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by kayaeb 6y ago
I'm not positive that's true. I think the most challenging thing for MOND is that basically no one will touch it unless they already have tenure because it's a death sentence. I saw Pavel Kroupa (big name in Milgromian gravit
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by kayaeb 6y ago
This isn't the case with thorium salt reactors or, if we had enough funding to finally crack it, fusion.
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by kayaeb 6y ago
I'm not sure if "accidents" count as "cooked" statistics... modern nuclear plants are much safer than 20th century ones as well, so if we're updating numbers I think nuclear is still an extremely safe contender
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by kayaeb 6y ago
Not on the scale of "we need to move the bulk of the energy from Texas to New York for 3 hours, then when the sun sets shift state-level power supply routing from the cornbelt to cover the drop." Handling a plant going offline is
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by kayaeb 6y ago
if you look up deaths by energy production method, nuclear is far and away the safest, in every single country by orders of magnitude, even wind is deadlier.
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by kayaeb 6y ago
Is it though? Renewables that are popular now, like solar and wind, are weather dependent, which means the grid needs to handle variable input, which it's not designed to do and would need major fixing. Also means you need to store the
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by kayaeb 6y ago
OCD isn't double-checking your line-spacing in a document, it's being unable to leave the house in under 45 minutes because you check the stove twenty times, then the door lock twenty, then turn around 5 minutes down the street to
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by kayaeb 6y ago
This really rubbed me the wrong way, the closing sentence sums it up: "What if a doctoral program’s prestige arose, in part, from the way that it treated its students? We should dare to dream of such a thing." There is a huge prob
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by kayaeb 6y ago
protip: if your prof is tenured and still first author on more than 2 papers a year, they're siphoning their student's work, or they're setting you up for pipelining positions (which are not horrible, but, be aware that'
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by kayaeb 6y ago
Really depends on your mentor. I've seen some gross abuses where the union was absolutely essential. Also the union hooked up like BBQs and whatever so like, that's nice.
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by kayaeb 6y ago
I disagree a bit about freedom and flexibility in switching faculty, and I disagree strongly about the phrasing of "willing" to work with x faculty on y problem. I don't care how smart a student is, they are in no way prepare
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by kayaeb 7y ago
FAST can also move it's "mirror," the shell has some huge number of triangular sections on wires, so it should be able to point even more than arecibo which has an immutable reflector. Both have adjustable focal points (senso
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by kayaeb 7y ago
FAST is actually having difficulty hiring (on-site specialists like operations director) the smartest minds because it's in a jungle in small-town China. But yes, overall China is executing an excellent "brain drain" (not mea
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by kayaeb 7y ago
Not sure why you're being downvoted. This is correct to an extent, the surface of a mirror needs to be polished to a degree such that abnormalities in the lens are small relative to the wavelength being observed (I think it's the
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by kayaeb 7y ago
Why does this scientific publication read like an op-ed? Absolutist language strikes me as exceptionally unscientific. "it’s time to panic." "We are in deep trouble." "That’s it. Forever." " Forever. Thin
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by kayaeb 7y ago
In NLP (specifically vectorizing words, ala word2vec) there's a famous test of whether or not your training has worked properly whereby you calculate the vector of "king" and subtract the vector of "man" and add the
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by kayaeb 7y ago
There's a good book on this called "Why Nations Fail," [1] they posit that extractive economic policies (corrupted governments) essentially de-incentivize entrepreneurial businesses, while inclusive policies cause them to thr
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by kayaeb 7y ago
Some people claim to have ruled out type III civilizations [1], which I think is what you're referring to. I thought also that some researchers claimed a star had signals consistent with a type II [2]. [1] https://en.wikiped
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by kayaeb 7y ago
Sure, but those "constraints" could be compared to switching from a piece of letter paper to a canvas. The modern "liberations" would be having a box of a million tiny artistic legos which are getting tinier and tinier.
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by kayaeb 7y ago
A paranoid individual might claim that this ink could be tampered with or replaced with washable ink. Can the same argument not be made for requiring voter IDs? youeseh I'm replying to says it's "few numbers" adding up.
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by kayaeb 7y ago
What are better suggestions to prevent voter fraud? We know from history that voting fraud is a thing, in the 1800s it was known that political parties would pay fresh immigrants to vote (like the scene in Upton Sinclaire's "The J
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by kayaeb 7y ago
I said that not having 400$ is a failure of fiscal planning and doesn't indicate that the population is poor. Declining life expectancy is not an indication that the population is poor either. Consider that obesity, which is linked to
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by kayaeb 7y ago
1) It's not great, however it's not Xi's main point, wealth was Deng Xoaping's promise to China, respect is Xi's promise. Xi is actively expending wealth in trade for respect (military, belt and road, space program,
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by kayaeb 7y ago
A chinese person does not age faster. The chinese people are aging faster because they have less youth than is needed to pay for the social support for the generations approaching retirement. In response the 1.5 child policy was dropped
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by kayaeb 7y ago
Living paycheck to payckeck with a new phone every 2 years, a new car lease upgrade every 5, a mortgage on a 3 bedroom house, and eating out 4 times a week, and 1000 TV channels is hardly what someone would consider 'poor.' It&#x2
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by kayaeb 7y ago
I don't care about the graphics, I just want support returned. I quit when they dropped support because ladder just became a maphack infested hot mess
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by kayaeb 7y ago
The hero mechanic is what made WC3 WC3... If you weren't a hero-guy, go with undead, their heros were 50% supplementary and stupidly weak, and you could just focus on your army. Orc was like 90% hero action though, with a single Bladem
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by kayaeb 7y ago
I think tower defense was originally a SC custom map? I might be wrong. It got huge with... WC3s Wintermaul?'s version? I think... I'm disappointed most modern versions are pre-pathed instead of build-a-pathed. Build-a-path adds a
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by kayaeb 7y ago
FFT is one of the greatest games of all time. It has a little community of people making custom mechanics / storylines / etc.: http://ffhacktics.com/
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by kayaeb 7y ago
Not sure why you're being downvoted I disagree on one point specifically though. Reviewers must remain anonymous. What if I harshly review / reject a crap work from the department head of some group at Harvard? then, in anger, I g

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