pacificmint

> An interesting hypothesis that I ran across

Here [1] is a link from the Financial Times that talks about the hypothesis you mention, where a combination of a lull in the wind and the bank effect pushed the bow of the ship away from the bank while pulling the stern in.

[1] https://archive.is/pmUEm

The stopping distance is known, so presumably the pilots space the ships deliberately so that they can stop safely.

There was some early speculation that they might have lost power, but according to most reports they did not.

> it goes towards the east bank (consistent with a strong gust of wind blowing it off course)

Apparently the wind was coming from the east, so it was more likely the opposite, a lull.

The ship was oversteering to the left the whole time because of the strong wind. When there was a sudden lull in the wind it got too close to the left side. The bank effect might have then pushed the bow away and pulled the stern in, resulting in the ship getting wedged.

[1] has a good description of the situation and the bank effect.

[1] https://archive.is/pmUEm

A lot of the European countries are all at a similiar point, most likely cause the vaccines were procured together. Spain, Italy, France and Germany are virtually identical, on a per capita basis.

Hungary is a little ahead, as they are also using the Russian vaccine. But still behind the US.

> Maybe THE fastest

Almost, but not quiet. As of 3/21 Britain has done 44 doses per 100 people.

Israel is leading with 112, followed by United Arab Emirates with 74 and Chile with 44.31. These countries are all smaller than Britain though, as you point out. No country as big or bigger than Britain is doing it faster.

For comparison, the US has done 37 per 100, while most of the EU countries are between 12-13. Hungary is at 21, because they have not only used the EU provided vaccines, but also using the Russian vaccine.

If a PC is infected I can (and should) reinstall everything from scratch. That should remove the malware, barring some super resistant malware that hides in the BIOS or something like that.

What do you do on an iOS device? Does a full device reset reinstall the OS, or does it simply remove all user settings?

I feel like the locked down nature of iOS makes it harder to attack, but if an attack goes thru it would also make it harder to clean up the attack?

Correct link: https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/Woman-with-history-of-...

> get back the domain

They never had the domain.

Grand Parent

The parent post of the parent post.

One of the nice things about the german system is that when the crisis is over, the companies can ramp their workforce back up near instantaneously without hiring and training.

Compare that to the US where they lay people off in a down turn, only to then have to rehire and retrain once the economy picks up again.

On the other hand, I have problems finding google maps on my iPad ever since the latest icon redesign. It’s so different that my brain just filters it out when I am looking for maps.

I’ve used Apple Maps way more often just because I can’t see the google maps logo.

> trademark is supposed to work that way - you lose it if you don’t actively enforce it

That’s an oft repeated myth, but it’s not quite true.

From an article by the EFF:

> The circumstances under which a company could actually lose a trademark—such as abandonment and genericide—are quite limited. Genericide […] is very rare […]. Courts also set a very high bar to show abandonment (usually years of total non-use). Importantly, failure to enforce a mark against every potential infringer does not show abandonment.

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/11/trademark-law-does-not...

Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25807199

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25886601

Two articles about the discovery:

https://www.npr.org/2016/07/16/485696248/a-chemist-accidenta...

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2018-quest-for-billion-do...

Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25807199

Two articles about the discovery:

https://www.npr.org/2016/07/16/485696248/a-chemist-accidenta...

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2018-quest-for-billion-do...

And utilize them perfectly. Other compression programs would not split a file between two disks, and therefore always leave some unused space. ARJ multi volume archives utilized the floppy capacity to 100%.

Here are two articles about how this pigment was discovered:

https://www.npr.org/2016/07/16/485696248/a-chemist-accidenta...

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2018-quest-for-billion-do...

To Democracy?

> They would not weather another incident like this.

One would think so, if normal rules applied. But it is hard to see how the US would allow Boeing to not weather this, or any other event.

For defense reasons alone it seems unlikely they would ever allow Boeing to fail.

> Additionally, without the very dense energy in the easily accessible fossil fuels we've very nearly mined out, restarting an industrial revolution would be at best extremely problematic.

I feel like this is the more important of the two points you made.

Even without Uranium, it's conceivable to have a second industrial revolution. We don't need nuclear power for that.

But without easily accessible fossil fuels, it's much harder to envision the next civilization having an industrial revolution. They might indeed never rise to our level of technology again.

In this case, any app would take five to ten minutes to open. While that technically means "it still opens", it effectively renders the computer unusable.

(And that's after I realized that they will eventually open. Originally I rebooted the machine before any app had had a chance to open.)

Presumably because the title of the page contains a slash, which isn’t escaped in the url. Some Webservers might have interpreted as a directory.

That’s an oft repeated myth, but it’s not quite true.

From an article by the EFF:

> The circumstances under which a company could actually lose a trademark—such as abandonment and genericide—are quite limited. Genericide […] is very rare […]. Courts also set a very high bar to show abandonment (usually years of total non-use). Importantly, failure to enforce a mark against every potential infringer does not show abandonment.

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/11/trademark-law-does-not...

Isn’t that what they did with the letter posted in the tweet?

I suppose they could’ve done it with a little less ‘ultimatum’, but it looks like they _did_ reach out before unleashing anything else.

Droid is (or used to be) Motorola’s brand name for their Android phones. Google bought Motorola in 2012. They sold them later, but they may have retained the Trademark.

Twitter apparently returns a “420 Enhance your calm” error when you exceed their rate limiting. It’s not an official http code, though.

For soldiers, that’s correct. However, if you include civilian deaths you do hit the 20 million number. And that’s the lower estimate.

The tweet clearly states that it is not a movie, but the actual game.

> Yesterday I had a lot of retweets and reddit posts and such for playing Doom on a pregnancy test.

> But as I explained then, it wasn't really PLAYING on a pregnancy test, it was just a video being played back, not an interactive game.

> Well, now it is. It's Pregnancy Test Doom!

Probably not the book you are thinking off, since it’s just about the AT&T incident, but “The Day the Phones Stopped Ringing” by Leonard Lee is a detailed description of the event.

It’s been many years since I read it, but I recall it being a very interesting read.

The page doesn’t list the year the startups were founded. I wonder if you’d see a good correlation to the founding year.

More startups on the list use Ruby than any other language, and it accounts for over fifty percent of the valuation. It was very popular with startups ten, twelve years ago, but may since have slipped?

On the other hand among younger companions es one might expect to see more Go, Node and maybe Rust?

Still, an interesting analysis.