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it's useful for less than an hour after submission in one city on earth

You absolutely can (or could) see the Kīlauea's glow from Mauna Kea, especially if there were clouds for it to refract through, as you can see from the first photo in this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/04/science/hawaii-thirty-met...

maybe it's stadium seating for a species that doesn't mind a few gamma rays

this seems like a conversation to have on wallstreetbets rather than HN

That's why I chose the term "intellectual property": it's a useful term for the issues around "creating a thing that's somewhat like another thing," even if it's not a super helpful legal term.

I would not be surprised to see someone argue for a new class of property rights for owners, surrounding the reproduction of a scene or location where the reproduction has commercial value. What happens if Facebook bootlegs the Mall of America for Oculus? Does that lower the value of a similar venture by the mall's owners?

Great concept! Just one small issue: to "post hog" is internet slang for publishing pictures of one's penis. I am not kidding.

I wonder how the photogrammetry aspect will intersect with intellectual property laws. The example used - scanning in a Santa Monica bar so that you can do reshoots without revisiting the location - would be an obvious example that might raise someone's hackles ("because it's our bar you're using to make your money" for instance). If you add that bar to your digital library, do you have to pay them royalties each time you use it? Is it any different to constructing a practical replica of a real-life location?

Can someone wearing a few cameras walk through a building and digitise it completely without getting the owner's permission? Here in Australia, "copyright in a building or a model of a building is not infringed by the making of a painting, drawing, engraving or photograph of the building or model or by the inclusion of the building or model in a cinematograph film or in a television broadcast," for instance. (Copyright Act 1968 §66)

Zoom is integrated into our Outlook calendars (and pretty well, I might add), so I assumed the Share Screen function looked at my calendar, saw which room I was scheduled to be in, and shared my desktop to the corresponding screen.

I suppose doing it with ultrasound is a little simpler, and avoids problems if we have to duck into a different room due to a schedule conflict.

Ask them to unlock their phone and hand it over. Reassure them they can watch everything you do with it and that you won't use it to impersonate them, and if they want you to stop, the safe word is "I have something to hide."

Depends if it's in Australia after a Northern Queensland cyclone.

If a publisher decides to stop offering audio through RSS because it's easier to monetize it through Spotify's streaming ads insertion, where does that leave you?

Here's the view I subscribe to: "Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost 20,000 dollars and weigh 2,000 pounds. Your life is just a series of your own preferences. In terms of cognitive impairment it's probably like being kicked in the head by a horse every day."

(https://twitter.com/Merman_Melville/status/10885276937573498...)

One of the issues around amateur radio operators is their age. I have a friend who, at 55, was the youngest member of his local ham radio club. It's just not a hobby many people pick up any more.

still heaps of proxy culture wars to fight while straining NPOV to the limit!

Kind of similar to the reason you'd wet a suction cup before using it: the water helps plug any small air gaps. But in this version, a fan spins the water and air inside the cup, with the heavier water being forced to the edge, and any water leakage being replaced from a reservoir.

To know if the universe is expanding, we need to know the following: how far away things are, and whether they're moving away from us. In an accelerating universe, there's evidence that things were moving away from us slower in the past.

The evidence that things are moving away from us is that as the universe expands, the wavelength of any light travelling through it also expands, shifting it towards the red end of the spectrum: redshift. (Think of the wavelength of a wavy line drawn on a piece of rubber that's then stretched out.) We've known for nearly 100 years that the universe is expanding. (Edit: not just that the objects in it are moving apart but that space itself is expanding.)

The evidence of accelerating expansion is that based on the redshift of nearby objects, we would expect distant objects to have a higher redshift than they actually do. That means they were moving away from us slower in the past, so something must be accelerating them.

We use the brightness of Type Ia supernovae to measure distance. Even though supernovae aren't identically bright, their brightness follows a curve which lets us calculate their peak brightness (they are standardizable).

This paper argues that the calculations cosmologists use to standardize supernovae brightness fail to take into account the age of the progenitor stars, as far as I can tell. If true, this means our distance measurements are inaccurate and these stars are actually closer than we thought, enough to restore to linear relationship between distance and redshift that one would expect in a universe expanding at a constant rate.

In other words, their redshift is lower not because the expansion rate of space was lower in the past, but because they're not as far away as we thought they were.

Ring can do more to protect people who re-use credentials that have been in a data breach. Like Google's better password protection in Chrome,[0] sometimes the stakes are high enough that the responsible thing to do is be proactive on the user's behalf.

[0] https://blog.google/products/chrome/better-password-protecti...

Original article: https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Mac+Pro+2019+Teardown/128922

A third party could do this if they wished. Savepagenow is one of several wrappers that can save an arbitrary URL's contents to the Internet Archive: https://github.com/pastpages/savepagenow

Hook it up to RSS and away you go.

So SpaceX creates the problem and sells the solution - brilliant business strategy :P

Is this an okay simplification?

• I want to send my password (44) to Google but don't want them to know it's 44. So I multiply it by 37 (Kc) and send 1628.

• I also tell Google that the password is between 40 and 50. (Equivalent to sending three characters of cleartext.)

• Google multiplies 1628 by 78 (Kg) and sends me the result, 126984.

• Google also sends me every number between 40 and 50, multiplied by 78.

• I divide 126984 by Kc and get 3432. I see that 3432 is in the set of other numbers Google sent me (44x78). So I can infer that my password is in Google's set of breached passwords.

please do a follow-up on the affiliate revenue from this article

> Steam is not allowed to escape from the liner into any sewer laterals. In fact, sewer laterals are plugged by the liner and have to be reinstated (cut out) by a robot afterwards.

Is there resin on the side of the liner that's plugging the lateral? In other words, you may still get odors if the thing that's doing the plugging is releasing chemicals on its exterior.

I'm sure that some enterprising astronomer will release an open source way to remove satellite trails using orbital elements (if you know where your telescope is pointing and the current time, you can figure out which pixels contain satellites), but that really shouldn't be their responsibility.

maybe we could shift them some money from Adam Neumann's bank account

Craw-thumper used to describe pious Roman Catholics, so it's interesting how it's been repurposed

I have been reading your website since the heyday of Digg. Thanks for the link - I thought you must have stopped writing around 2010.

I wonder how quickly it charges. Vehicles in mine sites are often in use around the clock, which is fine if you can quickly top them up with fuel, but if it takes a few hours to recharge them, you're going to need more vehicles.

I'd argue physical comedy is more difficult than spoken comedy, because any fool can deliver a line but it takes a master to sell you a fall. Is it any wonder that physical comedy was more popular in the silent film era?

There's a line in the Stratechery article that makes perfect sense in the context of WeWork: "Uber without an at-scale competitor is a much more valuable company."

It's the same point Stoller is trying to make: Financiers "find big markets and then dump capital into one player in such a market who can underprice until he becomes the dominant remaining actor."