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by beevai142 10y ago
Publishers (in this subfield at least) usually demand ownership only on the final typeset manuscript PDFs. Those cannot be uploaded, but people are usually free to update the arxiv manuscript by uploading their own "final" version
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by beevai142 10y ago
Typically the work in a paper, if substantial, is done over a long time, so even if the main destination ends up being same, it's unlikely the route and sidestops are the same. So often you can wriggle a little bit and expand the paper
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by beevai142 10y ago
Gnome 3 users may find refuge in extensions, eg. shellshape provides reasonable tiling experience. Too bad it doesn't work with Wayland.
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by beevai142 10y ago
Photon rockets are not actually reactionless, because the emitted photons carry momentum and energy out of the system. This makes conservation laws to hold for such systems, cf. https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.00494 Now, th
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by beevai142 10y ago
Also, if you are already otherwise employed, any such work is basically overtime expert consulting work. It has to pay well, otherwise it does not make any sense for you to shoulder any extra responsibility and hassle of getting things done
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by beevai142 10y ago
It's unquestionable the Chinese script is more difficult to learn than alphabetic scripts. This is directly reflected in the amount of time children and language learners have to spend on it, and the resulting reading ability.
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by beevai142 10y ago
Carbon tax, governmental action.
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by beevai142 10y ago
Incidentally, for climate change, the IPCC reports do define the words they use to indicate degrees of confidence, similarly as RFCs use MUST, SHOULD to indicate degrees of requirement. https://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_d
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by beevai142 10y ago
It has already been independently tested (TU Dresden, NWPU). They saw only noise.
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by beevai142 10y ago
If you work in experimental physics, you learn that "anomalies" are very common. There's something in the data that you don't understand, and you don't know where it comes from. Sometimes you find it's a bug in
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by beevai142 10y ago
What has this to do with persecution? If you read the article, there's nothing there. Some did believe his ideas, many did not, and he was not granted the job he wanted at a prestigious hospital (instead, they offered him a similar pos
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by beevai142 10y ago
Link to the rebuttal by Bax, for completeness: https://stephenbax.net/?p=275
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by beevai142 10y ago
... and both of them are pretty much word salad rather than serious attempts.
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by beevai142 10y ago
Emdrive does not warrant any hype: - There is no reason to expect that it "works". Shawyer's original "theory" on which the design is based is wrong, the EW do not even mention it in the paper. - Two other groups at
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by beevai142 10y ago
The TU Dresden people did not "verify" that the device works --- instead, they identified many spurious error sources, and recognized that the final results were essentially null on the level of measurement accuracy, and unable to
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by beevai142 10y ago
Given that the diamond ring fad apparently originated from a marketing campaign, it would be interesting to see how well the belief that wedding rings should have a diamond correlates with where the ads were run. At least in the nordics, I
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by beevai142 10y ago
I don't think Section 7 enables automatically ignoring non-permissive additional terms --- the "additional permissions" are defined in the section to be exceptions from conditions, not as further restrictions. Interpreting wh
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by beevai142 10y ago
The point is not that there are two licenses, but that there is one license, "GPL + additional requirements", where the copyright holder is free to add requirements contradicting the GPL. For example, a copyright holder may say &q
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by beevai142 10y ago
> Yes, correct! GPL does not allow requiring citations. I understand that the copyright holder can in general specify whatever clauses in the license, even if this makes it self-contradictory, and is not bound by any statements by FSF. I
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by beevai142 10y ago
However, no notice and escorting people out sounds more like power fantasy than something with economic reasons.
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by beevai142 10y ago
A reason to not include water vapor in a list of "greenhouse gases" is its short lifetime in the atmosphere. If you inject extra water vapor there, it rains down and exits the atmosphere in a matter of days, whereas methane etc st
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by beevai142 10y ago
Many words in languages do not have an exact counterpart in a given different language. The blue-green issue in particular is not unique to the English---Japanese language pair, cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%E2
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by beevai142 10y ago
> For too long we've assumed the bodies of accumulated knowledge in the sciences to be fact without dispute Who is this "we" who has assumed such a thing? Certainly no working scientist I know would agree that a result bei
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by beevai142 10y ago
Condensed-matter physics and chemistry have been "complete" in this sense since forever. You can write down on a small piece of paper the Hamiltonian of electrons interacting via electromagnetic forces with themselves and the atom
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by beevai142 10y ago
I'm not Norwegian, but I would be surprised if this was really a fair description. The author appears to be making an implicit comparison, where things are well if they are as in GB. Of course, there is no claim of objectivity.
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by beevai142 10y ago
Read and understand the IPCC reports, and then we'll talk.
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by beevai142 10y ago
That's beside the point --- the argument above is that most people do not have time to obtain the expertise and check it yourself. So the next best thing is to trust someone who has done that, where you can't do much better than t
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by beevai142 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backspace#.5EH
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by beevai142 10y ago
The argument above applies specifically to university courses, and was made by someone who is familiar with teaching such courses. So I don't think you can just discount it with handwaving, especially as there are claims about better s
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by beevai142 10y ago
Mair's argument is that it is a waste of effort to spend time on learning the characters, in the first stages of learning the language. They are more easily learnt systematically somewhat later on, when you know the corresponding words

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