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by erdos4d 6y ago
I think the operative words here are "They reported". If you had a bunch of cops looking to extort you for a part of your operation's profits, how big would you make the pile out to be?
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> Universities usually have the ability to award credits for prior knowledge, but I doubt they would respond well to you rocking up and asking for credits in everything. I did half of my BS this way, it was via an experiential knowledge
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by erdos4d 6y ago
I am, have a PhD in it at least, and complex numbers are 100% required to do quantum mechanics, so are physically motivated. In fact, many physicists consider the complex numbers to be the preferred number system of the universe for this re
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by erdos4d 6y ago
I knew about this aspect of printers more than a decade ago, before I ever got into tech, so I'm 100% sure it was/is semi-widely known. It's really sad that the Intercept and other news orgs are so technically oblivious that
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by erdos4d 6y ago
Historically, this is accurate. The whole concept of "pure math" is actually very recent and before that math was almost exclusively tied to real world problems that often came directly from physics.
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This is similar to how some university departments retain their budgets.
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This is 100% because NSF funders are not allowed to make "mistakes". They need every dollar of grant money to lead to published research, so they almost always bet on the established horses. Simply changing the rules to allow fund
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by erdos4d 6y ago
I don't buy this at all. There is zero logic to firing the larger (female) piece onto the smaller (male) piece. It makes the bore of the barrel needed to actually do it larger, increasing the weight of the air-dropped weapon in the pro
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I predict this will sort itself out in a week or so.
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That the object could have outgassed 10% of its mass while exiting the solar system and produced a steady acceleration with no detectable change to its orbital period stretches all believability. However, I've seen similar bullshit pas
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by erdos4d 6y ago
Humans don't deserve these weapons. > You sure? Nuclear weapons are guaranteed to bite you eventually, being stupid enough to have them sorta implies you deserve your eventual reward.
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by erdos4d 6y ago
6 isn't an accurate statement of the argument raised here. It wasn't just accelerating, but did so without changing its rotation at all. Comets don't do that when they outgas, the forces torque then about and you get variance
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by erdos4d 6y ago
Have you read any of his arguments? They are sound and nobody has come up with anything substantive to dispute them. Can you offer an actual rebuttal?
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"Ridiculing scientists for plausible hypothesis" => chopping the legs out from under a competitor because they stepped in something taboo. Happens all the time. Academia is a snake pit and this is low hanging fruit.
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Perhaps the crowd smells truth...
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by erdos4d 6y ago
I don't get why there is a need in a city, but there are definitely wilderness places in the US where it is required. What's wacky is that nobody can see this difference when laws get passed.
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by erdos4d 6y ago
Coming from the US, it astounds me how uninformed people from third world countries are about the US and its staggering record of human rights abuses. I do understand that Hollywood and such are one hell of a marketing dept, but you are awa
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by erdos4d 6y ago
> Why do the major trade blocks ignore these actions? USA, EU... These people are literally disappearing millions from an ethnic group into concentration camps in a genuine genocide and nobody cares. Why would anyone care about some pupp
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by erdos4d 6y ago
Rather than a lower level intro, I'd recommend you bone up on linear algebra and multidimensional/vector calculus. The ideas in this book are not especially difficult to get but the math is right up front all the way through. If y
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by erdos4d 6y ago
> The number of Nobel Prizes establishes a lower bound on the number of “Nobel Prize worthy discoveries”. No, it really doesn't establish anything. They give them out every year in predictable numbers, whether there is a big discove
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by erdos4d 6y ago
The fact that the most desperate of the 99% will take the 1%'s money to oppress the rest of the 99% has something to do with it. Put another way, I never once met a cop from the 1%.
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by erdos4d 6y ago
> I don't believe is worth fighting police during a demonstration. As many protesters will tell you, in a lot of cases the police start the fight. Are you saying you're okay with them being able to just silence you? What do you
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by erdos4d 6y ago
As a fellow expat who would very much like to get rid of my US citizenship too, I can tell you my experience with Americans is that they are not happy that anyone gets out and doesn't have to deal with the same crap they deal with. Tel
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by erdos4d 6y ago
> some stupid toy that is never going to be a practical weapon Please watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CO6M2HsoIA
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Or leave that stress and do something different. I did the same as the author and for the exact same reasons. For some of us, the bullshit is not worth the pay or the other perks. As you state, it exists at every company, so some of us just
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by erdos4d 6y ago
Maybe. I'd bet a number of attacks attributed to nation states are actually just talented amateurs. There's a lot of smart people out there.
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Almost all of it is. I'm in Ecuador and its about $5/g here, hell if you stay at a touristic place and drop some money, I bet they'd comp your coke just to get you into the room right now. Its dirt cheap anywhere in South Ame
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by erdos4d 6y ago
Location: Quito, Ecuador Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Stuff I know: - Python/Django/Javascript/HTML/CSS/Java/JPA/Terraform/Ansible/Docker/Kubernetes/Nginx/PostgreSQL&#x2
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by erdos4d 6y ago
I think this whole topic misses the elephant in the room: STEM is a genetic lottery that our current economic and social system rewards with a better life and more resources. About 90% of the population are the losers in that game and they
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by erdos4d 6y ago
> No, I don't think Xi and his friends are scared at all. That's almost like saying the US government is keeping a dozen carriers because it's scared of Russia (or China). I'm sorry, but the US actually is scared of

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