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by aphyr 16y ago
I'd be curious to see whether there's a strong effect in multivehicle collisions from the other vehicle's model.
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by aphyr 16y ago
"Optics." You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. I've read the article twice, and am still puzzled. Does anyone else get this? Is it marketspeak?
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by aphyr 16y ago
You're right. I tend to assume that everyone takes an interest in their worldview, and can argue about it. It seems incomprehensible to me that someone could not be deeply engaged with their own beliefs--but then I have these paradoxical co
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by aphyr 16y ago
I don't agree. Science is explicitly concerned with natural phenomena. Anything supernatural must be the domain of superstition, spirituality, or religion. We suffer somewhat from salience bias: cases where the scientific process is success
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by aphyr 16y ago
The comments ask whether physicists at lectures would be susceptible to the same phenomenon. I'm inclined to doubt that. It's a rare speaker indeed who makes it through even a five minute session without blistering Q&A. "Mr. Wilson, ve
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by aphyr 17y ago
Ah, that's why they're so short!
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by aphyr 17y ago
Learning From Bad Situations All of us will find ourselves in bad situations from time to time. Good intentions gone bad. Impossible tasks and goals. Hopeless projects. Even though you probably can’t perform well, the key is to at least ta
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by aphyr 17y ago
On the order of a year. We'd need to wait for them to source a VP8 chip from somewhere, write drivers for it, integrate, and test--same as everybody else.
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by aphyr 17y ago
Ah, I gotcha. I do agree with the rest of your reasoning. I've had this debate before (strangely enough, at a faith-based LGBT family meeting with leaders of the Willow Creek megachurch in Chicago), and that particular point has been a sore
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by aphyr 17y ago
There are a bunch of metrics out there. Off the top of my head... - Division of child care and house routine - Ability to devote time to children - Self-reported satisfaction in childrearing relationships - Parenting awareness skills - What
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by aphyr 17y ago
Luckily, plenty of gay couples have tried raising kids, and they do just fine, thank you very much. :) http://www.apa.org/pi/lgbt/resources/parenting.aspx "Beliefs that lesbian and gay adults are not fit parents likewise have no empirical
732.
by aphyr 17y ago
How is barring individuals from adoption on the basis of their sexual identity not identity politics? For that matter, why do you think scientists or armed service members are better candidates than baristi or garbage men? Late nights in th
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by aphyr 17y ago
...you have to make a case for choosing a segment of our population (homosexuals) that is more likely to do drugs, have psychiatric problems, etc., etc., and singling them out to allow adoption We are not singling them out to allow adopti
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by aphyr 17y ago
It's not hard to argue that it's good for a child to have a mom and a dad. The APA's official stance (one borne out by my personal experience with gay families) is that there is no difference in the well-being of children raised by two sa
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by aphyr 17y ago
The Long Now's museum/offices at Fort Mason in San Francisco are well worth the trip, if you ever get the chance. They have all sorts of models of the mechanisms for their 10,000 year clock, as well as copies of the Rosetta disc documenting
736.
by aphyr 17y ago
Coming from a long history of Debian and black/fluxbox, I've always appreciated Ubuntu for their package selection and default hardware setup. They've hooked up a lot of stuff I hate managing by hand (like printing and video drivers) automa
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by aphyr 17y ago
Ah, so CNN is handing its template and some fb query off to the plugin for display, then?
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by aphyr 17y ago
Even with instant personalization turned off, your friends can share your info on any service they get suckered into using. Given how many of my Facebook friends bombard me with quizzes and Farmville, I'm guessing that's going to happen a l
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by aphyr 17y ago
RSS and XMLRPC.
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by aphyr 17y ago
To respond to your example: Point out that we don't have a high confidence time series that says the planet is cooling over the last decade? For that matter, nobody has a 10-year time series for global average temp which passes any real s
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by aphyr 17y ago
Yeah, I'm doing that today as well. I'm going to miss the photos, but FB trying to sell my info to everyone is getting old. I wish there was some sort of federated social network, where everyone could provide their own lists of friends and
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by aphyr 17y ago
$9 billion is nothing compared to the scope of government or environmental spending. In the lifetime of the LHC, US oil alone will process literally tens of trillions of dollars. Making policy decisions about a system that big has nontrivia
743.
by aphyr 17y ago
Yeah, but comparatively, Apple is still less open. Android supports all those things, and development with any toolchain you like. So long as it's a runnable APK, you can install it.
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by aphyr 17y ago
I'd also note that "consensus" is not a word you find in real science; As someone who has done real science (albeit in quantum mechanics, not climatology), I call bullshit. We use "consensus" all the time. There's also an understanding th
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by aphyr 17y ago
Is that a NUMA box?
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by aphyr 17y ago
We know that sleep plays an important role in memory and skill acquisition, although exactly how is still unknown. I wonder if a coma like this works in a similar way; taking the experiences she had with German TV shows and building the pat
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by aphyr 17y ago
Theora had several drawbacks. Its performance is simply not as good as h264. It's a previous-generation codec based on VP3, whereas VP8 is cutting edge. Flash never supported Theora, which invalidates its use for the vast majority of web us
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by aphyr 17y ago
(My earlier reply was to the original version of your comment.) It will benefit Google in two ways: First, it insulates them from encoder licensing fees going forward, and from decoder license fees if MPEG-LA decides to back off their free-
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by aphyr 17y ago
They won't recode from h264 and drop the originals immediately. There are too many hardware h264 devices out there. My guess (given how their transition from h263 went) is that youtube will add it as another encoding target and use it for t
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by aphyr 17y ago
This is awesome news. No patent encumbrance means Firefox will support it. Terrific performance means the rest of us will actually use it. Google backing the technology means Youtube, with their unfathomably large proportion of the world'

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