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by findalex 5y ago
> "Would that I had the magic wand on this," Granholm [U.S. Energy Secretary] told Bloomberg TV, laughing in a response to a question on what her plan was to raise U.S. oil output. "That is hilarious,". So... magic is
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by findalex 5y ago
Lot's of FORTRAN still in the LCF production queues.
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by findalex 5y ago
The radiologists are ants.
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by findalex 5y ago
> Disagreement, the possibility to be stupid and wrong, and the ability to take random choices based on intuition are eliminated when the majority of a field acts like scientific managers. How do we democratize physical sciences in the s
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by findalex 5y ago
> aspiring coconspirators I feel like this describes the majority of "victims" here.
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by findalex 5y ago
Why assume anything?
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by findalex 5y ago
> too young to know FORTRAN. If you don't know, you don't know.
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by findalex 5y ago
>someone who wants more Afghan Muslims to die I've never seen anyone impugn motive so recklessly.
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by findalex 5y ago
> "Darpa refused to fund the work, saying: 'It is clear that the proposed project led by Peter Daszak could have put local communities at risk'" So they pitch this project to both DARPA and NIH... and DARPA says no ci
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by findalex 5y ago
What a title.
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by findalex 5y ago
This would be the least of my issues with Snopes. Plus, haven’t you heard? This has been debunked by Snopes.
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by findalex 5y ago
Maybe something along the lines of regions of charged space time resist compression while charged and non charged regions more spontaneous compress? Attraction/repulsion?
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by findalex 5y ago
Why now is what I’m wondering.
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by findalex 5y ago
Why now?
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by findalex 5y ago
Is it implied that the different phase transitions of - say water - are related to the various ways symmetry can break? This makes sense intuitively, I think: Ice -> liquid you are changing size a bit but liquid water still has some tra
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by findalex 5y ago
When you consider how long this thing was in development/production, 5 years doesn't seem very long.
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by findalex 6y ago
Thanks for this. I was under the impression there was some difference between relativistic electron-electron dispersion and the Casimir force - after reading your comment I googled some recent papers and convinced myself. My first thought
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by findalex 6y ago
I thought the hidden variables interpretation had been abandoned for awhile now? “Don’t tell God what to do with his dice”.
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by findalex 6y ago
Seeing a lot of ‘reminder to take your medication’ pager messages. Was that some sort of pager service you would pay for? Or could you send yourself scheduled pages?