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by aeternum 3y ago
Electrons never reallocate themselves to a single spot. There's no evidence that collapse actually happens, that's just one weird interpretation (Copenhagen). The entire electron cloud produces an electro-repulsive force that is
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by aeternum 3y ago
I'm not sure about even the synchrotron, most people have the very incorrect perception that a single electron is being circled around rather than a continuous beam. This is so far from reality where we're doing something like 60
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by aeternum 3y ago
Saying it behaves as a particle is wildly misleading, we should really remove it from the curriculum. If electrons ever behaved as particles or even if the wave function 'collapsed' into particles, they would immediately crash in
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by aeternum 3y ago
The probability thing is misleading though, it's really all about energy. Matter is just highly concentrated energy and just because the nucleus happens to be much more concentrated energy, does that make the energy of the electron cl
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by aeternum 3y ago
Yes but why is positive all we care about when it comes to the definition of space? If we fire neutrinos, basically 100% of the atom is 'empty space'. If we fire protons, 99% is empty. If we fire electrons, none is empty. Why d
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by aeternum 3y ago
Yes think the replication crisis makes it pretty clear that even with all the fancy software, we still can't remove confounders today (and probably never will). You can pretty safely translate we removed confounders to: we slightly coo
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by aeternum 3y ago
I think there's a lot of truth to this, but from that angle, TSMC really isn't all that important. Much easier to strong-arm/guilt nvidia into licensing software and designs to intel to fab than it is to go to war with china
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by aeternum 3y ago
It's pretty crazy that this used to be Intel like 15 years ago. Can they not fab GPUs instead of CPUs?
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by aeternum 3y ago
Right but there are ways to handle this like collapsible barriers that would be quick to put in place. If people prefer to go through the jetway they always can and simply stay seated. This is proven out already in other countries, the one
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by aeternum 3y ago
You shouldn't need a bus because the plane is at the gate. Stairs might be an issue for some but anyone that does not want to go down then back up stairs can wait and go out the front through the jetway. As others have pointed out, th
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by aeternum 3y ago
The more obvious solution is to also use the rear door in addition to the front. Airlines could then charge a premium for those seats as well. No big coordination effort is needed, but it would require some new jetways or some terminal re
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by aeternum 3y ago
Right, but US propaganda is more effective because it nudges the reader to make the important connections to the desired narrative themselves. IE: Russian airlines can't even afford/acquire new brakes -> sanctions are working a
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by aeternum 3y ago
Nope
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by aeternum 3y ago
Dojo could be a gamechanger for AI if they can create the right compiler tooling. Optimus also has potential but needs a personality like Musk's to bring it to fruition. Without him both of the projects will likely be abandoned.
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by aeternum 3y ago
For those wondering, this is what US/anti-Russia propaganda looks like.
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by aeternum 3y ago
Publishing positive/noteworth results only does seem like an embarrassingly obvious major flaw in academia and the greater scientific community. A research assistant would quickly be thrown out if he/she refused to record negative
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by aeternum 3y ago
It's sadly ironic that the West (mainly Britain and America) forced Opium on the Chinese for nearly a century, then within a matter of mere decades that knowledge was lost to history, and we brought that very plight to our own countrie
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by aeternum 3y ago
IQ(g-factor) can definitely be measured even though no single test measures it perfectly. If you give reasoning tests of all kinds (verbal, spatial, mechanical, numerical, etc.) there is lots of data showing that the the results of those te
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by aeternum 3y ago
I'd argue that. To many having to wear a motorcycle helmet or even a seatbelt is less dignified. As is road workers having to wear a reflective yellow vest. Dignity is weird, some people consider school and other uniforms dignified, m
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by aeternum 3y ago
Zero resistance and therefore zero electrical transmission losses would be one of the most significant real-world benefits. There are also some really cool levitation effects, demonstrated here: https://www.youtube.com/watch
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by aeternum 3y ago
This is based off a meta analysis and the problem with those is you can filter the data to prove almost anything you want. Many other studies have found a j-curve effect. So there is ambiguity, and there likely will be until someone does a
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by aeternum 3y ago
It is imprecise and unmeasurable. Do intersections that implement pedestrian scramble somehow increase dignity? I don't know. They do increase pedestrian safety and pretty clearly give pedestrians priority over vehicles via the exclus
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by aeternum 3y ago
I don't like the word dignity for this. I think a clearer term would be priority. We want to encourage people to be pedestrians so pedestrians should have priority over cars. In some countries, pressing a walk button actually trigger
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by aeternum 3y ago
As others have pointed out, this is just an overreaction and bad science. As a thought experiment, consider the level of mass panic and hysteria if the dust bowl happened to occur in this century rather than in 1930. It's important tha
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by aeternum 3y ago
Oh really, so why do the Navier-Stokes equations work?
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by aeternum 3y ago
First order differential equations generally govern diffusion where energy spreads out over an area. Second order are often waves where energy propagates but does not diffuse. Is pretty much everything described by those two classes? Any t
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by aeternum 3y ago
Nuclear radiation is much harder to hide compared to other forms of contamination.
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by aeternum 3y ago
Why wouldn't they throw both in the bin?
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by aeternum 3y ago
Yeah too bad this is like HR 101: "THE EMPLOYEE HANDBOOK SHOULD MAKE IT CLEAR IT IS NOT A CONTRACT. THE EMPLOYEE HANDBOOK NEEDS A “DISCLAIMER.” https://www.gordonfischerlawfirm.com/necessary-employee-hand...
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by aeternum 3y ago
If consumers cared to make those tradeoffs, you would see phones with removable batteries with the most market share. You don't because that's not actually what most consumers want, and thus the misguided need to regulate it.

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