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by rjf72 8y ago
And better rocket come 'space ship' preparedness. You can only learn so much about things from millions of miles away regardless of your resolution. It's a very serious problem that our space program has severely regressed. I
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Let's consider two scenarios: 1) Somebody starts flipping a coin they claim is fair. You're not sure whether or not that's true. It comes up with 10 heads in a row. 2) Somebody tells you there's a 1 in 10,000 chance of s
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The thing you are not considering here is that in this world of censorship you now need a 'Ministry of Truth.' Let's consider Google and the NYTimes. The NYTimes was one of the loudest cheerleaders for the war in Iraq. They u
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But is this really the case? For decades there were things like the National Enquirer and other such rags sitting by the checkout counter with all sorts of sensationalized, hyperbolic, and often fake articles. Yet people, somehow, understoo
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Many lower income individuals struggle to see their income increase faster than inflation. By contrast when you have immense wealth, it's pretty easy to achieve extremely stable returns on that immense wealth well beyond inflation. In
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American colonization, people often living in makeshift cabins of wood and toiling for subsistence, was happening at the same time that the Renaissance Period was in full swing in mainland Europe! People did not come to America because it w
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"People" didn't go to the moon, the US government went to the moon. And they were primarily driven by the motivation of military development and the growth of soft power. After the landing on the moon there was unprecedented
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Depends on what you see the point of life as. I'd agree it would not be a luxurious life. Luxuries and comforts will be scarce, work will be extensive, and there will almost certainly be extremely high mortality rates relative to Earth
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Perhaps even more than all of these issues was scurvy. It killed absolutely ridiculous numbers of sailors all the way to the 19th century. Funny thing about it too. We now take it for granted that it is caused by a vitamin C deficiency, so
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I also used to feel similarly. But in deciding to research exactly why anti-vax types feel the way they do I was a bit surprised. I still believe there is a social obligation to vaccinate, but claiming the "science is settled" on
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This is an insufficient definition of fake news since Due Diligence is a huge part of real journalism. I could email some news organization claiming to be an insider and offering some 'explosive revelation' about an issue or ano
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"> From a business standpoint, too, if I were Github I probably wouldn’t want things like “C++ Equality” to be associated with my company’s name. " There is a major logical flaw here. When you provide a service without discrim
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I'm not entirely sure you and the parent poster are necessarily disagreeing. Imagine we are watching a 10 man marathon about to start. And you and I see that of the 10 competitors, 3 have a ball and chain strapped to their legs, 5 are
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Machine learning trivializes p-hacking. Take a database of random datums. Pick e.g. 3 input datums at random and map them against one manually chosen output datum. Run the machine learning system and observe the error rate. If it decreases
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Like you mention it'd simply create an equilibrium. People would declare bankruptcy when the discomfort of repaying the loans exceeded the discomfort of declaring bankruptcy. If I lend you an unsecured $10 which you then expend on some
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You have to keep in mind that most people are the 'good guys' from their point of view. And while some actions may be despicable they engage in such actions because they think it will lead to a better world. This can lead to some
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Seems like speed, nerves, and aim would be a whole lot more important than how many bullets you could fire. Check out this [1] clip of the world fast draw championships. The neat thing to do is to go frame by frame. There's just a huge
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I worked out the numbers several years back and it was around 5%. Efficiency improvements since then should have improved this a fair amount. Even if you bump it up by an order of magnitude it's still rather remarkable how easily we co
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Most research on this topic has been done in the field of psychology. There are two problems. The first is a general one with psychology. The replication crisis in psychology started with the discovery that only 36% of studies in reputable
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It doesn't require specific geography. You can create entirely artificial pump systems isolated from any natural water. These are called closed loop systems. You could create an closed loop pumped hydroeletric system in the middle of t
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Wow. I am curious how "specialized" the training was because those sample responses are beyond remarkable. I think we're going to face a lingering question with AI. We're imminently reaching the point where AIs will be a
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I think few people believe things that have absolutely no justifiable basis behind them. Flat earthing, as perhaps some example of that, is in my opinion more about attention seeking behavior mixed with a bit of trolling than something peop
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This seems like a really great litmus test. Documentaries usually tell a story of some event. If people that were on either 'side' of that event are relatively content with their representation then it's going to be a solid d
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This isn't as obvious as you might think. I've had the opportunity to teach kids of a variety of ages. Something I found surprising is that even by primary kids show remarkably different aptitudes. And this is not some aberrant th
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In an ironic coincidence it seems that AP has now removed that article from their site with no notice or explanation. It is still available in Google's cache -- swap to text-only or disable scripts to avoid AP's script from killin
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On the other hand many of Einstein's greatest ideas, discoveries, and publications came while working at a patent office as a low level inspector because in spite of years of effort, he couldn't find any academic position that wou
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Developers are the people who's job is to make a game. Publishers are the people who's job is to sell a game. Developer = programmers, designers, artists, sound guys, ... Publisher = marketing, finance, accounting, advertising, gu
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This is an example of correlation != causation . The French Revolution, commonly cited as an example of this, was not caused by wealth inequality. It was caused by the fact that the French were practically, in some cases literally, starvin
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Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence; this is even more true when appealing to pre historic times when indeed we have very little evidence for much of anything. What we do know is that in the eras since things have become somewha
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There's far more egregious things. For instance in Western Africa there remains massive child slavery. The reason this is relevant, as if it wasn't by itself, is that that slavery is then facilitated in bringing you your tasty cho

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