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  • Hit it and quit it

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  • People praise the female reproductive system as miraculous because it can make a baby in only 9 months. Like that's neat and all, but my reproductive system can make a baby in approximately 13 seconds, so I don't see what all the fuss is about.

  • The plan for nationwide fiber internet might be upended for Starlink

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  • Yep, you're right --- I was just responding to parent's comment about fiber being best because nothing is faster than light :)

  • The plan for nationwide fiber internet might be upended for Starlink

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  • That's...not really a cogent argument.

    Satellites connect to ground using radio/microwave (or even laser), all of which are electromagnetic radiation and travel at the speed of light (in vacuum).

    Light in a fiber travels much more slowly than in vacuum --- light in fiber travels at around 67% the speed of light in vacuum (depends on the fiber). In contrast, signals through cat7 twisted pair (Ethernet) can be north of 75%, and coaxial cable can be north of 80% (even higher for air dielectric). Note that these are all carrying electromagnetic waves, they're just a) not in free space and b) generally not optical frequency, so we don't call them light, but they are still governed by the same equations and limitations.

    If you want to get signals from point A to point B fastest (lowest latency), you don't use fiber, you probably use microwaves: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/11/private-microwave-networks-financial-hft/

    Finally, the reason fiber is so good is complicated, but has to do with the fact that "physics bandwidth" tends to care about fractional bandwidth ("delta frequency divided by frequency"), whereas "information bandwidth" cares about absolute bandwidth ("delta frequency"), all else being equal (looking at you, SNR). Fiber uses optical frequencies, which can be hundreds of THz --- so a tiny fractional bandwidth is a huge absolute bandwidth.

  • The plan for nationwide fiber internet might be upended for Starlink

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  • 80% of the USA lives within urban areas (source). Urban "fiberization" is absolutely within reach.

    Agree that running fiber out to very remote areas is tricky, but even then it's probably not prohibitive for all but the most remote locations.

  • Why would anyone want to parallel park. I'm going to bed.

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  • Yes, but you're not alone (my partner tends this way).

  • Very Encouraging if correct. But hardly surprising.

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  • Don't forget Pinarello! Gorgeous and, last I checked, very well regarded. Just make sure your wallet is prepared --- you can definitely drop $15k on a well-spec'd Pinarello Dogma.

  • That's me

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  • I just wish they made toddler clothes in my size.

  • Geologists doubt Earth has the amount of copper needed to develop the entire world

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  • So the irony is

    I see what you did there...

  • Held back no longer

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  • Do you still start in 1st? Do you skip gears?

  • Technically the truth

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  • Left pedal looks more like a dead pedal to me.

    And as others have said, change in direction is still acceleration. That's part of Newton's (apocryphal?) apple story --- he witnessed an apple falling, and wondered why the moon doesn't also fall. His amazing insight is that it does fall (accelerate), it's just that it falls in such a way that it orbits, rather than hits, the Earth (for timescales relevant to a human).

  • Misunderstood the assignment…

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  • "Can you hold it" was meant as "abstain from pooping for just a little longer," but was instead interpreted as, "poop, and then hold the poop in your hands."

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    Permanently Deleted

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  • I think you mean more scrupulous, not less.

  • Forbidden Tech

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  • If you lose power, you can use one of these cables to power your house (or at least, the part of your house on that phase).

    This is not how you should do this, but it can work. It is not a good idea (possibly illegal?).

  • Your help needed: PhD research on why people choose to self-host

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  • Hopefully you can publish in an open-access journal --- if not it would be great if you could share an arXiv preprint :)

  • play imagine being sung by random white celeb

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  • You said that no one...

    I don't think that was the parent commenter though...

  • to be fair, you must have a very high iq to understand dialectical materialism

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  • "Political choice is between a turd sandwich and a giant douche" being my favorite example.

    Neither candidate is/was ideal, but good lord to say that what's happening now is no different than when the other side was in power is beyond asinine, it's an incredibly disingenuous and offensive take on reality. (I know the SP episode wasn't about the current US political situation, but the current US political situation absolutely has its roots going back to those SP episodes.)

  • Let's play this game again

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  • You experience the passage of time as ever increasing in speed, and before long the universe has died, leaving you --- immortal and sentient --- alone in the cold, dead cosmos, for eternity.

  • Sway anybody?

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  • Bonus points: use non-qwerty keyboard for added obfuscation (but keep the qwerty key caps of course).

  • My wife has a lot of patience part 2.

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  • It's nerf or and nuttin'

    FTFY