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by nautilius 4y ago
In summary: four years in prison for talking to a cop.
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by nautilius 4y ago
But it very clearly is not. Quite the opposite is upheld by a court. Of course, unless, by ‘principle’ you mean ‘only under certain conditions, sometimes, for some things to be said, by some people, to some specific set of people, YMMV’, in
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by nautilius 4y ago
Americans too. https://www.npr.org/2022/09/06/1121322520/a-black-protester-...
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by nautilius 4y ago
Yeah, nothing like being arrested _and sentenced to four years in prison_ for talking to a cop while being black, in the land of the free, where this would NEVER happen because of some often-invoked 1st amendment. https://www.npr
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by nautilius 4y ago
Sorry, I mistakenly thought you replied to the post you posted your post under. My bad.
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by nautilius 4y ago
Not at all, it's about the reaction mass that needs to be transported in the rocket.
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by nautilius 4y ago
> why are these poor kids forced to learn something they will never use in the future of their lives? Exactly. I withhold cycling, they'll use a car later; I withhold bow and arrow or .22, because they can just get a real rifle late
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by nautilius 4y ago
Those feeling tempted wouldn't care: I've had students insist on 'this is my own written text' when a full page of text was verbatim copied from a patent, with the only student contribution being to replace 'motor&#
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by nautilius 4y ago
Just because you use it doesn't make it in any way 'usual'. Just because you learned it in some school doesn't make it non-regional. Also, your own example "𝑥" is decidedly not of the )( form, but of the × fo
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by nautilius 4y ago
Pfft, have you tried accessing any standard here? (ASME, IEEE, etc.) That perverse pleasure must be masochism.
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by nautilius 4y ago
Could you elaborate on your gripe with order, or how that would be abused? In my field, 1st author did most of the work, typically the responsible grad student, then authors 2 to n-1 supporting characters, maybe contributed some data, some
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by nautilius 4y ago
Have them ask around about the PI first. I’ve had PIs threatening me as PostDoc to void my contract and have me deported for wanting to take some vacation accrued over several years, or (different gig) for wanting to go to a job interview.
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by nautilius 4y ago
lock-the-spock explicitly writes about reality , and within the real system we have, monopolies develop.
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by nautilius 4y ago
Easy fix to your solution: get more people to vote. How about all 10000 undergrads in your institution? In your model, a modern day Einstein would have never had a chance; industrialized research, with publication mills and systematic co-au
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by nautilius 4y ago
Holy shit, man. What's your take on concentration camps? At least the prisoners are not homeless?
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by nautilius 4y ago
Haha, yeah no way anyone’s going to game that system! No way some clique recruits all of the voting power (collaborators to undergrads) to push their work through, all it takes is LeCun to simply read all papers and his vote will balanc
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by nautilius 4y ago
Mostly a combination of Ultracrepidarianism and Dunning-Kruger, I would guess. Without doubt there are many very smart people here who know a lot about their respective fields and who have lots of opinions about other fields they may not k
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by nautilius 4y ago
By your logic, your “best ever thinker” did not do any science, ever, period - because he was a theoretical physicist. > “I do not know what scientific process means”. Maybe that’s the problem right there.
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by nautilius 4y ago
That's us!
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by nautilius 4y ago
They do, but if you want to solve PDE numerically instead of DE analytically, you should enroll in the “Numerical Methods for PDE” course instead of “Analaytical methods for DE”.
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by nautilius 4y ago
> Just like with dieselgate this will be a closely guarded secret. So ... no secret at all and widely published and discussed?
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by nautilius 4y ago
> 2x the space so the cost of fuel as a percentage of the ticket price is lower. It might not be obvious to you but I'm happy to explain it :) See, your claim is that fuel cost is the sole reason they do this. I'd argue it&#x27
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by nautilius 4y ago
Yeah, there is an epsilon on top of fuel. But maybe you missed the obvious fact that all aircraft are getting slower rather than faster over the last decades, so that threshold is in the opposite direction of what you're proposing. And
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by nautilius 4y ago
> The costs of flying an airplane isn't proportional to its fuel usage. The faster an aircraft is, the more flights it can perform per day. It is indeed not proportional, but not in the way you are thinking. Drag (and ~fuel consumpt
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by nautilius 4y ago
That argument makes no sense. Presumably, jimbobimbo already sources ~100% of their intake from some producer outside of their apartment, to not be stuck on eating the mushrooms growing in the bathroom. Just because there is even more out
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by nautilius 4y ago
You may want to look into how many conflicts between how many parties there were in Europe prior to WWI, and since.
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by nautilius 4y ago
"The ability to play chess is the sign of a gentleman. The ability to play chess well is the sign of a wasted life." Paul Morphy
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by nautilius 4y ago
True when you focus solely on consuming. Turn to creating (art, science, a better mousetrap), and there’s no end in sight.
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by nautilius 4y ago
Who do you think is more successful/ safer: the humpback whale that let’s its kin die, or the one where they stick together against predators? To generalize, draw on your “experience” (movies, thought experiments) from crime, business,
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by nautilius 4y ago
> or the client optioned for a cheaper engineering solution. Haha, sure. Let me rephrase: an engineer with a job.

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