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by frtab 12y ago
A positive energy balance was achieved in 2013. http://www.nature.com/news/laser-fusion-experiment-extracts-... For only a hundredth of a second, and not even remotely economically viable yet. But it's a step in t
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by frtab 12y ago
Same for me on Iceweasel 31.2.0 on Debian
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by frtab 12y ago
Zuse Z3? Babbage's Analytical Engine!
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by frtab 12y ago
Inequality and lack of social mobility. It's mind boggling how uneven wealth distribution is in some countries.
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by frtab 12y ago
Those serf-like structures disappeared in the 15th century.
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by frtab 12y ago
The equivalent of taxes on alcohol and cigarettes would be a tax on unhealthy food, not a tax on unhealthy people.
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by frtab 12y ago
Some of those already exist, and some of those should never exist.
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by frtab 12y ago
Because the real present is constantly moving. To prevent confusion several sciences use 1950 as the present, so if somebody quotes an article where something is radiocarbon dated as 80 years BP, you don't then have to look up the age
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by frtab 12y ago
There's no significant link between prison sentences and crime rates. If there was, Norway would have a high crime rate and the US would have a low crime rate.
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by frtab 12y ago
The first time I heard about this was around 2005. It's amazing that it's taken this long to become news.
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by frtab 12y ago
"The Pentium chip's math error (1993)" Pretty sure that's a hardware bug.
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by frtab 12y ago
It puts many people off to discover they're the only one of their gender in the room. That creates a self-reinforcing problem. Projects like those linked above help break that circle.