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by j9461701 8y ago
The state of the field previously was anyone could be anything in the right enviroment. For example the following quote from John B. Watson: "Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in
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>Psychologists and biologists currently regard the controversy as outdated, and speak of the interaction between genes and environment. As examined at length by Steven Pinker's Blank Slate, they regard the controversy as outdated be
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by j9461701 8y ago
The original experimental reactor didn't go all the way and test the reactor design in a "closed loop". As in you shovel in thorium and get out power indefinitely. Instead it relied on temporary uranium fuel as a test of the
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>The elephant in the room, when it comes to the social brain hypothesis, is that plenty of herd animals (or school fish) exist in massive groups without needing terribly big brains to cope. Group size and social complexity seem to be som
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by j9461701 8y ago
We don't just condemn Japan for eating whales and dolphins, we already banned them from doing so. Instead Japan claims the whales they're killing are for "scientific research", which is bull and they're clearly in t
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by j9461701 8y ago
For example in one story Sherlock deduces that the person sending a ransom note is an educated man attempting to appear stupid, because although the note is grammatically incorrect the newspaper the letters are cut out from was The Times. A
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by j9461701 8y ago
Graph theory and abstract algebra were the two elective math classes I took that almost tempted me to switch from physics to math. But then I took real analysis and was like "Yup, nope, this is not for me"
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by j9461701 8y ago
Historically sailors were actually quite bad swimmers. The thinking was that any man who fell overboard was basically dead anyway, as the ship was unlikely to be able to turn around and get him before he drifted away (sailing boats aren&#x2
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The fact that losing engine power would be a death sentence in the first place disturbs me. Is there not enough room on board for survival equipment like an inflatable raft?
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>Any links on this? https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=h... TL;DR (it's a 213 page grad thesis) Old Germany used to be basically Hufflepuff, a simple-minded, loyal, obedient rustic bumbl
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by j9461701 8y ago
I personally was a big fan of 688i Hunter-Killer. One of the most realistic sub games ever made, with a 250 page manual that frankly under-explained how a lot of the more technical systems on your boat functioned (I'm still not quite
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by j9461701 8y ago
It's not directly pertinent, but the slow triumph of Greek culture over Roman culture after the conquest of Greece is one of the most fascinating parts of ancient history. The Roman elites not only spoke Greek, they sent their kids to
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by j9461701 8y ago
Automated celestial navigation is actually surprisingly old technology, first being pioneered in the 1950s on the snark missile. Of course at first it was extremely unreliable, with the snark flying off target so often the part of the ocean
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by j9461701 8y ago
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/605/ Extrapolating from a single neighbourhood to an entire city is not valid reasoning. Perhaps the neighbourhood was especially amenable to the program, perhaps the crime rate failed t
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by j9461701 8y ago
>How is 1890s Germany an example of of a culture where everythig is right? I am only pointing out ritualistic marking of men as a sort of "manhood rite" is hardly unique to Glasgow, or the poor/rundown. It has historical p
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by j9461701 8y ago
I'm not quite sure I fully buy into it. Crime has been steadily declining all over the Western world since the '90s, with a few notable exceptions like Baltimore post-BLM, and so the entire VRU concept may be specious. New York ha
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by j9461701 8y ago
>From someone who describes themselves as being very bad at the job! Maybe this was what he was getting wrong? Perhaps. He was really awful at the whole "military discipline" part of being in the military. Now he's a softw
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>The worst paratrooper they ever had, per their own admission. Because he wasn't suited to military style leadership. So he became a software dev instead, and he enjoyed that much more. Still, this is a fair point. >The US does n
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by j9461701 8y ago
>You gave an account for a single situation, which is completely different from the normal business: Being caught in a minefield under fire The first hand account is the former Israeli NCO paratrooper, the mine field example is just an i
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>This is a huge misconception people have about the military. I just gave you a first hand account of it, and a concrete illustration of it is the current topic of discussion. It's difficult to call what is being clearly demonstrate
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I think this article does a wonderful job explaining why the military is built the way it is: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/08/08/the-command-and-co... If Command and Control is such a bad way to run a
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by j9461701 8y ago
I would think a degree would be valuable, if for nothing else, then because it indicates a willingness to put in 4 years of work to achieve a challenging goal. Conscientiousness is the word, I believe. A university degree shows you have som
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History of the Nordon Bombsight(warfarehistorynetwork.com)
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Actually #2 was consumer products and services. Technology in general and software ranked 3rd. >Now look at long-term health and economic prospects of the two careers, beyod short term satisfaction with survivorship bias. Economics seems
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And yet construction workers were the happiest group surveyed: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/construction-workers-topped-r... Personally, I really couldn't agree more with what you're saying. The prospect of
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by j9461701 8y ago
Ha, my thoughts were similar to yours but in the opposite direction: With such complicated machinery being involved in every part of micro biology, how can humans ever hope to cure anything? Everything down there is so complex, fast and int
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Riper used his personal access codes and authority as a US general to cheat the test. He also exploited the wonky weapon allocation rules in the game to load down speed boats with several times their weight in heavy weapons - which outside
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What militaries? Because France, the UK, India and China are all investing further in carriers. The broad consensus is demonstrably the opposite of what you're claiming. E pur si muove
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> Right now, there is no effective defense against a large salvo of precision missiles; even 1,000 high-end missiles might cost $1 billion - a great bargain for sinking an aircraft carrier, whose defenses might have to shoot down 99% or
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by j9461701 9y ago
A MANPAD can't hit a fast moving jet at 20k feet, and anything larger can be destroyed by conventional munitions. This is exactly what we saw during the first Gulf war, when Iraq - which had for the era had a very advanced IAADS - was

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