This is a news report that is not based on any peer reviewed publication, or even a preprint. It has no value. Until the researchers publish, we won't be able to look at their methods and data to figure out whether their result is credible.

The comment at the top of this thread created confusion by using the words "telegraph" and "announce" as though they were synonymous: "Putin telegraphed to everyone weeks in advance in no uncertain terms he was going to invade Ukraine. Perhaps they should use an example of predicting an event that wasn't publicly announced beforehand.

It is FLOSS, licensed under GPL. FLOSS provides the opportunity to maintain the software, but as the fine article observes, it doesn't provide incentives for people to do the work. The incentives, are the problem, not the availability of the code.

Meanwhile, Mattermost has a FOSS alternative with most of the same functionality as Slack.

Here is a list of other FOSS alternatives to Slack.

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This is the sunk-cost fallacy.

If the market price for XBT is persistently a lot less than 40K, and you need money to cover the cost of living, then it doesn't matter how much it cost you to mine them in the past. The $40K cost of mining is already spent, and you can't get it back. You will sell or spend the XBTs at current market prices and eat the loss.

I had heard about Batman and Robin of course. That is nothing new. But I'm surprised about Superman, since he seemed to always have a thing with Lois Lane going on.

It's absolutely their right not to do business in California.

But if they do want to do business in California, they need to follow California law.

The judge wrote that the proposition would have been valid if it were an amendment to the state Constitution. However, this proposition was not posed to the voters as a Constitutional Amendment, so it must be subordinate to the Constituiton.

Two comments:

1) Your preferred candidate model is at odds with the _data_. Observational data is what you have to test a model against, and your preferred model fails spectacularly: it can't explain the baryon acoustic oscillation spectrum, or the large scale intergalactic structure, or the polarization spectrum of the microwave background, or the accelerating cosmic expansion rate. That's _why_ the current concordance model became accepted as most probable: it explains the data ... even data that were not collected at the time it was proposed! You might try reading about the successes and challenges of the Lambda-CDM: model https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Whether the dark matter and energy eventually have a particle solution or not - and this hasn't been "proclaimed" by anyone, there are many competing hypotheses - the data very strongly require more types of physics than are currently described by the Standard Model of particle physics.

2) People like to rag on the aether model, and it's true that we no longer believe there is an aether, but that's because the _data_ don't require it. However, it was _not_ a crazy expectation. All wave phenomena known to the time required a physical medium to propagate in; light was a wave; ergo, the hypothesis of the aether as the medium to support light propagation. The aether fell out of favor because every attempt to measure its properties failed, and physics eventually relegated it to an interesting historical footnote.

As others have mentioned, muon tomography can be used to study geological structure and do non-desrructive searches of shipping containers, for dxample, for fissile materials. Muon spin resonance can be used to study the magnetic structure if materials. They also do chemistry, so they can be used to understand properties of chemical compounds.

You are completely right about the safety of nuclear power.

About China Syndrome, there is some important context. Right after the China Syndrome movie was released, nuclear power advocates quickly denounced it as utterly unrealistic, saying that it was impossible to have an accident like the one described in the movie: a loss of coolant accident that was caused by a malfunctioning gauge reporting excessive cooling water levels when the water levels were actually dangerously low because a valve got stuck, resulting in core melting.

Twelve days later, Three Mile Island had a loss of coolant accident caused by a malfunctioning gauge reporting excessive cooling water levels when the water levels were actually dangerously low because a valve got stuck, resulting in core melting.

No one was injured or killed by the Three Mile Island accident, but less than two weeks earlier, nuclear power experts had said that this kind of accident was impossible, and that killed public trust in nuclear reactors.

Yes 50 ... under the XII Amendment

"But in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken by states, the representation from each state having one vote"

Bingo ... you got it. Many schools won't even accept donations of used equipment, because the cost of supporting and maintaining a heterogeneous fleet of hardware in the hands of schoolchildren and non-tech-expert teachers vastly outweighs the benefits. My childrens' district purchases hundreds of identical machines every few years to replace the previous fleet ... and then they donate the old fleet to non-profits or dispose of them, because no other schools want the "old" fleet due to support and maintenance costs of aging equipment.

"The term [GPU] was first used by Sony in 1994 with the launch of the PS1. That system had a 32-bit Sony GPU (designed by Toshiba)." — Jon Peddie, "Is it Time to Rename the GPU?".