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  • Google breaks Newpipe regularly, and then Newpipe always fixes it very fast. Sometimes I've been unable to use it for about two days or so. Totally worth it to not support Google.

    Check for updates within the app itself. Those are more current than the app stores.

  • But that doesn't tell anyone anything about how far above the threshold we're talking about. Could be 2 degrees instead of 1. That's not much. or it could be 60 degrees instead of 30. That seems important.

  • Losing any one of those three throws it to Trump.

    Unless she win NC or OH. She's doing really well in both.

    I think this is going to be a giant blowout win for Kamala. But, please, no one get cocky! Everyone has to actually vote!

  • I thought the situation was a little like Android. Google develops an open source version (along with as many independent developers who wish to contribute), then sticks on a bunch of proprietary BS and sells that version to phone companies. If chromium is to chrome like vanilla android is to android with g-services, then I guess my question really becomes: is google making this change in the underlying code base, or just in the BS they put on top?

    Or am I confused about how the connection works between chrome and chromium?

  • Will this change be implemented in Chromium too? Or will it / should it finally become independent of Chrome?

  • They aren't worried about alienating his base. They don't want to galvanize hers.

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  • Which two event are you talking about being simultaneous? The Sun going out and Earthers observing it? Those things will not be simultaneous in any reference frame, because they are "light-like" separated. (ie they lie on a 45 degree line in a Minkowski plot.)

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  • The moon might be on the daylight side, so we wouldn't necessarily observe that.

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  • If you can see the moon (if it is "up" at night).

  • Science can never answer "why." In your example, the question why is just moved, from "why does it fall?" to "why does mass distort space-time?" In both cases physics just describes what happens.

  • You mean, as opposed to lemma? I've never been confident that I understand the difference between those. :(

  • In physics we call some results "laws" and some "theories." The difference has absolutely nothing to do with our certainty in the validity of the results.

    Newton's Laws of motion are called that because they can be written as concise mathematical equations, and allof the content is there. Einstein's Theory of special relativity is just as valid, and even contains Newton's Laws as a special case, but the content of the theory can't be written in simple, concise equations. There are several equations included in special relativity, but they do not represent the entire content. For example, the most important statement of the theory cannot be written in equation form at all: "The measured speed of light in a vacuum will be the same for all observers in inertial reference frames, regardless of the relative speed of their reference frame."

    Darwin's Theory of Evolution likewise cannot be written in concise statements (mathematical or otherwise), but our certainty in its validity is no less than in Newton's Laws.

    Another important subtlety: I was careful to say that we are certain of the validity. People who don't know better are fond of saying that Newton's Laws are wrong. This is a fallacy. Scientific laws and theories can only be valid or not, they can never be true.

  • "Unlock the door" is a really strange way to say "lock the door." What a dolt.

  • A dumbass' smartass, if you will.

    Weird.

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  • Thank you! I knew they were all correct, and I knew why, but I didn't have an authoritative source to point folks to.

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  • Also, octopi. They're all "correct" due to the multiple original languages' grammar.

  • When they turn around to bug out, they're actually pointed towards the whale.