I won't comment on the EU, but I'll comment on the Euro, as you brought that up. The Euro cannot survive in a system so heavily unbalanced by Germany's mercantilist approach of "beggar thy neighbor" through extreme trade surplus combined with wage suppression. When individual countries are no longer monopoly issuers of their own currencies, they lack the monetary means of counteracting such negative external influences. Bundesbank policies based on dated neoliberal economic ideas that ignore what Modern Monetary Theory teaches us and the suicidal suggestions of austerity measures in difficult times make it inevitable that the weakest nations in the eurozone will be constantly suffering and in continuous needs of bailouts and other economic aid. As they fall out of the union, Germany's destructive influence will concentrate on the next weakest members, and so on. The behavior of the eurozone is essentially cannibalistic. It is impossible to sustain a monetary union either i) nations in it being far more homogeneous in economic terms than the eurozone members, or ii) significantly greater integration, including common bonds and other national debt instruments, and so on (which is politically unacceptable). http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2010/05/market-contagion-and-the-dangers-of-devil-take-the-hindmost.html http://www.econ-pol.unisi.it/dipartimento/it/node/1173 http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=17006
I call BS. Canada has by now succeeded in managing the Quebec situation well and subdued the "frenchman" quite effectively. The idea of designating Quebec a "nation" within Canada was the final nail hammered by the federal government into the coffin of Quebec separatism (the coffin having been build primarily by pacifying provincial transfer payments), and led to the destruction of the Parti Quebecois in the last election. http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/bought+Quebec/5771308/story.html
For example, there was a study back in August in the American Medical Association journal that foods such as nuts are more effective at lowering LDL cholesterol than statins like Lipitor, and I've seen similar citations than fish oil. So why not eat nuts instead of spending more money on pharmaceuticals? Or is chewing too much work for the lazy couch potatoes?
It's good to see at least few slashdotters are aware of MMT principles. The only beef I have with your post is using the word debt, because even though it is debt in name, it's quite different from microeconomic debt in the way most people understand it. http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=11218
You forgot the gold standard of powerful unstable explosives: ethyl perchlorate. It has higher brisance and energy density than the best of the stable high explosives, including CL-20 and octanitrocubane. However, it is also incredibly unstable. Of the few synthesis papers, some of the authors talk about losing fingertips from tiny amounts for example. One amateur chemist on sciencemadness replicated the synthesis, which indicates an order of magnitude more balls than I have: http://sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=1081. There are some great photos of the explosive power of a single drop of this energetic substance.
The distribution, unless seriously degenerate, is not important because it's straightforward to transform one distribution into another. All that really matter is the entropy.
This is what happens when people forget that computer science isn't real science and try to mix the two (and I say this as someone who is a computer scientist). Either that, or you're trolling, in which case, I suggest you put the clearly enormous effort you've spent trolling to better use.
> Full AES encryption of all the data would make the drive horribly slow.
I call BS. My Blackberry is fully encrypted with AES, not just the keys yet when connected to a PC copying large video files from it is not any slower, and the hardware AES chip is a tiny IC in the phone. I see no reason a few dollars chip wouldn't be used in hardware encrypted USB drives which are fairly expensive (plus, the USB drive doesn't even have the power constraints of a mobile device).
This is an interesting theory, but I think lorentz-violating neutrino oscillations is a simpler proposal that is consistent with both the supernova measurements and the OPERA experiments.
Are you dense? Did you forget neutrino oscillations? In the supernova case, neutrinos would change type many times before reaching us, and only muon neutrinos are alleged to be tachyonic. The overall average speed would approximate c.
Are you stupid? Did you forget neutrino oscillations? In the supernova case, neutrinos would change type many times before reaching us, and only muon neutrinos are alleged to be tachyonic. The overall average speed would approximate c.
Lorentz-violating neutrino oscillations has been an idea posted in arxhiv papers long ago, and I've been slapping around the dummies who keep bringing up the supernova experiment with this throughout multiple times stories on this issue got posted here. It's good to see some other people start mentioning the obvious.
That is false; there is minimal interaction with matter. If muon neutrinos are tachyonic, lorentz-violating oscillations would be changing between type and the slower electron and tau neutrinos, giving an average speed of c. In the OPERA experiment, the flight time is too short for oscillations, and the imaginary mass of a tachyonic neutrino would mean it travels along a spacelike geodesic while in Earth's gravity field.
Check my other posts. It's not the environment; it's the much longer time in flight from the supernova giving time for lorentz-violating neutrino oscillations, converting between tachyonic muon neutrinos and bradyonic electron and tau neutrinos, resulting in an overall average speed close to c.
Indeed not data is created equal. The OPERA experiment has verified results at five-sigma. The supernova measurement doesn't come close. How 'bout them apples?
Do you realize how silly you look when I point out that the OPERA experiment has five-sigma results and the supernova measurement doesn't come close to that? Moreover, lorentz-violating neutrino oscillations can trivially explain how tachyonic neutrinos are consistent with both experiments--there is not enough time in flight in the Earth experiment uon neutrinos to convert to the other types. Not so with neutrinos from the supernova, whose speed averages out through multiple oscillations to be approximately c. If you had bothered to do a bit of research before shooting off your mouth, you would have found papers on arxiv discussing this very thing.
How is the experiment harder to refute? OPERA has five sigma, whereas the supernova one does not. You've been refuted once again. Moreover, as I already explained in my reply to your other post, neutrino oscillations trivially explain how tachyonic neutrinos are consistent with both experiments. You have shown yourself to be as much of an idiot and self-assured zealot as the people promoting free energy devices. So fuck you.
This comes up every time these results are discussed, and I'm getting tired of refuting this red herring argument.
Neutrinos change type! If muon neutrinos are tachyonic, one would expect lorentz-violating neutrino oscillations to occur. The imaginary mass of tachyonic muon neutrinos would make them go faster through a gravity field as they travel along spacelike geodesics. But when they switch types, any such speedup would be lost.
In the Earth experiments, the time in flight is too short for neutrino oscillations to occur and if neutrinos are actually tachyonic, they would remain so for the full flight. Not so for the long flight from the supernova to us.
And you're completely wrong in such a dismissal, for there is a _trivial_ explanation. Neutrinos change type! If muon neutrinos are tachyonic, one would expect lorentz-violating neutrino oscillations to occur. The imaginary mass of tachyonic muon neutrinos would make them go faster through a gravity field as they travel along spacelike geodesics. But when they switch types, any such speedup would be lost.
In the Earth experiments, the time in flight is too short for neutrino oscillations to occur and if neutrinos are actually tachyonic, they would remain so for the full flight. Not so for the long flight from the supernova to us.
While I still think it is overwhelmingly likely that there is systemic error in the experiment and no actual superluminal neutrinos, your dismissiveness is based on nothing but your arrogance. So fuck you.
The true disaster of Ron Paul is his incredibly ignorant and blindly ideological ideas of gold-backed currency. That would be neutering the government's most powerful tool of economic policy--controlling the money supply.
The Greeks are failing because they are not the monopoly issuer of their own currency. Germany has been beggaring their neighbors with the mercantilist policies promoted by the Bundesbank ever since others fell in the trap of the Euro. The German policy of a huge trade surplus coupled with the choke hold of a common currency is at the core of the economic rot of Europe. This is what happens when people follow dated neoliberalist economics and don't understand modern monetary theory. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1905625
Moravec's estimate on the computational power of the human neural system is too low by about an order of magnitude since he considers the basic building block to the the synapse, whereas it is actually the synaptic vesicles, which do not act in unison and are significantly differentiated. Synapses have complex state.
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I won't comment on the EU, but I'll comment on the Euro, as you brought that up. The Euro cannot survive in a system so heavily unbalanced by Germany's mercantilist approach of "beggar thy neighbor" through extreme trade surplus combined with wage suppression. When individual countries are no longer monopoly issuers of their own currencies, they lack the monetary means of counteracting such negative external influences. Bundesbank policies based on dated neoliberal economic ideas that ignore what Modern Monetary Theory teaches us and the suicidal suggestions of austerity measures in difficult times make it inevitable that the weakest nations in the eurozone will be constantly suffering and in continuous needs of bailouts and other economic aid. As they fall out of the union, Germany's destructive influence will concentrate on the next weakest members, and so on. The behavior of the eurozone is essentially cannibalistic. It is impossible to sustain a monetary union either i) nations in it being far more homogeneous in economic terms than the eurozone members, or ii) significantly greater integration, including common bonds and other national debt instruments, and so on (which is politically unacceptable).
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2010/05/market-contagion-and-the-dangers-of-devil-take-the-hindmost.html
http://www.econ-pol.unisi.it/dipartimento/it/node/1173
http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=17006
Separatism is dead. You're talking history; it would be like calling all modern Germans Nazis.
I call BS. Canada has by now succeeded in managing the Quebec situation well and subdued the "frenchman" quite effectively.
The idea of designating Quebec a "nation" within Canada was the final nail hammered by the federal government into the coffin of Quebec separatism (the coffin having been build primarily by pacifying provincial transfer payments), and led to the destruction of the Parti Quebecois in the last election.
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/bought+Quebec/5771308/story.html
For example, there was a study back in August in the American Medical Association journal that foods such as nuts are more effective at lowering LDL cholesterol than statins like Lipitor, and I've seen similar citations than fish oil. So why not eat nuts instead of spending more money on pharmaceuticals? Or is chewing too much work for the lazy couch potatoes?
It's good to see at least few slashdotters are aware of MMT principles. The only beef I have with your post is using the word debt, because even though it is debt in name, it's quite different from microeconomic debt in the way most people understand it. http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=11218
You forgot the gold standard of powerful unstable explosives: ethyl perchlorate. It has higher brisance and energy density than the best of the stable high explosives, including CL-20 and octanitrocubane. However, it is also incredibly unstable. Of the few synthesis papers, some of the authors talk about losing fingertips from tiny amounts for example. One amateur chemist on sciencemadness replicated the synthesis, which indicates an order of magnitude more balls than I have: http://sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=1081. There are some great photos of the explosive power of a single drop of this energetic substance.
The distribution, unless seriously degenerate, is not important because it's straightforward to transform one distribution into another. All that really matter is the entropy.
This.
This is what happens when people forget that computer science isn't real science and try to mix the two (and I say this as someone who is a computer scientist). Either that, or you're trolling, in which case, I suggest you put the clearly enormous effort you've spent trolling to better use.
> Full AES encryption of all the data would make the drive horribly slow.
I call BS. My Blackberry is fully encrypted with AES, not just the keys yet when connected to a PC copying large video files from it is not any slower, and the hardware AES chip is a tiny IC in the phone. I see no reason a few dollars chip wouldn't be used in hardware encrypted USB drives which are fairly expensive (plus, the USB drive doesn't even have the power constraints of a mobile device).
At first glance, I see this result as supportive of Mohrhoff's interpretation.
This is an interesting theory, but I think lorentz-violating neutrino oscillations is a simpler proposal that is consistent with both the supernova measurements and the OPERA experiments.
Are you dense? Did you forget neutrino oscillations? In the supernova case, neutrinos would change type many times before reaching us, and only muon neutrinos are alleged to be tachyonic. The overall average speed would approximate c.
Are you stupid? Did you forget neutrino oscillations? In the supernova case, neutrinos would change type many times before reaching us, and only muon neutrinos are alleged to be tachyonic. The overall average speed would approximate c.
Lorentz-violating neutrino oscillations has been an idea posted in arxhiv papers long ago, and I've been slapping around the dummies who keep bringing up the supernova experiment with this throughout multiple times stories on this issue got posted here. It's good to see some other people start mentioning the obvious.
That is false; there is minimal interaction with matter. If muon neutrinos are tachyonic, lorentz-violating oscillations would be changing between type and the slower electron and tau neutrinos, giving an average speed of c. In the OPERA experiment, the flight time is too short for oscillations, and the imaginary mass of a tachyonic neutrino would mean it travels along a spacelike geodesic while in Earth's gravity field.
Check my other posts. It's not the environment; it's the much longer time in flight from the supernova giving time for lorentz-violating neutrino oscillations, converting between tachyonic muon neutrinos and bradyonic electron and tau neutrinos, resulting in an overall average speed close to c.
Indeed not data is created equal. The OPERA experiment has verified results at five-sigma. The supernova measurement doesn't come close. How 'bout them apples?
Do you realize how silly you look when I point out that the OPERA experiment has five-sigma results and the supernova measurement doesn't come close to that? Moreover, lorentz-violating neutrino oscillations can trivially explain how tachyonic neutrinos are consistent with both experiments--there is not enough time in flight in the Earth experiment uon neutrinos to convert to the other types. Not so with neutrinos from the supernova, whose speed averages out through multiple oscillations to be approximately c. If you had bothered to do a bit of research before shooting off your mouth, you would have found papers on arxiv discussing this very thing.
How is the experiment harder to refute? OPERA has five sigma, whereas the supernova one does not. You've been refuted once again. Moreover, as I already explained in my reply to your other post, neutrino oscillations trivially explain how tachyonic neutrinos are consistent with both experiments. You have shown yourself to be as much of an idiot and self-assured zealot as the people promoting free energy devices. So fuck you.
This comes up every time these results are discussed, and I'm getting tired of refuting this red herring argument.
Neutrinos change type! If muon neutrinos are tachyonic, one would expect lorentz-violating neutrino oscillations to occur. The imaginary mass of tachyonic muon neutrinos would make them go faster through a gravity field as they travel along spacelike geodesics. But when they switch types, any such speedup would be lost.
In the Earth experiments, the time in flight is too short for neutrino oscillations to occur and if neutrinos are actually tachyonic, they would remain so for the full flight. Not so for the long flight from the supernova to us.
And you're completely wrong in such a dismissal, for there is a _trivial_ explanation. Neutrinos change type! If muon neutrinos are tachyonic, one would expect lorentz-violating neutrino oscillations to occur. The imaginary mass of tachyonic muon neutrinos would make them go faster through a gravity field as they travel along spacelike geodesics. But when they switch types, any such speedup would be lost. In the Earth experiments, the time in flight is too short for neutrino oscillations to occur and if neutrinos are actually tachyonic, they would remain so for the full flight. Not so for the long flight from the supernova to us. While I still think it is overwhelmingly likely that there is systemic error in the experiment and no actual superluminal neutrinos, your dismissiveness is based on nothing but your arrogance. So fuck you.
You're the first tinfoil-hatter I've seen with only a 5 digit uid. Sad.
The true disaster of Ron Paul is his incredibly ignorant and blindly ideological ideas of gold-backed currency. That would be neutering the government's most powerful tool of economic policy--controlling the money supply.
The Greeks are failing because they are not the monopoly issuer of their own currency. Germany has been beggaring their neighbors with the mercantilist policies promoted by the Bundesbank ever since others fell in the trap of the Euro. The German policy of a huge trade surplus coupled with the choke hold of a common currency is at the core of the economic rot of Europe. This is what happens when people follow dated neoliberalist economics and don't understand modern monetary theory. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1905625
Moravec's estimate on the computational power of the human neural system is too low by about an order of magnitude since he considers the basic building block to the the synapse, whereas it is actually the synaptic vesicles, which do not act in unison and are significantly differentiated. Synapses have complex state.