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by klank 7y ago
> because if you know the right choice wihout being able to explain why But teaching isn't simply being able to explain why something is the way it is. It's more than that. I could explain to you why planets move the way they d
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by klank 7y ago
> You can be very very good at something, but true mastery is being able to impart that knowledge on others as well. Is that true though? How do we know that the ability to teach is not a unique skill in and of itself rather than just an
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by klank 7y ago
> If something can't be explained without resorting to actual Greek characters and irrational numbers, it might be worth trying again. Can you expound on this thought a bit? It's not entirely obvious to my why using math, or ma
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by klank 7y ago
Small point of clarification, the predictions of newtonian laws are a limit in GR. So, technically speaking, newtonian physics is still following GR for that energy regime.
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by klank 7y ago
Can you back that up with some additional data? According to this: https://www.healthcare.gov/glossary/federal-poverty-level-fp... A family of 8 is under the poverty level if they make less than $43,430. I'd not c
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by klank 7y ago
Good point, it definitely perpetuates a false dichotomy.
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by klank 7y ago
Skimmed, so I apologize if I missed something, but that isn't what we were discussing though. That's comparing two generations and their self-identification. What I was asking about is the assertion that as a person ages they beco
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by klank 7y ago
Modern QM formalization doesn't predict a discrete spacetime. Or, if it does, nobody has been able to demonstrate this, to my knowledge.
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by klank 7y ago
How does that necessitate a discrete spacetime?
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by klank 7y ago
> And I believe most younger voters once they have to pay taxes, raise a family, and start building their retirement and saving for their kids college, become more Conservative and less "progressive" or Liberal. Is that accurat
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by klank 7y ago
What are these "limits of spacetime's resolution" you speak of? Beyond speculation, I'm not aware of anything showing spacetime to be discrete.
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by klank 7y ago
> and artists are very particular about even the smallest details of their work. That's not necessarily true and paints way too broad a brush of artists and art. Art and artists need not necessarily be concerned about the smallest d
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by klank 7y ago
I think I'd enjoy hearing your argument that F1 racing is the most demanding mental endeavor a human can participate in. Care to share?
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by klank 7y ago
> aggregated statistics (across all fields, all ranks, tenure-track/non-tenure-track, etc) are useless because of the variance Could you expound on that? How does the variance in underlying data cause aggregated statistics to lose u
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by klank 7y ago
> something that exists cannot logically have a zero diameter part Do elementary particles exist?
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by klank 7y ago
Old MSFT rule of thumbs was 2 bugs per day during bug crunch mode. Sounds crazy, but when you consider the number of "this text is wrong" and "that text box is too short" bugs that existed after a year of furious develop
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by klank 7y ago
Don't confuse "our math breaks down at this point" with "it can't physically happen". Planck time is the time at which, if you want to do physics, you have to take into account quantum mechanics and gravity (i.
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by klank 7y ago
> IQ is probably the single most trustworthy finding in psychology/sociology. The single most trustworthy finding for ... what though? I don't know what a measurement being "trustworthy" means unless you associate it
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by klank 7y ago
There is efficient usage of the cloud and inefficient usage. How data is processed, moved around and things like fleet size can all greatly impact your final bill. Most companies don't optimize for cloud costs to great lengths.
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by klank 7y ago
> This assume all perspectives/arguments are valid Not at all. It only assumes that an understanding of an argument is necessary to engage with it properly.
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by klank 7y ago
I feel like our legislature hasn't scaled up with the economy and inflation. I feel this not just in the corporate world, but individuals as well. Only financially speaking, parking tickets and speeding tickets are an annoyance to me.
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by klank 7y ago
I think you might be getting them switched around. Mass is a form of energy. Energy is not a form of mass. Put another way, mass is always energy. Energy is not always mass.
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by klank 7y ago
> [time] is real, as real as anything, it is not an illusion. Now the arrow of time on the other hand...
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by klank 7y ago
> if ... the entire universe is essentially one uniform mass, wouldn't that mass then collapse upon itself, in a kind of big bounce? de Sitter space is a vacuum solution for Einstein's field equations. What this means is that t
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by klank 7y ago
I had that first reaction. But, I think there might be something different for Ryan in this case. Specially, Ryan might view the interaction he had, despite being under false pretense, as a legitimate personal connection to the individual.
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by klank 8y ago
How would you describe a "reddit-style mugging for karma"? I didn't find the post you're referring to as having added anything additional to the conversation and I also didn't find it entertaining, which I believe w
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by klank 8y ago
It's interesting, because I didn't find anything in the OP's response to be particularly polite. Sure, it wasn't impolite either. With the exception of that postscript though. If it's as passive aggressive as it sou
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by klank 8y ago
In a past life I did somewhat serious cycling in rural Georgia as training for triathlons. So everything I'm about to say is with the caveat that it's my personal experience in one small slice of America. Myself, and everybody I r
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by klank 8y ago
> and punitive is much cheaper for those of us with high moral character. I didn't understand this assertion. Could you expand on it a bit?
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by klank 8y ago
Peter Watts is great. I've very much enjoyed all of his books. I _love_ Blindsight.

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