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Perfect to reduce vibration and other sounds for podcasting

Pics please

I remember being quite shocked when reading that part.

That's an amazing story!

Make a cane which changes in length every 3-5 minutes via a small internal piston.

Great post. I had no idea that Galileo essentially caused his downfall through his own hubris

That reputation has suffered anyway quite significantly in the recent past: BER (Berlin's hilariously failed "new" airport) VW et al. cheating on emissions tests...

I'm not sure, but you might want to compare the median monthly electricity costs per household between Germany and California. I suspect that would give you a more accurate picture of the true electricity costs. My hunch stems from the fact that almost no one has air conditioning in Germany, which should be a significant factor in Californians' electrify bills...

Modern day version would be blablacar

Thank you for making Orbital Index! Super interesting and well written!

Prominent for what? He comes across very strange, writing things like this:

"Global warming is a very serious issue, but most of the impacts are in the future. There is much we can do to address global warming, both in terms of adaptation and mitigation. There is, in fact, much reason for optimism."

(I do agree that there much we can do, but most of these things are hard problems of collective action)

I mean, you could let the remaining coal miners dig it up but don't allow it to be burned. At the same time work hard to establish new ways of earning money in the communities.

Yes, the only way Starship could look more retro futuristic would have been to use the ticket from Tintin:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/bb/The_Adv...

Thank you for the fascinating explanation and story

Force them to use old-school floppy disks to store and transmit records (you know, for backwards compatibility). That should be a good incentive to minimize data hoarding. /s

Notably, the classic story of fur-clad prehistoric humans digging pits to trap mammoths is quite unrealistic in colder climates (where wooly mammoths lived): digging large pits in frozen soil with nothing but bones, sticks and maybe shoulder blades (as spades) is extremely hard.

I wonder what the average temperature of Mexico was during that time...

Would be interesting to know whether other people whose names end in mr also have this problem

Unwanted calls are an issue in France as well afaik. Not necessarily robocalls but the fact that there isn't a way to opt out from advertising calls (in contrast to Germany's Robinson-Liste) is very annoying.

Enable dark mode on win 10 and have two explorer windows overlap so that only the title bars are visible (the way the os cascades windows). Where does one end and the other begin? So many misclicks...

Blaming the software and then shrugging "well, we did everything we could" seems to become a pattern to deflect accountability. Worrying

I sort of expect them to switch to facial recognition and do away with turnstiles altogether for most passengers to dramatically increase efficiency once the tech and databases are advanced enough. As in, the system recognises where you entered and where you leave and the fare is automatically deducted from your account. Those who are not known to the system (eg first time users and tourists) aren't allowed enter the station until they set up an account (long term or temporary respectively). The system would have a bunch of problems but the authorities wouldn't care too much as long as efficiency was high.

Newpipe (very good alternative YouTube app on android) also supports independently changing speed/pitch. (The button to unlink both is a bit hidden: press the "1x" control when playing a video, then scroll down in the modal that pops up)

Not to contradict your main point, but I seem to remember that I lost a Hotmail account to inactivity sometime after 2005. So maybe Hotmail isn't the best example

"The misguided vaccine program in Pakistan was started in a poor neighborhood of Abbottabad, no doubt to give it an air of legitimacy. Yet after the first in a standard series of three hepatitis B shots was given, the effort was abandoned so that the team could move to bin Laden's wealthier community. This lapse in protocol proves that the best interests of the recipients were not the guiding principle of the effort—while not coincidently betraying the program for the sham it was."

Damn, they couldn't even be arsed to give them the full number of shots

Woah, I never thought about this possibility.

Ah, my bad. It works on Android which is all I've ever used it on.

Does it need to be active (beyond possibly having to fix stuff after each new windows release)? Are there any big open issues? (Honest questionl

There's a backup function. You can set it to run at certain intervals. I included it in my syncthing sync so I have a backup of my whole signal whenever I run syncthing.

His whole point is to not weaken encryption but to strengthen it, despite the likely social costs that will incur. Have you read the conclusion of the article?

Have you read the whole (admittedly rather long) article? He has a pretty nuanced view of it imo, especially at the end and explicitly refers to the "golden age of surveillance"