ObviousScience

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by ObviousScience 12y ago
Yes, my point was mostly that it's much sparser than a city proper in terms of things that have what I'd call culture to them, and that you're required to have some kind of vehicle to navigate it. Of course, I wouldn't h
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by ObviousScience 12y ago
Did it say he was going to use secret patents? Or just that he was going to use NSA patents? Because the NSA maintains a list of patented technologies that they offer to the public on various terms: http://www.nsa.gov/resear
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by ObviousScience 12y ago
Because if you're in the area that a crime is going to occur, but it's only going to happen to k of n people in the area (with k usually equal to 1), you have a lower than certain chance of being involved? For an example, if you&#
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by ObviousScience 12y ago
I don't like to usually "me too", but the grand parent comment very accurately described my experience of suburbs as well. We jokingly referred to it as "the suburban cultural wasteland", because you had to walk 2-3
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> The one benefit of this is that it makes it extremely difficult to fake being an expert. The problem with this is that it only makes it easy for experts to identify non-experts. I'd argue that it makes it harder for laypeople to
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by ObviousScience 12y ago
You're going to have trouble getting someone to perform voluntary surgery on someone 13+ without their informed consent. It's possibly criminal for a doctor to fail to mention a relevant previous surgery in their chart when discus
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by ObviousScience 12y ago
Here are the first links that came up when Googling it: http://www.lsst.org/lsst/science/scientist_dark_matter http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2011/04/20/how-gravi...
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by ObviousScience 12y ago
Dark matter explains two things that we currently don't know how else to explain: how the galaxies are rotating so fast without flying apart and why we see gravitational lensing from seemingly otherwise empty space.