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If you're walking at 1 meter per second with a 1 meter stride. The space-time interval between your footsteps is: sqrt( (299,792,458m)^2 - 1m^2))

299,792,458m is for the distance traveled by light in one second. The -1m is for the distance between your feet.

Reminds me of the library modernization drive in 'Rainbows End'. The book digitizer is basically a wood chipper with lights and high speed cameras in the debris chute.

If the photos span the camera's full position-orientation vector space, I don't see why you can't put the camera anywhere in the scene.

That gets into politics, history, sociology, how the subject of economics itself interacts with politics and affects history. Best to move on quickly and discourage the students from thinking about it.

What about the criminal who mounted the screen next to the road and hooked it up to the internet?

I suspect flashing a stop sign sized image of a stop sign for 500ms on a tv mounted where the stop sign goes, at an intersection that should probably have a stop sign, would get most people to stop.

Hopefully as we pile on more and more examples of different materials exhibiting superconductivity, we can understand it well enough to find a practical high temperature one.

Though I think we could go a long way with the liquid nitrogen temp superconductors now on the market. It's still going to be a real chore to design around, but it's got to be a lot easier to deal with liquid N2 than liquid He.

Couldn't the pinch effect be used to crush two superconducting filaments into each other? My rough calculation is something like 5 MA(in each conductor, spaced by 1mm) would do the trick, assuming that much current and B don't interfere with superconductivity (I have no idea).

Looks like the highest current ever achieved is 100 kA. A mere 100 fold increase and we should be good to go.

Suppose God is running multiple identical instances of the universe on several machines. Are we in a particular one?

While I'm sure state organizations like FSB, CIA, MI5 do attempt to influence the Q-anon movement, it's obviously become a genuine popular movement akin to the satanic panic of the 80's.

Neuralink v1.0 has all the hardware for self-driving.

> If you thought that easy access to welfare was bad for people then you'd have met a hell of a lot of leftists who want "racist" policy.

If you thought water was piss you'd have met a lot of people that like to drink piss.

> Note that the improvement only happens after consuming exactly 1.5oz of cognac. Anything more than that and performance drops precipitously.

Anecdotally, this appears to be true for billiards as well.

300 kilowatt-hours per hour

> Crackpot theories are also new and news worthy.

Only when the crackpots have wealthy benefactors.

I've literally never heard the term used by anyone except as wink wink I mean the Jews.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/03/the-ori...

> So, "silence is complicity"? That's pretty accusatory and offputting.

Yeah people don't like facing their complicity with the horror of the world, especially since it's not at all obvious how to fix it. It can feel like (and can actually be) pointless self-flagellation.

But it's not incorrect.

from: https://archive.org/stream/twospeechesbykar00marx/twospeeche...

He's saying don't be fooled by people picking up our talking points, a revolution in Germany will be hard pressed to prevent the country from fragmenting. Federalization in Germany, a nation just forged from a patchwork of feudal estates, would invite an immediate return of society to a feudal configuration.

Marx considered the Paris Commune to be a good example of what he had in mind.

"The Commune itself–the government formed by the workers–was made up of representatives of the various wards of Paris, elected by the citizens and recallable from office at any time. The majority of its members were workers or acknowledged representatives of the working class. Rather than a parliamentary body (such as the Congress in the U.S.), the Commune both made decisions and carried them out." — https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-5/rcp-paris-commun...

"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim." - Dijkstra

Compromise isn't necessarily a positive way forward. Sometimes there is no way forward but to fight for power and the victors impose their will on the losers.

Look at the compromise of alternating slave and free states to prevent a rupture in U.S. politics in the mid 1800s. It satisfied neither side, and no compromise possibly could have.

> I am curious how long until US congress starts blaming anyone who is unemployed for "being lazy", and stop providing financial assistance, or only provides the bare minimum $7.25 an hour.

That sentiment was certainly there from the start, several were talking about how they need to de-rate the benefits based on income.

There's a time limit on the additional federal funds for unemployment insurance, it runs out at the end of July.