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OlleTO commented on Two galaxies aligned in a way where their gravity acts as a compound lens   phys.org/news/2024-11-ast... · Posted by u/wglb
snakeyjake · 10 months ago
In order to use them as a signaling platform (how?) the signal would have needed to have been sent several billion years ago.

At 10 billion light years away from the most distant lens it is 100% certain that they are no longer in a gravitational lensing configuration.

For a frame of reference, the Milky Way will be in the middle of its epic merger with Andromeda in about 5 billion years.

OlleTO · 10 months ago
So conceiably someone could have sent a signal from the other part of the lense some billion years ago and we "just" need to figure out what to listen for.
OlleTO commented on NASA inspector general gives damning assessment of Boeing's quality control   nbcnews.com/science/space... · Posted by u/hnthrowaway0315
fisf · a year ago
If the result of political correctness is an inability to point out competency problems (for whatever reasons), then we have major issues.
OlleTO · a year ago
The issue is that the original comment is just a baseless assertion that Boeing is having issues due to identity politics, and not anything of substance. Not liking those sort of unsubstantiated politically motivated claims is not "political correctness".
OlleTO commented on CriticGPT: Finding GPT-4's mistakes with GPT-4   openai.com/index/finding-... · Posted by u/davidbarker
soloist11 · a year ago
How do they know the critic did not make a mistake? Do they have a critic for the critic?
OlleTO · a year ago
It's critics all the way down
OlleTO commented on Tell HN: Vim users, `:x` is like `:wq` but writes only when changes are made    · Posted by u/manaskarekar
OlleTO · 3 years ago
Maybe well-known, but: Ctrl-C exits interactive mode and goes back to normal mode. Easier to reach than Esc and I usually find rebinding/aliasing keys to be too much of a hassle
OlleTO commented on Twitter plans to comply with Musk’s demands for data   forbes.com/sites/abrambro... · Posted by u/Balgair
OlleTO · 3 years ago
Throwing out grave insults because someone on the internet doesn't like your idea is a pretty good tell of the sort of character he is, even if it was 4 years ago.

Adding to the list of reasons to dislike him, there's him trying to get a lawyer who interviewed him for the SEC fired from his new unrelated job.

OlleTO commented on Israel passes law denying naturalization to Palestinian spouses   reuters.com/world/middle-... · Posted by u/croes
snird · 3 years ago
False.

Israeli government has Arab list in it, with Arab ministers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Arab_List

Not the parliament - the government itself. This is by definition not an apartheid state.

This law denying citizenship is to block a loophole used by known terrorists to come into Israel and explode Jews on busses. Here are some examples for you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_HaSharon_Mall_suicide_bom...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sbarro_restaurant_suicide_bomb...

Why should Israelis allow a terrorist loophole in? Would you allow a way for terrorists to kill you and your family in your home country? I didn't think so.

OlleTO · 3 years ago
None of your links details anything about how the perpetrators in those attacks were able to enter Israel due to being naturalized through marriage.

In addition, the article notes that several supported of the law (at least one who's in Knesset) claim that the invention is for Israel to maintain its "Jewish character".

OlleTO commented on Eyeo wins German copyright decision, sets legal precedent for who ‘owns’ HTML   eyeo.com/eyeo-wins-copyri... · Posted by u/rmoriz
thomasahle · 4 years ago
Interesting. So could I publish a modified book, by publishing a piece of software, that transforms a known book into a new book. Then the user would be doing the modification.

Would that not be legal, as long as my software doesn't contain pieces of the original book copied verbatim?

OlleTO · 4 years ago
IANAL (and in the EU) - I believe you're not allowed to republish/redistribute the modified copy of the book. That said, your software is still legal for an end user to use on any book they own.

Same thing here, if the modifications were happening on the server side and then sent to your browser that's probably not legal

OlleTO commented on Woman sues L.A. after being struck by car on a street where tents block sidewalk   latimes.com/california/st... · Posted by u/Flatcircle
simonsarris · 4 years ago
First please note that America has fewer homeless people than many European nations or Canada. Per 10K:

    Germany......79
    UK...........46
    Sweden.......36
    Canada.......36
    Netherlands..23
    France.......21
    USA..........17
(via Wikipedia, stats for differing years unfortunately but gives a sense of magnitude)

It's mostly that the US homeless population concentrates in very few areas.

> How do you reconcile that with the fact that there are so many simple jobs with open positions everywhere?

I have friends who have tried to hire homeless for help with moving because her movers did not show up. The experience did not go well. She basically had to babysit them to the effect of "Ok, pack up that box. Now take it and come with me. [he follows without box] No, lets go back and get the box..." But for everything.

Even among the set of homeless who want to do jobs, many need extraordinary supervision, and most places are not staffed well enough to handle that.

OlleTO · 4 years ago
I think presenting it like this is misleading since the definition of homelessness is different per country.

Breaking down the Swedish stats, of the reported 34000, the source says:

"4 500 people were in acute homelessness, of which 280 were sleeping rough. 5 600 people received institutional care or lived in different forms of category housing. 13 900 people lived in long-term housing solutions (the secondary housing market), provided by the social services in the municipalities. 6 800 persons lived in short-term insecure housing solutions that they had organized themselves."

Unfortunately the original source isn't archived so I haven't checked the exact definitions used here.

For the US numbers, we have:

"On a single night in 2018, roughly 553,000 people were experiencing homelessness in the United States. About two-thirds (65%) were staying in sheltered locations—emergency shelters or transitional housing programs—and about one-third (35%) were in unsheltered locations such as on the street"

I'll assume you'll get similar discrepancies for all of the other countries.

OlleTO commented on Tomato fruits send electrical warnings to the rest of the plant when attacked   blog.frontiersin.org/2021... · Posted by u/rustoo
dennis_jeeves · 4 years ago
>Plants don't have a central nervous system or a brain.

So? does that automatically imply that it does not feel pain?

>What science generally understands under pain and suffering plants simply don't have.

Listen, I don't buy the science say this and science say that kind of arguments. ANY living being ( assuming we can settle for what can be called 'alive') will have a mechanism for self preservation, pain is one of them. The onus is on 'science' or people to prove otherwise.

OlleTO · 4 years ago
If we think about the function of pain from an evolutionary perspective its basically to encourage, well, not doing whatever is causing you pain (e.g. touching sharp objects, standing close to a fire) or provide motivation to fight or flee (e.g. if I am being attacked by a bobcat).

Neither of these are applicable to plants, so there doesn't seem to be any evolutionary reason to evolve pain receptors.

u/OlleTO

KarmaCake day67June 12, 2015View Original