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By the way, if you go and search Twitter for #Qanon, you'll find that there are already NYC blue light truthers who are saying this is a message to patriots that the "hot war" is coming and that the acting attorney general (aka "117") is about to unleash holy hell on unbelievers and other liberals. Or, that it's a false flag. I'm not shitting you.

https://twitter.com/travis_vie...

And the "progressive" nut jobs on CommonDreams.org are blaming fossil fuel use for the explosion, because, you know, fossil fuel is evil.

I'm not saying that squirrels did it but... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

A friend of mine who lives in Astoria posted a video and it looked like some real Ghostbuster shit.

There's a good roundup of videos of this event over on Deadspin.

https://theconcourse.deadspin....

By the way, if you go and search Twitter for #Qanon, you'll find that there are already NYC blue light truthers who are saying this is a message to patriots that the "hot war" is coming and that the acting attorney general (aka "117") is about to unleash holy hell on unbelievers and other liberals. Or, that it's a false flag. I'm not shitting you.

https://twitter.com/travis_vie...

Um, yeah, and the story says that oh so urbane NYC-izens thought it was aliens. I wouldn't get too smug over this, lol

A friend of mine who lives in Astoria posted a video and it looked like some real Ghostbuster shit.

There's a good roundup of videos of this event over on Deadspin.

https://theconcourse.deadspin....

By the way, if you go and search Twitter for #Qanon, you'll find that there are already NYC blue light truthers who are saying this is a message to patriots that the "hot war" is coming and that the acting attorney general (aka "117") is about to unleash holy hell on unbelievers and other liberals. Or, that it's a false flag. I'm not shitting you.

https://twitter.com/travis_vie...

After two long years I can finally leave @slashdot. My trolls are more interested in falsely accusing other users of being me than they are in harassing me. The timing is good. My first year of posting weekly videos and my 100th video on YouTube is in six weeks. Busy, busy, busy.

My @Slashdot trolls are still promoting my #YouTube channel in random ass comments. That would explain the low quality views I've been getting recently. Trolls think views are everything. It's not. Views AND watch time are everything. Most Slashdotters are poor viewers.

Oh whose jurisdiction? Sure you can leak something out onto the internet, but remember you're criminally liable. Do you trust the guys you leaked it to (illegally) to keep quiet about it since you own 100% of the liability?

Now you may consider doing this for something incredibly important (to you), but the reality is the ban works just fine because no one is interested in being held criminally liable to publish names no one gives a shit about.

However you're not wrong. Take the absurdity and really REALLY high profile case in Australia:
In the Herald Sun we got: https://twitter.com/oliverdarc...
In the rest of the world we got: http://www.hawaiicatholicheral...

That's funny. Santa brought Chris a camcorder to replace his iPhone 6S for his YouTube videos.

The thing to do: post more videos :)

When you are rewarded for perception, not results, you need to show sophistication. (Why economists are charlatans) @nntaleb

— Finance Myths (@FinanceMyths) December 22, 2018

When you are rewarded for perception, not results, you need to show sophistication. (Why economists are charlatans) @nntaleb

— Finance Myths (@FinanceMyths) December 22, 2018

Good news, though! The market may actually finally provide what we desire:
https://www.readyfx.com/
https://twitter.com/livermoriu...

They only recently reneged on their keyboard Moto Mod and instead announced that they were switching to developing a complete device: https://www.indiegogo.com/proj...
It could still turn out to be a disappointment, but I am nevertheless cautiously optimistic. At least someone seems to be seriously developing a (landscape) slider, because Blackberry sure as fuck isn't anymore (I bought and use the Priv).

That's why I did not buy a new iPhone, and I just tweeted it this morning, too: https://twitter.com/renebln/st... guess my next phone will by a Samsung Galaxy or so –can even run my desktop Linux on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

This was not only the best book I've read all year, but the best book I've read this decade:

Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas.

"An insider's groundbreaking investigation of how the global elite's efforts to 'change the world' preserve the status quo and obscure their role in causing the problems they later seek to solve."

3) Our precautionary principle.https://t.co/QFl1hYKOeV

Note the recent trumpeted GMO meta-analysis of 6000 papers had only... 50 per study, and NO tail risk.

Note that none of the "Nobels" were into tail risk. Includes literature etc.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) March 6, 2018

A rail engineer made a few interesting comments comparing this tunnel (which I guess admittedly is more of a proof of concept?) to an actual train. A few numbers extrapolated out of the press release; it doesn't really compare favourably:

To put it another way, Musk's shoddily-built tunnel will have to carry over EIGHT VEHICLES PER SECOND to match the capacity of an underground railway. No chance.

Just build some fucking trains, America!

I still want my flying car!

Neil deGrasse Tyson explained why we don't have them yet.

https://twitter.com/neiltyson/...

Sometimes I wonder if we'd have flying cars by now had civilization spent a little less brain energy contemplating Football.

I donâ(TM)t know, man. This is what my Huawei Tablets wants to do, if I merely want to use a networked android app:

https://twitter.com/BramStolk/...

Straight up evil, if you ask me.

How is that any different from any other Android device?

Mozilla regularly complain about Google shenanigans, see e.g. https://twitter.com/cpeterso/s...

I donâ(TM)t know, man.
This is what my Huawei Tablets wants to do, if I merely want to use a networked android app:

https://twitter.com/BramStolk/...

Straight up evil, if you ask me.

One of the people who responded on his Twitter account said his ssh session went dead.

Didn't Trump promise $4000 to $9000 average pay increase due to the tax cuts?

I don't recall hearing that, but he says a lot of things... Do you have a citation?

Here's a video of him on the FOX Business Twitter feed saying:

.@POTUS: "This change, along with a lower business tax rate, would likely give the typical American household around a $4,000 pay raise."

and a press release from Speaker Paul Ryan's press office quoting a study from the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) -- a US agency within the Executive Office of the President -- saying:

The study finds that as a result of corporate tax reform alone, on average, American families will see a wage increase of at least $4,000 annually.

And there are numerous other examples of Trump and the GOP pushing this prediction.

So... Much... Winning...

Though many rightfully suspect they're becoming more obvious with their bias and probably engaging to tarnish reputation of certain people : An example of documented case of Google image search of a so-called politically controversial cartoonist returned a photo-shopped Nazi picture of him and linked to a fake Twitter account with 15 followers (Over the real 290k follower account), which is verified by some of the replies to him.

If this is pure mistake, then the incompetency here is worse than 90s AOL search.

nice looking views from space

https://twitter.com/virgingala...

Aww, come on, join the TSLAQ party! Margin calls are fun.

And you seem to have trouble accepting that I was correct about everything I wrote about the company this summer - production growth, margin growth, limited increases in SG&A, no need for a new equity round, etc, etc - and earned a mint because of that. Sorry, but there were two sides to this story this summer, and my side won. Being right about your research on a company and marketplace has positive consequences. Being wrong has negative consequences.

It's time to abandon proprietary IM services and start using Matrix. The most popular client/server is Riot but you can run your own server and use different clients if you like.

Unlike all the different services competing in this space, Matrix is objectively the best. One of the biggest reasons is that it is federated. Like Google Talk was when it was a proper XMPP server back in the day.

Don't fall for another big on hype low on substance service like Signal, which is just as centralized as Hangouts and could one day be ruined just as Google Talk/Hangouts was.

Use something that is fully open source, fully federated, and built to last. Use Matrix.

Oh, it's just liberal journalists. Ok, got it!

Although Communists and their sympathizers — and that's what "Liberal" means today — really are the enemy of humanity, it is not, what Trump claimed.

His actual claim was, Fake News media are the enemy of the people. And he was right — he usually is...

Re: "Just because we don't know everything, doesn't mean you can just make up stuff. You're not even specific about the stuff you make up, it's just hand waving.

You're not framing the issue correctly. The theoretical distance between a Big Bang and lots of mini-bangs is not actually that big. All that we are doing here is removing claims about the beginning of the universe, and then postulating that matter is recycled in the most violent areas of the galaxy which we witness - the active galactic nuclei. If you are fine with a Big Bang, then lots of mini-bangs should not induce any trauma. There is a sense that you are trying a little bit too hard to resist in the light of the proposed change here.

However, the really important part here is to completely forget trying to deduce from principles the behavior of the AGN as black hole theorists have tried to do. If you actually read Eric Lerner's explanation of how the plasma focus works, the lesson you should be taking away from that is that we cannot simply deduce the behaviors of plasmas. A century of research in plasma physics has produced this single lesson as the most important lesson of our laboratory investigations: plasmas behave in unexpected manners. You can try to deploy the most sophisticated mathematics towards understanding them, but you will still fail. Nobel laureate Hannes Alfven warned about this very problem repeatedly, but the astrophysical community refused to listen - even when he lectured them about it in his 1970 Nobel lecture.

This may come as a surprise, but theorists "make stuff up" all of the time. Sometimes - gasp! - they even postulate ideas which are not consistent with the existing scientific framework (omg!). Really though: it's their job. Sometimes, new physics can come from unexpected places. There is nothing actually extraordinary from inferring new physics principles from a study of peculiar galaxies; it's actually a pretty clever approach which we should not rule out, since these are the edge cases - and our models must accommodate all known cases.

Re: "There is no way that your magical new quasar physics suddenly changes the results of some of the most precise physical measurements we have ever made."

It's not a very strong point at all because you're making an apples-to-oranges comparison here between the end state (a system which has fully stabilized) and the initial state (which happens to be one of the most energetic regions we can see in the universe). The nature of that initial state will depend very heavily upon what process created it (in this case a proposed "matter recycling" event). Can you really make sweeping claims that the initial state must adhere to the properties of the end state? I think your hyper-focus on forming rebuttals is distracting you from more deeply engaging these issues. Halton Arp, Eric Lerner and Wal Thornhill are clearly engaging this issue at a level above what you are doing here.

Re: "But all that is irrelevant because even *if* a variable electron would cause an intrinsic redshift at the source of emitted light, that still would not explain why the absorption lines of interstellar neutral hydrogen between the quasar and us, is *also* redshifted in a way that goes from zero to the quasar's redshift (i.e. in-between values)."

I've already dealt with this topic in another thread. It turns out that the astronomers whose work has been challenged by Arp are just as zealous as the Big Bang's online defenders. Not a huge surprise there that people would selectively report on observations in order to reach their preferred conclusions.

Arp makes a very important point in Quasars, Redshifts and Controversies that a null absorption line result may go unannounce

However, the fact it reduces traffic is actually completely self evident. Here's a great animated GIF that shows why. As long as they get enough riders, a bus will always take up less room and as a result reduce traffic compared to the equivalent number of cars. And for "A normal city bus", that's probably three or four riders (think how many cars traveling at 30mph could safely fit the same space as a bus end to end and with a buffer zone)

This really is a case where a picture is worth a thousand words.

• Tracking camera view of water landing.
• Rocket's view of landing.
• Das Valdes video of landing.

This really is a case where a picture is worth a thousand words.

• Tracking camera view of water landing.
• Rocket's view of landing.
• Das Valdes video of landing.

This really is a case where a picture is worth a thousand words.

• Tracking camera view of water landing.
• Rocket's view of landing.
• Das Valdes video of landing.

You need to keep a very open mind about what you are looking at with astronomical imagery. NG7603 can fairly be interpreted as the galaxy version of a parent connected to its child with an umbilical cord. There are multiple levels at which a person can engage this image at. If you have not yet thought through the highest, then you are simply deciding to ignore a completely legitimate interpretation, and the universe could be far more interesting than your quick judgments would ever even notice.

Of particular interest is the press release by the Space Telescope Science Institute - the research arm of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope - promoting the claim that NGC 4319 is not connected by a filament to Markarian 205, the object next to it. These press releases appear to be a case of scientific fraud insofar as they point the readers to visible light photographs from the Hubble instead of the far more radio-deep imagery produced on much less expensive, even amateur, CCD telescopes.

Markarian 205 was reported by Weedman as a Seyfert nucleus appearing within the arms of the lower-redshift spiral galaxy NGC 4319. Most of the argument here has centered on whether or not there is a visible connection between the two. Pictures were published with and without a bridge (Arp once said that he had pictures that showed no bridge as well, and didn't want to be thought lacking in observational skill). There was some early discussion of photographic proximity effects creating false bridges between bright objects, but it doesn't go away with linear detectors. Various reports were given by Arp 1971 (ApLett 9,1), Lynds and Millikan 1972 (ApJLett 176, L5), Stockton et al 1979 (ApJ 231, 673), and Sulentic 1983 (ApJLett 265, L49). Cecil and Stockton (1985 ApJ 288, 201) used CCD data from Mauna Kea to show that there is definitely some kind of luminous object between Mkn 205 and NGC 4319, stating that "Arp was correct in his insistence that his broad-band plates showed luminous intervening material. The opposite conclusions of his critics were - depending on their degree of qualification - either wrong, misleading, or irrelevant."

Arp commented:

"We realized that ... the people who had been processing the pictures and released it must have known that the bridge was there, and yet they chose to try to convince the public that ... in fact it wasn't there, and that everything was right with the current expanding universe paradigm."

Realize that they could have argued that the radio filament was a background object, a "chance" observation. They didn't. They literally said that the filament is not there. But, the filament clearly shows up on CCD imagery - just not the optical.

The public needs to think more clearly about what has happened here. I was able to even get Ethan Siegal, one of the world's most vocal proponents of the Big Bang, to agree with me that something is not right about this particular situation.

I once encountered a cosmic filament expert on Twitter. He agreed that the EU idea was actually a scientific hypothesis, but similar to what you've stated above, he said that if it was true that the many plasma filaments we observe are electric currents, then we should see large magnetic fields and even synchrotron emissions associated with them. He presented a detailed conceptual rebuttal - a short two-page explanation. That interaction was a great example of how people should be discussing these issues - in a calm, rational manner where we are comparing the idea against known observations. People pay attention to different things, so these discussions can bring to light important, missed details when everybody seeks to approach the subject in a scientific manner.

That exchange helped me to see that he was assuming a simple transmission line model. Birkeland currents are not bound to this simple transmission line model now that we can see that they can form into more complex coaxial (Bessel function) configurations. The coaxial configuration of the Birkeland current - known more formally as the "force-free field-aligned Birkeland current" - has two remarkable implications:

1. The coaxial configuration will make it difficult to observe the electric current's magnetic field signature. That part should be fairly straightforward to anybody with a modest EE background or even just familiarity with the right-hand rule.

2. Considerably less obvious is that there would also not necessarily be any synchrotron emissions. From Section 8 of Scott's paper:

"At every point in the plasma, j and B are collinear."

In technical terms, this means that such charged matter has zero radial acceleration, meaning zero synchrotron emission.

What was interesting about the exchange was that it had very little impact upon the filament experts' approach and mindset. I've since witnessed him purchase a novelty plasma globe, but that's it!

The best emerging plot line is the living universe concept. This topic elicits really interesting reactions from people. Michael Clarage's presentation offers a good introduction to it if you start at the 5:14 timestamp, but I think there are many more arguments which could be put forward on this.

Follow through on the implications of that strange concept: We can see that there is life which exists inside of our own bodies at multiple scales of existence: we can have parasites, which in turn have bacteria, etc. So, what if we are simply a middle rung of this larger living structure, and the features we are witnessing with telescopes are actually pieces of a larger living creature? If that was true, then what if that creature possesses an immune system?

Imagine that humans are colonizing space and we are getting a bit too casual with our electromagnetic emissions, or that we've sent a probe to some distant place, which then triggers an immune response? I suspect that the immune system would be misinterpreted by people as aliens, but you could somehow slowly reveal the "truth" of the science as the book nears its conclusion.

How are all the ORANGE MAN BAD!!!! idjits going to respond to this?

Idiot or not, you have to admit, the Orange Man is pretty fucking bad. Historically bad. All-time bad. The kind of bad that will be the stuff of jokes for decades upon decades to come.

Here, check out this video of Vlad Putin and the butcher prince from Saudi Arabia dapping each other up at their good fortune at installing such a weak dog as president of the United States.

https://twitter.com/NBCNews/st...

That little bro-five says more about the Trump presidency than anything else.

Thereâ(TM)s a hefty import tariff on trucks: https://mobile.twitter.com/rea.... A lot of Japanese companies are more American in fact than âoeAmericanâ ones if you consider where they manufacture their cars. Quite often âoeAmericanâ cars are manufactured in Mexico.

And guess what? Skepticism is the foundation of actual science - if you claim it's "settled", it isn't science.

Science is about looking at the facts - settled doesn't mean consensus. Some people still belive the earth is flat - and I hope we can agree that that matter is settled.

https://twitter.com/PeterGleic...

"Buffoon" and "fake hair" are not the same thing as "racist" and "misogynist", you are conflating very different things here to try to minimize what Trump has done.

Trump has admitted to sexual assault and is a racist with proven ties to white supremacist groups, for example, look at this.

The DHS, which is under the executive and thus under Trump, has been caught using white supremacist dog whistles in their documents and tweets.

Also, after white supremacists murdered an anti-fascist protester at Charlottesville (and attempted to murder many others), Trump refused to condemn the neo-nazis and instead said that there was "violence on many sides" and that "there are good people on both sides".

Funny how things quieted down after creimer announced that he left Slashdot on 11/6/2018. Dropping his name in random comments won't bring him back.

Dud he add a warp drive or hyperdrive or some other FTL method?

Its not a starship until it can get to another star system

Look like a bait...oh well.

Someone on tweeter already mentionned that point to which Elon replied "Later versions will"
Link : https://twitter.com/mwolman98/...

If I may add, a warp drive/hyperdrive/FTL isn't a requirement to reach another star. I'm not saying that a viable way to reach another star exist, but if Elon does have some design to accelerate and (more importantly) decelerate a "starship" to reach another star, I'll be very interested to see it.

The most relevant tweet ever made about AI is still just as relevant today: https://twitter.com/iamdevlope...

There are already potential solutions to avoid this problem. Palmer Lucky recently tweeted he has been working on it and anticipating sharing a hardware/software solution in the next year.

There are Safe Spaces where you can go and never be censored or bullied, nor have to hear anything offensive to your sensitive thin skin, and never have anyone disagree with you.

Let's see what Facebook does ban.

• Facebook banned independent media and activist pages like Free Thought Project, Antimedia, and Cop Block
• Facebook banned the Independent Women's Forum for ad targeting based on gender
• Facebook banned an Israeli news site for running an article on Hezbollah
• Facebook banned another journalist
• Facebook banned muslim Tarek Fatah for opposing extremist Muslims
• Facebook banned the founder of #WalkAway because he mentioned that he would be interviewed by Alex Jones
• Facebook banned a bunch of hippie new age alternative health sites
• Facebook bans a guy from ridiculing Hamas
• Facebook bans a guy from saying "This is a man dressed as a woman. This is not a woman."
• Facebook bans a guy from joking about eating Tide Pods
• Facebook shadowbanned the President of the United States
• Facebook banned the Venus of Willendorf

But an obviously scammy ad is "fully compliant" and meets all of their rules. Funny how that works.

Let's see what Facebook does ban.

• Facebook banned independent media and activist pages like Free Thought Project, Antimedia, and Cop Block
• Facebook banned the Independent Women's Forum for ad targeting based on gender
• Facebook banned an Israeli news site for running an article on Hezbollah
• Facebook banned another journalist
• Facebook banned muslim Tarek Fatah for opposing extremist Muslims
• Facebook banned the founder of #WalkAway because he mentioned that he would be interviewed by Alex Jones
• Facebook banned a bunch of hippie new age alternative health sites
• Facebook bans a guy from ridiculing Hamas
• Facebook bans a guy from saying "This is a man dressed as a woman. This is not a woman."
• Facebook bans a guy from joking about eating Tide Pods
• Facebook shadowbanned the President of the United States
• Facebook banned the Venus of Willendorf

But an obviously scammy ad is "fully compliant" and meets all of their rules. Funny how that works.

Let's see what Facebook does ban.

• Facebook banned independent media and activist pages like Free Thought Project, Antimedia, and Cop Block
• Facebook banned the Independent Women's Forum for ad targeting based on gender
• Facebook banned an Israeli news site for running an article on Hezbollah
• Facebook banned another journalist
• Facebook banned muslim Tarek Fatah for opposing extremist Muslims
• Facebook banned the founder of #WalkAway because he mentioned that he would be interviewed by Alex Jones
• Facebook banned a bunch of hippie new age alternative health sites
• Facebook bans a guy from ridiculing Hamas
• Facebook bans a guy from saying "This is a man dressed as a woman. This is not a woman."
• Facebook bans a guy from joking about eating Tide Pods
• Facebook shadowbanned the President of the United States
• Facebook banned the Venus of Willendorf

But an obviously scammy ad is "fully compliant" and meets all of their rules. Funny how that works.

Let's see what Facebook does ban.

• Facebook banned independent media and activist pages like Free Thought Project, Antimedia, and Cop Block
• Facebook banned the Independent Women's Forum for ad targeting based on gender
• Facebook banned an Israeli news site for running an article on Hezbollah
• Facebook banned another journalist
• Facebook banned muslim Tarek Fatah for opposing extremist Muslims
• Facebook banned the founder of #WalkAway because he mentioned that he would be interviewed by Alex Jones
• Facebook banned a bunch of hippie new age alternative health sites
• Facebook bans a guy from ridiculing Hamas
• Facebook bans a guy from saying "This is a man dressed as a woman. This is not a woman."
• Facebook bans a guy from joking about eating Tide Pods
• Facebook shadowbanned the President of the United States
• Facebook banned the Venus of Willendorf

But an obviously scammy ad is "fully compliant" and meets all of their rules. Funny how that works.

Meanwhile in the real world, Tesla consumes more EV batteries than everyone else in the world combined, with Giga alone making about half of the world's total (~20GWh/yr out of ~40GWh/yr). Tesla's US sales make everyone else's look like a rounding error.

As for Boring Company, their goals are low-cost PRT. That's the whole point of Loop and Hyperloop. But maybe you'd feel better if the rich were banned from riding? Even their first non-demonstration-scale project (the Chicago Loop) is to charge half as much as an Uber ride. By the time they're up to Prufrock, fares are supposed to be cheaper than bus tickets (but go straight to your destination at high speeds).

It's one thing to be dubious about their probability of success. But it's an entirely different thing to misrepresent their goals.

As for your comments about turning "this tunnel"... "this tunnel" is simply a demonstrator. Little more than an amusement park ride for the general public. It's neither meant as a transportation solution nor to make money; it's meant to inform their engineering for their subsequent tunneling activities. Heck, they're outright planning to have it end at a watchtower made from compressed tailings bricks, manned by a knight who shouts insults at passers-by in a bad French accent.

This has already been confirmed as not going forward by the Communications VP at Microsoft:

https://twitter.com/fxshaw/sta...

We can all collectively stop freaking out about an App absolutely no-one here uses.

Not to use Microsoft Mail. Thanks for that! I was really worried about having to find a bad reason to not use it, but you gave me a good one.

So I guess you're going to go back to using it now right? https://twitter.com/fxshaw/sta...