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MLK was himself referencing Saint Augustine: >Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that "an unjust law is no law at all." Considering that his rhetoric was very muc
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In many cases you are "translating" the higher-dimensional geometry into something that is not geometric or which is much lower dimensional. You don't generally visualize 24 dimensions. You can get a decent intuition for 4 wi
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My advisor used a reMarkable 2 and loved it. I think that there is a range of quality available.
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Although I do agree that the idea of making a dumb ereader that is specifically tailored to the educational environment sounds like a cool hacking project, there's a much simpler approach that basically solves 90% of the problems: j
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This does nothing when the ground is curved the wrong way, which happens often enough. Hills are already dangerous enough and blinding people whenever the second derivative of altitude is negative isn't helping.
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>It’s another thing altogether for a foreign adversary to potentially be able to control a massive communications platform with 170 million American users, nearly all of whom will be completely oblivious to whether the Chinese government
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I think that this is a poor strategy in general if you actually want to "solve" online dating. From the women's perspective, men who are willing to spend money for a dating app are probably not more desirable than average,
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The Soviet Union was first headless in 1975. After Brezhnev's stroke, he was no longer fit to govern. The people in the back room — mostly Yuri Andropov, the head of the KGB — ran the country by favor-trading and bumbled their way into
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>He then rubbed the wood across the paper and created a fire. However, there was no useable match created by Robert Boyle. I found this altogether too brief and immediately ran off to Wikipedia, where I was informed that the Chinese had
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The issue is that the increased temperatures increase evaporation at the same time that they increase precipitation, and in many places, the net effect on water availability is expected to be negative.
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The first comment on the blog is also illuminating: > But I would urge you to take seriously the role of the courts in creating this mess. There are bad lawyers. But the good ones often are warning the agency about real hazards that can
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The problem with spider silk is that it isn't just a chemical. We can make spider silk. There are plenty of papers where the spider silk proteins are produced by bacteria and spun into a fiber. The problem is that this fiber basicall
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As Hamilton and Madison wrote, "If angels were to raise children..."
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>excitation of NAD(P)H at 1100 nm. Better to understand this in context of the general techniques like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-infrared_window_in_biologi...
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>the soda itself was largely replaced with black coffee. As unreliable as Internet medical advice always is, am I to interpret that you're drinking coffee at all hours of the day? Sleep disturbances can lead to all sorts of new prob
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There do appear to be some specific effects of sucrose, although there are no immediately obvious health implications: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00223... (unclear disaccharid
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>Even Georgescu's opponent, Elena Lasconi, condemned the court's ruling as "illegal" and "immoral". This seems like pretty important information as an observer with little knowledge of Romania's inner w
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I'd be concerned that if you make it too safe, people will find another hill to die on. The density of the air on Mount Everest is about 3/8 of that at sea level. So getting enough lift would be difficult. To the sibling commenter
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The price of a kilowatt hour of electricity is not determined by the cheapest power plant operating when you buy it, but by the most expensive. You buy the marginal kilowatt. And solar+wind continues to be a relatively small fraction of t
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Python was obscure and developed in silence for 15 years before it caught on. The team behind it just never gave up. Most people who develop independent languages give up after a year or five. Lua is similar, though it and PHP both caught o
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Japan has converted all of their largest hydroelectric plants to pumped storage, as far as I can tell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_power_stations_in_Japa... Presumably countries with a higher proportion of el
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It's worth contextualizing that the decline of coal in the US has been fuelled (sorry) more than anything by the rapid expansion of hydraulic fracturing for shale gas extraction. The US is now the world's largest natural gas produ
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Most California landowners are hardly poor. We're talking about a state with more than double the GDP per capita of Japan. And the property taxes are in some cases among the cheapest in the world. We're talking about just over a m
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It could possibly be managed by the state by placing a tax on fire insurance which would basically be a workaround to Proposition 13. That would probably be about as popular as a Chinese "weather" balloon but it does have a certai
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In a typical X-ray tube (which is also a cathode-ray tube), electrons (negative) are accelerated from the cathode (also negative) towards the anode (positive). A medical imaging X-ray operates at 150 kV, while a radiotherapy linear accelera
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Before you get too excited: - Global production of corn: 1.2 gigatonnes, source https://ipad.fas.usda.gov/cropexplorer/cropview/commodityVie... - Global production of Portland cement: 4.1 gigatonnes, source https
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Once you've actually exhausted all other options, even a treatment that works probably won't save your life. Breakthrough treatments usually make a bigger difference when the conventional 5-year survival rate is around 20%, not
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>Now that the most common grade at most four-year colleges is an A, the stakes for each individual course are much higher. A single negative outlier takes on outsize weight. To get a stellar GPA, a student doesn’t have to be exceptionall
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The area around Cumberland, mostly to the south towards Moorefield and Petersburg, WV, has a somewhat similar climate to the Tokaj region of Hungary, known for growing rare botrytized wines that sell for a fortune. I found this one day when
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>New defense technology If you want to build machines that kill people, you should at least be willing to say it clearly. If it makes you uncomfortable to talk about, maybe that should tell you something. And it's not a very good ex

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