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by blix 4mo ago
Patronage programs for people with advanced degrees is a woefully inadequate solution to the current economic pressures. Large segments of the first-world working and middle classes hollowed out by globalization had already turned against i
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by blix 5mo ago
the denouncing of heresy may be even more important.
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by blix 5mo ago
You don't want the people to be uneducated, because you have no control over their thought processes, which could be dangerous an unpredictable. And it leaves space for someone else to educate them in way that conflicts with your inter
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by blix 5mo ago
The effort significantly predates the recent changes in US media ownership. I would actually argue that the ownership change is mostly orthogonal to the ongoing trend of centralization and top-down manipulation of digital information source
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by blix 5mo ago
I'm not gonna argue whether it is true or false, but the scale of the conspiracy you are proposing is pretty massive. Multiple orders of magnitude bigger than anything that is currently within the mainstream public consciousness. In th
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by blix 5mo ago
It is not jist Bibi, but also the IAEA and other international organizations. And at least the last 5 US administrations. I suppose they could also all be in Israel's pocket though. Iran's 60% enriched uranium stockpile is really
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by blix 5mo ago
I am not convinced that a population that just recently had 30k people die in a revolt is gonna immediately rally around their oppressors after a foreign power kills 2k. I have yet to see compelling evidence that formerly IGRC-hostile segme
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by blix 5mo ago
Destroying the gulf states would dramatically reduce the importance of the Strait, which would make mining it or otherwise shutting it down somewhat pointless anyway. It is a bit of mutually assured destruction, but the USA is probably in t
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by blix 5mo ago
What action can Iran take today that they couldn't take a year ago? No one who has been paying attention should be surprised that Iran can shut down the straight. It has been a known factor for decades. They have less leverage. The hav
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by blix 5mo ago
All policy aimed at preventing nuclear Iran has one goal: buy time. I think it is hard to argue that time has not been bought (though how much and whether the price was right is another question). The only semi-stable long term option is a
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by blix 6mo ago
The Pax Americana was already over when Russia siezed Crimea.
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by blix 1y ago
I inspect and modify my own weights literally all the time. I just do it on a more abstract level than individual neurons. I call this process "learning"
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by blix 1y ago
I did some cursory research and that seems to be a common estimate for modern osmosis-based desalination energy costs. If you have a better estimate, feel free to supply it.
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by blix 1y ago
Fukuoka's desalination plant treats about 16400 m^3 of water per day. Assuming 3kWh per m^3 of water, this works out to a time-averaged power consuption of ~2000kW. The osmotic power plant generates about 100kW, so it's about 5% o
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by blix 1y ago
Applied physics. I'd prefer not to get too specific. Most of my peers are working for the US DoD or DoE now.
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by blix 1y ago
I wish this comment was more representative of my personal experience in science. Instead I got PIs happy to say that weak evidence "proved" their theory and to try suppress evidence that negatively impacted "fundablity"
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by blix 1y ago
The technology enables the policy. If the cost and risk were higher, there would be fewer strikes.
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by blix 1y ago
The issue is not really with the difference in impact between drone attacks and other types of aerial attacks, but with the dramatic increase in scale, resulting from reduced cost and risk. It probably would have been more accurate to say s
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by blix 1y ago
"Shocking" carries a meaning of a being sudden, surprising, or startling. It's this aspect that is being challenged, not the emotional reaction.
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by blix 1y ago
Obama also created ICE as we know it today. And normalized drone strikes.
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by blix 1y ago
Using something similar to a benzene ring with spokes sticking out of it is absolutely a reasonable choice for depicting sodium hexametaphosphate in a schematic. This is actually a pretty common choice in scientific literature regarding thi
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by blix 2y ago
experienced players who know their teammates well can reliably get 3-4s. if you only go for safe 2s against these opponents you will lose every time.
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by blix 2y ago
I've seen almost no one outside during the day all summer lol. Phoenix this summer has the deadest daytime sidewalks of any place I've ever lived.
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by blix 2y ago
My doctor told me after an intestinal surgery that I would never be able to eat vegetables again.
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by blix 2y ago
Do you really think the engineers building a robot to go into Fukishima have never once looked at the first handful of google results for "radiation hardened camera"?
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by blix 3y ago
I believe GP is a riff on the common joke among physicists: "Anyone who claims to understand quantum mechanics is either lying or crazy." To be more specific in the case of magenetism, you can say that, for example, ferromagnetism
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by blix 3y ago
Other than the typo in the equation, the Voronoi snippet is pretty straightforward and easily understandable. It's probably the blog post author who doesn't understand this subject.
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by blix 3y ago
I'm just trying to answer your question, but I don't think you're exactly clear on what you want to know. It's ok, no need to get defensive about it. Whether or not 'one end of the wire gets heavier' depends on
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by blix 3y ago
In order to get a sustained current, you need to put electrons in one end and take them out from the other in equal numbers. Thus mass doesn't change. However, if you're talking about static electricty, you can actually create a m
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by blix 3y ago
One of Maxwell's other equations links the E-field to charge density. You can't talk about the time derivative of the E-field without also talking about the time derivative of charge density. It's true that interactions betwe

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