Not all html pages - what about hackernews? It's mostly tables with minimal CSS (a bit of padding and font*/color), I bet it continues to be perfectly rendered practically indefinitely. At least snapshots on archive.org from 2007 still look perfect.

Wouldn't you rather share a garden with insects? I would.

> bioinformatics, systems biology, computational biology

Of those bioinformatics is more specific (usually genomics data); the other two are overlapping and pretty non-specific terms.

For example I started a Sys Bio PhD and ended up in a Comp Bio research group. A friend started the same way but ended up in control theory/microbiology.

The title and even the department are somewhat arbitrary and more to do with the organisation at the university than anything else (e.g. I was in CS but my friend was Engineering I think).

If you can find a good interdisciplinary course they will be familiar with people moving around depending on their interests.

Radius of 6 km is comparable to the size of Halley's comet :-)

> Wasn't able to read the article through the paywall

Try turning off javascript.

For most paywall sites like this, you can also get the full content by being quick on the 'escape' key after reloading. If you can interrupt it after the static article content loads but before most of the javascript loads then the bottom paragraphs won't get chopped off.

About 200 actually (you mistook the diameter for the radius).

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1+au+%2F+radius+of+the...

Yes, you are correct. I meant diameters.

Indeed, natural science deals in models, not 'the truth'.

In most cases 'correct' isn't an option, rather a degree of accuracy. If it's consistent with the measurements, or even better if it has predictive power, then it's useful.

I wouldn't say they don't deal in truth. Scientific theories clearly capture a lot of true elements of how the universe works. But proving that the mathematical methods are correct, starting from basic axioms, is something for mathematicians. Most physicists will use a mathematical tool if it's useful, even if it's not been formally proven correct.

It's got 80-120 ish bits of entropy, why is it not secure?

(Assuming you're not referring to it literally being a well known password from a web comic.)

Not the parent poster, but prior objections I've seen are that people don't do a good job at picking random words and four words is too few.

I assumed they meant using a diceware-like system to choose instead of literally making up words

> maybe even only if you're American?

Works fine in UK English too, although the "r:uk" modifier is often needed.

I never realised that existed. Does the r stand for region?

> using an inflation calculator defers to someone's idea of what a basket was

In this case that someone is Greg Clark (Professor of Economics at UC Davis). The link goes direct to a .xlsx which reveals the "basket" and all the figures - it's a mixture of several (presumably average) wages and a "cost of living".

This is probably the research paper (2009) http://faculty.econ.ucdavis.edu/faculty/gclark/papers/Macroa...