i'm not sure why it makes more sense that our universe is a simulation rather than we just live in "the universe" as it was created in an actual reality.
-The ocean is alkaline, which means that stronger base electrolytes (as compared to the weak carbonic acid) still dominate the charge balance.
however the ocean is becoming more acidic, and that trend will continue. saying it's still basic is not reassuring in the least.
-This is an El Nino year, the higher surface temperature will release more oxygen from the ocean because gas solubility decreases with increasing temperature.
chances are good that El Nino year's will become more common, in part because the oceans' average temperatures will contiune to rise. so we can expect the ocean to continue to lose more oxygen.
-Most of the world's oxygen comes from the phytoplankton [earthsky.org], and their population dynamics are remarkably challenging to model. However, if they are not dying en masse, then the oxygen production will remain about the same; some may be redistributed.
what is en masse ? do you think we could detect a population drop of 5% or 10% ? is that en masse ? would it affect ocean oxygen levels ? yes, yes it would.
-The sky indeed is remaining above us, and not falling.
oh it absolutely is falling. slowly perhaps, maybe it will take 1 or 2 centuries. maybe a lot less. And your point is that I shouldn't listen to the warnings from scientists, because they're all hysterical, but i should listen you ? so we should do nothing until we're sure we're all going to die or something ?
age discrimination is rampant in engineering. looks like i'm going to have the same problem you are. i'm applying for jobs i'm extremely well qualified for, and are even senior positions.
Between the tiger parts in "traditional medicine" idiocy in China and human population pressures in India, the fact the numbers actually increased is borderline miraculous.
not that i think it's a bad thing to teach kids programming, but it most certainly is not going to help the US catch up.
The reasons the US is falling behind are myriad, but lack of programmers is absolutely, positively not one of them.
US companies are outsourcing programming and technical work of all sorts as fast as they can. Entire tech companies are basically reducing themselves to US-based management teams.
Teaching kids to program is not going to help that problem.
First, we aren't feeling the impact of climate change. For all the fear mongering, the oceans haven't risen, the weather is fine, and life has been carrying on.
first- we are feeling the impact of climate change. oh i'm sorry, have i interfered with your unsupported assertion by making my own unsupported assertion ?
Sea levels have been rising over the 20th century. This, and a host of other evidence say we _are_ experiencing the effects of climate change.
yes, life is carrying on. and it will continue to carry on even at such time as that carrying on becomes very, very difficult. so what the hell is your point ?
At this point, we're just moving the deck chairs around the Titanic, or perhaps put another way, we using a bucket brigade to try and get the water out of the ship. Nice idea, but pointless when the ship is still going to sink.
The standard denier bullshit. We can't do anything , we should just get over it. Except that the standard denier bullshit used to be "there is no climate change". Now, it's "oh yeah, maybe there is, but we should just get used to it".
By doing something NOW, we can make future impact less. BTW, what exactly do you have against dumping more shit into the air ? remember when they put lead in gasoline ? Should we have just left it in , because we had already dumped so much into the environment that it was "too late" to do anything about it ?
If the AGW people are wrong, then this is just a wealth transfer and overreaching power grab from big government.
giving them the IP for free is crazy talk. Should they actually be valuable, the company should be paying fair market value and evalutating them just like any other business transaction and they would be separated from your job.
Meanwhile, talk to a lawyer. Now. BEFORE the interview.
Well it might prey on your concern, but it doesn't even do that.
It just does what it does.
You make some very serious allegations about the hospital administration and their culpability, got any proof about that ?
Were the nurses really so stupid that they were not interested in doing everything they should to protect themselves while treating this person ? I find it hard to believe that things were that lax. I expect the real problem is, as you say, the disease is just incredibily communicable, and the nurses were unfortunately part of the learning curve in dealing with it.
The truly incompetent were the individuals who had a patient who told them he had been to west Africa and was feeling sick, and sent him home. That took some real density.
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The healthcare situation in this country is so fucked up.
At least when you are paying everybody as little as possible to get off the ground, they will have good healthcare.
that we live in an objective reality ?
i'm not sure why it makes more sense that our universe is a simulation rather than we just live in "the universe" as it was created in an actual reality.
I'm not giving up the idea of freedom, by giving up freedom.
yeah, i don't think that word means what you think it means.
This.
Also many papers omit details that make it extremely difficult to reproduce results.
Also too, errors. Some minor- some not so minor.
Makes you wonder about this whole chain of "reputation" and "authority" that the leeches like Elsevier puport to uphold.
-The ocean is alkaline, which means that stronger base electrolytes (as compared to the weak carbonic acid) still dominate the charge balance.
however the ocean is becoming more acidic, and that trend will continue. saying it's still basic is not reassuring in the least.
-This is an El Nino year, the higher surface temperature will release more oxygen from the ocean because gas solubility decreases with increasing temperature.
chances are good that El Nino year's will become more common, in part because the oceans' average temperatures will contiune to rise. so we can expect the ocean to continue to lose more oxygen.
-Most of the world's oxygen comes from the phytoplankton [earthsky.org], and their population dynamics are remarkably challenging to model. However, if they are not dying en masse, then the oxygen production will remain about the same; some may be redistributed.
what is en masse ? do you think we could detect a population drop of 5% or 10% ? is that en masse ? would it affect ocean oxygen levels ? yes, yes it would.
-The sky indeed is remaining above us, and not falling.
oh it absolutely is falling. slowly perhaps, maybe it will take 1 or 2 centuries. maybe a lot less.
And your point is that I shouldn't listen to the warnings from scientists, because they're all hysterical, but i should listen you ?
so we should do nothing until we're sure we're all going to die or something ?
age discrimination is rampant in engineering.
looks like i'm going to have the same problem you are.
i'm applying for jobs i'm extremely well qualified for, and are even senior positions.
not even a phone call to talk.
not looking good...
Between the tiger parts in "traditional medicine" idiocy in China and human population pressures in India, the fact the numbers actually increased is borderline miraculous.
the source is irrelevant.
I thought this was snark.
you reference National Review and claim this judge is "psycho".
and you get up-voted ?
it would be hilarious if it wasn't so pathetic.
you have to live where you can find work.
you know why a lot of programmers don't live in some cheap place ? Because there's a very small number of jobs in a very cheap place.
that's why they're cheap.
Re: remote work. if you can do the work remotely, then so can your replacement in India, Romania, Hungary, etc...
There's no such thing as "bee pollen".
Bee pollen is plant pollen, from, wait for it, the flowers that bees visit.
not that i think it's a bad thing to teach kids programming, but it most certainly is not going to help the US catch up.
The reasons the US is falling behind are myriad, but lack of programmers is absolutely, positively not one of them.
US companies are outsourcing programming and technical work of all sorts as fast as they can. Entire tech companies are basically reducing themselves to US-based management teams.
Teaching kids to program is not going to help that problem.
"do the right thing for our sharedolders" ?
keyed to his DNA.
Lucky for him they don't exist yet.
I'm not clear on whether the existence is of gravitational waves is simply supported by GR or whether it _requires_ them to exist.
this is precisely correct.
it's the mindset i've used all my biking life, over 20 years now.
you really, really have to think they are out to get you.
and it's true, only these days drivers are out to get everyone. I'm constantly amazed that there aren't fatal accidents all. the. time.
without the actual enforcement of traffic laws, human beings, being animals, will absolutely do what they want.
you have to smack them on the nose with a rolled up newspaper on a regular basis.
how any cyclists are riding bikes that weigh 3000 pounds ?
keeping Belugas in captivity is wrong, wrong, wrong.
The Georgia Acquarium was wrong from the moment they started this effort.
I think he's a pretty good science writer, or at least I enjoy reading his writing.
Writing about obliterating the earth might be kind of frivolous but i'm not sure it makes him a bad science writer.
Maybe you could give us your learned opinion as to what makes his writing so bad.
Or was it just this article in particular ?
yeah- that's pretty much exactly what i was talking about.
fuckin-A that's depressing.
i, for one, do not welcome our backdoor-inserting overlords.
no i'm specifically talking about a generator which is hardware, i.e. voltage noise based.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Adding entropy generation hardware on a motherboard or even in the CPU would be trivial.
Would it be cryptographically sound ? Probably not, but it's a hell of a lot better than the ad hoc system now in place.
Is there some sort of patent issue preventing this from happening or something ?
First, we aren't feeling the impact of climate change. For all the fear mongering, the oceans haven't risen, the weather is fine, and life has been carrying on.
first- we are feeling the impact of climate change. oh i'm sorry, have i interfered with your unsupported assertion by making my own unsupported assertion ?
the oceans have risen:
http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/f...
Sea levels have been rising over the 20th century. This, and a host of other evidence say we _are_ experiencing the effects of climate change.
yes, life is carrying on. and it will continue to carry on even at such time as that carrying on becomes very, very difficult. so what the hell is your point ?
At this point, we're just moving the deck chairs around the Titanic, or perhaps put another way, we using a bucket brigade to try and get the water out of the ship. Nice idea, but pointless when the ship is still going to sink.
The standard denier bullshit. We can't do anything , we should just get over it. Except that the standard denier bullshit used to be "there is no climate change". Now, it's "oh yeah, maybe there is, but we should just get used to it".
By doing something NOW, we can make future impact less. BTW, what exactly do you have against dumping more shit into the air ? remember when they put lead in gasoline ? Should we have just left it in , because we had already dumped so much into the environment that it was "too late" to do anything about it ?
If the AGW people are wrong, then this is just a wealth transfer and overreaching power grab from big government.
your true slashdot, libertarian colors revealed.
your patents are your patents.
giving them the IP for free is crazy talk. Should they actually be valuable, the company should be paying fair market value and evalutating them just like any other business transaction and they would be separated from your job.
Meanwhile, talk to a lawyer. Now. BEFORE the interview.
This disease prays on your concern for the sick.
Well it might prey on your concern, but it doesn't even do that.
It just does what it does.
You make some very serious allegations about the hospital administration and their culpability, got any proof about that ?
Were the nurses really so stupid that they were not interested in doing everything they should to protect themselves while treating this person ? I find it hard to believe that things were that lax. I expect the real problem is, as you say, the disease is just incredibily communicable, and the nurses were unfortunately part of the learning curve in dealing with it.
The truly incompetent were the individuals who had a patient who told them he had been to west Africa and was feeling sick, and sent him home.
That took some real density.
Too bad they don't believe in science in Texas.