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Not bad! While reading the article the thought occurred that if WWV were eliminated then this would be a good opportunity for a smart phone app to pipe a GPS derived time standard emulating WWV format into a < 100mw (Part 15) 5, 10, or 15 MHz attached transmitter. And the idea was already objectified.


educated ...reminiscent of contemporary video clip interviews with individuals saying I don't mind if the government reads my correspondence. I have nothing to hide.

But for an historic contrarian view:

Berlin 1931 (Weimar Republic): I don't mind if the government reads my letters. I've got nothing to hide.

Berlin 1936 (national socialism): You writings make you an enemy of the state!


"Nothing to hide", with the centers of power doing what they're doing, pretty much means "I'm obedient, I'm complicit, I swear allegiance.... you go on right ahead and rob that granny blind, take all the organs you want from that child... I'll be over here pretending to find the marble pattern on the wall terribly interesting".

Ironically, they are hiding that from themselves.


Exactly. And isn't it curious how many down votes the initial bland observation elicited? Strange.


Obviously a typo (why would you post an obvious typo in your header?)

But for some etymological fun assume / were の leaving ワール alone, which turns out (check Bing translate or at Monash) to be J-shorthand for the ancient Indian city Haridwar, which in Sanskrit equates to 'Gateway to Lord Vishnu' (Wikipedia) which in turn would leave you with a site header suggesting 'Japan's Gateway to the Lord Vishnu' which probably wasn't what the site author had in mind. :-)


Cute. So now from your laptop with audio piped into a rec-room amplifier via Bluetooth you can have a Euro-based SW receiver complete with 'waterfall' display and U/LSB (moderate sensitivity) plus with the Google 'Radio Garden' web site you can listen to American pop music in stereo live from Petropavlovsk on the Russian Kamchatka peninsula, an area of significance during the cold war.


True, at 0-100km/hr in 13.3 sec a 1.7L 914/4 could only be a nostalgia piece. A 1985 turbo VW Golf diesel that I keep as a 'nostalgia' piece could probably match it - but may have to be going downhill and with the wind :)

for reference https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche_914


Interesting. Looking at the Euler equation again as Argand plane rotation, would e^-ix be a form of clockwise rotation? Using the methodology of:

https://www.mathsisfun.com/algebra/eulers-formula.html

as a reference template, e^-ix would seem to involve:

(taylor cosine series) - i * (taylor sine series)

or e^-ix = cos x - i sin x = -1

which suggests another twist to the familiar identity:

e^ix * e^-ix = (cos x + i sin x) * (cos x - i sin x) = (cos x)^2 + (sin x)^2 = (-1) ^ 2 = 1 = e^0


Well, in electronics they use log to base 10. For power, dB = 10 * log (p2/p1). For volts dB = 20 * log (v2/v1). For power, 3 dB would represent 10 ^ .3 or around 1.99X gain, 6 dB = 10 ^.6 or around 3.98X gain. For volts then 6 dB (10^.3) is around 1.99X and 3 dB becomes (10^.15) around 1.4X

Many colors of sound? Figured maybe it was going to be an article about synesthesia


Interesting that a synonym for கறி is தேய் which google-tamil translates as either curry or chafe the later meaning to warm by rubbing which then may be an attempt to curry favor with someone :)


If you curry a horse, you are (generally) not cooking it but brushing it with a curry comb (the chafe or rubbing meaning). This would be where 'currying favor' comes from, since horses tend to like being curried.

If Google Translate is machine learned for Tamil->English, I suspect it is just confused.


That was simply an amusing illustration of an English word which lacks a clean etymology or consistent usage


Yeah but of course hypotheses don't arise ex nihilo but from a catalog of focused perceptions catalyzing conceptions which may suggest hypotheses encompassing novel ordering functions, innovations, ameliorations (or whatnot) depending on the field of study. If an individual considers a hypothesis of sufficient potential pragmatic value to research and document then, objectively, if negative results manifest these too need be reported as negative data germane to other researchers in the field. Problem is current academic culture is predisposed to reward only success. If your beautiful theory is murdered by an ugly fact (Huxley) then you don't get your doctorate or your departmental status diminishes since only positive results are reinforced. From this arises the temptation to be disingenuous or outright prevaricate, if you can get away with it. Does seem a cultural change is in order. Registering hypotheses which guarantees publication regardless of results may be useful.


Currently there is concern that the new form of the H7N9 virus in China could morph into a form as lethal as the 1918 Spanish flu which killed up to five percent of world's population. Forewarned is forearmed. But it seems:

China Has Withheld Samples of a Dangerous Flu Virus

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/27/health/china-flu-virus-sa...

so possible development of vaccines has been hampered.


Somehow NIH believes it's all good?

[...] Two new clinical trials testing an experimental vaccine to prevent influenza caused by an H7N9 influenza virus are now enrolling volunteers at sites across the United States [...] March 15, 2018

[1] https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/h7n9-influenza...


> so possible development of vaccines has been hampered.

That wouldn't prevent the Chinese from developing a vaccine...


Better to have multiple heads working on one problem and have one race to finish first, like with Ebola. Will the Chinese develop one on their own in time if an outbreak actually happens?


> Better to have multiple heads working on one problem

Yea, I know.

> Will the Chinese develop one on their own in time if an outbreak actually happens?

Maybe they already have one?


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