Did anyone see the example test questions in the office 365 demo screenshot? Are physics tests really like that now? If this is representative of how low academic standards are... we're screwed. Every single answer (except the 1st I guess) is completely wrong yet 5/6? Are you joking?
Why is GP a moron? It's not a moronic statement. Do you know anything about annual solar irradiance of northern and southern lattitudes? It is very weak for a large fraction of the year. This is a legitimate concern.
Yes, society is decending into madness. Science has been on the chopping block for a long while. It's too inconvenient with all that "falsifiability" and "evidence." The new world demands sound bytes and headlines that imply things without saying anything definitive so that readers' biases can take over and fill in the rest. Anything nuanced or complicated is useless since nobody reads anything but headlines anyway.
If ones' identity is not founded in any verifiable information (what you do, your physical body, your behaviors etc) then identity is completely arbitrary ("a social construct"). If identity is a social construct, maybe morality is also a social construct. It seems to follow logically from this (grossly incorrect) train of thought and doesn't take much imagination to see how terribly the results would be of a society founded without any constant moral foundation. If morality is a social construct, then nothing is really right or wrong from an objective viewer and must be interpreted individually by every person. Going from there, maybe facts are social constructs too [we are here now, thanks Facebook].
Read some of the questions posed by the community which the self-proclaimed "pro-science" community has dubbed "anti-science." They want to know to what extent climate change is influenced by man's activities and to what extent it is a natural phenomenon. Is it 90/10? 50/50? We don't know the answer. They want to know what, short of abandoning society, we can do to keep earth safe and hospitable. What would be the measurable effects of our mitigating activities, what would be the cost, etc. They want to know what we can expect in terms of weather change and when such changes will be quantifiable. I've actually seen some lively discussion on this last point, and scientists in this community agree we don't have a statistically significant data set re: extreme weather and have no basis for proving/disproving AGW/extreme weather hypotheses at this time. I guess they're "science deniers," right???:D They should quit asking questions so we can "get some work done" right???
Science is disprovable. No scientific hypothesis can ever be proven "true." They can only be proven false, and thus replaced with a new hypothesis which will also eventually also be replaced when flaws are discovered. This is the principle of disprovability, and it is the foundation of scientific inquiry. People who push "settled science" are misinformed about what science actually is. When you accept a theory as truth, you're libel to misinterpret or assign different weight to data which confirms or conflicts with the theory, this is why belief taints scientific inquiry. Karl Popper wrote extensively about this.
With all that money coming home to roost due to tax "reform," won't the burgeoning money supply lead to rapid inflation? Or is there something I'm overlooking?
350 billion over 5 years is a drop in the bucket. GDP is ~18T/y. 350B/5y=70B/y. 70/18,000 = 0.389%. Is this enough to move the needle? Probably not in any significant or detectable way by itself.
20,000 jobs is pretty skinny for 350 billion "contributed" to the economy.
Even if all 20,000 of those people are paid $100,000/year, their pay would be only 2 of the 350 billion, or just over half of 1%.
A lot of money will be going somewhere, but probably not to workers.
In other words, worker salaries are a small part of the investment. Who'd have thought a semiconductor company has expenses other than salaries? Also, you forgot "over the next 5 years" in your maths.
I talk to my computer at work all the time, but less thank you's and more "come on!" and "are you kidding me??"
Point is, people tend to personify inanimate objects. It's part of how we interpret and interact with our surroundings.
Yep. Can't believe I had to scroll so far to find this answer. Same with all colleges, they're slowly transforming from institutions of learning to high-priced daycare for anyone capable of signing the loan application. More loans, cost goes up. Up up up goes the cost spiral. Down down down goes the education quality.
Potassium hydroxide texturing is standard for silicon solar, nothing new. Reflection at the semiconductor level is already 2%, so there is no possible way that better anti-reflection coating alone would improve efficiency by "15-20%" as the physicist in this article seems to think.
Are you playing ignorant or do you really not know what a think tank is? Whatever, I'll play along... think tanks are organizations which aim to lobby the government in and influence public opinion, or at least manufacture consent/approval by giving something in exchange for favorable news coverage.
Snarkiness aside, this is not capitalism nor is it free market. This (now commonplace activity) is conspiracy of a powerful corporation to influence the government in order to tilt the playing ground in their favor against consumers and against their competition. It's tantamount to bribery and the politicians and CEOs behind it ought to be placed before a court of law. We haven't had a free market for as long as I've been alive, and probably well before that.
Not sure where you're getting your info, but you'd better read some more before posting on glasses/crystals. Metal with a lot of grain boundaries is not glass-like at all, it's polycrystalline. Glasses are amorphous, they have no long-range crystalline order and therefore no grain boundaries. Also metallic glass is a real thing and compared to normal metals it is more resistant to corrosion, resistant to wear, and very tough. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
What is this like the single-malt scotch or something? Are they trying to tell us each one of these cows is better experienced on it's own? Does mixing cow meat with other cow meat make it taste worse? If you ever thought to yourself while at the store "gee ground beef is alright, but I wish that it was made in a less efficient manner" this is just for you. Next up: single-strawberry jam and single-tree applesauce. Nice job, Amazon's marketing department. You've made us all a little dumber.
We've known all of this for years. Here's a talk by Nathan Lewis from 2010, skip to the 11min mark if you want to see the 100x100mi solar square. In fact, you'd probably need less today since panel efficiency has gone up a bit. Everything Musk talks about is old, yet apparently when Musk says is, everything old is new again! Take for example solar shingles, sold by DOW in 2011 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_shingle).
Why the hell is he talking about square miles of batteries? Has he lost his mind? A given capacity of energy storage is typically noted in Joules or Watt*hours, not square miles. Use normal units please. Not just Musk. Please everyone, use normal units. I've had it with the "10 elephants of pressure" or "10 libraries of congress of storage capacity" or "5 football fields of length" etc. Please use normal units everyone.
You're an idiot. 250,000 is in the same ballpark as 100-200 million in the same manner that $1 is about the same as $1000. In other words, you're an idiot.
It's well known that hops were added to beer by the church in 1516 through the "beer purity act" in order to quell it's people, counter-act the beers used in pagan rituals, and to extract taxes. Hops contains large amounts of estradiol, which converts in estrogen in the body and causes men to become fat, lazy, less virile, and less energetic. The church first noticed this when they found that girls working the hops began menstruating very early and men had decreased sexual desire. Before the beer purity act, beer contained a large variety of herbs and roots which were used to prevent spoilage in place of hops. Beers of the pre-hops period (now called "gruits") are more refreshing and less sleep-inducing than the hops-containing beers. So if you want to make a beer that isn't destructive to the body, get rid of the hops. It's that easy. http://brewgruit.blogspot.com/...
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Did anyone see the example test questions in the office 365 demo screenshot? Are physics tests really like that now? If this is representative of how low academic standards are... we're screwed. Every single answer (except the 1st I guess) is completely wrong yet 5/6? Are you joking?
Facebook did not "invent" a unit of time. They defined a non-standard unit of time based on the already existent S.I. system.
Who is the enemy? Is it the people who vote for the wrong candidates? (i.e. the people who disagree with me)
"The enemy" is whoever the media says it is.
Totally a moot point, human life is already extinct due to the tax plan and net neutrality.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c1/Insolation.gif
1. Users read news on network A
2. Users use information they read on network A to decide which network is "trustworthy" (network A of course)
3. Network A becomes "trustworthy"
What could possibly go wrong?
Yes, society is decending into madness. Science has been on the chopping block for a long while. It's too inconvenient with all that "falsifiability" and "evidence." The new world demands sound bytes and headlines that imply things without saying anything definitive so that readers' biases can take over and fill in the rest. Anything nuanced or complicated is useless since nobody reads anything but headlines anyway.
If ones' identity is not founded in any verifiable information (what you do, your physical body, your behaviors etc) then identity is completely arbitrary ("a social construct"). If identity is a social construct, maybe morality is also a social construct. It seems to follow logically from this (grossly incorrect) train of thought and doesn't take much imagination to see how terribly the results would be of a society founded without any constant moral foundation. If morality is a social construct, then nothing is really right or wrong from an objective viewer and must be interpreted individually by every person. Going from there, maybe facts are social constructs too [we are here now, thanks Facebook].
Read some of the questions posed by the community which the self-proclaimed "pro-science" community has dubbed "anti-science." They want to know to what extent climate change is influenced by man's activities and to what extent it is a natural phenomenon. Is it 90/10? 50/50? We don't know the answer. They want to know what, short of abandoning society, we can do to keep earth safe and hospitable. What would be the measurable effects of our mitigating activities, what would be the cost, etc. They want to know what we can expect in terms of weather change and when such changes will be quantifiable. I've actually seen some lively discussion on this last point, and scientists in this community agree we don't have a statistically significant data set re: extreme weather and have no basis for proving/disproving AGW/extreme weather hypotheses at this time. I guess they're "science deniers," right??? :D They should quit asking questions so we can "get some work done" right???
Science is disprovable. No scientific hypothesis can ever be proven "true." They can only be proven false, and thus replaced with a new hypothesis which will also eventually also be replaced when flaws are discovered. This is the principle of disprovability, and it is the foundation of scientific inquiry. People who push "settled science" are misinformed about what science actually is. When you accept a theory as truth, you're libel to misinterpret or assign different weight to data which confirms or conflicts with the theory, this is why belief taints scientific inquiry. Karl Popper wrote extensively about this.
bitcoin goes up
slashdot: bitcoin is a bubble this proves it!
bitcoin goes down
slashdot: the bubble popped, this proves it!
bitcoin goes up after going down
slashdot: bitcoin is too volatile, must be worthless!
Things are going more and more the way of "Brave New World" and less and less the way of "1984."
With all that money coming home to roost due to tax "reform," won't the burgeoning money supply lead to rapid inflation? Or is there something I'm overlooking?
350 billion over 5 years is a drop in the bucket. GDP is ~18T/y. 350B/5y=70B/y. 70/18,000 = 0.389%. Is this enough to move the needle? Probably not in any significant or detectable way by itself.
20,000 jobs is pretty skinny for 350 billion "contributed" to the economy.
Even if all 20,000 of those people are paid $100,000/year, their pay would be only 2 of the 350 billion, or just over half of 1%.
A lot of money will be going somewhere, but probably not to workers.
In other words, worker salaries are a small part of the investment. Who'd have thought a semiconductor company has expenses other than salaries? Also, you forgot "over the next 5 years" in your maths.
I talk to my computer at work all the time, but less thank you's and more "come on!" and "are you kidding me??" Point is, people tend to personify inanimate objects. It's part of how we interpret and interact with our surroundings.
Yep. Can't believe I had to scroll so far to find this answer. Same with all colleges, they're slowly transforming from institutions of learning to high-priced daycare for anyone capable of signing the loan application. More loans, cost goes up. Up up up goes the cost spiral. Down down down goes the education quality.
Potassium hydroxide texturing is standard for silicon solar, nothing new. Reflection at the semiconductor level is already 2%, so there is no possible way that better anti-reflection coating alone would improve efficiency by "15-20%" as the physicist in this article seems to think.
Are you playing ignorant or do you really not know what a think tank is? Whatever, I'll play along... think tanks are organizations which aim to lobby the government in and influence public opinion, or at least manufacture consent/approval by giving something in exchange for favorable news coverage.
Snarkiness aside, this is not capitalism nor is it free market. This (now commonplace activity) is conspiracy of a powerful corporation to influence the government in order to tilt the playing ground in their favor against consumers and against their competition. It's tantamount to bribery and the politicians and CEOs behind it ought to be placed before a court of law. We haven't had a free market for as long as I've been alive, and probably well before that.
...but facebook *does* work for the state via PRISM.
Not sure where you're getting your info, but you'd better read some more before posting on glasses/crystals. Metal with a lot of grain boundaries is not glass-like at all, it's polycrystalline. Glasses are amorphous, they have no long-range crystalline order and therefore no grain boundaries. Also metallic glass is a real thing and compared to normal metals it is more resistant to corrosion, resistant to wear, and very tough. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
What is this like the single-malt scotch or something? Are they trying to tell us each one of these cows is better experienced on it's own? Does mixing cow meat with other cow meat make it taste worse? If you ever thought to yourself while at the store "gee ground beef is alright, but I wish that it was made in a less efficient manner" this is just for you. Next up: single-strawberry jam and single-tree applesauce. Nice job, Amazon's marketing department. You've made us all a little dumber.
We've known all of this for years. Here's a talk by Nathan Lewis from 2010, skip to the 11min mark if you want to see the 100x100mi solar square. In fact, you'd probably need less today since panel efficiency has gone up a bit. Everything Musk talks about is old, yet apparently when Musk says is, everything old is new again! Take for example solar shingles, sold by DOW in 2011 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_shingle).
Why the hell is he talking about square miles of batteries? Has he lost his mind? A given capacity of energy storage is typically noted in Joules or Watt*hours, not square miles. Use normal units please. Not just Musk. Please everyone, use normal units. I've had it with the "10 elephants of pressure" or "10 libraries of congress of storage capacity" or "5 football fields of length" etc. Please use normal units everyone.
>100-200 million people dying per year
>250,000 people with vitamin A deficiency
>right ball park
You're an idiot. 250,000 is in the same ballpark as 100-200 million in the same manner that $1 is about the same as $1000. In other words, you're an idiot.
It's well known that hops were added to beer by the church in 1516 through the "beer purity act" in order to quell it's people, counter-act the beers used in pagan rituals, and to extract taxes. Hops contains large amounts of estradiol, which converts in estrogen in the body and causes men to become fat, lazy, less virile, and less energetic. The church first noticed this when they found that girls working the hops began menstruating very early and men had decreased sexual desire. Before the beer purity act, beer contained a large variety of herbs and roots which were used to prevent spoilage in place of hops. Beers of the pre-hops period (now called "gruits") are more refreshing and less sleep-inducing than the hops-containing beers. So if you want to make a beer that isn't destructive to the body, get rid of the hops. It's that easy. http://brewgruit.blogspot.com/...