It's funny because most of those things are also in the Bible, and yet no one (to the best of my knowledge) has ever made a serious campaign to ban the Bible.
Does Jesus count as a zombie?
I suppose the eating of body and blood in some churches is a bit of a giveaway...
4 degrees (C??) seems fairly large. Even if their "goal is to minimize the temperature differential" presumably the energy they are dumping into the bay will be the same. e.g. faster flow will probably result in lower temperature differentials but applied to a larger quantity of water
unless you're a Republican into that type of stuff... "There’s no great mystery about the motives behind this deliberate misnaming. 'Democrat Party' is a slur, or intended to be—a handy way to express contempt." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
And I repeat: from TFA, mass of the planet is 5x Earth Mass. Diameter (and radius) is 1.6x Earth.
Insert 5x mass and 1.6x radius into Gm/r^2, and you very quickly realize that:
1) density isn't the same as Earth's. It is, in fact, a.25x Earth density.
2) surface gravity will be ~2x Earth (1.95+g).
The mass of the planet is only an estimate currently as that can't be measured without radial velocity studies. But assuming that mass I agree with your gravity estimate. But your density is wrong (maybe a typo?), volume scales as size^3, so density is like 1.22 x Earth for that assumed mass.
How many criminals are smart enough to think long term like this? Not many I'm afraid...
But the thing is we mainly learn about the stupid criminals. Those (however many there are) who are smart enough to make it work we don't know about. e.g. if someone uses an accomplice, doesn't spend any of the money for some time (say a couple of years), then leaves work for a plausible reason and moves to a new area, I'd guess we may not hear of these. And we get a distorted view of criminals because the ones that succeed are never heard about.
Naturally we only know about the times that this type of scheme fails. If the lottery worker had got a 3rd party to buy the ticket in exchange for a large share to the winnings (e.g. 50%) would he have got away with it?
So, where are all the environmentalists demanding we build integral fast reactors as fast as we can?
"Why Fukushima made me stop worrying and love nuclear power "
You will not be surprised to hear that the events in Japan have changed my view of nuclear power. You will be surprised to hear how they have changed it. As a result of the disaster at Fukushima, I am no longer nuclear-neutral. I now support the technology.
I had the original Macbook air which also had only one USB port (although not USB-C of course). It was often an incredible pain having only the one port. I now have a more recent Air and the additional ports make the machine much more flexible and useful for me. (And I use it as an international travel device for taking to conferences etc.)
The difference here is that Uber has a product. A vile, rent-seeking product built on the corpse of the American Middle Class, but a product nontheless..
I'm finding Uber increasingly useful, as so do an increasing number of people I know who live in cities. The drivers also seem pretty happy when you talk to them. So, I think you're overstating how bad Uber is overall. And they may even (with luck) have a positive role to play in making cities easier to get around and so reducing the need for cars.
The bigger message that Samsung is going to make most of the bloatware uninstallable and optionally downloadable has been completely ignored here.
- The details are still unknown as this is essentially still just a rumor. - The article says it appears that the Samsung apps are going to be optionally downloadable. But it is unclear whether the MS apps that replace them will be removable/downloadable, or whether those will work the same way as the current Samsung apps do. (i.e. not able to remove without rooting phone.)
Well, they do quote the size of the effect in the abstract. And the results clearly have no statistical "power". This is part of the abstract. HR = hazard ratio. i.e. the relative ratio of dying for the joggers compared to the non-joggers. And CI is a confidence interval. e.g. For the light joggers they can say with 95% statistical certainty that the risk of dying was between 10% and 47% of the non-joggers. The lowest HR for mortality was found in light joggers (HR: 0.22; 95% CI: 0.10 to 0.47), followed by moderate joggers (HR: 0.66; 95% CI: 0.32 to 1.38) and strenuous joggers (HR: 1.97; 95% CI: 0.48 to 8.14).
But see that for the strenuous joggers the range can be anywhere between 50% of the non-joggers death rate to 8x the death rate. So, really nothing at all can be said about anything apart from either the light joggers, or considering all joggers together. For those groups there is a benefit at the 95% confidence level. (And, as a physicist, I don't really consider any result to be worth much at such a low level.)
Of course, if you're being a real scientist, presumably you don't announce spectacular results till they've been peer-reviewed....
And even more than just announcing a non-reviewed piece of work, they went overboard with the hype it seems to me, including the highly-staged video they made of arriving at Andre Linde's house and telling him the result: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I wonder what the real step forward is (field of view? accuracy? software?), because that is not much aperture. 1.5 square meters in all, compared to 6 square meters on Kepler and 18 square meters on Hubble.
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It's funny because most of those things are also in the Bible, and yet no one (to the best of my knowledge) has ever made a serious campaign to ban the Bible.
Does Jesus count as a zombie?
I suppose the eating of body and blood in some churches is a bit of a giveaway...
4 degrees (C??) seems fairly large.
Even if their "goal is to minimize the temperature differential" presumably the energy they
are dumping into the bay will be the same.
e.g. faster flow will probably result in lower temperature differentials but applied to a larger quantity of water
Additionally, subsidizing a ride from, say, the airport at 3 PM does little to fight drunk driving. .
Depends how much one has been drinking on the plane - especially if one managed to get that free upgrade to business class with the free booze!
unless you're a Republican into that type of stuff...
"There’s no great mystery about the motives behind this deliberate misnaming. 'Democrat Party' is a slur, or intended to be—a handy way to express contempt."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
And I repeat: from TFA, mass of the planet is 5x Earth Mass. Diameter (and radius) is 1.6x Earth.
Insert 5x mass and 1.6x radius into Gm/r^2, and you very quickly realize that:
1) density isn't the same as Earth's. It is, in fact, a.25x Earth density.
2) surface gravity will be ~2x Earth (1.95+g).
The mass of the planet is only an estimate currently as that can't be measured without radial
velocity studies.
But assuming that mass I agree with your gravity estimate.
But your density is wrong (maybe a typo?), volume scales as size^3, so density is like 1.22 x Earth
for that assumed mass.
How can I not have a reasonable expectation of privacy for something that it literally happening in my pants?
The problem is that you didn't keep it in your pants.
(Where "it" = the call.)
I assume that if you butt-dial from a front pocket, it's pocket-dialing.
Or it could be somebody else's butt doing the dialing...
How many criminals are smart enough to think long term like this? Not many I'm afraid...
But the thing is we mainly learn about the stupid criminals.
Those (however many there are) who are smart enough to make it work we don't
know about.
e.g. if someone uses an accomplice, doesn't spend any of the money for some time
(say a couple of years), then leaves work for a plausible reason and moves
to a new area, I'd guess we may not hear of these.
And we get a distorted view of criminals because the ones that succeed are never
heard about.
I think this counts as a "known unknown"....
Naturally we only know about the times that this type of scheme fails.
If the lottery worker had got a 3rd party to buy the ticket in exchange for a large share
to the winnings (e.g. 50%) would he have got away with it?
Why would an entrepreneur go to Australia and pay even higher taxes there than in the U.S. when they could immigrate to some country.../p>
If they are "going" then they are "emigrating" not "immigrating".
Overall, just using "migrate" is probably better as it's independent of the point of view.
e.g.
http://www.vocabulary.com/arti...
Because usually these people only have one person that they sell their services to, and that makes them employees, not contractors.
Don't some uber drivers also work for lyft as well?
My gf was driven by a driver who told her she also worked for lyft.
finally we will be left with only true Beatlemania!
The Fabulous Four be praised.
So, where are all the environmentalists demanding we build integral fast reactors as fast as we can?
"Why Fukushima made me stop worrying and love nuclear power "
You will not be surprised to hear that the events in Japan have changed my view of nuclear power. You will be surprised to hear how they have changed it. As a result of the disaster at Fukushima, I am no longer nuclear-neutral. I now support the technology.
http://www.theguardian.com/com...
And yet I see so many vehicles in the left-hand lane on US highways weaving onto the left-hand shoulder.
Surprisingly that seems to include the self-driving car I was behind today.
At least I assume it was self-driving as the woman in the driver's seat was spending quite some time using both
hands to adjust her hair....
it could take longer than in his books, which, frankly, were interminable.
I agree. After Red Mars I was so put off that, after previously being something of a fan, I never read another one of his books...
If it's not the closest, are we going to rename it?
Proximish Centauri??
I had the original Macbook air which also had only one USB port (although not USB-C of course).
It was often an incredible pain having only the one port. I now have a more recent Air and the additional ports make the
machine much more flexible and useful for me. (And I use it as an international travel device for taking to conferences etc.)
The difference here is that Uber has a product. A vile, rent-seeking product built on the corpse of the American Middle Class, but a product nontheless. .
I'm finding Uber increasingly useful, as so do an increasing number of people I know who live in cities.
The drivers also seem pretty happy when you talk to them.
So, I think you're overstating how bad Uber is overall. And they may even (with luck)
have a positive role to play in making cities easier to get around and so reducing the
need for cars.
care to give an example of where it's not a good idea to jailbreak something you OWN to get full use out of it?
Letting your dog roam free on the streets rather being in the "jail" of your back yard??
Tattoos and piercings have existed for about as long as Christianity. I'll expect that "trend" to end as soon as the religious "trend".
And in fact go back at least 3000 years before the birth of Christianity
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%...
Can't read past the headline?
The bigger message that Samsung is going to make most of the bloatware uninstallable and optionally downloadable has been completely ignored here.
- The details are still unknown as this is essentially still just a rumor.
- The article says it appears that the Samsung apps are going to be optionally downloadable.
But it is unclear whether the MS apps that replace them will be removable/downloadable, or whether those will work the same way as the current Samsung apps do. (i.e. not able to remove without rooting phone.)
And do not state the size of the effect.
Well, they do quote the size of the effect in the abstract. And the results clearly have no statistical "power".
This is part of the abstract. HR = hazard ratio. i.e. the relative ratio of dying for the joggers compared to the non-joggers.
And CI is a confidence interval. e.g. For the light joggers they can say with 95% statistical certainty that the risk of dying was
between 10% and 47% of the non-joggers.
The lowest HR for mortality was found in light joggers (HR: 0.22; 95% CI: 0.10 to 0.47), followed by moderate joggers (HR: 0.66; 95% CI: 0.32 to 1.38) and strenuous joggers (HR: 1.97; 95% CI: 0.48 to 8.14).
But see that for the strenuous joggers the range can be anywhere between 50% of the non-joggers death rate to 8x the death rate.
So, really nothing at all can be said about anything apart from either the light joggers, or considering all joggers together.
For those groups there is a benefit at the 95% confidence level.
(And, as a physicist, I don't really consider any result to be worth much at such a low level.)
Of course, if you're being a real scientist, presumably you don't announce spectacular results till they've been peer-reviewed....
And even more than just announcing a non-reviewed piece of work, they went overboard with the hype it seems to me,
including the highly-staged video they made of arriving at Andre Linde's house and telling him the result:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Would mainly be Pris.
But I'd also be pretty keen on rooting Zhora and/or Rachael as well.
I wonder what the real step forward is (field of view? accuracy? software?), because that is not much aperture. 1.5 square meters in all, compared to 6 square meters on Kepler and 18 square meters on Hubble.
The collecting area of HST is ~4.5 m^2. (2.4/2)^2 x pi
Collecting area of Kepler is ~0.7 m^2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K...
You also have to consider e.g. field of view and observation durations for use in planet searches.