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by lutusp 10y ago
> Men still do not have those rights ... Wait ... men don't have the sovereign right not to get pregnant? I'm not sure that's a persuasive argument for or against anything. > ... but society is doing just fine. Yes, all
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by lutusp 10y ago
The article fails to mention a key element in eliminating poverty -- free and affordable access to fertility control measures for women, as well as an absolute sovereign right for women to choose when and whether to have children.
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by lutusp 10y ago
> What paper should I be reading that more or less summarizes the mechanism at work? As to the NASA paper, it's yet to be published according to the linked article, but publication is imminent. And the mechanism is not clear, only t
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by lutusp 10y ago
Old-style science is apparently dead. Imagine if Einstein created General Relativity today, but (in keeping with the times and contrary to everything we know about Einstein) realized the commercial potential of the ideas before submitting h
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by lutusp 10y ago
This discovery will greatly increase interest in gigantic telescopes, to allow a closer look at the planet and its atmosphere.
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by lutusp 10y ago
> The world can transition to 100% clean, renewable energy Yes, at 5-10% of its present population and with a sudden, overwhelming and universal attack of wisdom about the problems caused by uncontrolled population growth. Otherwise, thi
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by lutusp 10y ago
> As someone who has designed and built switching power supplies, the article brought back funny memories. Myself also. I designed switching power supplies for the Space Shuttle, some of which were meant to power fluorescent lights. NASA
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by lutusp 10y ago
Quote: "That shrunk the battery size by half." Nit-pick. To "shrink by half" would have the effect of doubling the size. Maybe he meant "to half the original", but surely not "by half." This reminds m
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by lutusp 10y ago
> ... pure research is a lottery, whereas applied research offers more chance to success. That depends on how one defines success. Was Einstein successful? His work was pure research, and he was never financially successful, but his work
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by lutusp 10y ago
> The photoelectric effect was first discovered in silver chloride solution. I don't know that much about the energy bands of silver chloride, so I won't comment about whether that was a semiconductor. Had the first example of
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by lutusp 10y ago
> First of all, quantum mechanics was motivated by the thought of semiconductors. Excuse me? Quantum mechanics was developed in the 1920s, long before any thought of applying it to any practical problems. Semiconductor research came much
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by lutusp 10y ago
> For example, Newtonian physics always had the goal of calculating artillery trajectories. Excuse me? Principia Mathematica' real purpose is to compute artillery trajectories? Sorry, this claim is absurd and the burden of evidence
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by lutusp 10y ago
Quote: "First, scientific knowledge advances most rapidly, and is of most value to society, not when its course is determined by the “free play of free intellects” but when it is steered to solve problems." But the history of scie
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by lutusp 10y ago
> ... cannot be explained In an allegedly scientific journal? I was aware that New Scientist had abandoned scientific standards, but this abandons even a patina of scientific standards.
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by lutusp 11y ago
Quote: "Of course, as you can imagine, as a little boy, that peaked my interest." No, it piqued your interest. Should I read on and find more of the same?
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by lutusp 11y ago
Easily solved -- let's all stop using petrochemicals of all kinds.
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Here's the thing with Wired
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by lutusp 11y ago
Here's the thing with Wired: http://i.imgur.com/ONOt88S.png Fight Internet coercion -- boycott Wired. Don't link to their articles, don't visit their site, don't accept their coercive behavior. Ad blocki
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by lutusp 11y ago
> So the terminology you are using is what confuses me. You first said "there is no equation describing the system", but now you're expanding this to mean "the equation describing the system has no closed form solutio
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by lutusp 11y ago
>> show me the equation that tracks arctic temperature, rainfall, and snow cover, including the feedback effects that join them all, as an equation. > The reader is referred to "Chapter IV: The Governing Equations" of Ric
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by lutusp 11y ago
> What is unfortunate about this is that Alan is clearly in need of friends, but his abrasive manner would certainly be off-putting to the people around him. So he has to ask random strangers for feedback on his writing instead of his fr
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by lutusp 11y ago
> * there are most definitely some overarching equations that explain it all. Not so, not for Earth's atmosphere, the topic I was discussing. There are first principles, but no overarching equations, analytically expressible or not.
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by lutusp 11y ago
> I thought we already knew that current tokamak designs were very poor in containing plasma due to unpredictable turbulence ... Yes, and this result suggests that we now have a model that's better at making such a prediction -- mor
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by lutusp 11y ago
> I would be curious to know the process for even modeling this sort of thing. How do they know they got it right? It helps that the model creates the same outcomes as the actual observations (and the old model didn't). This isn&#x2
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by lutusp 11y ago
> Is it a big deal? It seems to be a step toward making our models agree with actual observations, which in general is a very good thing. As to whether it's a big deal WRT actual fusion, that will have to wait until someone thinks o
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by lutusp 11y ago
> ELI5 is not for actual 5 year olds. True in general, but it would be nice to meet the five-year-olds for whom it's the right forum.
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by lutusp 11y ago
> There's plenty of people with severe mental illness who have security clearances. Yes, but only if they lie or waffle in their applications, because mental illness is specifically discussed as a reason to deny clearance. http:&#x
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by lutusp 11y ago
> Just as the diagnosis of an ingrown toenail doesn't mean you need special treatment, neither does a mental health diagnosis. Nonsense. Try getting a top security clearance if you have a mental illness diagnosis. Try getting certai
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by lutusp 11y ago
> whether or not psychiatrists accurately apply diagnosis criteria is a different matter to arguing that "to avoid one or another mental illness diagnosis, [...] you can't be extraordinary in any way". But that happens to
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by lutusp 11y ago
> The diagnosis criteria for most mental illnesses include that the patient is negatively affected by their specific symptoms. This is a false claim. The only requirement is that a psychologist deem you mentally ill. For example, in the

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