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by dannyb 16y ago
While I agree with the general thrust of your comment, the machines used by the TSA are not "focused" in the same way. It would take much greater effort to create hazardous conditions like these patients experienced.
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by dannyb 16y ago
I think that article was essentially a propaganda piece, albeit unintentionally. My guess is that Newsweek puts out blurbs like that in order to reach out to a targeted demographic, in this case women. The whole question of media bias reall
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by dannyb 16y ago
Sometimes life is unfair, but I hold as an article of faith that almost anything can be made better by getting off your butt and working hard. For me personally, there's almost nothing of value in that study. It wouldn't change my approac
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by dannyb 16y ago
I agree and I remember the days of being a grad student and scouring the pages of High Tc Update looking for the next super-material. It seemed like every other quarter there was a hint of room T superconductivity and it was always dashed
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by dannyb 16y ago
It sounds like you're asking asking whether some regions of a sample could be superconducting while others are normal phase. This can occur in heterogeneous materials as in a Josephson's junction. Pretty cool stuff when you look at it. An
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by dannyb 16y ago
I think you're completely misunderstanding the thrust of the article. This ability goes far beyond memorizing knowledge in one specialized area. These people go through hours (up to 8 at a time) of testing about the everyday mundane event
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by dannyb 16y ago
A model of an atom can be likened to a solar system Um, no. Electrons do not have well-defined trajectories. Quantum particles should not in any way be compared to classical macroscopic objects. I love fractals and finding examples of the
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by dannyb 16y ago
I agree with the sentiment of your point, but this does represent "normal mental faculties" in any way. They are clearly extraordinary in this one sense and that alone doesn't allow them to be classified as normal. I watched this spot on 60
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by dannyb 16y ago
Hey Mr. Policeman, if you're not doing anything wrong, then you have nothing to worry about.
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by dannyb 16y ago
Seriously, what would you expect from Obama at this point? All talk and platitudes and no backbone.
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by dannyb 16y ago
My only beef with his interesting post is that he uses graphics of completely understandable stuff like diagonalizing a matrix or the map of the phase space map of the logistic equation and then talks about current developments in math. An
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by dannyb 16y ago
Good. Hopefully this is the beginning of restoration of some common sense in these matters. It would be even nicer if we could get rid of the Patriot Act and the crotch-grabby TSA POSs while we're at it, but I know better than to dream.
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by dannyb 16y ago
so they're not evil?
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by dannyb 16y ago
I guess it didn't affect everyone since I was able to use it on the day in question to make a Ticketmaster purchase on 12/8.
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by dannyb 16y ago
Excellent post. Take responsibility for your own intellectual development and you will do much better than if someone were to show you the exact solution to a problem you're working on. I see this a lot with students in introductory physic
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by dannyb 16y ago
It made for an interesting read, but I think there are too many generalizations in that type of writing. The truth is, we have just experienced and extraordinary explosion in the amount of valuable data and information that it available to
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by dannyb 16y ago
As others have commented here, I find it very telling that maximum publicity was sought when the article was first published, but the lead author seems to dislike the scrutiny brought about by these claims. Due diligence was not done and t
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by dannyb 16y ago
There's a big difference between "saying spectacularly naive things" and publishing in a supposedly respectable journal. Plus, the guy deserves an academic weggie for naming a method after himself...
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by dannyb 16y ago
Yes, we could make reactors much more efficient than they were in the past, but there still will be waste to deal with.
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by dannyb 16y ago
Here's the problem that I see that few people discuss. Why should China and India care? The vast majority of their combined population, about 30% of the world's total, live under miserable circumstances by western standards. Move 100 mil
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by dannyb 16y ago
I agree, I don't think the guy is really in it for altruistic reasons. That being said, the US doesn't look so great in complaining about the consequences of released sensitive information. If it is so important and people's lives depend o
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by dannyb 16y ago
this is exactly what I thought, too I think we all labor under certain types of illusions on a daily basis - i.e. we ignore the dangers of driving because we have the illusion of control. If we thought about all of the permutations and rep
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by dannyb 16y ago
In the US, there is a lot of emphasis placed on "closing achievement gaps" It's easier to slow the smart kids down than make the slow/non-responsive kids perform better. I don't think there is an active conspiracy or anything, just neglect.
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by dannyb 16y ago
As someone who has struggled with some of the same things, I can sympathize. However, I really think you need to toughen up a bit. Not everything that you do will be laden with meaning or will feel terribly fulfilling. It seems like you
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by dannyb 16y ago
Let's see: false dichotomy - check. Overly argumentative - check. Strawman argument - check. Yup, I'm on the internet...
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by dannyb 16y ago
Are you really that literal? My one sentence response contains a comma. The "No" is a response to your query. The rest of the sentence does not in any way contradict what I said before.
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by dannyb 16y ago
No, I think that Assange is a scumbag because he's a hypocrite.
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by dannyb 16y ago
Assange is a real scumbag for risking people's lives. He claims his real purpose is to protect against threats against democracy. Isn't it interesting how he behaves when he gets a little bit of power - autocratic, capricious, and megloma
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by dannyb 16y ago
A scientific theory is a self-contained description of a natural phenomena starting from first principles. My interpretation of a theoretical construct is something which is predicted to exist but has not been observed (or cannot be observ
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by dannyb 16y ago
I think that this is somewhat disingenuous for the reasons noted by others, but also the failure of the writer to acknowledge that colleges and universities have embraced business models and focused on revenue generation in ways that distra

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