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by qrendel 11y ago
I'm not familiar with this particular case, but there are people who get completely lost in the Rikers island prison system. This actually almost happened to me, though not at Rikers island: I was arrested under a false accusation of a
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by qrendel 11y ago
> No, that's now how the system works in the US. He has nothing left to run for; he's term limited and leaving the highest office in the country. Outgoing Presidents still work towards the future electability of other members
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by qrendel 11y ago
Usually true, but where I currently live my neighbor has to bring me my mail about once a week - the post office apparently just decides to put several people's mail in his box, rather than walk around the building to the separate apar
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by qrendel 11y ago
I'd hoped it wouldn't need to be stated, but I'm definitely glad they're doing something valuable with the resources. I was just pointing out an alternative reaction to the article. Of course it's far far better t
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by qrendel 11y ago
I have trouble seeing it this way. The money spent running the train could save or improve many other lives instead. It's heartwarming and all, but consider the other people who are being left to die or suffer malnutrition or some othe
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by qrendel 11y ago
I mean to say that I don't think there's a universal standard for when parents are or aren't obligated to pay for their kid's college. Some might have alternatively chosen to invest the money in their children another wa
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by qrendel 11y ago
On the other hand, if you've already set aside the money to pay for their college, why does it matter when they decide to go? You were presumably going to use it for their benefit, so why wouldn't you want it to be used for that s
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by qrendel 11y ago
True, but spending time meditating would inevitably be reducing something else - even if it's just an equivalent of goofing off on HN. If you enjoy meditating, or think there's a sufficiently high chance of benefits from it, you w
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by qrendel 11y ago
It's not really "no harm done" - the opportunity cost of wasting time that could be spent on other activities is a deterrent, for me at least.
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by qrendel 11y ago
OTOH the best students are more likely to be accepted internationally, and you're selecting from 19% of the world's population, so I'd expect the best to be very, very good. At that point it's almost like saying "t
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by qrendel 11y ago
> they might not have been engaging in illegal activities purely for profit. I think the obvious interpretation is that Citigroup was politically connected enough (through lobbyists, personal connections, campaign donations, etc.) to p
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by qrendel 11y ago
It seems this theorem only applies to massive spin 1 particles, though: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/38427/proof-of-y...
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by qrendel 11y ago
So use numerical identifiers, hashes, or PGP keys, in conjunction with a moratorium on outing yourself as the author associated with a certain key before a given length of time has passed, during which the work is vetted.
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by qrendel 11y ago
> integer spin, probably 0, 1 or 2 So really 0 or 1. If it had spin 2 that would make it a graviton, which seems... unlikely, to say the least.
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by qrendel 11y ago
I wouldn't call it "content-free," since it gives arguments for why it can't be a heavier version of the Higgs, describes multiple hypotheses that will be tested, as well as a timeframe for testing them.
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by qrendel 11y ago
One of the amusing parallels regarding Facebook (and similar products) is the way your likes, messages, and notifications, are basically like a little scoreboard, even in about the same location as old arcade games, and emphasized as strong
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by qrendel 11y ago
This is essentially what I was asking - why wouldn't all inertial frames determine the size of length quanta to be the same, but disagree on the number of them between two events in spacetime.
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by qrendel 11y ago
But you seem to be claiming that spacetime is unlikely to be quantized because the Planck length or Planck time, i.e. the quanta of length in spacetime, would be contracted in different reference frames. Therefore Planck units of length&#x2
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by qrendel 11y ago
I'd be curious to know why the Planck length wouldn't be reference frame independent, though... (which may be explained in your links, but it will take some time to go through them).
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by qrendel 11y ago
> If the universe were similarly segmented, then there would be a limit to the amount of information space-time could contain. I thought there is a limit to the amount of information spacetime can contain: the Bekenstein bound[1], and
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by qrendel 11y ago
Most of the educated blame seems to go towards the teacher's unions, which have always been heavily against accountability for teachers, in favor of seniority protections, so that the worst teachers can't be fired. Standardized te
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by qrendel 11y ago
So, not a total expert on this, but I'm pretty sure that 17% is the DoD budget, which is (by some estimates) about half of the actual total military spending. By other estimates maybe more than half - it depends what you consider &quot
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by qrendel 11y ago
Seconded - perhaps not my absolute top favorite but definitely one of the most memorable I've taken.
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by qrendel 11y ago
The odd part is it seems like the guy enjoyed the work enough to maintain it even after he stopped being a police officer. From the article, it seems he actually went out of his way to resign the police force when they were going to move hi
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by qrendel 11y ago
> I hope she takes the government to the cleaners for an extremely large sum of money. Millions of pounds at a minimum. The problem with this kind of punishment is that when we refer to taking "the government's money," w
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by qrendel 11y ago
These types of questions seem to come up a lot, and while I'm not an expert, here are some typical responses, from one of the last dark matter threads (in particular, the two top replies): https://news.ycombinator.com/i
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by qrendel 11y ago
This is essentially the premise of a 1961 Kurt Vonnegut story: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron
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by qrendel 11y ago
Seems a bit of a selection bias, in that no one who had their potential severely and permanently reduced from a young age is likely to be recognized as a genius. So you of course only end up recognizing "genius" in people who over
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by qrendel 11y ago
I realize the statement was ambiguous between "prevent some attacks" or "prevent all attacks." It was an attempt to state one position taken by those actively involved in the debate: multiple terrorist attacks have still
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by qrendel 11y ago
I agree with the general comment about people rushing to politicize events, but it doesn't seem just "loosely relevant" either. Governments claim they need to backdoor software or outlaw encryption to prevent attacks. They&#x

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