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   by jsweojtj 12y ago

   >> Creating jobs is a strange goal. > Why? Who says efficiency should be humanity's goal? Is humanity a machine to be optimized? I think saying that creating jobs is a goal is more accurately the viewpoint that humans are cogs
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   by jsweojtj 12y ago

   Adventured was saying that the US is a counterexample to the proposed statement that meant non-restrictive or non existent patent systems will be bastions of innovation. In no way was Adventured arguing that because of the patent system, th
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   by jsweojtj 12y ago

   I also don't read aloud in my head for the most part. I get caught with this exact problem with character names -- I have to sound it out for the first time when I try to say it. However, you are making a different point. Anyone who re
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   by jsweojtj 12y ago

   I have to admit that I (also?) was expecting the shaded region to give something like the standard deviation about the mean, not the confidence in the mean.
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   by jsweojtj 12y ago

   > laws of physics were the same then itself rests on the assumption that the laws of physics were the same then No, that's definitely not true. Here's a good (somewhat technical) overview of these kinds of scientific investigat
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   by jsweojtj 12y ago

   > But how do you interpret astronomical observations? By using the currently understood laws of physics, of course, so it becomes a bit of a circular argument. One of the best ways to measure this is to use quasar absorption spectroscopy