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  • corvus@lemmy.mltoAI Generated Images@sh.itjust.worksRibcage Nebula
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    4 months ago

    Conservation of angular momentum L = r x p (vector product) with p = mv the linear momentum. So if L being a vector is constant so is its direction, so p (and v) being perpendicular to L implies that the movement must be constrained to a plane (perpendicular to L). It’s the same reason why the planets of the solar system lie on a single plane and not on a sphere like artificial satellites around the earth.




  • Amazing but more usual that one might think, it’s the same anger you can see in people that identity themselves with some other fictions like religion, nationalism, football teams, ideology, race, etc. When watching a movie you kind of temporarily turn off your disbelief to experience joy, sadness, anxiety etc but when the movie is over the healthy behavior is the recognition that everything was an acting. But with the fictions that I just described somehow the disbelief is never turned on, the critical thinking is canceled.



  • corvus@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlBlockchain: the wave of the future
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    5 months ago

    With all the information available at your fingertips being ignorant is a choice.

    “this parallel financial system can also serve a tangible social good, offering an onramp to the financial system for people who would otherwise be left out. In countries where the vast majority of the population is unbanked, national currencies are no longer a safe store of value, remittances comprise a hefty portion of GDP, and international sanctions complicate connections to the global economy, a virtual currency that doesn’t require an intermediary to approve transactions can be a vital lifeline for survival”

    Bitcoin is poised to blow up Africa’s $86 billion banking system






  • corvus@lemmy.mltoOpen Source@lemmy.mlDon't be that guy.
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    6 months ago

    You are literally sending 99% of the new Linux users back to Windows haha. C’ mon its not that hard, look at what custom ROM developers do. They put a big disclaimer warning of the risks of installing the software. You won’t find a single user blaming the devs for a bricked phone, and there are lot of them. The one who has to consider the risks and warn about them is the dev, just because (s)he is the one who knows the software better and not all users are developers and they usually don’t know what are the risks.




  • Unfortunately for them this means that 99.99% of the Linux distributions out there do not qualify as >GNU/Linux, even the ones like Debian, Red Hat, or Ubuntu that did adopt the GNU/Linux name >scheme, because they all host, promote, or allow users access to non-free software in some way.

    You are totally confused. In words of R. Stallman:

    “The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux”.

    “Today there are many different variants of the GNU/Linux system (often called “distros”). Most of them include nonfree programs”.

    https://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html