Unlikely. My money is on a Ukrainian fighter jet - but it may have been a Ukrainian SAM.
The exact firing location, ownership and model of the SAM is disputed, but when even the manufacturer of the Buk weapon system recognizes that the weapon belonged to the Buk family, you can pretty much rule out a fighter jet.
This is a consequence rather than a feature. You can find the same mechanism in the european parliament elections. No small country or state would enter an union with bigger states if it did not get proportionally more power. It is a necessity to make them take part in an union. But you're right by saying that it does not help democracy.
The error is to think that IQ tests only test native abilities. In a large part, IQ tests are about learned skills. Learned skills are culturally (or probably more accurately environmentally) biased. Look at the kind of abstract problems presented in an IQ test - it is quite easy to train about solving them. Does the few days (or even the few months) you spend on training on these tests make you more intelligent ? No, but you'll score higher. Likewise, the education you receive and the environment you are exposed to bias the tests results.
Well, deadly mistakes also happen in other countries. But there seem to be a real problem in the states about how the police handles this kind of situation. When between 15 and 35% of the people killed by the police are unarmed, you know you have a problem. The police forces really ought to be trained in a different way... and maybe also there needs to be work done on the way the investigations are made after those accidents, and on the consequences faced by trigger happy officers. Do you know if there is any work related to this currently going on ?
Indeed, the Jimmy Carter submarine is believed to be specialized in that task. Of course, all of that outrage is fake - it is just part of the international game. For both parties, it just makes encryption even more worthwhile.
Yes. But cars are not rated for the same mechanical environments (shocks, vibrations) as satellites. They are designed (and tested) not to come apart during launch.
For sure, but they'll need to launch a capsule at Mars at some time to achieve their stated goals, which will be much heavier than a Tesla. The advertised payload to Mars of the Falcon Heavy is almost 17000 kg !
The Telsa Roadster mass is about 1400 kg, isn't it ? This seems way too light for a payload simulator. The mass of the Soyouz is above 7000 kg, a loaded Dragon is about 10000 kg, and the Orion is close to 25000 kg !
So this only makes sense if they also add a "boring" (but useful) dummy payload along it.
Have you read your citation ?
"According to the latest annual UN report on the "emissions gap," the Paris agreement will provide only a third of the cuts in greenhouse gas that environmentalists claim is needed to prevent catastrophic warming. If every country involved in those accords abides by their pledges between now and 2030 — which is a dubious proposition — temperatures will still rise by 3 degrees C by 2100. The goal of the Paris agreement was to keep the global temperature increase to under 2 degrees."
Two things about Hydroelectricity:
- Why don't you include it in the renewable energy sources ?
- You must take into account the fact that its maximum capacity is ultimately limited. We are currently using it worldwide at 20% of its estimated total potential. But in some developed places, we are already near its practical potential. France and Sweden hit 70%, Switzerland 90%.
The numbers seem off. The latest high speed line from Paris to Bordeaux cost 8 billions for 300 km. This is in the ballpark of 27 millions per km. Highways cost around 6 millions per km. Of course, both numbers can vary greatly according to the terrain characteristics. But we are certainly not talking about a factor 100 of difference...
However, it's true that it's hard to imagine how the hyperloop track could be cheap.
There have been sleep studies conducted before fitbit was invented. I do not say that they were better or worse than what fitbit reports, since I do not have sufficient data on the matter. However, be aware that a high sample size is useless if the measurement method is flawed.
I think a lot of reactions here are a bit caricatured.
Evil journals are restricting the access to science. Every researcher is against them, but cannot fight the maffia system they established. The peer review is a flawed process, and unreproducible results are published. Let's destroy them !
Yet...
If authors are so much against the journal system, why don't they all publish preprints of their articles ? Most of the journals allow it.
If the peer review system is so worthless, why are articles changing so much between the initial submitted version and the final published version ?
A lot of people here are acting as if an article with results which have not been reproduced yet was worthless. Have they really been in any contact to the field of sciences ? One of the points of the peer review is to make sure that enough details are given on the experimental conditions and analysis methods, so that the experiment can be reproduced. But this might be the point of another article, by another team, at another time... Progress works like this.
If most articles have a "prior work" section that reviews the state of the art, it is not just to fill pages so that the journal can charge more. This is to present if the findings are new, and by definition have not been reproduced yet by other teams.
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Unlikely. My money is on a Ukrainian fighter jet - but it may have been a Ukrainian SAM.
The exact firing location, ownership and model of the SAM is disputed, but when even the manufacturer of the Buk weapon system recognizes that the weapon belonged to the Buk family, you can pretty much rule out a fighter jet.
This is a consequence rather than a feature. You can find the same mechanism in the european parliament elections. No small country or state would enter an union with bigger states if it did not get proportionally more power. It is a necessity to make them take part in an union. But you're right by saying that it does not help democracy.
Who really cares about a cable ?
Everyone has a vested interest in the voting results, even not if not a civil servant. The law indeed applies and affects everyone.
The error is to think that IQ tests only test native abilities. In a large part, IQ tests are about learned skills. Learned skills are culturally (or probably more accurately environmentally) biased. Look at the kind of abstract problems presented in an IQ test - it is quite easy to train about solving them. Does the few days (or even the few months) you spend on training on these tests make you more intelligent ? No, but you'll score higher. Likewise, the education you receive and the environment you are exposed to bias the tests results.
NaCl (for instance used on the new Google Earth) still looks awfully like ActiveX and is very much vendor specific.
Safari scores 449 here. I don't think the gap is as significant as you seem to believe.
Well, deadly mistakes also happen in other countries. But there seem to be a real problem in the states about how the police handles this kind of situation. When between 15 and 35% of the people killed by the police are unarmed, you know you have a problem. The police forces really ought to be trained in a different way... and maybe also there needs to be work done on the way the investigations are made after those accidents, and on the consequences faced by trigger happy officers. Do you know if there is any work related to this currently going on ?
Indeed, the Jimmy Carter submarine is believed to be specialized in that task. Of course, all of that outrage is fake - it is just part of the international game. For both parties, it just makes encryption even more worthwhile.
Yes. But cars are not rated for the same mechanical environments (shocks, vibrations) as satellites. They are designed (and tested) not to come apart during launch.
For sure, but they'll need to launch a capsule at Mars at some time to achieve their stated goals, which will be much heavier than a Tesla. The advertised payload to Mars of the Falcon Heavy is almost 17000 kg !
The Telsa Roadster mass is about 1400 kg, isn't it ? This seems way too light for a payload simulator. The mass of the Soyouz is above 7000 kg, a loaded Dragon is about 10000 kg, and the Orion is close to 25000 kg !
So this only makes sense if they also add a "boring" (but useful) dummy payload along it.
I have a 2015 Macbook.
The keyboard kind of gets better as it ages. I guess the mechanism gets smoother as it wears out...
Have you read your citation ?
"According to the latest annual UN report on the "emissions gap," the Paris agreement will provide only a third of the cuts in greenhouse gas that environmentalists claim is needed to prevent catastrophic warming. If every country involved in those accords abides by their pledges between now and 2030 — which is a dubious proposition — temperatures will still rise by 3 degrees C by 2100. The goal of the Paris agreement was to keep the global temperature increase to under 2 degrees."
The iPhone X, will it blend ?
Two things about Hydroelectricity: - Why don't you include it in the renewable energy sources ? - You must take into account the fact that its maximum capacity is ultimately limited. We are currently using it worldwide at 20% of its estimated total potential. But in some developed places, we are already near its practical potential. France and Sweden hit 70%, Switzerland 90%.
I often feel the ads I see on the subway station are more targeted towards me than what I see on the internet. Which is quite something to say.
The point is that is not up to the browser developer to decide what is "enough" or "wrong".
You'll see the corona. It's the best thing to look at.
Do people even wear a wristwatch any more?
Yes.
The numbers seem off. The latest high speed line from Paris to Bordeaux cost 8 billions for 300 km. This is in the ballpark of 27 millions per km. Highways cost around 6 millions per km. Of course, both numbers can vary greatly according to the terrain characteristics. But we are certainly not talking about a factor 100 of difference... However, it's true that it's hard to imagine how the hyperloop track could be cheap.
It was more like a straddle tramway anyway, since it runned on rails. However, even if this is a scam, the general concept looked interesting...
There have been sleep studies conducted before fitbit was invented. I do not say that they were better or worse than what fitbit reports, since I do not have sufficient data on the matter. However, be aware that a high sample size is useless if the measurement method is flawed.
It's a bit paradoxical that it was the OCaml team who found this bug, whereas OCaml is notoriously bad at parallelism.
I think a lot of reactions here are a bit caricatured.
Evil journals are restricting the access to science. Every researcher is against them, but cannot fight the maffia system they established. The peer review is a flawed process, and unreproducible results are published. Let's destroy them !
Yet...
If authors are so much against the journal system, why don't they all publish preprints of their articles ? Most of the journals allow it.
If the peer review system is so worthless, why are articles changing so much between the initial submitted version and the final published version ?
A lot of people here are acting as if an article with results which have not been reproduced yet was worthless. Have they really been in any contact to the field of sciences ? One of the points of the peer review is to make sure that enough details are given on the experimental conditions and analysis methods, so that the experiment can be reproduced. But this might be the point of another article, by another team, at another time... Progress works like this.
If most articles have a "prior work" section that reviews the state of the art, it is not just to fill pages so that the journal can charge more. This is to present if the findings are new, and by definition have not been reproduced yet by other teams.