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by pfortuny 4y ago
And who declares what “disinformation” is? Who is the arbiter of truth? Will it be the Republican DHS when (not if) they win in the future? Why not?
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Same about Ishiguro, very surprisingly.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Exactly. Peace of mind. Now and ever.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Photons are the carrier of the electromagnetic field. We “sense them” via the photoelectric effect (i.e. photons activate electrons)… We do not sense them via the magnetic force probably because it is useless for us (contrary to some spec
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by pfortuny 4y ago
In Spain you get your fingerprints printed when receiving the (essentially compulsory) ID card… And this is seens as “good” and “normal”… Sigh.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Well, yes. But it is another way of saying that we think in analogies. At the same time, forms are also vectors… and vectors are forms of the dual… So it is not that easy.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
It has much colder winters.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
They should not be calles vectors both. Horizontal vectors are forms (maps from R^n to R). Vertical vectors are vectors (elements of R^n). Forms applied to vectors are “rows multiplied by columns”, and so: numbers. Same thing as bras and
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by pfortuny 4y ago
So I cannot cut out the ads from my paper newspaper?
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Yep. The “this software is distributed as is, with no guarantees…” is essential in any kind of freelance open source development. That sentence does not appear in the BSD licenses and I deem that a mistake.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Oh dear! So it could be the shot (Moderna)! I thought it was starting on blood-pressure meds… It is now gone.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
You should also think about chemical plants, then.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Anyone who likes The Waste Land should try and read Four Quartets, and his plays, especially Murder in the Cathedral, The Cocktail Party, The Family Reunion and The Elder Statetsman. They are all unique in their own way and reflect Eliot’s
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by pfortuny 4y ago
He has been helping people. Please do not frame this as “not helping”. Frame this as what it is: an excellent example of abuse of the law which is per se wrong and harmful.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
He has clearly made a cost/benefit analysis and has deemed the cost too big. It seems easy until you have to do it .
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by pfortuny 4y ago
With the consequence that “only rich people get to see Beyoncé live”. Which may be good or not, I have not an opinion.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
You mention gmail which is a "mail" service, and whatsapp, which is a "messaging" service. In all of (Western) history, those services have been considered one of the most private, like it or not. So changing that status
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by pfortuny 4y ago
No, the mistake is in the natural interpretation of the title . The title seems to imply "collapse is not a thing", whereas the article is about "these explanations of collapse do not hold".
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Yep: the article seems to say "there is no collapse" (in the title) but then it turns out to say "collapse as explained by these models may not be". Two very different things. I was caught as you by the title.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
It is just because we are used to their shapes. The french horn is not exactly the paradigm of beauty. Or a player blowing into an oboe (it is difficult to imagine that gesture producing such a beautiful noise; does he need to make that fac
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Usually solving a PDE “backwards” is not possible. And that is exactly what those people are claiming to do. IE: from a specific (discrete) distribution of temperatures in, say a length of wire, you cannot infer the distribution some time b
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by pfortuny 4y ago
That is what happens when you play with divergent series… Fun stuff but not easy to explain (if at all).
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by pfortuny 4y ago
You can do random sampling, though. It can give a good estimate. Not saying they are doing it, though. But you certainly can get a good assessment without knowing the total population.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Exactly. Let everybody live without problems is pretty expensive (in the future, that is why politicians do not care about it).
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by pfortuny 4y ago
I guess he is trying to say: use existent gas stations and/or we might be able to capture all the CO2 therein. But I am not gp, obviously.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Have you read Ioaniddis’ reply? It is worth the effort.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Until it is experimentally tested, DM is essentially equivalent to the ether. A useful unexplained tool which to date seems to work. Until another Michelson-Morley experiment comes (and MOND might have something to say, or at least they s
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by pfortuny 4y ago
But 22/7 is unbeatable for relative error in the denominator size (nbr of bits)?
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Yes, of course, I was simply saying that... it should not be too complicated in our era . Thanks.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
We had this with the Spectrum in the 80s. Somehow someone decided it was not a good idea. Wonder why.

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