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by jbattle 7y ago
I've never understood why "paradoxes make cause-and-effect-reasoning difficult" concerns are a valid argument that something could not be possible. Does physics care whether the workings of the universe are accessible to our
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by jbattle 7y ago
I'd prefer language like "I [am/am not] persuaded by the evidence I've seen" Small difference but I think it properly orients the discussion around evidence
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by jbattle 7y ago
We've all seen incredible things built in spreadsheets. Spreadsheets are plenty powerful. I haven't met a clever+motivated person yet that couldn't build something incredible in a spreadsheet. What I think is missing is a way
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by jbattle 7y ago
I never thought of this angle before, but imagine if a SV startup started a distribution model in 2019 depending on young teens riding their bikes around neighborhoods early in the morning before school. There'd be endless articles sha
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by jbattle 7y ago
Right - that's why I worded my sentence "it is possible planet 9 is a primordial black hole"
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by jbattle 7y ago
There was a recent paper that showed it is possible planet 9 is a primordial black hole - would that work? https://phys.org/news/2019-09-planet-primodial-black-hole.ht...
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by jbattle 7y ago
Eyeball all the red in the Result column on this page. It's an unscientific method for sure but it would give me pause as a potential revolutionary. Of course the ccp arguably arose as a peasant revolt so there's that https:&#x2F
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by jbattle 7y ago
You're right. I read 'manifest destiny' as short hand for "USA USA!" boosterism. China obviously isn't an expansionist colonial power either. But I concede the point that Manifest Destiny really hasn't bee
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by jbattle 7y ago
Go read the comment section on Breitbart or Fox or Red State. American Exceptionalism is still gospel truth for ~half the country
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by jbattle 7y ago
It's slightly shocking to read this and realize how many outright falsehoods these people were being told. It's almost wonderful that knowledge advanced when people were being taught stuff like this by authorities ancient and mode
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by jbattle 7y ago
Only half sarcastic: These blowhard academics are so accustomed to having conversation only to prove they are right and their partner is wrong, when they hit on "normal human conversation" they think it is so novel they name it af
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by jbattle 7y ago
My aunt had a terrible job in an office building downtown Chicago. One of those jobs where the boss was a maniac and made them work crunch time month after month. Across the street from her building is a ~10 story jail with an exercise yard
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by jbattle 7y ago
Abstractly speaking, this represents a sort of a mutually-assured-destruction dynamic between the government and the governed, forcing each to compromise with the other. As an American, the thought of an actual armed uprising feels so outla
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by jbattle 7y ago
So the Swiss have ... a well-regulated militia? Wish we had thought of that!
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by jbattle 7y ago
I've never seen a climate scientist say that every change in temperature is linked solely to the effects of CO2 & etc. Everyone recognizes there are multiple drivers of fluctuating climate (e.g. el nino/la nina, solar cycles,
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by jbattle 7y ago
That was due to a weakening of the jet stream which normally keeps arctic air further north. There is evidence (inconclusive AFAICT) that global warming is partly to blame for a weak jet stream last winter. This is why the term "climat
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by jbattle 7y ago
My understanding is that mass in a black hole doesn't operate any differently at a distance. So if there was an earth-mass black hole in a tight orbit around the sun, it shouldn't have a significant impact on the orbits of objec
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by jbattle 7y ago
I'm betting on sulfur aerosols. The energy requirements are modest, the impact is apparently relatively reversible, the side effects seem less potentially catastrophic than iron fertilization. I look at the street outside my office and
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by jbattle 7y ago
From what I can tell, methane has an atmospheric PPM of ~2 (compared to 400++ for CO2). The lower concentration, and the fact that methane generation is very diffuse presumably makes sequestration Hard.
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by jbattle 7y ago
It's a useful/pithy/concise reminder that "history" is not objective and very very often is a story told by people with an agenda.
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by jbattle 7y ago
An idea: Cameras are deployed for a few different purposes. The more discrete functions you are trying to accomplish, the more cameras you need. Example 1: Red light cameras. Only needed at specific intersections that have particular charac
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by jbattle 7y ago
Short sighted? Games have been developed for windows first (or X-console-first) for going on 25 years. Seems like game developers have done OK with that strategy. The fact that windows-only is a poor business decision isn't obvious to
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by jbattle 7y ago
They told us that robots would save humans from doing dangerous work in hostile environments. Who knew the danger and hostility would be entirely psychological!?
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by jbattle 7y ago
If it portends civil war in SA, that'd be significant
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by jbattle 7y ago
I remember being struck by the fact that most people had teeth go bad and basically rot in place. If you lived near someone with skills they'd grab it with tongs and rip it out, no anesthesia. And this was probably an almost universal
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by jbattle 7y ago
The way it makes sense to me is to invert the number you are looking at. 95 & 99 are very 'close together' But if you look at 5 & 1 - the first number is 5 times the second. Huge relative difference
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by jbattle 7y ago
> Astronomy includes knowing when you aren't doing it and instead seeing an artifact of your instruments or weather One would hope fighter pilots have some faculty in said skills!
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by jbattle 7y ago
The Burnham plan for Chicago had the city designed with a double-decker road grid. Trucks would use the lower grid. There are some underground streets still though at this point there isn't any kind of segregation of traffic (if anythi
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SpaceX confirms it's almost ready to test its orbital Starship(engadget.com)
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by jbattle 7y ago
The formation of the great lakes was an eye-blink ago on the scale of this map. They are only about four times as old as the great pyramid (woah)

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