concerns are secondary to the quality of life implications even before diseases are taken into account.

Those mosquitoes had it coming for a long, long time.

But I have only now thought out of a different reason. Basically we had the choice of either living with malaria mosquitoes or converting all of wetland into dry land, completely destroying ecosystem that was there. But now we have option of just eliminating mosquitoes while leaving the rest of wetland intact. To me it does sound like a plan.

Even if there were no internet you could just buy a plane ticket SFO-KYZ and in 30 hours you are standing in Kyzyl after a few transfers and a $2000 setback for round-trip. This is thanks to USSR cracking and revealing tasty pulp. You will still need to get a visa, and consulate in SF is now closed.

Who needs to have what population controlled by whom?

Do any of those w- have incentive to do so?

I wonder if Russia could use banks of Crimea to trade with Iran. USA does not want anything to do with those anyway. So they already exist as clean room institutions.

That's a rude awakening but an expected one. It's very easy to write an elegant piece of code in scripting language only to find that some of dependencies who work magic are pretty messy to deploy.

You can usually count on having native libraries for a given activity for Java, so you can just use a JVM-based language (does Lambda support that? I bet it does.)

Wrong. They can do a second take. You should just code it in.

The pay for engineering was actually quite poor in Soviet block. If money were what you wanted, you'll go into coal mining.

Sadly, most of those to-be-engineers of both genders will find themself sitting 9-to-5 doing nothing useful, and then their jobs will evaporate as socialism fails.

Naturally, soviet microchip would have four pins and two handles to lift it up.

> These people in leadership roles should be avoiding taking credit to scholarly work that is not theirs.

That's also one of plot devices behind "Space Apprentice" by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky.

This awesome essay by Steve Yegge: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/06/rich-programmer-food...