I’m curious will this new knowledge will lead to new discoveries which might not have been possible due to working with the incorrect lengths in calculations?
Readit Newssuifbwish commented on Benzene’s bond lengths corrected chemistryworld.com/news/b... · Posted by u/respinal
> a bunch of men who had just used guns they had lying around their farms to form militias and overthrow their government.
That pretty seriously overstates the case: The American Revolution started out that way, but as time went on, the Continental Army acquired serious artillery and became reasonably professional — thanks largely to Henry Knox; Baron von Steuben; and the Marquis de La Fayette — and the decisive factor at Yorktown was the intervention of a French naval squadron and expeditionary force.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_Army
https://www.historynet.com/arming-revolution-continental-arm...
There is no law preventing civilians from owning cannons and other artillery of any caliber so long as they are not automatic.
suifbwish commented on AWS Nuke – delete all resources associated with AWS account github.com/rebuy-de/aws-n... · Posted by u/fortran77
Shout out to AWS batch, where if you delete the role assigned to a compute cluster the cluster itself becomes impossible to delete.
Found this out after using AWS nuke
The idea that we can actually delete anything from a non physical system the hyper visor of which we do not control is absolute nonsense. Unless you have control over the physical system and the hypervisor all you can do is destroy your ability to access the information. We can never have confidence of how it truly works back end.
suifbwish commented on How many decimals of pi do we need? (2016) jpl.nasa.gov/edu/news/201... · Posted by u/Abishek_Muthian
Summarized answer from the article.
> For JPL's highest accuracy calculations, which are for interplanetary navigation, we use 3.141592653589793
> by cutting pi off at the 15th decimal point… our calculated circumference of the 25 billion mile diameter circle would be wrong by 1.5 inches.
The author also has a fun explanation that you don’t need many more digits to reduce the error to the width of a hydrogen atom… at the scale of the visible universe!
If pi is truly infinite wouldn’t it eventually express a sequence of information which would be self aware if expressed in binary in a programmatic system?
suifbwish commented on SMS phishing is way too easy bejarano.io/sms-phishing/... · Posted by u/ricardbejarano
So what you’re saying is that if you’re communicating with someone over txt because you have an iPhone and they have an android and you want to send them a link then you’d rather ask them whether or not they have the same OTT messenger as you, then tell them you will send a link to them using that, then send the link, rather than simply sending the link to them in the existing thread?
No what I’m saying has nothing to do with Android vs iPhone vs blackberry or any other phone. I can get a link on Skype or signal or anything. I don’t need clickable links in my SMS messages on any phone. Thanks
suifbwish commented on Some CyberPower UPSes may pose a fire hazard forums.redflagdeals.com/s... · Posted by u/smcleod
I have one of these. I have had it for years, and even swapped out the battery pack once. I have had no other issues with it.
After I read the Reddit post and watched the tear-down video, I disconnected and opened it up and found that not only did it have the yellow glue, but patches of it had turned brown and had what looked like drops on it in places.
Now I am looking for a replacement, but from the comments here it sounds like other manufacturers have the same issue.
The idea of a UPS catching the server room or worse yet your house on fire is absolutely terrifying.
We are social animals. You derive a lot of benefits from living in society, it has a price.
Get over it and stop following libertarian religious sects, their teachings are only going to make you feel miserable and turn you into the annoying libertarian everybody dreads to meet in a party.
Are you implying that just because a question is raised, one must be “following” some teaching or sect?
so-called "sin taxes" are morally neutral but economically efficient. Explanation: one of the problems with taxation is that taxes distort the economy by changing prices which change consumption; "sin goods" have inelastic demand functions--smokers still want their cigarettes--so taxation doesn't change consumption, which lessens side effects of the taxation, for example not increasing unemployment of cigarette workers.
They can also be popular with the electorate ("first they came for the smokers, and I didn't complain because I was not a smoker..") because people make moral judgments which is what you are complaining about, but that's not the reason economists favor them when it comes to advising politicians on tax policy.
I suppose the logical question is what defines justification for any tax on anything; if this can be defined perhaps we can establish reasoning for what items should be taxed and not be taxed.
In an unregulated system there are strong "sin incentives" created by (some) market forces. In a way people are manipulated to become passive couch potatoes craving trash food and sugary drinks, staying awake to binge watch some netflix series. It seems fair that governments take some corrective measures.
So it would seem you are suggesting we have no free will/agency? If so you cannot take credit for any achievement you accomplish or lay blame on anyone for anything no matter the deed because we would be nothing but products of our environments
In all seriousness I agree tho, intelligence does not strictly cover ethics and morals, but we are headed into boundless territory there if we continue