Certhas

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by Certhas 7y ago
The effect of the expansion of the universe on bound systems is far to small to be observed. Two objects 1 meter apart would move at a speed of 10^-17 m/s. Utterly unobservable. But we know space is expanding by looking at things that
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by Certhas 7y ago
I never said it is only expanding outside. Also moving relative to space is not nonsense. Motion is not just relative to other objects in space. This what Newton's bucket thought experiment showed. Edit: the pearl is made from around b
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by Certhas 7y ago
No space really is expanding. Think of it this way: You have a rubber band and you pull it apart, if you place two beads on the rubber band the distance between the beads will increase (even though they don't move relative to the rubbe
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by Certhas 7y ago
You seem to not be very well informed and unwilling to learn. In the UK a low carbon tax rendered coal completely uneconomical and they smoothly phased out coal without any price hikes. The guaranteed price for rendering the new Hinkley Poi
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by Certhas 7y ago
Besides what the sibling pointed out: choices and subsidies, determine consumer prices. Coal subsidies still are vastly larger than renewable subsidies world wide. Compare the price of new wind and new nuclear stations. That admittedly does
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by Certhas 7y ago
Nuclear solves nothing. It has its role as a stop gap but renewables are cheaper safer and easier. The main challenge in a decarbonized energy sector (including heat!) is not week to week or day to day variability but season to season. That
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by Certhas 7y ago
> I can't think of anything that the government runs better than the private sector. Then you are not very good at thinking. There is no theoretical, practical or empirical evidence that this should be true. If you _feel_ this shoul
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by Certhas 7y ago
Which is why health care shouldn't be organized through markets.
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by Certhas 7y ago
Awareness of cracking is high, but if you own a PC that can play these games you can afford 60$ to pay for the game. Or you can just wait a little and get one of the millions of games on Steam for approximately no money.
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by Certhas 7y ago
Absolutely, but that's a form of self suppression, rather than a cabal of others suppressing results. Science is incredibly broken in many ways. I think the big underlying culprit is the prevailing ideology that every human activity is
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by Certhas 7y ago
I completely agree with your second sentence, but also with the OPs statement that there is no conspiracy to suppress correct results. There is intense competition to be right. There is intense competition for funds, so being perceived to b
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by Certhas 7y ago
But it's not clear that this has been tried. Itanium wasn't exactly that, was it? Edit: It would be easy to imagine exposing some of the lower level details in a new ISA that lives alongside x86, and then allowing languages that h
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by Certhas 7y ago
I think there also is good evidence that we are looking more at age cohort effects rather than age effects. After all people who are 39 would not exactly have been considered young a few decades ago. It's a smooth curve but the labour&
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by Certhas 7y ago
Not a fan of Corbyn, but you can't deny that he was smeared heavily and unfairly. As was Milliband. Mostly by the papers who are owned by the people he wants to tax. And the policies proposed in Corbyns manifesto would have brought the
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by Certhas 7y ago
The insanity is that in the UK and in the US you have massive propaganda outlets misinforming the public financed by their own billionaires. I'm sure Russian propaganda is trying to get the outcomes they want, why wouldn't they? B
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by Certhas 7y ago
I didn't get that understanding at all. The insight is that by going bytecode only you can rethink your security model. You can do things that you can't do safely if you allow native code to run. It's swapping out one abstrac
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by Certhas 7y ago
Scheinbare Bösartigkeit kann oft durch mangelnde Kompetenz erklärt werden. ;)
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by Certhas 7y ago
That's actually a selling point of this method. Another way to put it is: Skip breakfast. If you eat at 10 pm last, skip breakfast and eat again at 12pm lunch the next day that works.
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by Certhas 7y ago
I think that's an extremely simplistic/dismissive view. Especially the "just a trick". And suggesting that the main reason people don't addictive behaviours is because they don't want to. And overeating is extr
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by Certhas 7y ago
The dataloss issues are not related to this specific issue though. They are purely JLD2 and about the use of mmap which is problematic in hpc contexts. So exactly when you have to save data that is expensive to produce. See the linked issue
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by Certhas 7y ago
It does, of course, but serialization is problematic (with the combination of Type inference and dynamicism this is maybe to be expected). Beyond that there is a bewildering array of packages, and not really a clear consensus for which to u
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by Certhas 7y ago
I like Julia, but let's be real. We are a long way away from Julia being anywhere near Python when it comes to usability. Error messages, code structure and readability and documentation are afterthoughts rather than a central focus of
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by Certhas 7y ago
Prevent the app from not working due to lack of GPS permission. Basically apps shouldn't have the ability to refuse to work without your data.
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by Certhas 7y ago
Governments and corporations doing something are not at all equivalent. Being put in prison for running a blog is not equivalent to having to run a blog because facebook wont have you.
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by Certhas 7y ago
Actually it's just the opposite. But literally SPM.7 is the summary of the summary of the summary. There is so so much research published on precipitation, the vast majority of which is careful and precise in giving uncertainties. It&#
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by Certhas 7y ago
> That's not true and unfair. I believe you are genuine, but also the information you present is miles from the reality in Germany and Europe, and the state of research in the field in general. > Believe it or not, I want to be p
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by Certhas 7y ago
Literally in the first paragraph of the article you cite as problematic it says: > Like other unstable situations in the region, climate change may be an exacerbating factor in the country’s instability, not a primary cause, and to what
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by Certhas 7y ago
Natural gas is a sensible bridging technology. But there is no lobby comparable to the oil lobby for anything anywhere. > These discussions always seem to go this way. When presented with major challenges to large scale deployments of so
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by Certhas 7y ago
Hu? Climate change causes changes in rainfall patterns. These are hard to predict, but it's where a lot of research is focusing right now. The IPCC also says so. In some regions it might be helpful, in others it will hurt. So climate c
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by Certhas 7y ago
Yeah, because the damn environmentalists have all the power to impose their views on the unsuspecting, well meaning, oil giants and global corporations. If only those oil giants and their allies had pushed back early enough, maybe the truth

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