Posts by Cynic_999

Re: A Nimrod Variation

Not that I would want to drink too many cups of tea on an aircraft where the only toilet is a bottle ...

I doubt you could make a decent cuppa on the ISS. IIUC, while the O2 partial pressure is about Earth normal, the total air pressure is much lower. Meaning that water will boil at below the temperature required to make a good cuppa. They have a similar problem in the Everest base camps.

Trading bitcoin probably uses less electricity than trading with fiat currencies. *Creating* ("mining") bitcoin takes a fair amount of power, though I don't know how it compares to the amount of power required to make the paper/plastic or mine the metals to print or stamp the equivalent value of notes & coins. Especially considering that notes wear out and need replacing reasonably frequently (as do coins though less frequently).

Your suggestion that bitcoin is only used by criminals is as wrong as suggesting that cash is only used by drug dealers.

Re: I [...] have followed it ever since.

Unfortunately the Hoover will fail to create any suction in a vacuum, so the ziploc baggie will remain empty.

Re: Conspiracies you say?

I'm quite sure that precautions will be taken. Though the probability that there is a dormant micro-organism on the asteroid that has evolved so as to have the ability to infect anything currently living on Earth must be close to zero.

Re: Conspiracies you say?

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Ok, never mind the physics, and the sample really needs to be 64g. Because IT, and 2^8 it.

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Erm ... ITYM 2^6

Re: "I want to be the first one to start a new conspiracy therory"

I cunt spill becuz I hav dailysex.

"Just out of interest, should it be 0.25um or 250nm ?"

As with any other choice of units, it depends on the context. Look at all the measurements used in the context, and see whether they could all be expressed sensibly using a single base prefix. If I were discussing bacteria that range in size from 500nm to 0.7mm for example I would probably use um as the best compromise (thus 0.5um to 700um) as opposed to describing one bacteria as being 500nm in size and another as being 700um - which at a glance may give the impression that the latter is only slightly bigger than the former instead of being more akin to the difference between an ant and an elephant.

I disagree. It does not matter what units you use, but whatever you decide on should be used consistently. Just as one room should not have its dimensions given as "400cm X 1200cm" and another room described as "5m X 7m", you should not label one battery "3000mAh" and another "4AH" It makes it easier to compare. Small batteries (rechargeable or not) have until recently only been available in capacities near or below 1Ah, and so were always described in terms of mAh. Until capacities above 10Ah become comonplace, I see no harm in continuing that method

Re: claimed that most of the components in the model are open to the public already

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So you were stumped when you attempted to solve the post Brexit frictionless border issue?

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I've already figured out a method to do that. I just need to solve a couple of minor technical issues. Such as how to time travel.

Re: A Celeron -- quality

And in 20 years time we may get the comment, ... "I can't believe that a professional arcade game only had 150GB of RAM, a 10TB SSD and a GPU with less than 80 cores ...

Re: Realism?

The problem with OTP encryption is that it becomes trivial to construct a OTP that will decode the encrypted message into anything you want. Thus the ptb can first prove that the encrypted message came from you, then produce a OTP that they claim to have recovered or "cracked" which shows the message was a terrorist plot or kiddie-porn etc. You cannot do the same with a message encrypted with PGP, AES or 3DES etc. Only one unique key will result in an intelligible decode.

Re: Me and the wife have a problem....

ITYWF that canned beer doesn't age all that well ...

Re: Alternate reality

A few months ago a friend of mine in Nepal had a wild elephant walk through his garden fence. Judging by the photos he sent, it did a fair bit more damage than the average herd of cows. It got into his kitchen and ate all his vegetables. Which might not sound too bad until you realise that it first had to make the kitchen doorway big enough to fit through ...

Re: One year consultation?

Don't you believe that they do?

Re: Morals and values?

How about if someone were to state that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians? Such a law would mean that the statement could never be challenged or qualified.

Re: @AC - Commuting

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And what's stopping them to do the same thing for those who are coming to work in the office ?

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Perhaps the fact that a daily commute to a UK office from Delhi is a tad impractical.

Re: Commuting

You are also saving commuting costs - and in some cases be able to give up having a car and save that expense. I'd say that for most people the advantages of WFH more than offset the minor cost increases. You'd no doubt be paying for broadband in any case, so that's not an increased cost. You could heat just the room you are using as an office rather than the whole house. While you may be using a small amount of extra electricity for the computer and making coffee etc., you also are not buying drinks and lunches from expensive takeaway places - and cakes for everyone when it's your birthday.

Re: Commuting

Be VERY careful what you wish for! If you want an equivalence between your home & work and for company to rent the space, then you will also need to pay for a complete H&S inspection of your home and annual safety certificate for all your electrical appliances. And perhaps fork out for the installation of a fire door and other fire safety devices, wheelchair ramp, separate toilet facilities and a host of other hidden costs that your employer must pay for every year.

Salary is dependent on many things, not just the output produced, but also what that output costs the employee. Which is why salaries are generally higher in London than in Cornwall. At the time of joining a company, the remuneration package is negotiated - and the cost of commute (both time & money) may well be an aspect raised in that negotiation. A good employer will try to keep their employees reasonably happy and stress-free, and I know of many cases where a salary has been increased or a "perk" added when the employee's personal situation has changed.

The relationship between an employer and an employee is (or should be) more than that between an employer and a contractor. It's more personal. If the employer is a *good* employer, then it's not only about paying a fixed price for a certain amount of work. There's give & take as both personal and business situations change.

Re: Commuting

There was no compensation pre-covid, so why should there be any now? In fact, to follow that logic, the company should be compensated for all the hours saved commuting etc.

Re: Parallels

The idea is that anyone who cannot afford healthcare should pray for a miracle.

Re: is he still a US citizen ?

Not true. There are quite a few countries that sell citizenship to anyone willing to pay the price. Many require a period of residency, but not all. See https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/07/countries-selling-citizenship/