noselfrighteous

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by noselfrighteous 10y ago
I have a side question. If gravity (i.e. warping of space time) propagates at the speed of light. Then does that mean that the Alcubierre warp drive is fundamentally incapable of supra-light speeds?
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by noselfrighteous 11y ago
Awesome! Thanks for that.
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by noselfrighteous 11y ago
Beautiful ideas! Do you have a way to control the final stereo-isomer that comes out of the synthesis? I'm thinking of the "256 stereo-isomer" molecule that you mentioned. Or is it a case of brute force and select afterwards?
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by noselfrighteous 11y ago
You say statistically but you don't have any references to support that statement. My anecdotal experience says otherwise.
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by noselfrighteous 11y ago
Why even comment with such a lackluster critique?
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by noselfrighteous 11y ago
No, that rings hollow to me. Humans are sophisticated enough to genuinely have other needs aside from primal mating urges. Self-actualization is a huge one and more than sufficient to be the primary motivator for someone seeking to leave a
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by noselfrighteous 11y ago
Ish. How much do you know about the Russian cultural psyche? I'm not disagreeing that the paranoia around American<->Russian relations isn't massively overblown, but I think you underestimate the aspirations of the Russian r
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by noselfrighteous 11y ago
Yeah I pictured being a foreign national during that, I can imagine it being a little irksome. Edit: foreign national working at SpaceX. If there were not foreign national's involved in today's success, then feel free to ignore me
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by noselfrighteous 11y ago
Go for 20, I'd be interested to see if you can do it.
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by noselfrighteous 11y ago
I really love this story (no sarcasm intended at all). It's such a physicist's story. The recollections of Einstein amount to "he was a nice guy", but the bulk of the story is details about whatever problem she was worki
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by noselfrighteous 11y ago
Thank you!
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by noselfrighteous 11y ago
I feel like I've fallen into a hole. There's jargon everywhere, I'm not sure if I'm in the middle of some sort of satirical art experiment. Can anyone explain what is going on?
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by noselfrighteous 11y ago
Can you link to an explanation/derivation of the geometric formulation?
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by noselfrighteous 11y ago
Would be interesting to see how the lack of gravity affects growth.
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by noselfrighteous 11y ago
Ahh yep, got it.
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by noselfrighteous 11y ago
So I read the wiki on the One-time pad and there's something I'm a little stuck on. There's a statement (paraphrasing) that the OTP is immune to cryptanalysis (brute force) because any given key translates to all possible pla
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by noselfrighteous 11y ago
I think your tl;dr is unjust. I read the author as criticizing the imposition of a simple story onto the nuanced experiences of people. I think he criticizes it for the lack of artistic subtlety (pictures are not allowed to speak to the rea
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by noselfrighteous 11y ago
Practically speaking, even armed you're a subject. The government is free to impose its will on you any time it likes unless you're in the business of shooting police offices who pull you over.
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by noselfrighteous 11y ago
I was thinking about this the other day, what's the loss factor in compressed air storage?
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by noselfrighteous 11y ago
Lasers make a lot of sense in space, much more so than in the atmosphere.
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by noselfrighteous 11y ago
It's not clear at all that Mouse->Human is simply a scaling problem. It would appear that there is some emergent phenomenon (consciousness) somewhere on the scale between mouse and human. This phenomenon may be triggered by a surplu
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by noselfrighteous 11y ago
My point is that offering up IQ as an explanatory variable which alleviates any obligation to help another group is cowardice. Even accepting that IQ difference is an irrevocable consequence of genetics (which I don't), the next step i
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by noselfrighteous 11y ago
It might make a lot of sense actually. It could serve to speed up instinctive responses to stimuli which have been encountered before, i.e. whipping your finger away from a hot surface.
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by noselfrighteous 11y ago
Perhaps, if one asserts IQ is some quantity defined and birth, and not amenable to influence through education, diet, living conditions etc. Then one might be justified in implying that black people are worse off because they are fundamenta
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by noselfrighteous 11y ago
There is so much wrong with the taking of this view. Instead of looking at the experience of growing up black, the horribly unlevel playing field, the reverberating echos of slavery and broken families. A resonance maintained by the complet