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by chr1 7y ago
Do you feel like you need different terms when you look at sky, at blueberry and lapis lazully? You probably do, but do not need to distinguish them often enough to justify promoting words for them into primary colour words. Similarily it
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> but it's not a good idea for YouTube to actively promote that viewpoint. I would argue it is very beneficial to promote flat-earther videos. Because most people can see it being false, and can use the experience to learn to not tr
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Starlink is important not simply because it gives faster internet, but because it creates steady demand for space launches. The only way we can get cheap and reliable rockets is using them for something, and at this point rockets do not hav
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What exactly is the fundamental misunderstanding here? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation says > Economists generally believe that very high rates of inflation and hyperinflation are caused by an excessive gr
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by chr1 7y ago
It depends on how government would get the money for UBI. If it goes ahead and just prints more money then there will be rampant inflation, but if it redirects money from other programs, the prices of some goods may change, but there won&#x
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Which university wants a genome for research? I would gladly give it, but don't know anyone who'd want my genome.
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This would be a concern if DNA was something secret like a password, but it isn't, it falls off you all the time in the form of hair and skin cells, so if there was something valuable in your DNA, your employers could get it easily any
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"each particle is aware of the rest of the universe" is non-locality which is the other way of explaining bells inequality.
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This is not really fair. The "why not aliens" article is an interview with a scientist who argues that we should not outright dismiss the possibility that something (particularly omuamua comet) is alien technology, until we have p
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It would indeed be ironic if he supports the current government. But in general patriot can also be someone who dislikes the crazy regime and doesn't want to give up his home without a fight.
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It's frog in boiling water situation. For a long time the government was content with the money it could get from oil and mining, and many businesses were relatively safe. After the drop in oil prices and economic sanctions they starte
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Many libertarians use it, and i can not find any place referring to it as a symbol of specifically violent resistance.
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Of course i have an agenda, like most people i can't sleep if someone is wrong on the internet https://xkcd.com/386/ :) Unfortunately writing late at night, and not being careful isn't the best way to convey
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Why the laws of nature are not inevitable(backreaction.blogspot.com)
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> Why would I give a flying f..k about what Peskov has to say Because exactly this was a widely discussed question when Peskov said that the Russian police was too lenient and in US one could be killed for throwing a bottle. The research
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by chr1 7y ago
Putins press secretary Peskov would be happy to know that you confirm his views about USA. I encourage you to share stories about things analogous to handling of Moscow protests happening in USA. And also to tell why something unreasonable
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If paid trolls were to work on hn, they would be unlikely to work in the middle of night. So the lack of people defending Putin and his cronies is not remarkable. It is indeed unfortunate that there is no discussion about the other people w
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Turns out even people who work for Russia Today tell the truth sometimes (if they were consistently lying they would be telling the truth after all:). I have watched Zhukovs videos before he got arrested, he self identifies as a libertarian
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> libertarian with a flag of violent resistance to state tyranny Perhaps you meant non-violent, because the whole court case that government was trying to fabricate was an attempt to accuse him in calls to violent protest, which was not
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I'd be very interested to know if any of the people who strongly disagree with the above comment are professional astronomers, or physicists.
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I mean it is a small inconvenience for telescopes on earth, and not that "it is a small inconvenience in general because there are space telescopes". Genuine question: is your opinion about these satellites based on working in so
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How does it work? By building rockets spacex learns how to build better rockets, by selling weapons it would only learn how to build weapons. If you mean someone could start another company selling weapons and redirect all profits to SpaceX
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> The article is literally about even SpaceX admitting that there is a huge problem. The article is about spacex admitting that there is some inconvenience, and using maximally cautious wording to not attract angry social media mobs.
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First it doesn't depend on Musk's good will at all. It depends on companies making profit by selling space launches. Second "the near-entire future of astronomical observation" is a gross exaggeration, the satellites on
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First starlink is better than fiber because it will have lower latency. Second and more important it doesn't destroy astronomy at all, it adds some small temporary inconvenience for some types of observations, but at the same time make
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They do not need to be part of StarLink. The more satellites are launched the more money SpaceX gets to develop starship, starship reduces the cost of launching satellites and increases the maximum volume of the satellite, with cheaper laun
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Professional astronomers would rather use a swarm of large and better working telescopes in space instead of dealing with clouds, city lights, and the Sun not allowing to work at normal hours. > Not the greedy entrepreneurs littering the
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Why is it not a valid solution? It is actually a much better solution than using small low quality telescopes. If starlink is successful in a few years launching satellites will become cheap enough to allow us to launch multiple telescopes
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Sadly the answer to this does not seem to depend on freedom or science. We will see similar things happening in regards to climate, simply if absolute majority of people get convinced that it is an emergency. With vaccines we have many time
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> Those children didn't die from a vaccine, ... They died because of human error administering a vaccine. This is a bad argument and does not work in practice, because people perceive it as a language trick. If a child was vaccinate

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