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by mowenz 9y ago
Every(?) top-level comment in this thread calling for reformation of education through te tech and decentralization is being downvoted. Many invested in academia here on HN, and "it is difficult to get a man to understand something whe
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by mowenz 9y ago
Higher ed needs competition. In the interest of human progress, justice, and fairness, top-tier education needs to become open-access and in the form of competitive study. Instead of the greatest academic achievement having anything to do w
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by mowenz 9y ago
Perhaps people get self-esteem from different sources? Personally I think people conflafe self-esteem with confidence. The article and the subject of it are doing this, and I'm a bit surprised it's not mentioned. "Uncondition
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by mowenz 9y ago
Isn't it possible to create ultra low-cost, bootcamp-style, world-class degree programs in STEM fields? Self-study on your own an outline provided, then take a highly competitive entrance exam to get into the bootcamp. Finish and get y
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by mowenz 9y ago
That's actually not true. Russia has shown they have tendencies towards nationalism and imperialism. USA is fine with the globalism that is taking place, and has no problem flexing muscle abroad when it feels like it, i.e. profit moti
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by mowenz 9y ago
I thought the same thing with the groupthink at NASA. It's hard to put in perspective just how badly NASA management screwed up though--probably much moreso than here. I would bet 90%+ of HN user's great grandmothers would not mak
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by mowenz 9y ago
You don't need to use offensive language, or call me a condescending twit. That's out of order. The question is stated more than once in this thread and has already been adressed by others--this much you have even said yourself. C
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by mowenz 9y ago
I think you're taking taking it personally, and beginning to use inflammatory language. I think you are thinking emotionally about this and that is why you are misinterpreting my thoughts. Wiczek himself thinks it's an unintuitive
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by mowenz 9y ago
Judging by language used, no one is berating anyone but you. We agree the poster was presumptious, but you ignore the other point where we disagree (other than that the poster should be scolded) and keep focusing on a point we already agree
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by mowenz 9y ago
We're familiar with Lavoisier's Law. So when you are suggesting CM, many of us probably know that Lavoisier's Law would show small errors at high energy states in CM... But then your explanation offers some perspective on La
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by mowenz 9y ago
Yes I am aware. The issue is that in our current understanding we now know in chemistry we are adding element1+element2=element1+element2... (classically at least). So while Lavoisier led us to the above, the author is pointing to the fact
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by mowenz 9y ago
What's remarkable about conservation of mass in the author's example that's not already formulized in the Law of Conservation of Mass?
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by mowenz 9y ago
We actually don't disagree here; at least not on the points you listed. It appears you are misunderstanding what I'm trying to say. While we both agree it is reasonable to give the benefit of the doubt to experts, and it wasn&#x27
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by mowenz 9y ago
We're not asking you to defend this physicist. There's an obviously confusing bit about conservation of mass here, which lead to the user citing the Law of Conservation of Mass, that I already asked about, and which you are now ig
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by mowenz 9y ago
Then you can enlighten us because as far as we can tell what we think you are saying is the author's discussion of conservation of mass has nothing to do with the Law of Conservation of Mass (as opposed to some mystic qualities of matt
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by mowenz 9y ago
So what's wrong with Lavoisier being credited with the Law of Conservation of Mass? He is famous enough for it that I, having no formal training in physics, am aware of him discovering it independently. The author may be right (or wron
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by mowenz 9y ago
I cant find the thread, but last year someone posted something close to 'all Trump supporters are idiots, I don't know how he got so popular,' and someone replied, 'I have a top uni degree, successful career and I am vot
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by mowenz 9y ago
I like your analogy on #2, but To get to a more precise answer to the question, can't we just say the energy that was released came from the potential energy between the two?
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by mowenz 9y ago
LIGO observed 3 mergers of stellar mass black holes on the scale of 20-60 solar masses, not billions.
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by mowenz 9y ago
Anyone familiar enough in this area that can help me answer these questions: -gravitational waves also propogate at c so how did they escape the event horizons from which they originated? -what and where was/is the "more energy th
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by mowenz 9y ago
This going pretty far out there in terms of imagination, but it seems possible something appearing random in our universe may not be random from another. Yea it's crazy, but we already have theories from reputable physicists talking a
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by mowenz 9y ago
Haha - well if we're going to talk about practicality - it doesn't need to be as tasteless as that - it reminds me of the ultra endurance swimmers sucking hot oil through a tube. You can just make some delicious fried or oily snac
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by mowenz 9y ago
Just 10$ for food, not everything.
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by mowenz 9y ago
To be fair I have backpacked around the world and lived on 10$ a day on food and I could have lived on $5 if I didn't indulge. I even have maintained a high level of fitness and good muscle mass this way, so I was consuming well above
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by mowenz 9y ago
In economics the scarcity problem is about limited resources. People don't starve because of scarce resources--they starve because of greed and politics. The amount of money thrown at the problem and the willingness of people to work.
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by mowenz 9y ago
>all of sudden US politicians have been awful about this for a long time. We have tarrifs on an embarassing number of things from cheese to sneakers to auto parts... While we scold and bully other countries for their own protectionists p
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by mowenz 9y ago
I don't know what to tell you. My definition and the one you linked to do not disagree with each other. Maybe where you are misunderstanding is that commodity food is actually extremely cheap. The world can be fed on a tiny fraction o
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by mowenz 9y ago
That's a pretty aggressive stance government intervention. I'm all for government intervention when it is needed, but honestly your example ignores the fact that: farmers actually solved this problem ages ago, and yes on the free
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by mowenz 9y ago
Actually, at least to my knowledge, ppst scarcity is defined as producing a good or service at very low cost. You might be interested to also know that traditionally the scarcity problem is defined as limited resources. When JMK talked ab
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by mowenz 9y ago
Experience in public policy? It's a political field to be in, not a meritocratic one. In other words, you cant just come along, open up shop, and build a better widget and take over the market. We'd need multiple simulations of ea

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