OK. It's not as if the other detector is sending the gravity wave and the other is receiving it, but that both are seeing an event that happens somewhere else. If the source of the event were equally far from both detectors, the time lag between them would be 0.

The arrival time between the detectors is used to calculate the direction, in the same way your ears determine the direction a sound is coming from. Of course, with only 2 detectors, this will not localize the direction perfectly, but it's a start.

Well, the speed of the gravity wave is exactly c, to the best of our knowledge. I still don't understand where you're getting that 0.01c from.

Can you elaborate what makes you think, that the detected gravity waves propagate at 0.01c?

Fair critique, rage or not.

Though I have to say that the boyfriend character was vague enough that I didn't feel one way or the other about his Mary Sue -ness. He did seem like an ideal one in the sense of how I'd imagine people with a very convoluted inner emotion stack would like to see their mates (impossibly considerate, for once). Also in general, I feel that overexplaining/overexploring the gimmick of the story takes away from the story instead of giving to it (like using the lie obtain mathematical truths would, but the problem with this would have been that such would trivialize the world), but you're absolutely right in that the concept was barely explored at all here.

I just read the two stories that you linked, and while I kind of enjoyed The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere (it establishes a quite abstract concept and explores it as a part of another story - I like that), I also expected that the best story of any specific year would be somewhat stronger than this.

This has completely changed my attitude towards the Puppy movement. The accusations seem to have merit after all - this is quite surprising.

I'd like to hear an example too.

Obviously as the viewpoint is so rigorously established that the Puppies can stand behind it, there should be a long list of entries which are of dubious quality, yet got nominated or awarded because of their political statements. Could someone refer us to this type of a list?

If they made up a new Hugo category for the most self-serving and narcissistic comment on Slashdot, I'd vote for this one.

Did you actually just post to rant how little you care of the distro, because you turned your back on gaming after a single company betrayed you 15 years ago?

I use a half-a-year old extremely low power PC build for this purpose. Instead of being a media server, it is directly connected to the television and runs XFCE. It also acts as a fileserver, sometimes as a game server and hosts my and my friends shells etc.
I watch my media with mplayer, because VLC is so much worse.

I can't understand how anyone can live without a device like this.

So this means that it is an algorithm for compressing text. What I'm wondering about is how much actual performance we get, when most of the time spent loading pages is spent loading already heavily compressed content such as images.

One can exaggerate to make a point, but this is getting ridiculous.
How in the world is 2.5 gigabits too slow. There are barely any services in the internet which can saturate that kind of bandwidth.

What if you used a Raspberry Pi or some other cheap thing and got the mouse/keyboard/monitor from the salvation army? The total prize would not be much more than for the Pi and you wouldn't need to worry about getting defective stuff (if you did, you'd notice it right away).
Some of the students would probably be bribed (with extra credit) to set up systems like this.

And yes, this wouldn't be a laptop or a tablet, but no-one can get work done on a tablet anyway.

Directory Opus (https://www.gpsoft.com.au/)
Nothing on Windows or Linux comes close to this in ease of use and power of this program. Basically DOpus has good UI-level tools for the stuff you typically need to use bash scripts to do (complex rename or move, duplicate finding and syncing directories, etc).
In addition it's the only file manager replacement with an FTP/SFTP feature that actually works.

What I find interesting is that if only about 7 transactions per second are possible, Bitcoin is by design invalid for the very purposes people are aggressively trying to adopt it. You can never pay with bitcoin on a convenience store and you can never use it to exchange trivial things, as even the slightest hint of acceptance for this kind of business would immediately saturate the network - small towns process much more transactions per second than this, let alone the whole world.

Also, if I read that right, doesn't that process imply that the blockchain increases in size by 6 MB every hour? Won't it mean that the size of the chain will be completely unwieldy in the future?

Can someone explain this joke/meme/thing to me? I see it in pretty much every article.