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jerry1979··on Wavy walls use fewer bricks than a straight wall (2020)
> there's still concerns about their relationship to reporting science

Can you provide any credible examples of concerns regarding their reporting on science topics?

jerry1979··on U.S. Marine Corps Antenna Handbook (1999) [pdf]
Quick answer: The antenna is like a tube, and the energy stuff is like liquid that sloshes back and forth in the tube generating a kind of wiggle.

This Canadian military video should help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-F7KYLO4Bkg

jerry1979··on Wavy walls use fewer bricks than a straight wall (2020)
I think the Christian Science Monitor is perfectly fine. https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/christian-science-monitor/
jerry1979··on Tea as Hepatoprotective Agent: A Revisit
What will happen if someone tries this?
jerry1979··on “But the SEC let us go public” and other flawed arguments in Coinbase's defense
I'm confused why the SEC is suing specifically over DASH (2014) but not specifically Ethereum (2015).

https://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2023/comp-pr2023-1...

jerry1979··on Wall Street scooped up a third of Texas single family homes sold last year (2022)
Perhaps we could say what the goldbugs have been saying for years: it's the money that's the problem.
jerry1979··on US Supreme Court's dog toy ruling puts parody products on notice
I think the ruling sounds even more strict than that. I read it as you can make a business that parodies another business, but you cannot then go on to trademark your parody.
jerry1979··on SEC asks for emergency order to freeze Binance US assets anywhere in the world
Pardon my ignorance, but what do you mean by "it's in Leviticus"?
jerry1979··on EBPFGuard: a Rust Library Mitigation of Threats Using LSM Hooks
Why not set up different users to do different tasks?
jerry1979··on Ithkuil, the Most Complicated Language
If this is topic is new to you, it is worth checking out some conversations about inner voice over at reddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/nosurf/comments/10tnb8g/do_you_have...
jerry1979··on Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI
Remember: you are doing propaganda. Feelings don't care about your facts.
jerry1979··on Toyota: Car location data and videos of 2M customers exposed for ten years
Does anyone have a guide to modding vehicles to prevent them from collecting data? I would be willing to snip the microphone in the cab and remove the gps receiver if I knew where it was.
jerry1979··on Wikipedia user edits over 90k uses of “comprised of”
Who are the native speakers in the case of Wikipedia?
jerry1979··on Mullvad VPN was subject to a search warrant – customer data not compromised
Perhaps a business would structure their physical infrastructure in anticipation of the language of search warrants. They could use documentation, the principle of separation of concern, and well-labeled physical devices.
jerry1979··on Microsoft plugging more ads into Windows 11 Start Menu
Do people see Windows as a secure operating system for the purposes of corporate work? Is there a way companies can turn this stuff off so employees don't engage with the content and accidentally give away sensitive information?
jerry1979··on Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong
I did some searches for teaching being a mission, and that's pretty distressing that they demand that you work for money and then also work extra because it is "a service".
jerry1979··on Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong
I plan to do some volunteer work in teaching. What's the best way to find "the good stuff" in terms of educational research?
jerry1979··on Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong
What's the easiest way for me to learn about this ideology? Is there a test prep or similar?
jerry1979··on A systematic critique of Bitcoin's value proposition
Wouldn't that nightmare scenario mean that an attacker would need to perform a 51% attack 7-ish blocks deep?
jerry1979··on A systematic critique of Bitcoin's value proposition
As far as I can tell, for most users a 51% would at worst look like their transaction didn't "go through". This is because wallet software waits for the system to mine a certain number of blocks before showing the final wallet balance. A 51% attack that is 1 block deep may actually be a good thing for bitcoin because it would cement the idea of needing to wait for confirmations in the minds of users. In this way, 51% attacks do not kill bitcoin, but instead the attack simply makes the network appear as though it is moving more slowly than it used to because users would need to wait for more confirmations.
jerry1979··on We ran a phone check at a Y Combinator event in SF
But I'm entirely confident I can DOS your phone in 10 attempts.
jerry1979··on You can't tell people anything (2004)
Please tell me there is actually such a theory and that this is not an AI comment.
jerry1979··on Suing to protect right of incarcerated people to receive physical mail
Out of curiosity, what did the ACLU do to limit 1A protections?
jerry1979··on Suing to protect right of incarcerated people to receive physical mail
What is the boundary between the analog and the digital if not the "electronic frontier". The EFF started by defending a physical book publisher that was accused of receiving a document about digital systems.
jerry1979··on Eliezer Yudkowsky on large language model economics
What do you mean by "L. Ron Hubbard's style guide"? Would that be doing things like employing in-group metaphors?
jerry1979··on Clinic to open near Ohio derailment as health worries linger
> Water samples on Friday showed the plume is now completely gone, DeWine said.

I saw an unverified video linked on reddit that alleged to show that the contaminants sink to the bottom of water [1]. Could this be the reason why the water does not appear contaminated?

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/11480zm/east_palest...

jerry1979··on I Tried Ketamine to Treat My Depression. It Was Terrifying
Ketamine treatment seems to induce mania in some people. A friend sent me a picture he took of a notice posted on the wall of a ketamine clinic. It read as a rambling screed about the virtues of ketamine. I really wish I could find that picture. After receiving treatment, my friend became manic, and then he crashed and killed himself.

There seems to be some literature that discusses mania from ketamine: https://www.psychiatrist.com/pcc/bipolar/ketamine-induced-ma...

jerry1979··on Of regrets
Does anyone know of an open source license that geo-fences countries like the UK?
jerry1979··on Until further notice, think twice before using Google to download software
Just to jump on the anti-google bandwagon, google news search has fell off a cliff over the past decade. Can anyone recommend a news search that allows me to filter by year or year range?
jerry1979··on LastPass breach gets worse
I'm confused and not trying to be argumentative, but if I enter my passwords into my browser anyway, why not store them there?
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