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by tntn 8y ago
You might be attributing too much to the actions of this administration. And fwiw, real wage growth doesn't look that great. It has actually been negative for the last few months. I don't think "standing up to dictatorships&q
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by tntn 8y ago
The software fix is probably further automation to disable the system when some other sensor indicates that it is misbehaving - i.e. it is probably a band aid on top of a band aid.
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by tntn 8y ago
How is this different from extra safety features available as option packages for automobiles?
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by tntn 8y ago
"Most"
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by tntn 8y ago
We got a price increase this year on our water bill (on top of drought surcharges from prior years) because the district used less water than expected, so that the district "needed to increase prices to remain profitable." Use les
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by tntn 8y ago
There's some indication that mass shootings are contagious, so there is a possibility that not publicizing them does help prevent it from happening again. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/j
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by tntn 8y ago
Snapchat? (IPO valuation of 33 B) (Not interested in playing the no true technology game, just pointing out that snapchat is the highly valued mobile app that comes to my mind)
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by tntn 8y ago
One final comment from me, then I'll shut up. > overwhelming evidence that there is no afterlife I agree that there is no evidence that there is an afterlife. I do not agree that there is evidence that there is no afterlife. So in r
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by tntn 8y ago
I'm not talking about falsifying it to the people who believe, and probably nothing will change their mind. I'm talking about looking at the claims, determine what evidence would be sufficient to disprove them, and determining whe
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by tntn 8y ago
I mean, sure, if you want to go down the route that nothing is falsifiable because the government is putting hallucinogens in the water so you can't trust anything you perceive, or whatever. But if that is the case, it is impossible to
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by tntn 8y ago
There are no subtle questions about whether or not the earth is flat. Continental drift and geology are very much irrelevant.
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by tntn 8y ago
I think you are confusing how hard it is to convince flat-earthers that the earth is not flat with how ridiculously easy it is to prove the the earth is not flat. I (and the original comment you responded to) are discussing the second o
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by tntn 8y ago
There are distinctions between them. Some of the things you mention make claims that fall into the domain of science (I.e. are falsifiable) and some do not (those regarding spirituality, miracles, etc). That is an important and worthwhile
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by tntn 8y ago
Sounds like you are just talking about things you find really weird rather than things that are easily falsifiable. I'm not convinced that any of the things you are discussing can be disproved more easily than flat earth.
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by tntn 8y ago
> Not even close. (Go read some Scientology literature, or the Book of Mormon.) Color me intrigued. Which statements in the book of Mormon do you believe are significantly more readily deniable than "the earth is flat" in some
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by tntn 8y ago
That's not a declaration.
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by tntn 8y ago
'nestorD was discussing the effects and overheads of "dropping the fixed length constraint" in the comment you replied to.
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by tntn 8y ago
Could you expand on the problems you have in mind with capacitors and motors? What do you mean by needing to find strange surfaces to "make Maxwell's equations work?" Do you mean find strange surfaces to get useful results, o
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by tntn 8y ago
I think geometric algebra is a very cool and elegant approach as well, but it has not yet proved useful or valuable to working engineers. If we want to compare to programming languages, perhaps Haskell vs. C. One is beautiful and elegant, t
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by tntn 8y ago
Interesting article by Wilczek on the subject of aether: http://ctpweb.lns.mit.edu/physics_today/phystoday/Ether.pdf Einstein also gave a talk in the late 20s (?) in which he discussed how spacetime in GR could be
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by tntn 8y ago
Lord? Faraday was no lord. He was also dead by the time Maxwell gave this presentation.
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by tntn 8y ago
I'll second that book recommendation. It's incredible that you can ask a graduating class of EEs if they know of heaviside and only get some mumbling about a step function, given that Heaviside developed the majority of the fundam
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by tntn 8y ago
Even if hardware support existed, it seems like a variable length encoding has some inherent overhead relative to a fixed length encoding. If you have a "base length" of e.g. 32 bits and occasionally expand to 64, there's an
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by tntn 8y ago
Dyson's statement was about Maxwell's theory, not all of E&M and its interactions with every other physical theory. There are no point charges in Maxwell's theory, for example.
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by tntn 8y ago
Quaternions are not a "model of vectors." Maxwell used per coordinate equations and quaternion equations, but never wrote out what are now known as "Maxwell's equations," which were first formulated by heaviside usi
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by tntn 8y ago
This is true of the mathematics, but it's worth noting that Faraday had already proposed EM waves ~30 years earlier based on his intuitive understanding.
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by tntn 8y ago
> The highways are largely unchanged (excluding highway 237, maybe) And excluding ~20 miles of CA-85 built in the late 80s and early 90s.
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by tntn 8y ago
Would you mind giving an overview of their reprehensible business practices for those of us who just buy GPUs without following the companies?
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by tntn 8y ago
I know; see my other comments on the thread. I was responding directly to "Ubuntu may be easier" to indicate that the distro difference is not the cause of the authors problems. They've clearly got a messed up system or insta
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by tntn 8y ago
The author says they chose Manjaro because they couldn't get Ubuntu to work.

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