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by brazzy 4y ago
Under the authority of the EU parliament (assuming that this draft legislation eventually gets a majority there), given to it by the member states through the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. By the way, the directive&#x27
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by brazzy 4y ago
Talking to yourself now?
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by brazzy 4y ago
Allocation of science funding is a zero-sum game. Increasing science funding is a quite different game.
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That was a small part of my argument. That you have to concentrate on that in this way shows that you don't really have any arguments yourself.
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No, the idea is to do lots and lots of small science instead of one big one, because we'll probably learn more from that.
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> If we solve physics we solve everything A particle collider does not, in fact, "solve physics" in any meaningful way, especially not in terms of practical applicability. > if we solve fusion we have solved fusion. The co
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by brazzy 4y ago
That is the exact opposite of what the article argues. It says to stop putting everything (or rather, a ridiculous amount of money) into high energy particle physics and start funding other experiments.
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by brazzy 4y ago
The statement "When you don’t have much to go on, and limited resources, it’s better to aim at problems that you know are out there. Those things will lead you to new discoveries." which you say doesn't make sense to you, is
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by brazzy 4y ago
>the current generation of renewable energy is so much more expensive and involved than the equivalent in a nuclear energy plant. This may have been true 15 or even 10 years ago, but nowadays the exact opposite is the case. > It'
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It's simply a false dichotomy that we have the choice between committing to nuclear energy generation, or catastrophic climate change. We don't need nuclear energy. We really, really don't.
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by brazzy 4y ago
Reference to the username "Beltalowda", a character in "The Expanse" book and TV series.
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It's an island that has been a high society hotspot for decades. Think celebrities and politicians sipping champagne in overpriced beachside restaurants. But even though it's an island, it's reachable by train via a dam, and
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by brazzy 4y ago
Uh... Goods rail is running at night in Germany, and lots of it. So much in fact, that some connections are utilized at full capacity pretty much 24/7 and causing huge problems when they're blocked.
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by brazzy 4y ago
> My opinion - remove colleges, bring back guilds. How do you prevent them from becoming corrupt gatekeepers that maximize their own profits while ignoring learning as much as possible? "measuring understanding mechanically at scale
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Hell, no. What's unbelievably crass is the idea that children are obliged to respect and sift through gigantic heaps of stuff just because their parents had some emotional connection to some small parts of it - because most of it is
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by brazzy 4y ago
The article mainly discusses the (IMO much more interesting) question whether chariots had a similar function on the battlefield to what tanks do today - and comes to the conclusion that no, they did not.
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TFA is exactly that post.
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The other way round, actually. France recently had massive problems because they had to switch off multiple nuclear plants for unexpected maintenance issues, and bought lots of power from Germany
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by brazzy 4y ago
No, it's not at all like that. If someone hands you papers to sign and you give them different papers without telling them so , that is clear intent to deceive, which makes it fraud, or at minimum makes the contract void.
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by brazzy 4y ago
If you explicitly tell the other side that there are changes, sure. But the comment I was referring to talked about "swapping" the papers and said "I doubt anyone would catch it". That does not sound like negotiating in
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by brazzy 4y ago
The comment I was referring to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31461781 Verbatim quote: "I doubt anyone would catch it". That is not negotiating, that is fraud. It is absolutely not your responsibility to ch
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by brazzy 4y ago
Swapping forms in secret is the opposite of negotiating.
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I think it's better classified as animism, though there is certainly some overlap. But while Shinto priests' roles in the religion can be compared to that of shamans, Shinto doesn't actually place that much emphasis on them -
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by brazzy 4y ago
> Shinto has been reduced to consist almost exclusively of ritual, I really don't think this is true, or rather: it is a view shaped by biased expectations of how a "real" religion should look like, namely like the Abraham
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by brazzy 4y ago
Cryptocurrencies. In the runup to the 2008 crisis, a commonly heard mantra was "yeah, subprime lending is fucked up, but it's a small fraction of the economy, it can't cause that much damage". Turned out that it could, v
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by brazzy 4y ago
"intuition"? Seriously? You're completely failing to answer the question.
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Greed.
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So how do we measure it?
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> if those sources are veritable. Those sources are pretty shit, honestly. One says the Red Army Faction claimed responsibility (this is not disputed). The other cites an (unnamed) "former Red Army Faction" claiming they had m
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Uh, yeah. I copied that straight out of German Wikipedia without paying attention to the number formatting.

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