sword_smith

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   by sword_smith 7y ago

   I agree. Just because you accept some tax breaks should not, in my opinion, mean that you stop being a private organization. If a university's standard is lowered because the rich, not the best are admitted, that will be reflected in t
2. 92.▲
   by sword_smith 7y ago

   I hope you are right.
3. 93.▲
   by sword_smith 7y ago

   I was thinking the same thing. But powerful countries (US, China, Russia, and probably a few other countries) have the capabilities to shoot down satellites. Maybe they will opt for that or at least threaten to do that if Musk allows to muc
4. 94.▲
   by sword_smith 7y ago

   > Would it be too cynical to suggest the only reason they're doing this is because they don't operate in mainland China? Do you think they would write a report like this if they found the US government trying to push a pro-demo
5. 95.▲
   by sword_smith 7y ago

   I only have one year of formal CS education but that paper is one of my favorites on the topic. Naur is also the founder of CS at the University of Copenhagen, the place where I studied :)
6. 96.▲
   by sword_smith 7y ago

   Why do people subscribe to the myth that US infrastructure is bad? I am Danish and was on a road trip from Houston to LA, to Caspar WY, to Denver CO in 2017 and the roads we were driving on were excellent. Better than even the German highwa
7. 97.▲
   by sword_smith 7y ago

   Basic economics is not popular on this site. Unfortunately.
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   by sword_smith 7y ago

   For my masters project in applied nuclear physics in 2013-2014, I was running the Finnish software Sampo 91 (from 1991) for analyzing gamma spectroscopy lines produced in our Germanium detector. I could get it to work on Windows 3.1 with so
9. 99.▲
   by sword_smith 7y ago

   Last I checked about 4 percent of the produced oil went into the production of plastic.
10. 100.▲
    by sword_smith 7y ago

    I have found that exactly this story is the strongest argument against the AGW narrative: Humanity is merely returning the state of the atmosphere back to a earlier state.
11. 101.▲
    by sword_smith 7y ago

    The biggest advantage of using modern SPAs is that it forces the developer to build the backend as an API with which you can interact programmatically
12. 102.▲
    by sword_smith 7y ago

    You are both correct :)
13. 103.▲
    by sword_smith 9y ago

    I have a Master's degree in physics from the University of Copenhagen and I have taught together with one of the leading climate scientists from that university Bo Møllesøe Vinther. He claimed that the best dataset on global average te