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by jballanc 13y ago
Are you implying that authors and journals are conspiring to push through to publication papers with obvious flaws for some sort of monetary gain? ...or did you not read the article?
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Your Docker image might be broken without you knowing it(phusion.github.io)
147 points by jballanc 13y ago|90 comments
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by jballanc 13y ago
> Not to be "that guy" Now why don't I believe that? ;-) > * General relativity did not come from "grasping the mathematics" of special relativity. I wrote that he had to "grasp enough of the mathematics
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by jballanc 13y ago
Yes, but as with most things in physics, the first signs that an idea is dead usually come decades before the ghost is truly given up. Take, for example, this work from 2012 that was still dealing with a variation on the "hidden variab
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by jballanc 13y ago
I can give it a shot... So Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen were sitting around (presumably) looking over the mathematical foundations of Quantum Mechanics, when they noticed something. In certain situations, you could end up with one wave f
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by jballanc 13y ago
Einstein, in particular, is an interesting case. He was 26 when he had his annus mirabilis (1905) in which he published 5 ground-breaking papers in physics, including the Special Theory of Relativity. However it took another 11 years un
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by jballanc 13y ago
Brian Greene does a very good job of explaining the logic in this conversation with Robert Krulwich: https://www.wnyc.org/radio/#/ondemand/91859 . If you have a spare 50 minutes, it's really really worth
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by jballanc 13y ago
Try formulating your question again, but this time don't leave out the part where I wrote "that have been tested and found to hold".
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by jballanc 13y ago
sigh ...take a moment to re-read what I wrote. Then take a moment to re-read what you wrote. Newton's LAWS of Motion are not a THEORY . They are a descriptive generalization about how gravitation behaves under stated circumstances
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by jballanc 13y ago
Falsifiability is a feature of every element of science. Something that is not falsifiable isn't science. Period. But a Theory is not a guess. It is a framework built from individual pieces, some of which may be hypotheses (effectively
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by jballanc 13y ago
Fact: In science, an observation that has been repeatedly confirmed. Law: A descriptive generalization about how some aspect of the natural world behaves under stated circumstances. Hypothesis: A testable statement about the natural world t
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by jballanc 13y ago
It's funny you mention that because in some respects the Ottomans, following the fall of Constantinople, also took up the mantle of "new new Roman empire". So, granted, after 200 or so years since separation most American&#x2
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by jballanc 13y ago
I've often wondered if history textbooks 500 years from now won't view the US as just a later off-shoot of the British empire, much as modern history books treat the Byzantine empire as a continuation of the Roman empire.
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Wake Surfing with RubyMotion(scottwb.com)
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by jballanc 13y ago
Ah! I get to plug one of my favorite websites, OMIM (Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man): http://www.omim.org Their article on left handedness goes into great detail as to the biology behind hand preference. In short, it's
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by jballanc 13y ago
Eh...forgive me for saying, but this is a bit of a cop-out. Especially where the author notes that you then have to supplement this "one question" with 20 min of follow-up. It's essentially saying "the only interview que
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by jballanc 13y ago
You've forgotten one of the best and, in this situation, most appropriate examples of a company effectively dying without an obvious challenger: AOL. When dial-up was the only option to get "on-line", AOL was dominant. Those
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by jballanc 13y ago
Hence numbers stations: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_stations
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by jballanc 13y ago
Try "open -h NSString.h"...
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by jballanc 13y ago
Absolute numbers aren't really all that interesting. Much like human languages, the differences between programming languages are not all equal. I've been told by native Italian and Spanish speakers that, even absent any formal tr
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by jballanc 13y ago
You could also use a Scheme that has implemented SRFI 49: http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-49/srfi-49.html (I think the fact that SRFI 49 is not more popular might say something, though...)
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Creating an Image Browser app in RubyMotion and RubyMotionQuery(infinitered.com)
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Conservative groups spend up to $1B a year to fight action on climate change(theguardian.com)
44 points by jballanc 13y ago|26 comments
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by jballanc 13y ago
There's enough wrong with what the NSA has been doing, and enough reasons to encourage people to take an interest in how to curtail, or at least better police, their actions without resorting to tawdry conspiracy theories. The NSA does
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by jballanc 13y ago
For me, there's a "[-]" that appeared after the "link" link about an hour ago. Clicking it collapses the comment and all its children. Wonder if I just happen to be on the right side of an A/B test? Edit : d&#
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by jballanc 13y ago
It's the same reason you never see James Bond negotiating with foreign heads of state. You don't send an assassin to do a diplomat's job. Everything that is being revealed about the NSA's actions, this buying of influenc
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by jballanc 13y ago
Heh...I certainly had a good chuckle at this comment. I don't honestly think that the NSA ever paid more than lip-service to the "war on terror". They've been doing the same job since long before Sept. 11, 2001. Before t
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by jballanc 13y ago
Not sure how many people remember, but back in the PowerPC days of Macintosh, the OpenFirmware chips actually contained a Forth interpreter implemented in hardware. It always struck me that, should the need arise, you could use the Forth in
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by jballanc 13y ago
Imagine if you went to the store to buy bread, but you didn't know how much all the other people in line were paying for their bread. When you get to the counter, the baker charges you some arbitrary amount. Today you have enough money
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by jballanc 13y ago
I doubt this is a case of hubris, but rather of the Pareto principle. For 80% of all users, the iPhone is either the right size or they want a tablet. What you (and others making similar comments in reply) fail to account for is that this s

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