How can they still operate with 1B in debt? There’s no way they are ever going to be able to repay that in a reasonable time frame

If it fits the community, just post away. Not everyone browses All.

Or a carbonarahydrate?

Maybe because that is more dangerous than any other use?

I would be very careful with the kind of speculation the other commenter proposed. Those things are very popular science-ey and almost unverifiable at the moment, it’s hard to tell if there is even any actual academic research behind many of these “theories” that get thrown around by some laypersons. And even if there are actual publications behind such proposals, as in this case, the validity of their theses is far from certain. It is a very theoretical domain in which new knowledge can easily be “hallucinated” without much connection to physical reality, even - or in particular - by professions.

Unfortunately, there are plenty enough humans to come up with stupid shit like this.

Drivers are included in the kernel, you will always have them.

More often than not, it is the companies themselves that commit drivers for their hardware to the Linux kernel

People using the cross for scalar multiplication are insane

As your own quote says, we can at least hope that if it passes, it will be found illegal by the courts and get rescinded.

Interesting, but there’s not much meat to this story yet. We’ll see how it’ll be

It depends. In the proper field with the right topic, dissertations can absolutely contain very valuable and novel conclusions derived from the doctoral candidate’s experiments.

Nah it was actually funny. Americans are hyper-sensitive when it comes to 9/11 but not the hundreds of thousands or millions of deaths your government has caused in the subsequent “war on terror”.

Some words have simply entered common use and become decoupled from their former meaning. Maybe your acquaintance was right.

Yes, I understand that part, but it doesn’t disprove that such an experiment could show isotropy. Instead, it says that it would always indicate isotropy, which is not entirely useful either, of course. I’ll dig deeper into the publication behind that section when I have the time. Nonetheless, my original point still stands. With a highly synchronised clock, you could measure the (an)isotropy of the one-way speed of light. To determine whether the time dilation issue is surmountable I’ll have to look at the actual research behind it.

That the measurements from the slow clock transport synchronisation method are equivalent to the Einstein synchronisation and its isotropic speed of light can be interpreted to show that the one-way speed of light is indeed isotropic for a given set-up and not anisotropic. The problem with this is that anisotropy could not even be measured if it were to exist in this context. But this is definitely not a clear-cut zero sum game, there’s no evidence suggesting anisotropy while there are observations that would at least suggest isotropy, but neither possibility can be ruled out. However, my initial point was that, could you have ultra-synchronised clocks, you could potentially be able to draw a reliable conclusion. But I’ll dig into the publication the Wiki entry cites for the time dilation part in the slow clock section when I have the time.

Can you cite some literature to back up that claim? Stating that something like acceptable clock synchronisation (a well established and appreciated method in the measurements of physical effects) is impossible in and of itself is something so bold that no one can just take your word for it.

If you move one clock very slowly away from the other, the error is minimised, perhaps even to a degree that allows for statistically significant measurements.

To cite the Wikipedia entry that one of the other commenters linked:

“The clocks can remain synchronized to an arbitrary accuracy by moving them sufficiently slowly. If it is taken that, if moved slowly, the clocks remain synchronized at all times, even when separated, this method can be used to synchronize two spatially separated clocks.”

One-Way Speed of Light

Synchronise two high-precision clocks at different locations. Transmit the signal from A to a receiver at B and then send a signal back (or reflect the initial signal) from B to A. Both locations will record the synchronised time that their sensors picked up the transmission. Then, compare their clocks.

I would like to try. I am a very passionate GNU/Linux user and advocate who spends much time on Lemmy and who would like to keep future discussion in this community civil and on-topic. But I do not have any modding experience so far, however, I have successfully helped transition friends and local institutions (partially) to GNU/Linux and to use FOSS programs.