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by dalke 10y ago
Nothing. Literally nothing. It's impossible to change the voting systems in such a short time, barring extraordinary information. The struggle against easily rigged voting machines is at least 15 years old, dating from the Help America
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by dalke 10y ago
If it's absurd, please explain p.26 of https://snowdenarchive.cjfe.org/greenstone/collect/snowden1/... where we see the USS Annapolis being used for interactive operations ("Connection via: NEPTUNET
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by dalke 10y ago
There's a lot written on astrology as well. Volume doesn't mean it's true. I wasn't able to find anything in PubMed on the causal connection as you describe, though I did find papers like http://www.ncbi.nlm.n
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by dalke 10y ago
Bundling is an old technique. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_bundling The animosity towards Elsevier is perhaps better explained as reaction against product tying. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by dalke 10y ago
Yes, Elsevier definitely is the copyright holder to most of the non-open-access papers it controls. Elsevier, like most other no-OA journals, requires a copyright transfer. Quoting https://www.elsevier.com/about/compa
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by dalke 10y ago
The evaporation rate is too low. From http://www.ide-tech.com/blog/b_case_study/sorek-project/ assume 26,000 m³/hour of brine outflow. According to http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/evapo
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by dalke 10y ago
More details at http://www.filtsep.com/view/44376/success-behind-advanced-sw... : > Minimizing the plant's environmental impact: Pipe jacking .... Other measures: the potential impacts of the Sorek Plant&#
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by dalke 10y ago
A solid number on the amount of explosives use in the First World War has proven hard to find. http://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/nitrate says: > Great Britain, for example, stepped up production of po
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by dalke 10y ago
I've found that music distracts me. When I need to be super-focused, I can't have any music on in the background. I can listen to some songs when I need focus, but not super-focus. For those, I tend to listen to the same thing on
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by dalke 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desalination#Outflow gives an overview of the environmental problems in desal outflow: > Desalination processes produce large quantities of brine, possibly at above ambient temperature,
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by dalke 10y ago
> "The public does not want its funds diverted into private profits, period" Sure. But no grants allow the diversion of fund into private profits, so I don't know what you're referring to. Take the SBIR grants. It&#x2
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by dalke 10y ago
On reconsideration, I'm wavering on my belief. NIH and NSF get a lot more support than, say, the NEA. HST, fine as it is, was extremely expensive. I still maintain that the military is still on a higher pedestal than science, in terms
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by dalke 10y ago
"Science" is no longer on a pedestal. The PR campaigns against conclusions for leaded gas, smoking, acid rain, global warming, and vaccine safety, and the scientific development of leaded gas, ozone-depleting CFCs, Agent Orange&#x
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by dalke 10y ago
As I said earlier, there are alternatives which are both moral and can verify effectiveness without having to repeat the original experiment. You chose to not verify, and insist upon repeating, thus likely consigning people to unneeded pain
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by dalke 10y ago
Are you for real? You would sacrifice people upon the alter of reproducibility? Down that path lies atrocities. The system was put into place to prevent repeats of horrors like the "Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Mal
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by dalke 10y ago
> "You calculate the fair market value of the public resources you used" Which is very hard for things with no market. I use government libraries. They are free to me. What is the fair market value of that? There are private an
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by dalke 10y ago
You want to change the system. I understand that. We have many systems to go on over the last few hundred years of science. We have the pre-war system, primarily funded by private philanthropy. We have the communist system. None of them see
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by dalke 10y ago
I'm pointing out that it's impossible to work this way. People don't like it. The accounting systems aren't set up for this. The entire post-war research system isn't structured this way.
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by dalke 10y ago
So, if I have a summer intern who is paid by the government, and helps on my otherwise non-government-funded project, then is that enough to trigger the requirement? Or, if I use a government facility, like a supercomputing center, then tha
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by dalke 10y ago
> conclusions drawn from the claims which have no other support or means of verification should not be accepted and would not be accepted I disagree. In all cases , even with repeated experiments, the claims are only tentatively accepte
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by dalke 10y ago
So, $1 of public funding triggers public code release? Or is there a threshold? No one has been able to tell me why the need for reproducibility requires software freedom. Consider the program 'nauty'. It is available in source co
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by dalke 10y ago
I disagree. One part of science is observation. Including observations which cannot be, or at least have not been, repeated. For example, consider a rare event in astronomy which has only been detected once. Is that science? I say it is. Bu
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by dalke 10y ago
It would work well with an electric highway like the test one in Sweden, described recently at https://www.engadget.com/2016/06/24/sweden-electric-highway/ and elsewhere.
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by dalke 10y ago
I've seen two main reasons why people love TDD. First, testing is hard. It's a different mindset than development. TDD places testing first, which forces people to think about testing while doing development. From many accounts, t
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by dalke 10y ago
It's hard to disentangle things, as publicly-sector-developed drugs also rely on privately-funded research. For a simple example, an academic or non-profit group might get reduced cost access to research materials and software. Also, p
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by dalke 10y ago
It starts "Australia's coordinates are out by more than 1.5 metres", which is a link to http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-28/aust-latitude-longitud... . That gives the reason for needing a new datu
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by dalke 10y ago
You might be wary about using that term. The use of the term "virtue signaling" is also a common method by which bigots signal their virtue to other bigots. As http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Social_justice_warri
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by dalke 10y ago
Agreed. The old saying is "anything looks linear when plotted on a log-log graph." However, the OP was giving a rough approximation in the first place, in saying that all natural distributions follow a Gaussian curve. But Gaussian
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by dalke 10y ago
I do not like how the author jokes that women in workout shorts make him sweaty, nor the call out to "Be the bro tank you want to see in the world.". If you want to get rid of dress codes then you must also accept whatever anyone
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by dalke 10y ago
This is a summary of a paywalled article at http://www.law360.com/articles/821177/getty-hit-with-1b-copy... . [Edit: as e-sushi submitted before I did.] The court case is Highsmith v. Getty Images. Nothing is av

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