juanjmanfredi

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by juanjmanfredi 8mo ago
Particle physicists working on collider experiments were among the first people that needed to deal with large quantities of digitally stored data. As a result, advances in the particle and nuclear physics have fed advances in computing, an
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by juanjmanfredi 2y ago
That first scenario you portray is economic growth. Any city in the country would be thrilled to have to deal with the "problem" of being too attractive to both businesses and people.
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by juanjmanfredi 2y ago
Do you expect that contracts with Palantir will be under any scrutiny? Do you really think Peter Thiel would have supported this administration if that was at all a risk? Lots of Americans think the government needs to be more efficient. Ve
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by juanjmanfredi 2y ago
This attitude is like demanding that an overweight man amputate his arm.
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by juanjmanfredi 2y ago
Agreed on that. My disagreement is with the statement that everything that was once referred to as high energy physics is "not looking so good". Nuclear physics in particular does not feel stuck in the way I've heard some hig
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by juanjmanfredi 2y ago
What are you considering "high energy physics"? "1/3-1/2 of Nobel Prizes in the 20th century" is a significant overestimation unless you are including topics not traditionally included in high energy physics. F
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by juanjmanfredi 4y ago
You said it yourself in your original comment: small and sustainable changes are the way to go. I agree that much of the cultural discourse around dieting is harmful. The promise of every diet commercial is that if you eat in this special w
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by juanjmanfredi 4y ago
I admit I'm distrustful of such a dramatic title. The central message from the originally posted article is that losing weight is mostly a matter of maintaining a caloric deficit. This is has been understood for some time now. What is
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by juanjmanfredi 4y ago
Inflation metrics show that the economy post 2008 was in fact under stimulated, which is why the recovery from the financial crisis was so slow. The recent COVID-related stimuli are what went too far.
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by juanjmanfredi 4y ago
Putnam ascribes ~25% of the drop in social capital over the past 70ish years to television's rise, but not because of fragmentation of visions of reality as you suggest. Rather, it is due to TV soaking up time that might be used to bui
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by juanjmanfredi 4y ago
I agree with your first two paragraphs. To the extent that our present time is at all unique, I subscribe to Robert Putnam's thesis that much of what we see today can be explained by the drop in social capital in American life over the
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by juanjmanfredi 5y ago
I'm not sure I understand. Could you point me to a resource that goes into more detail?
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by juanjmanfredi 5y ago
For what it's worth, nuclear energy kills fewer people per kilowatt hour than any other energy source, including solar and wind. This is as of 2012. Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06
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by juanjmanfredi 5y ago
Anybody who has a credit card, mortgage, or retirement account needs to have a high-school level understanding of math.
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by juanjmanfredi 5y ago
Microwaving cooks food by applying enough power to heat it up to a higher temperature. Moskowitz is explicit that his claim is not about raising temperature, but rather some other mechanism related to bodily signals that is not fully unders
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by juanjmanfredi 7y ago
I suggest signing up for James Clear's newsletter: https://jamesclear.com/newsletter He is the author of Atomic Habits, which is a reasonably short guide to mastering habit formation. His free newsletter delivers a hig
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by juanjmanfredi 7y ago
I share frustration with many of the issues that the author discusses. But I disagree completely with his thesis. I am profoundly optimistic about our future. The individual liberties provided by the Constitution empower each of us to speak
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by juanjmanfredi 7y ago
This research group has claimed previous discoveries of different bosons before [0]. They have never succeeded in reproducing a result. The scientific community is right to be skeptical. If there is real physics there, then follow up experi
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by juanjmanfredi 7y ago
I share your skepticism. Waste-to-energy plants produce ash, and I can't imagine people will enjoy skiing in polluted air. If anyone knows where to find more technical details about how this plant works, and what makes it "the gre
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by juanjmanfredi 7y ago
I think your point would be much better communicated if you provided citations for your claims. As it stands now, your comment comes across as condescending.
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by juanjmanfredi 7y ago
Yeah I think you are right. But that populist support is not guaranteed forever, and I wonder what happens then.
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by juanjmanfredi 7y ago
I agree with your first point. My anecdotal experience of talking to people from China is that there is a very real sense of nationalism that results in deference to the government. The idea is that under this regime the economy has grown s
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by juanjmanfredi 7y ago
Twitter, Facebook, and any other entity that deplatformed Alex Jones are private companies and can deplatform whoever they want. In fact that is part of their freedom of speech. This is different from government-enforced silencing of speech
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by juanjmanfredi 7y ago
I'm curious as to what happens if the NBA does in fact get banned from China. I've always wondered whether, as the Chinese economy grows and living standards rise, individuals would ever feel more entitled to individual rights. Of