consists, surprisingly, of two parts. The part about inertia is famous. The other part is about scaling laws, why bones must become thicker if you scale up an animal and so on.
I thought the elements that were virtually absent on the moon, while being essential for life, were hydrogen and carbon. That's the hard part. You have to bring it all from earth. The article is about oxygen which is in abundant supply. The oxygen part is interesting for the reason that it's simple enough to provide the first instance of actually mining the moon.
I agree(it's blatantly obvious innit) that experiences from individual end users don't carry much weight. I've been using AVG for at least 3 years, and the only times it detects a virus is when I present a file to it for analysis. How should I know if it works? I can only judge it for the usability and intrusiveness. The rest comes from reports on virus battery tests.
You're displaying a grasp of the weird results you get if you think through homeopathic logic. The extent of dilution of faeces in drinking water is not as extreme as you'd be comfortable with however.
Considering Avogadro's number, above 13 dilution steps of a factor 1/100th the no molecule of the original substance should be present in the homeopathic 'medicin'. The really potent stuff is supposed to be diluted 1000 times over however. Start thinking about remnants of dinosaur dung then. Or dilutions of the arsenic that ended up in Napoleon's hair. This results in a rather unstable model of biochemistry. To put things mildly. Oh well, I suppose it all cancels out. And distillation should neutralize homeopathic activity as well so maybe that includes evaporation and clouds..
You've got a point, but I could just as well disagree. We live in a complex world where there's not just one education task waiting but a whole bunch of tasks. Then the example of the uneducated admin becomes a tiny minority and the challenge becomes to design software so as not to require yet another additional education.
In the case of the Iranian efforts to procure their own enrichment facilities for nuclear fuel, the 'dual use' interpretation is that once you have the facilities for civil purposes, you're 'a long way' or even 'almost there' to having nuclear bombs. (better debate that elsewhere)
So if you have the complete setup for tracking child pornography, then how close are you to tracking liberals and other terrorist sympathisers?
The debating trick is to pick an example that is extreme enough so everyone is on the same side, and then to make it a prototype for your case. The last step is the ugly one.
well, 'A' problem then.. and who knows how common...
Is that a show of intelligence is like burning rubber with a motorbike. The ego gets tied to the potential instead of to the actual achievements. Unfortunately a lot of achievements are not that dependent on IQ.
Suppose that you grow up and find that somebody mixed up your IQ results with those of another guy. You're actually not that smart. It wouldn't be fun. Hurts. Nobody takes away your achievements.
compare dogs to monkeys to humans: humans are extremely slow starters. Most people should be aware of that. So it's a natural extrapolation to go looking for the possibility that slow starter humans end up somehow smarter than the rest of the pack.
Afterwards you can start filling in the meaning of what slow starters and smart people are. In how many ways can you be a slow starter? Is it better to slow down the early education of your kids on some fronts? etc.
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Not bad enough I'm afraid :)
consists, surprisingly, of two parts. The part about inertia is famous. The other part is about scaling laws, why bones must become thicker if you scale up an animal and so on.
Apparently not everyone knows reality has a liberal bias.
Authorities aren't gonna make people get on planes naked, so they have to let people take stuff on
Sure they are, and you're all gonna get an enema too.
there's a book called 'the physics of startrek' along the same line, and it's quite nice.
Okay that's enough, who said that?
would it be funny if the two stories were actually two stages of the same bigger story? Just a little bit. for a moment.
It's not Friedman. Friedman always sticks to conventional syntax.
I thought the elements that were virtually absent on the moon, while being essential for life, were hydrogen and carbon. That's the hard part. You have to bring it all from earth. The article is about oxygen which is in abundant supply. The oxygen part is interesting for the reason that it's simple enough to provide the first instance of actually mining the moon.
I agree(it's blatantly obvious innit) that experiences from individual end users don't carry much weight. I've been using AVG for at least 3 years, and the only times it detects a virus is when I present a file to it for analysis. How should I know if it works? I can only judge it for the usability and intrusiveness. The rest comes from reports on virus battery tests.
You're displaying a grasp of the weird results you get if you think through homeopathic logic. The extent of dilution of faeces in drinking water is not as extreme as you'd be comfortable with however.
Considering Avogadro's number, above 13 dilution steps of a factor 1/100th the no molecule of the original substance should be present in the homeopathic 'medicin'. The really potent stuff is supposed to be diluted 1000 times over however. Start thinking about remnants of dinosaur dung then. Or dilutions of the arsenic that ended up in Napoleon's hair. This results in a rather unstable model of biochemistry. To put things mildly. Oh well, I suppose it all cancels out. And distillation should neutralize homeopathic activity as well so maybe that includes evaporation and clouds..
You've got a point, but I could just as well disagree. We live in a complex world where there's not just one education task waiting but a whole bunch of tasks. Then the example of the uneducated admin becomes a tiny minority and the challenge becomes to design software so as not to require yet another additional education.
flummoxin, 3 times per day one teaspoon. Continue for one week after symptoms disappear.
It's been known for a while that the NSA hires Santa Claus on the tough jobs because he's decades ahead really. How old is that rhyme do you think?
Vaporware and Petabyte would be nice names for a diner that serves a lot of beans.
I thought he worked for Mall-Wart.
this means the weak are effectively being weeded out, which will in the end lead to a stronger, conservative America!
the sad thing is, I have to state explicitly that I'm being sarcastic here...
Editor and publisher was also up in arms about this bill. See http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/columns/sh optalk_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002384406
I think you're describing something very different, though it may apply to the same situation.
In the case of the Iranian efforts to procure their own enrichment facilities for nuclear fuel, the 'dual use' interpretation is that once you have the facilities for civil purposes, you're 'a long way' or even 'almost there' to having nuclear bombs. (better debate that elsewhere)
So if you have the complete setup for tracking child pornography, then how close are you to tracking liberals and other terrorist sympathisers?
The debating trick is to pick an example that is extreme enough so everyone is on the same side, and then to make it a prototype for your case. The last step is the ugly one.
For that job they just had to hire someone who couldn't tell the good guys from the bad.
Neh. Beat that.
well, 'A' problem then.. and who knows how common...
Is that a show of intelligence is like burning rubber with a motorbike.
The ego gets tied to the potential instead of to the actual achievements. Unfortunately a lot of achievements are not that dependent on IQ.
Suppose that you grow up and find that somebody mixed up your IQ results with those of another guy. You're actually not that smart. It wouldn't be fun. Hurts.
Nobody takes away your achievements.
compare dogs to monkeys to humans: humans are extremely slow starters. Most people should be aware of that. So it's a natural extrapolation to go looking for the possibility that slow starter humans end up somehow smarter than the rest of the pack.
Afterwards you can start filling in the meaning of what slow starters and smart people are. In how many ways can you be a slow starter? Is it better to slow down the early education of your kids on some fronts? etc.
Why are people with brain tumors always on the phone..