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Patient0 commented on James Webb Space Telescope reveals that most galaxies rotate clockwise smithsonianmag.com/smart-... · Posted by u/instagraham

snitty · 5 months ago

If we were on the other side of those galaxies, wouldn't they look like they were spinning counter-clockwise? Or are they measuring spin some other way?

Patient0 · 5 months ago

The actual paper makes more sense: "the number of galaxies in that field that rotate in the opposite direction relative to the Milky Way galaxy is ∼50 per cent higher than the number of galaxies that rotate in the same direction relative to the Milky Way."

Patient0 commented on James Webb Space Telescope reveals that most galaxies rotate clockwise smithsonianmag.com/smart-... · Posted by u/instagraham

worldsayshi · 5 months ago

Clockwise relative to what? Does the universe have an "upwards" direction?

Or is it just relative to all the other galaxies?

Patient0 · 5 months ago

The actual paper makes more sense: "the number of galaxies in that field that rotate in the opposite direction relative to the Milky Way galaxy is ∼50 per cent higher than the number of galaxies that rotate in the same direction relative to the Milky Way."

Patient0 commented on James Webb Space Telescope reveals that most galaxies rotate clockwise smithsonianmag.com/smart-... · Posted by u/instagraham

vincnetas · 5 months ago

But rotation direction depends on the observer. If i see galaxy spinning clockwise, this means someone observing galaxy from behind it sees it rotating counter clockwise. So are we just located so in the universe that we see 2/3 spinning clockwise and another counter?

Patient0 · 5 months ago

The actual paper makes more sense: "the number of galaxies in that field that rotate in the opposite direction relative to the Milky Way galaxy is ∼50 per cent higher than the number of galaxies that rotate in the same direction relative to the Milky Way."

Patient0 commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2025) · Posted by u/whoishiring

Patient0 · 6 months ago

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Patient0 commented on It's hard to stop Math Acceleration once you start kidswholovemath.substack.... · Posted by u/sebg

Patient0 · 10 months ago

I think a lot of the hostility about over achieving kids is that parents and their fellow students instinctively recognize that a lot of the success that comes from education is "zero sum".

There are only so many places and scholarships available at the elite universities, employers only pick the academic "winners" for their graduate programs etc.

When a child spends all their spare time studying and does better in life as a result, a component of this success is actually at the expense of the kids who may have been as bright, but did not spend as much of their spare time on it.

So now should all the other kids spend all their time studying so that they can keep up and not lose out? Maybe...

I'm not saying that any of this is wrong or even unfair - just pointing it out.

Patient0 commented on CrowdStrike will be liable for damages in France, based on the OVH precedent thehftguy.com/2024/07/25/... · Posted by u/charlieirish

dotancohen · a year ago

Can someone explain to me why the protections that Falcon provides, are not provided by the OS itself? I am not completely naive, I've secured quite a few critical Linux servers, but with Windows it seems that there do not exist the same clear roles of security. Contrast with Red Hat or even Canonical, where is feels like I'm (correctly) fighting the security of the systems to get them into a state where my users can use my applications.

Patient0 · a year ago

I read an article that stated that Microsoft lost an anti-trust court case against the EU in which the EU mandated that they allow third party competitors to provide this service. Microsoft has its own solution called Windows Defender.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/22/windows_crowdstrike_k...

Patient0 commented on Spot the Drowning Child (2015) spotthedrowningchild.com/... · Posted by u/EndXA

Patient0 · a year ago

Not to be that guy but this is the sort of thing I could imagine might benefit from an AI also. Train an AI to recognize drowning, and sound an alarm just in case the lifeguard misses it...