Peer review is not really all that useful, to check quality by that process one would have to check quality of the reviewers. The journal however... if you are published in a big name journal that's an indicator and if you choose to publish in no-name journal that is also an indicator of sorts.
Charging batteries is lossy, discharging batteries is lossy. If you have excess capacity, why are you storing it instead of selling to grid? If grid power cost difference during peak hours/off hours is enough to justify the battery even with losses then what are the solar panels good for? Charge from grid during off hours, discharge back during peak hours, battery becomes a money generating machine. Obviously this doesn't work, because the price difference is not enough and losses are too much. If it did work, then large companies would be doing it on larger scale and better efficiency than homeowners can. But if it doesn't work, then there is no point to home battery at all, you can instead use the grid as virtual battery. Home battery is snake oil, it makes no sense to buy it.
Money in the end, flows from pocket to pocket and can be viewed as tokens of working time, sure some peoples time is worth more than others, but on average that's how it is. Now if something can be created without wasting any working time, how much is it worth? Why, nothing at all. Say you live in 1800-s and want to know how many people live in Kenya, that's going to cost you, best case scenario someone has to go to library and look it up, worst case scenario someone has to go to Kenya and start counting. Today it's a matter of asking Google. Its the same thing with cars or any other goods, if it doesn't cost working hours to create, it doesn't cost money or costs so little it makes no difference for you. So yes, the savings will pass on. Factory with 14 people in it doesn't actually cost time of 14 people, there is a huge hidden labor cost behind it for manufacturing and maintaining the equipment, transportation of everything around the factory, etc etc. "Employing 14 people" is hugely misleading, this factory is providing work for thousands still, the jobs are just not in the factory but up or down the manufacturing chain.
Seriously, NO. Radioisotope dating relies on known measured values of isotope half life, models of "how" are completely irrelevant to their accuracy. Not that unexpected Tau particle decay rates would have anything to do with nuclei decay anyway. Tau particles are unstable exotic heavy electrons basically, they play no role in nuclei decay mechanisms.
Whatever the underlying rules of reality are, we can only ever hope to reach closer and closer approximations of them with our models. I very much doubt humanity ever reaches a point where we can say, here, done, these are the complete and final rules of reality that govern everything that ever has been or will be. If we ever do reach that point, I would count it as a strong indicator towards these rather silly "we live in a simulation" ideas.
I would believe "many stars are born as binaries" or even "most stars are born as binaries", but to claim "ALL stars are born as binaries" would require a whole lot more evidence than a computational model.
Is spreading the seeds really the issue? I would think a seed just dropped to the ground has a really low probability of growing into a tree. Most tree species drop thousands of seeds every single year, forests would sprout like weeds everywhere if that was all it took. We probably couldn't cut them down fast enough.
Shuttle was the omnitool that could do everything. Problem was, as it is with all omnitools, it wasn't particularly good at any of the jobs it was capable of.
Oh yes, bitcoin is certainly built on greed, and you know what? It works. Will bitcoin crash, absolutely, just like it has many times before and just like it will many times more. But the damn thing is just not going away, like an std, it just keeps bouncing back stronger than ever. Because its built on strongest foundation of them all - greed. That, is the true (evil)genius of the cryptocurrency. The key is that even with a crash, the losers are not left with nothing, the bitcoins they are holding might be worth much less but they are still worth something and it costs nothing to hold onto them and wait for better days.
There are serious technical feasibility problems and no answers to most of them so far. Lets not even talk about economic feasibility that is way more questionable. Make one operational track, any length, any place, then its possible to start analyzing feasibility in location X. Right now they are playing games with rulers and maps and it's not getting them any closer to making a real installation of their very rough idea.
Problem with flying cars is not of technical sort, you can make a car fly no problemo, or more accurately you can make an aircraft that can drive on roads. It's just silly to do so.
It make sense to prioritize education. Lack of it is the main cause of their thousand problems and they can't fix any of them before they have the workforce educated enough to start fixing things. You can talk about reforms, industrialization, building infrastructure, developing economy and all that, but if people listening can't even read and write then its just plain waste of effort because it's never ever going to happen.
They can't apply normal fixes to the problem, less than half the populace even has basic literacy, with workforce like that do you really think the government and education system is terribly capable of executing policies normally? If nothing else works then you have to go for the heavy handed method. And they really-really need their education system to start working and producing people that are not complete morons.
Given the state of Ethiopia the impact of such a move is significantly less that it would be in a developed nation. And education is kind of the highest priority they can have right now, they need to fix education before they can fix anything else. Illiterate populace is just no good in getting a country up and running. The few companies that actually need internet access have probably rolled their own already, sat internet or whatever.
So what if it does happen, what are we supposed to do, tremble in fear and stop advancing as a human race? Halt the march of progress in technology, stay stuck exactly where we are? Sod that! If it happens, it happens, humankind will adapt and continue on harder, better, faster, stronger.
Books fill the gaps with readers own imagination, film's just don't, what you see is what you get. You can't do a 1:1 conversion from book to movie or vice versa, nor can you compare the two media on level field - apples and oranges.
Pretty true, sample 2 is Vivaldi, and sample 1 is just... not. However, you are not going to get a world renowned composer to do a custom soundtrack for your YouTube video so as far as cheapo alternatives go the ersatz Vivaldi is a pretty good option, especially if the music generator could sync the music to the existing video.
I'm not quite getting it why these dodgy journals keep being a problem. Why aren't there people keeping blacklists, or setting up some rating system? Publish in one of them an nobody will take you seriously any more. Cite a paper that has been published in one of them and your own paper is automatically assumed to be garbage quality. Soon enough nobody will feed money to these junk journals and they will die out with a whimper.
If you are looking for someone to blame you don't need to investigate anything - the pilot is to blame, because he is ultimately responsible for everything that happens with the aircraft. But often the pilot is dead, so the blame-game doesn't actually get you very far. When investigating aircraft crashes, the point is not to find someone to blame, the point is to figure out what happened and how to make sure it doesn't happen again.
Keuring sells coffee makers for Joe Everyguy or company coffee rooms, DJI sells toys for geeks. Different customer bases will probably result in very different reactions.
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Teaching religion tends to translate into "Teaching Christianity", "Teaching Islam", "Teaching [Insert your local religion]"
Peer review is not really all that useful, to check quality by that process one would have to check quality of the reviewers. The journal however... if you are published in a big name journal that's an indicator and if you choose to publish in no-name journal that is also an indicator of sorts.
Charging batteries is lossy, discharging batteries is lossy. If you have excess capacity, why are you storing it instead of selling to grid? If grid power cost difference during peak hours/off hours is enough to justify the battery even with losses then what are the solar panels good for? Charge from grid during off hours, discharge back during peak hours, battery becomes a money generating machine. Obviously this doesn't work, because the price difference is not enough and losses are too much. If it did work, then large companies would be doing it on larger scale and better efficiency than homeowners can. But if it doesn't work, then there is no point to home battery at all, you can instead use the grid as virtual battery. Home battery is snake oil, it makes no sense to buy it.
It very much is possible to reflect heat, play around with a thermal camera sometimes.
Money in the end, flows from pocket to pocket and can be viewed as tokens of working time, sure some peoples time is worth more than others, but on average that's how it is. Now if something can be created without wasting any working time, how much is it worth? Why, nothing at all. Say you live in 1800-s and want to know how many people live in Kenya, that's going to cost you, best case scenario someone has to go to library and look it up, worst case scenario someone has to go to Kenya and start counting. Today it's a matter of asking Google. Its the same thing with cars or any other goods, if it doesn't cost working hours to create, it doesn't cost money or costs so little it makes no difference for you. So yes, the savings will pass on. Factory with 14 people in it doesn't actually cost time of 14 people, there is a huge hidden labor cost behind it for manufacturing and maintaining the equipment, transportation of everything around the factory, etc etc. "Employing 14 people" is hugely misleading, this factory is providing work for thousands still, the jobs are just not in the factory but up or down the manufacturing chain.
Seriously, NO. Radioisotope dating relies on known measured values of isotope half life, models of "how" are completely irrelevant to their accuracy. Not that unexpected Tau particle decay rates would have anything to do with nuclei decay anyway. Tau particles are unstable exotic heavy electrons basically, they play no role in nuclei decay mechanisms.
No.
Whatever the underlying rules of reality are, we can only ever hope to reach closer and closer approximations of them with our models. I very much doubt humanity ever reaches a point where we can say, here, done, these are the complete and final rules of reality that govern everything that ever has been or will be. If we ever do reach that point, I would count it as a strong indicator towards these rather silly "we live in a simulation" ideas.
I would believe "many stars are born as binaries" or even "most stars are born as binaries", but to claim "ALL stars are born as binaries" would require a whole lot more evidence than a computational model.
Is spreading the seeds really the issue? I would think a seed just dropped to the ground has a really low probability of growing into a tree. Most tree species drop thousands of seeds every single year, forests would sprout like weeds everywhere if that was all it took. We probably couldn't cut them down fast enough.
If ever you need to say whole lot about not much of anything, this is a prime example of how to do it.
Shuttle was the omnitool that could do everything. Problem was, as it is with all omnitools, it wasn't particularly good at any of the jobs it was capable of.
Oh yes, bitcoin is certainly built on greed, and you know what? It works. Will bitcoin crash, absolutely, just like it has many times before and just like it will many times more. But the damn thing is just not going away, like an std, it just keeps bouncing back stronger than ever. Because its built on strongest foundation of them all - greed. That, is the true (evil)genius of the cryptocurrency. The key is that even with a crash, the losers are not left with nothing, the bitcoins they are holding might be worth much less but they are still worth something and it costs nothing to hold onto them and wait for better days.
There are serious technical feasibility problems and no answers to most of them so far. Lets not even talk about economic feasibility that is way more questionable. Make one operational track, any length, any place, then its possible to start analyzing feasibility in location X. Right now they are playing games with rulers and maps and it's not getting them any closer to making a real installation of their very rough idea.
Problem with flying cars is not of technical sort, you can make a car fly no problemo, or more accurately you can make an aircraft that can drive on roads. It's just silly to do so.
100mil people is a small country? Well, admittedly, the part of the population that actually uses internet is a tiny fraction of that but still.
It make sense to prioritize education. Lack of it is the main cause of their thousand problems and they can't fix any of them before they have the workforce educated enough to start fixing things. You can talk about reforms, industrialization, building infrastructure, developing economy and all that, but if people listening can't even read and write then its just plain waste of effort because it's never ever going to happen.
They can't apply normal fixes to the problem, less than half the populace even has basic literacy, with workforce like that do you really think the government and education system is terribly capable of executing policies normally? If nothing else works then you have to go for the heavy handed method. And they really-really need their education system to start working and producing people that are not complete morons.
Given the state of Ethiopia the impact of such a move is significantly less that it would be in a developed nation. And education is kind of the highest priority they can have right now, they need to fix education before they can fix anything else. Illiterate populace is just no good in getting a country up and running. The few companies that actually need internet access have probably rolled their own already, sat internet or whatever.
So what if it does happen, what are we supposed to do, tremble in fear and stop advancing as a human race? Halt the march of progress in technology, stay stuck exactly where we are? Sod that! If it happens, it happens, humankind will adapt and continue on harder, better, faster, stronger.
Books fill the gaps with readers own imagination, film's just don't, what you see is what you get. You can't do a 1:1 conversion from book to movie or vice versa, nor can you compare the two media on level field - apples and oranges.
Pretty true, sample 2 is Vivaldi, and sample 1 is just... not. However, you are not going to get a world renowned composer to do a custom soundtrack for your YouTube video so as far as cheapo alternatives go the ersatz Vivaldi is a pretty good option, especially if the music generator could sync the music to the existing video.
I'm not quite getting it why these dodgy journals keep being a problem. Why aren't there people keeping blacklists, or setting up some rating system? Publish in one of them an nobody will take you seriously any more. Cite a paper that has been published in one of them and your own paper is automatically assumed to be garbage quality. Soon enough nobody will feed money to these junk journals and they will die out with a whimper.
If you are looking for someone to blame you don't need to investigate anything - the pilot is to blame, because he is ultimately responsible for everything that happens with the aircraft. But often the pilot is dead, so the blame-game doesn't actually get you very far. When investigating aircraft crashes, the point is not to find someone to blame, the point is to figure out what happened and how to make sure it doesn't happen again.
Keuring sells coffee makers for Joe Everyguy or company coffee rooms, DJI sells toys for geeks. Different customer bases will probably result in very different reactions.