Almost all mental illnesses include as a diagnostic criterion that the behaviour is detrimental to yourself or others. You're not clinically depressed until it negatively affects your life. Similar criteria could be applied to religion, except we're afraid to do it.
That's not the issue. Active comparitors are standard and make sense: you don't really care anymore whether something works, you care whether it works better than what's available.
The issue here is that they decided not to give the patients who were on only chemo a fake head zapper to carry around for "ethical reasons." In a field where you have a serious conversation about whether you should do sham open chest surgery or not, it's suspicious that they considered carrying around a shoulder bag to be ethically unjustifiable.
As near as I can tell, it's because Americans don't want to wait until two hours after the polls close. In fact, they want the results before the polls close. They get so frustrated with Hawaii that they decide who that state is going to vote for before ANY of the votes are counted.
Except that electors in the past have cast votes against the candidate they were supposed to support, and in this particular election one of the parties doesn't really like it's candidate anyway. Apparently three republican electors have pledged not to vote for Trump.
It's unlikely faithless electors will change the outcome in this election, but it sure would bring home the point that a large part of the US democracy is really just a suggestion to appointed officials.
Honestly, that's a stupid "tradition." I'm not American. Watching American elections is like watching a TV drama. The different American TV networks "called" states for one candidate or the other using different criteria, at different times. Hawaii was "called" before *any* votes were counted. Some of the results, including the popular vote, are well within statistical error. And now you're criticizing one candidate because she didn't concede at some arbitrary time in the middle of the night?
Why can't you just wait until the votes are actually counted, the loser says "congrats, you won" and the winner says "thanks, you ran a great campaign?"
The "correction" is essentially fitting a model. When you fit a model with a single parameter you have some chance of finding a spurious relationship. As you add parameters that chance gets bigger and bigger. When you have as many independent parameters as data points your model will always fit perfectly.
The number of counties involved doesn't look particularly big. If you kept adding demographic factors to your model it might not be long before you succeeded in making any differences go away.
"Structural failure just before landing" sounds a lot like a euphemism for crashing into the ground, or possibly some obstacle. Flying wings are hard to design to be flyable, and even then they're barely so. They also tend to be least flyable when landing.
Obama didn't say it's illegal to pardon Snowden, he said he can't. He may well have meant that as in when you ask someone to marry you on the first date and she says "I can't."
Except that four hundred years has shown that doesn't work. A rancher or farmer might have a vested interest in the environment of his land (or maybe not) but a factory owner doesn't. Also tragedy of the commons, the air and water being common.
It's not a problem if the phenomenon causing the thrust is related to some specific rest frame. The magnetic field of the Earth, for example. Also, the existence of the CMBR dipole anisotropy suggests that cosmologically things might be a little more interesting than the t-shirt version of special relativity suggests.
Plus, if it is necessary to toss conservation of momentum, chucking special relativity along with it is a small thing.
Kinda like we do now hey? And with the current system the computer even has a little tickbox to adjust the numbers it displays into a convenient, geographically invariant form!
You think people having to convert to UTC is going to prevent errors? Most people mange to remember what timezone they're in, except perhaps for a couple of days a year when they all lose their shit at the prospect of doing the temporal-administrative equivalent of travelling a few hundred kilometres east or west.
No, it makes perfect sense. When you travel instead of having to adjust your watch (or have your cell phone automatically adjust for you) you just have to shift your entire time-related worldview! Simple!
These articles always seem like they're written by one of those people who will be born, live and die all within a 100 km square area.
"for all we know we live in the aether and the device materializes invisible paddles to row it."
We do live in the aether. The qualitative description of modern quantum field theory is pretty much indistinguishable from qualitative descriptions of some aether theories. Relativity suggests that you can't paddle through the aether, but one of the theories for how this thing works is essentially that.
If you have enough delta v you can fly on a hyperbolic orbit, which can be as fast as you like. That dv can be delivered all at once, at the beginning (and hopefully the end) like we do it now, or it can be delivered continuously, like we'd do with this engine.
Stuff like adherence to Geneva Convention: nuclear bombing a city (with "small" 2kt nuclear weapons), purposefully attacking civilian infrastructure to intimidate the population, that sort of thing. And right at the beginning of the book.
That's a very good question, isn't it? They must be making money in some way other than selling phones. Some way that makes it worth their while to sell phones at a loss.
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Why do you think people eat it?
Almost all mental illnesses include as a diagnostic criterion that the behaviour is detrimental to yourself or others. You're not clinically depressed until it negatively affects your life. Similar criteria could be applied to religion, except we're afraid to do it.
That's not the issue. Active comparitors are standard and make sense: you don't really care anymore whether something works, you care whether it works better than what's available.
The issue here is that they decided not to give the patients who were on only chemo a fake head zapper to carry around for "ethical reasons." In a field where you have a serious conversation about whether you should do sham open chest surgery or not, it's suspicious that they considered carrying around a shoulder bag to be ethically unjustifiable.
As near as I can tell, it's because Americans don't want to wait until two hours after the polls close. In fact, they want the results before the polls close. They get so frustrated with Hawaii that they decide who that state is going to vote for before ANY of the votes are counted.
Except that electors in the past have cast votes against the candidate they were supposed to support, and in this particular election one of the parties doesn't really like it's candidate anyway. Apparently three republican electors have pledged not to vote for Trump.
It's unlikely faithless electors will change the outcome in this election, but it sure would bring home the point that a large part of the US democracy is really just a suggestion to appointed officials.
Honestly, that's a stupid "tradition." I'm not American. Watching American elections is like watching a TV drama. The different American TV networks "called" states for one candidate or the other using different criteria, at different times. Hawaii was "called" before *any* votes were counted. Some of the results, including the popular vote, are well within statistical error. And now you're criticizing one candidate because she didn't concede at some arbitrary time in the middle of the night?
Why can't you just wait until the votes are actually counted, the loser says "congrats, you won" and the winner says "thanks, you ran a great campaign?"
The "correction" is essentially fitting a model. When you fit a model with a single parameter you have some chance of finding a spurious relationship. As you add parameters that chance gets bigger and bigger. When you have as many independent parameters as data points your model will always fit perfectly.
The number of counties involved doesn't look particularly big. If you kept adding demographic factors to your model it might not be long before you succeeded in making any differences go away.
45 cents is well below what electricity costs on many much larger islands. According to Wikipedia it's about what it costs in Jamaica.
"Structural failure just before landing" sounds a lot like a euphemism for crashing into the ground, or possibly some obstacle. Flying wings are hard to design to be flyable, and even then they're barely so. They also tend to be least flyable when landing.
Obama didn't say it's illegal to pardon Snowden, he said he can't. He may well have meant that as in when you ask someone to marry you on the first date and she says "I can't."
There are no things that ride around on wheels either.
During the primaries Sanders beat Trump handily in what-if polls. He did much better against Trump than Clinton did.
Political positions aren't as uniaxial as that silly eighteenth century French naming convention would have you believe.
Except that four hundred years has shown that doesn't work. A rancher or farmer might have a vested interest in the environment of his land (or maybe not) but a factory owner doesn't. Also tragedy of the commons, the air and water being common.
It's not a problem if the phenomenon causing the thrust is related to some specific rest frame. The magnetic field of the Earth, for example. Also, the existence of the CMBR dipole anisotropy suggests that cosmologically things might be a little more interesting than the t-shirt version of special relativity suggests.
Plus, if it is necessary to toss conservation of momentum, chucking special relativity along with it is a small thing.
Kinda like we do now hey? And with the current system the computer even has a little tickbox to adjust the numbers it displays into a convenient, geographically invariant form!
You think people having to convert to UTC is going to prevent errors? Most people mange to remember what timezone they're in, except perhaps for a couple of days a year when they all lose their shit at the prospect of doing the temporal-administrative equivalent of travelling a few hundred kilometres east or west.
No, it makes perfect sense. When you travel instead of having to adjust your watch (or have your cell phone automatically adjust for you) you just have to shift your entire time-related worldview! Simple!
These articles always seem like they're written by one of those people who will be born, live and die all within a 100 km square area.
What makes you think you can get more energy out of an EM drive than you put in?
"for all we know we live in the aether and the device materializes invisible paddles to row it."
We do live in the aether. The qualitative description of modern quantum field theory is pretty much indistinguishable from qualitative descriptions of some aether theories. Relativity suggests that you can't paddle through the aether, but one of the theories for how this thing works is essentially that.
If you have enough delta v you can fly on a hyperbolic orbit, which can be as fast as you like. That dv can be delivered all at once, at the beginning (and hopefully the end) like we do it now, or it can be delivered continuously, like we'd do with this engine.
Sadly, this is not true.
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Snowden gave a straightforward answer. In technical terms it's pretty trivial. In political terms it's earth shattering.
So just like WWII then.
And he was born and raised in Buenos Aires.
That's a very good question, isn't it? They must be making money in some way other than selling phones. Some way that makes it worth their while to sell phones at a loss.