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Comment Lecture by Subir Sarkar (Score 2) 87

The corresponding author is Subir Sarkar.

He is a professor at Oxford who has done some interesting work about the expansion of the universe is NOT accelerating.

Instead, he is saying that there is a dipole effect because earth, and the galaxy cluster that we are in, are all moving in space, and that gives the effect of accelerating expansion!

He provides compelling evidence (for a non-specialist at least) for what he says and also casts doubts on the evidence for acceleration by analyzing their data (supernovae as standard candles, and their red shift), since a dipole effect is observed on that.

If his hypothesis is confirmed by other research and observations, then the 2011 Nobel Prize for Saul Perlmutter and Adam Reiss maybe for nothing ...

Watch his lecture on Beyond The Cosmological Standard Model.

This latest paper is yet another analysis towards that.

Let us see which hypothesis is supported by the evidence, current and future ...

Comment We actually looked at it (Score 5, Interesting) 57

Installed it, looked at the components.

While it's technically open-source, to make it usable beyond a simple proof of concept, you need to pay for a lot of "pro" stuff that requires a license.

I have no idea what it costs, but I doubt it will turn out cheaper as Microsoft.

Currently, it does not look like it's multi-tenant. So you need a full installation for every customer.

Comment Re:Different worlds (Score 5, Interesting) 498

Being a familiar tactic, it is also well known how to deal with it. This is what tariffs (on specific goods) are actually for, coordination of those with other trading partners, as well as support for US domestic industry. The problem is that the current US government is so incompetent that they can't do it even close to right. Just as an example, the right move here is likely to tie industry subsidies to improvements in manufacturing (automation) and EV deployment that make US cars more competitive on the world market. One problem in the US is that some policies that support industry through government get the nasty "socialism" label and some don't. And whether they do or don't has more to do with corruption in the political process than any real-world differences.

Comment Re: This isn't the EU. He's going to win. (Score 1) 314

I think those may be ways you can lose permanent resident status, but not reasons to be denied entry. But some of this is a question of practice. A border agent "denying entry" on the basis of #2 is not necessarily denying entry to a permanent resident - they are making a judgement that the person before them no longer has status because that is a condition. Even for that there is a due process issue in that if the person claims that that is a record error they should be admitted and then followed up. In a correctly functioning system, it is not the border agent's job to litigate the green card status itself, only to correctly map the person to their status and then admit or refer for other processing accordingly. Obviously the current administration is attempting to do illegal things that sound kindof like the rules but aren't really.

Comment Re:If he is found guilty (Score 2) 182

I think what you say is not as strong as you think it is. It only applies to limited things like due process, not necessarily all constitutional rights such as those restricting search and seizure. There is something called the "entry fiction" where people who have entered can be treated as if they are requesting entry and therefore only have the rights they would have at the border. See this podcast episode. Rights they have do include a few things like habeas corpus and due process, but, as I understand it, not things like freedom from search or right to silence or freedom from indefinite detention. And, as others point out, currently federal law enforcement is even ignoring many of those rules or massively abusing them.

Now I think the entry fiction is an incorrect interpretation of the U.S. constitution and should not exist, but my understanding is that it is the current functioning precedent of law in the U.S. Among other things this is the hole through which the current administration is trying to create its police state - if they claim someone entered the country without authorization, the entry fiction kicks in and they can detain them effectively indefinitely. And how exactly does one go about proving one did not enter without authorization while sitting in detention? And there is no one phone call required in this type of detention. You're just gone. This is happening to people right now. Someone else has to notice the person disappeared.

Comment Re: Why were critical systems not replaced? (Score 1) 36

Iâ(TM)m aware of long-lived companies who got advised to: sell off then lease back their real estate, reduce cash on hand myriad ways, changing buying habits (so inventory value on the books plunges), etc. Literally, theyâ(TM)ve been coached to eliminate every bit of those decades of reserves.

When a bad thing happens, the company dies.

Comment Re:Why do we need a giant publicly funded moon bas (Score 1) 83

I think the Mars thing has always been Musk's social hack to both force humans to expand beyond Earth and make him a lot of money. Step 1: build the only private rocket company that can send humans to Mars; step 2: strand a bunch of people there; step 3: effectively forcing the government to pay you gobs of money to save them. This moon thing seems like a similar scheme that is just slightly less ambitious, or just another step added to the beginning to get the government to fund a larger chunk of your startup costs. The thing to keep in mind is that once you can move tons of cargo to the moon, you can pretty much put it anywhere in the solar system. It is getting out of Earth's gravity well that is the challenge. Besides the making him rich part, it really is a big step forward toward genuine spacefaring.

I think it is also worth keeping in mind that the budget to do any of this still small compared to what the US spends on the military all the time.

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