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by Steuard 13y ago
The worst part about this from a parent's perspective was that there was absolutely no warning. My daughter was all excited for her once-daily episode of Dora, and suddenly it wasn't there even though mommy and daddy said it would be. (I ta
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by Steuard 13y ago
My best understanding is that in general, issues related purely to quantum entanglement are entirely unrelated to causality. As noted in the article, even the "spooky action at a distance" that made Einstein so uncomfortable cannot be used
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by Steuard 14y ago
It is hard to come up with entirely new problems for every exam every year. That doesn't mean that doing so isn't important, but it really is time consuming and a whole lot of work. It's also painfully easy to think that you've changed
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by Steuard 14y ago
I don't think I can comment on that with any authority at all. Is it possible that using a blue light as the source rather than UV reduces the degradation of the phosphorescent coating?
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by Steuard 14y ago
I'm not an expert (just a physics prof), but my understanding is that LEDs always emit one specific color (wavelength) of light rather than white light (which is a mixture of many wavelengths). So if you want to use an LED to produce white
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by Steuard 14y ago
Looks like CipherCloud's basis for trying to get this question taken down was the screenshots. Looked like classic fair use to me, but I'd rather see the answers up and public, even without the explicit illustrations. (Context: https://new
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by Steuard 14y ago
The previous poster didn't say "We can assume they have arrested the correct person", they said (in effect), "If we assume for the sake of argument that they have arrested the correct person". Your point is absolutely valid, but entirely se
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by Steuard 14y ago
Your comments seem strangely insensitive, given that I already said that I'm a physicist (and presumably a modern one). As I've already indicated, there's reason to be skeptical when physicists stretch past the usual boundaries of the disci
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by Steuard 14y ago
I haven't read the original paper, but (speaking as a physicist) I'm always skeptical when physicists leap into extremely different disciplines and claim to have a grand insight that its specialists have never considered before. It could al
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by Steuard 14y ago
I did not say "Men are oppressors" or "Blame men". I said, in a nutshell, "Blame our social structures that tend to favor men." There's a very real difference there in terms of the moral claims being made. And yes, feminism is also concerne
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by Steuard 14y ago
" Men as a sex have had advantageous circumstances and treatment for a long time, yes. That has absolutely nothing to do with men who are alive today. " Let's talk about the gender ratio today in Congress, or among Fortune 500 CEOs. Let's t
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by Steuard 14y ago
Kudos to you for taking the time to give solid responses point by point like this. Thanks for having the patience to do it.
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by Steuard 14y ago
Ah, thanks for the clarification. (I'm not sure that I understand your point, but at least it's not the basic misunderstanding of feminism that I thought it was.) (This is a reflection of the social influences that feminism labels "the pa
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by Steuard 14y ago
I may be misunderstanding you here, so I'd appreciate a bit of clarification. The way I'm reading your argument, it sounds to me like your claim is something like, "Context doesn't matter: similar forms of harm necessarily carry similar mor
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by Steuard 14y ago
Sorry, I was unclear: a top level comment, elsewhere in this thread.
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by Steuard 14y ago
As I said to the previous poster, if you have a shred of evidence that "the feminists" consider this app to be acceptable (not just "less bad"), you should share it now. If you don't, then you might want to pause for a few minutes and serio
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by Steuard 14y ago
Right here. Pissed off that this app exists. But recognizing that it's a lower priority than a heck of a lot of other things in our society. (I've got a top level post going into this in more detail.) Opposing this type of service looks to
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by Steuard 14y ago
I have two reactions to this, and I think most people who care about sexism in our society would agree with both: 1. From the sound of it, this is a horribly sexist product that dehumanizes men and reinforces traditional gender roles. I hop
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by Steuard 14y ago
Not an issue, as far as I can tell. Sign in as "OnlyMyPersonaIdentity@example.com" (or whatever) and then never check the mail: you get an easy, consistent identity, and all the sites get is an email-shaped label.
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by Steuard 14y ago
It's more like 175 citations now, according to Google Scholar. I've been tempted for years to do some sort of survey of everyone who has cited the paper, to find out (among other things) if they ever took calculus and how this situation cou
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by Steuard 14y ago
The thing that puzzles me is that the image opens in GIMP showing the apple (incorrectly, apparently). I would have thought that GIMP would be entirely aware of embedded color/gamma information like this. (It certainly makes enough of a fus
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by Steuard 14y ago
Even when there's no scaling involved, gamma information embedded in an image can certainly be meaningful. Among other things, they can be used to correct for the fact that different OS's or devices can assume different default gamma factor
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by Steuard 14y ago
Essentially all Mars missions under serious consideration rely on special alignments of planetary orbits to minimize the fuel required. That leads to very specific "launch windows" that may only occur every few years. For an Earth-Mars trip
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by Steuard 14y ago
I was a little surprised not to see one recent shift toward open access mentioned in the article: the SCOAP3 consortium's deal to make the vast majority of particle physics articles open access starting next year. The links below give detai
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by Steuard 14y ago
The clearest lesson I take from this article (and from this week's reaction on HN) is that it's very easy to feel defensive when someone accuses you of sexist behavior (or even someone you merely identify with). When that happens, a lot o
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by Steuard 14y ago
This is plausibly a duplicate: http://gayle.quora.com/That-Amanda-Blum-Article-on-Adria-Ric...
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by Steuard 14y ago
Others have responded to parts of this already, so I won't repeat their points. But one issue that I haven't seen anyone comment on is that race and sex are very overt traits, while family wealth and IQ are a good bit less obvious at a glan
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by Steuard 14y ago
There's hope, though: every time a link like this is posted, a few of the folks who haven't had their "ah-ha!" moments yet may get nudged in that direction (just as the commenter he quotes did). Those nudges do have an effect, and they do a
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by Steuard 14y ago
It feels like you're missing my point a bit here, so maybe I've been unclear. The reasons that the guys clam up aren't really the issue at all, and I'm not trying to make claims about whether dick jokes are or should be offensive to anyon
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by Steuard 14y ago
Maybe I didn't make my point clearly enough. I never meant to suggest that there's anything inherently sexist about the existence of such a thing as "guy culture" (or at least, that's an entirely separate issue). My point was very close to

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