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Sure looks like a sidewalk to me.

https://www.google.com/maps/@3...

Maybe it's for design since it doesn't make any sense. If you move around on street view they put up signs telling people not to use it so something like this has probably happened before.

https://www.google.com/maps/@3...

They seem to be doing pretty well with robots despite wages and working conditions we here in America find deplorable.

Yeah, good infrastructure, skilled employees and a lack of (the wrong kind of) corruption is good. But those things are also expensive. You need schools and roads. And with schools and roads comes taxes and (worse) an educated and mobile workforce. If you're gonna pay that much you might as well build in American (or whatever country your selling in) and not pay the tariffs.

The point of the article is that automation is going to hit the developing country (e.g. the ones without the stuff you're citing) hard. This is the thing that always drives me nuts about people. They want all the good stuff (skilled, hard working talent) and they _never_ want to pay for it. I get it. I don't want to pay for nice thing either. But sometimes you either do or you don't get it.

That's from an editorial in Mother Jones about 5 years back which made a big splash on the Internet, but didn't provide much evidence (mainly it just asserted the correlation was strong enough to be irrefutable).

A perusal of recent research on the topic turns up this recent JAMA paper which concluded that after controlling for childhood socioeconomic status, "Findings failed to support a dose-response association between BLL and consequential criminal offending." That would suggest that it's growing up in poverty which leads to future criminal behavior. And indeed if you look at the historical poverty rate, it dropped substantially right around 1970, around the time leaded gasoline began being phased out. And if you compare poverty rate by race, you find that the two races with the highest crime rates (black and hispanic) also have the highest childhood poverty rates.

This study which states "The consequences of lead exposure for later crime are theoretically compelling, but direct evidence from representative, longitudinal samples is sparse," reaches pretty much the same conclusion, but may be more useful as it provides direct links to other Google Scholar papers on the topic.

This isn't to say lead is safe. It's known to depress IQ, and though the link with future criminal behavior is weak, it is more strongly linked to antisocial behavior and delinquency. Just that the "irrefutable" link between leaded gasoline and crime presented in the Mother Jones article may in fact just have been a random correlation, not causation.

It won't until we can literally increase productive output without investing additional human labor per unit. That's not happening in any predicted future, yet people are imagining the same thing people have imagined for hundreds of years with every new piece of technology.

Also: UBI isn't socialism. It's a capitalist solution. It's also somewhat behind: I designed a Universal Dividend back in 2013, and am running for Congress to bring this to fruition. The Dividend is 12.5% in my current model, and it puts a complete and total end to homelessness and hunger--and doesn't itself raise taxes (add universal healthcare, universal education, and some other tax system adjustments and the top tax bracket goes up, but doesn't even reach 45%).

I think Andrew Yang's pitch is "I'm a lunatic and don't understand technology, economics, or history, but let's show people what a Progressive candidate would look like if you found one as damaging to our nation as Donald Trump!" We need to focus on helping those in need, on making our welfare system stronger, and on strengthening labor protections; burning down all progress and imprisoning us in the past (like Trump is trying to do) isn't the answer, and a grand battle against automation is exactly that.

I ride through this intersection on a regular basis. The intersection is fairly well lit with a park on the right side of the intersection. The news article was not specific as to the exact location where the accident happened. The speed limit is 35 mph on Mill Avenue approximately 100 feet South of the Intersection. The news story shows a picture of a sign "BEGIN RIGHT TURN LANE YIELD TO BIKES. The news story shows the remains of a flare on the ground on the Northbound side of Mill Avenue. There is a nice wide sidewalk in the center of the road with a sign with a no crossing symbol and "USE CROSSWALK" with an arrow pointing toward the intersection. There is a lot of Pedestrians in the area, and I can see why someone would cross the street to get to the center area which leads to the bar on the other side of the street.

News story
https://abcnews.go.com/Technol...

Google Map of same location
https://www.google.com/maps/@3...

Dear, the servers are the things in the rack mount, not the ones with the keyboard and monitor attached.

You do know that there are these things called rackmounted monitors and keyboards which allow you to directly access a server on a rack, right? They are designed to be 1U and stow away when not needed. If you don't I would have to wonder when is the last time you actually visited a server room.

Video of the accident scene shows a damaged bicycle on the adjacent sidewalk. Was the victim attempting to cross Mill Avenue on foot outside the crosswalk as suggested or is it possible she was cycling northbound in the cycle lane along Mill Avenue? At the site of the accident, the cycle lane crosses the vehicle right turn lane to continue across the Curry Road intersection. There is a street sign just a hundred feet prior to the beginning of the right turn lane warning drivers to yield to bikes. The victim may have had the right of way. I reserve judgment. Presumably the Uber car was video recording its trip. That video hopefully provides some clarity about what transpired. https://www.abc15.com/news/reg... https://www.google.com/maps/@3...

they have machine guns now. And supply lines so that when your semi-autos run out of bullets theirs don't. Best case scenario you get a military junta and a change of masters.

Violence isn't going to work anymore. If you want freedom you have to take care of your working class _before_ they turn to a militant strong man. So far we are not doing a good job of that. Hopefully next election we turn things around and at least run somebody like this Andrew fellow who appears to belong to the populist left.

on Venezuela while we help the Saudi's bomb Yemen? I get that they're government is sketchy, but we support something like 80% of the world's dictatorships. If we're trying to take the high ground on Democracy that boat has sailed, circumnavigated the globe and returned laden with exotic spice (joke shamelessly stolen from Yatzee of Zero Punctuation fame)

She was hit here:

https://www.google.com/maps/@3...

I know this because I looked at

https://www.reuters.com/articl...

and I know the location intimately. The speed limit here is 40. The road, Mill Avenue, going northbound is two lanes plus it is adding turn lanes to go west and east. There is a bike lane. The road has just gone over a bridge (man-made lake) and under a freeway bridge (202) -- there are no off- or on-ramps at this location. There is a parking lot under the bridge for the concert venue (SW corner: visible in the Reuter's image) plus there's a public park/beach on the north side of the lake.

As

https://tech.slashdot.org/comm...

states, there was no rain.

http://alert.fcd.maricopa.gov/...

I haven't seen the crumpled bicycle photo, but we JUST started a bunch of "share bike" schemes in the Phoenix metro area (well, Phoenix proper has had one for while -- Tempe/Scottsdale ones are more recent): Limebike is the main one, I think (we have some that have "Ono" on them, as well). So if the bike is yellow or yellow/green, it was probably one of those. Tempe is hugely bike friendly for a US city because it is both (a) the site of ASU (b) progressive.

The southbound lanes are 2 wide at this point, so this lady was riding a bike across ~5 lanes of traffic plus a BIG (mostly paved) median. There's a shortcut trail just RIGHT there to go east, so maybe she was aiming for that.

A sad situation for sure. I see the Uber and Waymo vehicles all the time, so there's no lack of miles in and around that area.

So news updates says she was walking her bike across the road.
Looking at photos of the incident in the news, here is about where her bicycle was found, but looking back from where she came from.
https://www.google.com/maps/@3... [google.com]

There is a sign that has the "No pedestrians" symbol and that says "Use Crosswalk".

So news updates says she was walking her bike across the road.
Looking at photos of the incident in the news, here is about where her bicycle was found, but looking back from where she came from.
https://www.google.com/maps/@3...

There is a sign that has the "No pedestrians" symbol and that says "Use Crosswalk".

Here's the intersection. There are no obstructions and appears to be multiple street lights.
A human driver would have seen her in plenty of time if the human was watching the road at all.

https://www.google.com/maps/@3...

Here's a google map of Curry and Mill. Supposedly the vehicle was driving north.
I looked at the weather map and it has not rained there recently. I don't understand why people keep mentioning rain.

https://www.google.com/maps/@3...

It has excellent line of sight visibility, and I believe most human drivers would have seen the pedestrian well in advance and braked to a non-fatal speed. As I understand it, the Uber car uses Lidar and radar, so day/night should not be a concern.

I also wonder what the car did to avoid the collision. Nothing? braked? Waited to the last second to swerve around?

Firefox comes with a basic PDF viewer. So does Google Chrome (and Chromium since third quarter 2014), though Mozilla PDF.js is also available from Chrome Web Store.

Or are Chromium and Firefox also a "bug-fest"?

That can be interpreted 2 ways: more who want to work can, or that more have to work to make ends meet instead of take care of family, etc.

I keep pointing out the second because people try to frame the labor force participation rate as the real unemployment rate. In this context, however, it shows that there are jobs for humans--not just that some percentage of those looking for work are able to work. So all of this tech hasn't been making jobs simply evaporate forever.

our recessions have arguably been getting longer and deeper.

If you graph LNS14000000 back to 1948, that statement is more-questionable.

That's one approach to spreading the wealth, but another is to tax the rich and use it to expand vocational education.

Vocational training is one part of it; but first, the jobs have to be available. You don't necessarily need to tax the rich, either, although we do need a revenue source and that's the likely one for adding a new universal college initiative. For universal healthcare, it's like 1.6%; for a universal dividend, the top tax rate actually falls by 3.6%, which makes room to get universal healthcare, college, and some tax shuffling in before you start raising that top bracket (it ends up at some 43% with everything including funding Social Security retirement and disability benefits exclusively by taxing the highest bracket). The Dividend actually ends poverty.

I generally try to avoid tax increases as best I can--the Dividend is designed to move the income level at which you're paying $0 or less in taxes upwards over time, and to lower costs (and taxes in general) strikingly around that level. Efficiency and fiscal responsibility are important: how do we pay for anything like free college and healthcare when we're already taxing at 100%?

Link doesn't work for me.

Works for me in an incognito window by copying the link on slashdot and pasting it into an incognito window in chrome. This is a work-in-progress that starts outlining the same thing. It looks like it dropped the query, so maybe this one for the whitepaper?.

my point was and is that raw efficiency may be secondary to other human desires/emotions, which could be why T was elected.

It's security. Individual people--and groups of individuals--need security.

Working in Tempe AZ I am familiar with the area of the intersection. This area is not a high volume pedestrian area like South Mill Avenue. I really can't imagine anything more than infrequent pedestrian traffic on a Sunday evening at 10 pm. You go a mile south on Mill Avenue (walk under the 202 Freeway overpass, and then cross over the Tempe Town Lake bridge and yes you will find plenty of pedestrians. But looking at the Google Maps this area is pretty much undeveloped desert park on the east and a theater venue on the west. O.T. Genasis was playing at the theater Sunday night at 7:30 so if I had to guess I would place money on the pedestrian having attended the show (bar in the theater) and may have parked in the park parking lot some distance to the east (free parking versus pay or full parking at the venue). I am just guessing, but this is a plausible informed guess. https://www.google.com/maps/pl...

At least those farmers, and later factory workers, had jobs that could raise a family.

I'm describing labor as a mass-noun. Note that, since 1940, we've spiked up the productivity by more than a dozen times, stopped making a bunch of stuff and instead imported it, and increased our labor force participation rate from 59% to 66%. We keep bottoming out at around 5% unemployment between recessions.

If you benefit 60% by throwing 40% under the bus, the political backlash can be Yuuuuge.

No kidding. The rate of change has to remain slow enough to not nudge unemployment up by about a percentage point at any given time or you get a pretty bad recession. Typically, the rate of change holds us at equilibrium, while faster change bumps us by a tenth of a percent or so. 2010 showed what happens when you lose 5% of your jobs over a year.

You may get a $12 lawn-chair, which is great for YOU, but another person loses a job

That's why we have welfare and other social safety nets. I designed a better one, too. You have to keep people's lifestyle and financial position in order and ensure there's enough effective demand to rebuild the economy around them and get them back into a job. Full employment is 2%-3%, by economists's estimates; driving up effective demand enough to hit a target below that will keep us at a slight labor shortage, and holding an equilibrium with strong social safety nets will keep us at a higher pace (more technological turn-over) with the economic capacity to re-employ these people and avoid the economic fall-out.

T's pie-in-sky claims to resurrect the past

Trump is an idiot. He thinks technical progress is bad, trade is bad, and going back to the Bronze age is good. He basically wants to take all the labor shift to things like CISCO, Netflix, high-speed Internet, satellite communications, and medicine and say, "Hey, guys, stop doing that and go back to making steel and bricks! Let the rest of the world go into the future; America should be one giant FoxConn factory, complete with netting around the roofs!"

It's Trumpese thinking that gets us people pointing at machines and automation and screaming that the jobs are going away and we're all going to be poor.

So basically, someone has a theory that a counter-intuitive result which doesn't match people's experience and implies people getting off a stopped freeway makes traffic worse (but that people can't figure that out over time in a scenario which plays out frequently on their daily commute), but hasn't actually come up with evidence for that theory (at least, not in this article nor paper), but hey, look at the shiny theory!!!

Anecdotal evidence is enough for me to agree that these apps are causing problems. Take a look at 1717 North Sam Houston Pkwy W eastbound. An exit ramp leads to an entrance ramp with no stoplights in between. Waze routinely directs me to exit the highway and then get back on. There is not that much traffic on the feeder road coming from TC Jester / Veterans Memorial Dr. Traffic backs up on the highway due to all the cars merging back on. The shortcut itself causes a traffic jam.

Just identify something that shit academics like. Like "S.C.U.M. Manifesto".
Find papers that cite it.
Find papers that cite those.

https://www.google.com/search?...
Now are these scientific studies? Not most of them at least, but you will see these opinion pieces presented as if their opinion is a mathematical proof.
It's strange the number of people demanding proof of this phenomenon but it's not hard to find, argue with an SJW on tumblr they'll show you all the papers and studies you want.

Let's take a step back and get on topic. Clearly YouTube for kids is just a google marketing scam, this is all they care about https://support.google.com/you.... So Google you pack of privacy invasive democracy hacks, who vets you ads to make sure they are kid safe and not harmful, or is it just higher bidder to target a captured audience. I also note zero mention of whether they monitor you children's activity and push specifically targeted manipulative ads at them. Why would anyone trust a for profit known corporate manipulator with this.

and how gun culture pertains to it. But we've got laws against that here in the States.

Including a low-resolution image directly in the HTML using a data: URI has two purposes.

This is the same retard who thinks:

https://plus.google.com/+Laure...

        "For the record, I don't run any ad blockers. Basically, I consider them unethical"

The right to not be subject to unsolicited advertising arises under the 9th Amendment, as a right retained by the people, and the 10th Amendment, as a right reserved to the people. While Congress is limited by the 1st Amendment, the Bill of Rights is a higher legal authority and does have the authority to limit advertising, even that delivered through speech or the press.

Hence, he has things exactly backwards: it's not only ethical to use ad-blockers, it is protection of a right that is routinely being violated by businesses in this day and age. It's the businesses that are being unethical - and the lawyers, and the government, in allowing the Bill of Rights to be violated on a routine basis. Every time I get an unsolicited email offer, or I get junk mail from businesses and have to spend time and money to throw it out, my rights are being violated. It's no different from people leaving their garbage in front of my door because they're too lazy to throw it out themselves. Sociopaths.

If a specific citizen wants to receive advertising from a specific business or class of business, they can sign up for it. All marketing should be opt-in - and opting out should be easy.

Further, the type of advertising to be received must be governed by an opt-in provision. If one does not wish to receive loud audio advertising that can cause permanent hearing damage, one should not have to do so by opting out of advertising with an audible component. The advertisers have no way of knowing what sound level the audience is using - people who are already hard of hearing will probably have the volume up and thus will be vulnerable to sound levels that might not cause harm to others.

This should have been addressed long ago - and would have been addressed by any sort of ethical and competent government. The US legal profession has taken the massively unethical position that their time is valuable - and thus they can charge others for it - but the time of others is not valuable - and thus people can not charge others for sending unsolicited advertising to them in violation of their rights.

If websites wish to be paid on advertisements, to be compliant with the Bill of Rights they must give people the option to opt-in to advertising from specific vendors, or a specific class of vendors - and until they implement that, they're breaking the law.

all over the place. DACA _is_ amnesty.

You'd support Sanders & the Democrats (NOT the DNC, there's a difference) because unless you're independently wealthy you're a member of the working class and he (and his ilk) are the only ones who genuinely have your interests at heart. If you think you're some kind of mover and shaker who's going to make it in the world, well, you're shit-posting in response to a borderline libtard troll. That ship sailed my friend. Like it or not you're one of us, and Trump & co are going to fuck you royally.

Unless you're one of those Russians I keep hearing about. If so, carry on then.

This is the same retard who thinks:

https://plus.google.com/+Laure...

"For the record, I don't run any ad blockers. Basically, I consider them unethical"

/sarcasm Apparently going to the bathroom during an ad is unethical.

And now he thinks censorship will work?

Only cowards censor.

Why?

Ignoring a problem doesn't make it go away.

ONLY by having a rational discussion, where people are FORCED to confront their biases will they ever learn to see the pros/cons of BOTH sides.

Apple's attention to detail was so good that they figured out the non-linear intensity needed to simulate breathing for their sleep lights.

https://patents.google.com/pat...

Now they can't even get a fucking animation to work properly.

Wait, what? He's married to his daughter?

From everything I've seen about them and their relationship, yes. Robert Mercer is "married" to Rebekah. I think it's one of the reasons Donald Trump was drawn to the Mercers. He understands the "special bond" between an ostensibly wealthy man and his daughter.

https://www.google.com/search?...

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Wow, congrats, you've achieved /. inception. I never questioned the validity or usefulness of the study (you calling that into question is the straw man you've set up). I questioned why to public at large is spending time discussing an issue already settled in the public discourse. Do all the studies you want on video game violence. Go nuts. But how about lifting the ban on gun violence studies? Or even talking about it. No?

Also you're sig is dumb. Given immortality those millions could find what to do on a rainy Sunday afternoon. I know it's a silly thing to get annoyed by but it's so profoundly ignorant it just bugs me. Take it off. How about a nice quote from Stephen Colbert

nixtamalization

Agree with all you said but I think your corn reaction could be a lifetime worth of systemic damage caused by eating plain, non-GMO corn. Unlike us, the original Americans knew corn is harmful without processing. Please google https://www.google.com/search?...

...this airtight hatchway."

"Yes, all the flaws require admin [privileges] but all are flaws, not expected functionality."

Relevant: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ablogs.msdn.com%2Fb%2Foldnewthing%2F+%22airtight+hatchway%22

If there is no privilege escalation, they are not security flaws, just boring ol' bugs.

But Wait! I just disproved that in 30 seconds of googling:

about 230 million years Yes, the Sun - in fact, our whole solar system - orbits around the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. We are moving at an average velocity of 828,000 km/hr. But even at that high rate, it still takes us about 230 million years to make one complete orbit around the Milky Way! The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy.

WTF?

You're funny, we're not talking about me and my Chrome browser that dropped rss support years ago, but the world:

https://trends.google.com/tren...

Yes, and this is an unfair competitive practice. Amazon takes a loss in many of their market sectors, and has more than 100% of its profits in its AWS platform (AWS produces 100% of Amazon's profit plus enough additional net revenue to offset the loss in other departments). No competitor can enter or remain in this market for the long term unless they also have a highly-profitable business to absorb the loss of their other holdings.

It is the right of every businessman, large and small, to trade in an atmosphere of freedom from unfair competition and domination by monopolies at home or abroad, and to share with workers the freedom from unfair labor practices and the right to organize and negotiate on fair grounds for fair terms of employment. This state of affairs worries me.

The private equity consortium that bought Toys R Us in 2007 and loaded it with 7.5 large in debt. When I think of it, I can only think of the Dr. Cox quote from Scrubs: "Do you know what they are mostly? Bastards. Bastard coated bastards with bastard filling."

And they laughed all the way to the bank.

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Hosts specifics don't + DNS's LOADED w/ security issues https://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=9007355&threshold=-1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&pid=51969075/

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Publishers have liabilities. 3rd parties abuse 'em in open bid ad malware + trackers! DNS wildcards can create false positives

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Anyone who has played Ubisucks games knows they don't even fix their bugs -- I'll be surprised if this will be any different.

Google for "rb6 las vegas 2 sound bug" and you get tons of complaints.

Why would I trust them _this_ time??

I can find the Apple adapters for $17 (or even more) on Amazon, as well. Google sells one for $9, just like Apple. Amazon also sells 2-pack for $11, one with charging capabilities for $9, and a slew of others that start out pretty cheap.

Google also lets other manufacturers make Android phones, some of which have headphone jacks built right in (what a novel idea), so I have the option of foregoing the dongle, if I don't want to deal with it. If I want a current-model phone running iOS, I don't have that option.

I'm glad I prefer Android on my phone, and I hope Apple keeps the headphone jack on the iPad.

I keep hearing that Apple did away with the headphone jack to make the phone thinner but that really doesn't hold water when the 6.1mm thick iPad has a jack and the 7.3mm thick iPhone does not.

Re: "You need to make testable predictions that differ from the current model."

There are many examples of observations at the level of planetary --> intergalactic scales which are expected in an electrical cosmology, but not in a gravitational one (and realize that it is acknowledged that gravity dominates at the smaller scales). To give a few examples ...

1. The failure of the solar wind to appreciably decelerate even as it passes the Earth's orbit. In the laboratory, we accelerate charged particles with an electric field. Basic physics is suggestive of the idea that the Sun is the center of an electric field, and it extends outwards to the heliopause.

2. The fact that galactic rotation curves are easily produced by modeling the cosmic plasma as laboratory plasma. The reason it is so is because the spiral arms trace out electric currents. Very simple physics compared to the dark matter conjecture. In fact, Winston Bostick produced spiral galaxy forms in the plasma laboratory many, many years ago, and Anthony Peratt created his supercomputer simulations as a reaction to that former experimental work.

3. The CMB itself can be argued to be evidence for electric currents in space, because

"High-power microwave generation on earth belongs exclusively to devices using relativistic electron beams ... A relativistic electron beam that does not produce microwave radiation is unknown. These same basic mechanisms are likely to have their natural analogs in cosmic plasmas."

As for the unexpected bell-curve shape of this signal, it could very well result from the signal passing through the heliopause, but even if that proves to be problematic, it's not at all scientific to rush to judge that this is evidence for a creation event.

4. The layering of the ionosphere is evidence that the Earth has a net charge to it. Why? Because we can do the experiment in the laboratory: Set up a metal sphere in a vacuum, and pump it full of charge until the charge density becomes very high. What happens? Layering of charge. These are actually called double layers in the plasma laboratory, and they are recognized as electrodynamic phenomena (which is likely why astrophysicists have so far refused to catalog double layers as astrophysical entities, even though they've been observed in the Van Allen radiation belts).

5. The Earth is observed to electrically interact with the Sun every 8 minutes. You didn't recognize this as an electric current because the scientists called it either a "magnetic portal" or a "flux transfer event", but it is obvious that the magnetic field is caused by an electric current. What we've yet to see any acknowledgement of from mainstream scientists is that these discharges every 8 minutes might be acting as a feedback which stabilizes our solar system.

6. The Cassini spacecraft was struck in 2005 by an electric current from Hyperion, even though it was a full 1,200 miles away from the small object.

during a 2005 flyby of Saturn's moon Hyperion, the spacecraft was briefly bathed in a beam of electrons coming from the moon's electrostatically charged surface

The scientists referred to it as an "electrostatic shock", but this was an obvious violation of Debye screening, which should have limited the electrostatic discharges in this region to 10 meters. Incidentally, the researchers sat on the news of this event for a full 9 years before reporting it to the public.

In each case, we see something happening which is expected for electricity in space, but u

"Where you see tape, I see walls...

-- Les Nessmen

Pretty sure your contractor could toss up a row of these for considerably less that $4K a pop...

If we are going to be putting these images on deep space probes, that might be found by aliens, we need to ensure that the images do not portray us as being "tasty".

Otherwise, the aliens might visit us with Soylent Green intentions.

We need to dress up the images of humans with huge pointy teeth, porcupine spikes, eagle claws and a nasty Stegosaurus tail.

Or, just plain giant armadillo pictures might work:

https://www.google.com/search?...

https://www.google.com/search?...

Yeah, no need to ever study ongoing controversies of science. Everything is "fine", like here:

https://www.theverge.com/2016/...

Actually, a survey of 270 academics reveals that the information engine at the heart of science is broken, see:

https://plus.google.com/+Chris...

When your car's engine breaks down, you pull off to the side of the road and fix it. Why does the academic community assume that they can steer the machine to truth when the flows of scientific information are governed by "perverse incentives"?

Re: "So when is the electrical universe gonna blow a hole in what we already understand? Where does it actually do a better job? Where are the mathematical models?"

If you had done the hard work of studying the diverse complexities underlying this foundational controversy—a time-consuming study that is apparent that neither you nor almost everyone else commenting here have done yet—then you would have answers to such questions. Much more importantly, you would be asking better questions.

Science should be about the culture of skepticism. This is the definition of 'skeptic' that I find most useful: "Skeptic - One who practices the method of suspended judgment, engages in rational and dispassionate reasoning as exemplified by the scientific method, shows willingness to consider alternative explanations without prejudice based on prior beliefs, and who seeks out evidence and carefully scrutinizes its validity." —Bernard Haisch, astrophysicist

The scientific habit of suspending judgement seems to be very very hard to most people, but it really isn't.

If you were to suspend judgement and study the ongoing controversies of science, then you would start acknowledging the dangers of specialization.

See: https://plus.google.com/+Chris...

"People become engrossed in figuring out the next decimal place, and they lose sight of why they adopted the theory in the first place. They become too busy to revisit first assumptions. They take those assumptions for granted. The assumptions become unconscious and then they're surprised when reality throws data at them that isn't covered by the assumption."

"They have a certainty that comes from ignoring questions. They have the one true faith that comes from tunnel vision (specialization provides an extremely narrow field of view). This is a job description for technicians, but not for scientists."

"Science ... is first of all about the questions. We need the answers in order to do things, but we need the questions more in order to do new things."

Android users don't appear to be switching to the iPhone like they used to.

No Android user I know EVER switched to iOS. Why would you ?

No iOS user I know EVER switched to Android.

Why would you?

https://play.google.com/store/...

Installs 10,000,000 - 50,000,000

I bet the number of people who installed that to actually switch is higher than the 51,373 who downloaded it for the sole reason of giving it a 1 Star review