M_Grey

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It’s safe to return to Fukushima, study suggests(sciencemag.org)
3 points by M_Grey 10y ago|0 comments
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Have you ever lived in chaos?
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by M_Grey 10y ago
What is it with tech/science forums and the belief that religious people are crazy, backwards, zealots who would go crazy causing enormous destruction when faced with compelling new scientific revelation. . . http://www.ph
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by M_Grey 10y ago
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/09/prison-... Far from reducing labor, you just turn it into largely unpaid, forced labor. AKA "The way it's always been".
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What is Water 2.0(quantumfrontiers.com)
1 points by M_Grey 10y ago|0 comments
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by M_Grey 10y ago
That's an interesting perspective I've never considered, coming at it from the physics end of things. I appreciate what amounts to a much more grounded and logical take on why time travel makes so little sense, and is so hard to c
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by M_Grey 10y ago
I read this yesterday on the BBC, and was struck by, among many other things, the fact that this woman was put into this position in the first place. Most of all, that she was essentially turned into a criminal through the failure of the st
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Optical Illusions Show How Past Experience Dramatically Influences Perception(aeon.co)
2 points by M_Grey 10y ago|0 comments
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by M_Grey 10y ago
As you can see from recent world events, the words of scholars carry less weight in turbulent times than the words of populists.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
It's a solution that assumes things like a perfectly uniform sphere of gas collapsing from infinity (Schwarzschild geometry), without any angular momentum. Even then, the ERB isn't traversable. A lot of the talk around wormholes a
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Definitely the latter, there's no way to say it's impossible, just incredibly unlikely. It's easy to imagine a universe in which it is possible, and that universe could be consistent with the math. The big "but" h
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Dell support, and I say this having used it for years off and on, is either seamless and painless, or mortal agony. Which you get seems to depend largely on the quality of your last animal sacrifice to the darkest of gods. Bleating in back
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‘Digital Alchemist’ Seeks Rules of Emergence(quantamagazine.org)
1 points by M_Grey 10y ago|0 comments
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by M_Grey 10y ago
You've heard of the progress of entropy and the "thermodynamic arrow of time" right? Time travel into the past, violating causality... it breaks the math used to formulate the most basic physics at a very fundamental level.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
You're right, I'm sure the billions of deeply religious people would cope with literal proof that we're not a privileged and special "creation". Even worse, they might not accept that. Plus new tech, new perspecti
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Remember that any such device allows you to travel backwards in time. Does it still seem so plausible to you when you realize that 'c' isn't some kind of cosmic speed limit, but the speed of causality in the universe ?
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Protectors or Kzin? Either way, we're done.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
I think that's one of those things that's better to have been born well after (assuming a good outcome) or born well before (assuming a bad outcome). It's really hard imaging the transition as anything other than misery and c
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Why? He talks about going to Mars and people who would normally grimace, swoon because they so want to believe it. If not for his constant PR assault, focus might actually shift from his dreams, to things like how he treats the people who
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Musk is a true and absolute master of PR. He understands what each audience wants to hear, and also understands that his messages to each need to be consistent with each other. He paints himself as a dreamer reaching for the stars, while
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Not really respected by the Right, and a lot of people in the Boomer generation might not be aware of him. Plus he's a comedian, and would probably see taking that role as absurd and self-destructive. I hope.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Since the 80's it's been quite the opposite. Whether by design or happy coincidence (for populists) education has been gutted.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Media figure with utmost respect... in the US... scratches head We're hooped.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
I never said anything about anarchism, fascism, communism, etc. The fact that in the real world, "Libertarianism" inevitably covers for, or becomes of them is more to the point than the notion that it is one of them. If you feel
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Whereas for example, tobacco smoke has been shown to be especially harmful. I think the popularity of smoking tobacco has shaped the views of many as to the nature of smoking anything else. As you say, it's hard to imagine smoking anyt
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Sure, they've been around for a while, but they have some limitations. I've seen "Volcano Poo" if you know what I mean, and that color screams, "Acrylamide!" to me. With an extract you can simply inhale much le
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by M_Grey 10y ago
So, nature can't be fooled, but investors sure can be. Ouch.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Good for you, seriously! I have two good friends who did the same thing, one of them 3 years ago, and his life is markedly improved. I'm sure you've already felt that though... tobacco smoke is just bad news all around. Again, c
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by M_Grey 10y ago
If you think being able to live without a smartphone is bragging then the problem really isn't with me, it's with you. In the context of this conversation, which is about people with nothing else... how else should your commen
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by M_Grey 10y ago
I want to think that this is the usual anti-cannabis scaremongering, but it actually seems more like a combination of clickbait and the usual soft "science" studies. I file this under, "Eggs are good for you/Eggs will mu

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