Yes, equally plausible. I guess "no studio ever went broke underestimating the intelligence or taste of the American public". And it turns out the same applies to China. (Perhaps just not to Chinese migrants in America?)
Where? The only commercial source of plutonium I have ever heard of are ionization smoke detectors (like the KV-1) sold in the Soviet Union, but apparently not made in decades.
Yes, back in 1985, plutonium was available at every corner drugstore, but in 2019 it’s a little hard to come by.
A few tonnes of uranium in old reactors, vs billions of tons of dissolved uranium. Also, removing solid pollutants is a totally different technical problem from extracting a tiny portion of dissolved salts.
I'm not sure AC is grasping the interesting issue here. It like somebody comes up with a new way to extract oil from underground reserves, and some dumb AC suggests looking in the oil sumps at the local car-wrecking yard first.
American delusion. China used to be a purely copy-paste tech nation, but if you hadn't noticed, they've been producing more and more original tech over the past years.
And before that it was Japan, who shamelessly copied western goods and sold them cheaper. Until eventually they made better cameras and cars. Before that it was the US, ignoring copyright and patents until they became leaders instead of followers.
China's caught up with us.
Meh... getting there. A way to go yet. Taiwan and Korea are more caught up.
Do Americans really need to be told where Queensland is? I wince every time I hear some American reporter say "Paris, France" or "Scotland, UK".
Surely no Americans are not so dumb as to not know where Paris is (context says it ain't the small town in Texas), so why the habit of attaching county names to places not remotely obscure?
So Nestle is making a fuss over videos of kids eating lollipops?
Nestle, the company who knowingly killed how many thousands of babies, pushing baby formulae in third world counties? And have made billions stunting the development of millions of babies by promoting the same products to mothers who were capable of breast feeding?
Monitors and laptops are hardly new for Apple. A company of that size should be diversifying, before they find it is too late, and they implode like Kodak, Nokia or Xerox.
Sony and IBM may not have their former glory, but are still alive and making big money. As well as diversifying, they actually did basic research and genuine innovation. Why doesn't Apple?
Apple makes wonderful products, don't get me wrong, but the closest they have ever come to an original invention is probably the App Store.
Austria has 11 million IPv4 addresses. 11.170.487 to be exact
You know you've been in the continent too long when you put periods in the middle of an integer, but not at the end of a sentence. Sorry to be such a grammar n... na... never mind.
I've taught logic in graduate school. The worst thing you can do as a teacher is determine that smartness is baked in.
Sure you are not confusing "smartness" with achievement? The bad thing is to let the smart kids slack off and rely on their innate ability. Teachers should praise effort, but acknowledge intelligence.
Einstein was no Einstein in school, and not really a very good mathematician.
Bollocks! That is a complete urban legend. Einstein was brilliant at maths in school, though probably not the equal of his friend Marcel Grossmann, who helped with the maths for GR.
Jeezus, I hope you never get near students.
Its sad that you got near students if you were unable to recognise talent.
Are they hinting at assessment bias? Are these scores given by professors for written answers, projects, theses - from standardised multi-choice tests - or both?
Why is this not mentioned?
A hint is that the article uses "underrepresented minorities" as a euphemism for lower-intelligence minorities - Asians and Jews not included. So IQ is likely to be key here. If you control for SAT scores, does the racial "bias" disappear? My guess would be "yes".
It is true that intelligence, at least the measurable part, is fairly fixed for individuals, so the professors teaching the hardest subjects (advanced maths and physics) are more likely to express the "fixed mindset", while those teaching the more wishy-washy liberal arts subjects like biology and chemistry, where attitude and hard work achieve more, are more likely to lean in the "growth mindset" direction. This would yield the reported results.
But why speculate when comparing standardised test scores, and aptitude scores (SAT, IQ) would help answer these questions? Were the authors careful to only compare professors teaching the same subjects? Was affirmative action involved in the admissions process?
Would the authors prefer hinting at racial bias to giving actual facts?
Far too little information is given to infer a causal relationship between teacher attitude and score gap.
Again, you seem to be reading what you want to hear, and not what people actually say. I never said it was AGW.
The point was that we having witnessed dramatic climate change, we are less prone to the irrational anti-science denialism seen in parts of the US. As it happens, there is some evidence that this could be significantly due to GW, which would be a rare example. Or it could be more from land-clearing.
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I though a Dinosaurs was a Reptile [sic]
They could more accurately be classified as birds.
But then crocodiles are also more closely related to birds than they are to lizards.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
That's because most people who say that are completely serious.
Poe's law in action? But that equally says I could be the one mistaken :)
Yes, equally plausible. I guess "no studio ever went broke underestimating the intelligence or taste of the American public".
And it turns out the same applies to China. (Perhaps just not to Chinese migrants in America?)
And "too late" is a huge joke.
Oh dear. You tripped over the answer and still did not see it.
In other words, wwwoooossshhh!!!
They're always portrayed as asexual in Hollywood...
You mean the Marvell/DC movies? That is a legacy of the comic books, and Comics Code Authority, more than Hollywood.
Alternatively, I like the Armstrong Line -- this is the maximum altitude a human could survive at without a pressure suit. That's about 19km,
By altitude training, and boosting your blood capacity with EPO , than can be considerably extended, I hear.
... you can buy plutonium off the shelf ...
Where? The only commercial source of plutonium I have ever heard of are ionization smoke detectors (like the KV-1) sold in the Soviet Union, but apparently not made in decades.
Yes, back in 1985, plutonium was available at every corner drugstore, but in 2019 it’s a little hard to come by.
A few tonnes of uranium in old reactors, vs billions of tons of dissolved uranium.
Also, removing solid pollutants is a totally different technical problem from extracting a tiny portion of dissolved salts.
I'm not sure AC is grasping the interesting issue here.
It like somebody comes up with a new way to extract oil from underground reserves, and some dumb AC suggests looking in the oil sumps at the local car-wrecking yard first.
American delusion. China used to be a purely copy-paste tech nation, but if you hadn't noticed, they've been producing more and more original tech over the past years.
And before that it was Japan, who shamelessly copied western goods and sold them cheaper. Until eventually they made better cameras and cars.
Before that it was the US, ignoring copyright and patents until they became leaders instead of followers.
China's caught up with us.
Meh ... getting there. A way to go yet. Taiwan and Korea are more caught up.
Ditto for Ubuntu & Chrome.
Fixed?
The roads are still impassable to cars, so you get on your petrol-powered scooter or mountain bike.
higher intelligence... why doesn't everyone have this mutation?
Intelligence is negatively correlated to fertility. Have you not seen Idiocracy?
Do Americans really need to be told where Queensland is?
I wince every time I hear some American reporter say "Paris, France" or "Scotland, UK".
Surely no Americans are not so dumb as to not know where Paris is (context says it ain't the small town in Texas), so why the habit of attaching county names to places not remotely obscure?
These are fake, right?
Jay Leno: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
CNNNN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
So Nestle is making a fuss over videos of kids eating lollipops?
Nestle, the company who knowingly killed how many thousands of babies, pushing baby formulae in third world counties?
And have made billions stunting the development of millions of babies by promoting the same products to mothers who were capable of breast feeding?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Monitors and laptops are hardly new for Apple.
A company of that size should be diversifying, before they find it is too late, and they implode like Kodak, Nokia or Xerox.
Sony and IBM may not have their former glory, but are still alive and making big money. As well as diversifying, they actually did basic research and genuine innovation. Why doesn't Apple?
Apple makes wonderful products, don't get me wrong, but the closest they have ever come to an original invention is probably the App Store.
European way: 1.000.000
Simple, isn't it?
Doch! (Hope I used that correctly, as we have no English equivalent.)
It is not so simple. British and other English speakers do not do it that way, so commas should always be used as separators when writing in English.
England is still in Europe, no? At least for a few more weeks until it gets towed into the Atlantic.
The number is also funny because, as Trogre said, it looks like a single IP address.
How do central Europeans write dotted quad notation?
Austria has 11 million IPv4 addresses. 11.170.487 to be exact
You know you've been in the continent too long when you put periods in the middle of an integer, but not at the end of a sentence. ... na ... never mind.
Sorry to be such a grammar n
but having a working colony of humans off-world is good against the possibility of some major catastrophe on Earth.
I prefer to rely on the Many Worlds Interpretation.
It takes a lot more energy to throw it in the sun.
Not energy. Rockets are all about momentum and delta-V.
The only technology coming close to putting large amounts of nuclear waste into space (moon or sun) would be an Orion nuclear pulse drive.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I've taught logic in graduate school. The worst thing you can do as a teacher is determine that smartness is baked in.
Sure you are not confusing "smartness" with achievement? The bad thing is to let the smart kids slack off and rely on their innate ability. Teachers should praise effort, but acknowledge intelligence.
Einstein was no Einstein in school, and not really a very good mathematician.
Bollocks! That is a complete urban legend. Einstein was brilliant at maths in school, though probably not the equal of his friend Marcel Grossmann, who helped with the maths for GR.
Jeezus, I hope you never get near students.
Its sad that you got near students if you were unable to recognise talent.
Are they hinting at assessment bias? Are these scores given by professors for written answers, projects, theses - from standardised multi-choice tests - or both?
Why is this not mentioned?
A hint is that the article uses "underrepresented minorities" as a euphemism for lower-intelligence minorities - Asians and Jews not included. So IQ is likely to be key here. If you control for SAT scores, does the racial "bias" disappear? My guess would be "yes".
It is true that intelligence, at least the measurable part, is fairly fixed for individuals, so the professors teaching the hardest subjects (advanced maths and physics) are more likely to express the "fixed mindset", while those teaching the more wishy-washy liberal arts subjects like biology and chemistry, where attitude and hard work achieve more, are more likely to lean in the "growth mindset" direction. This would yield the reported results.
But why speculate when comparing standardised test scores, and aptitude scores (SAT, IQ) would help answer these questions?
Were the authors careful to only compare professors teaching the same subjects?
Was affirmative action involved in the admissions process?
Would the authors prefer hinting at racial bias to giving actual facts?
Far too little information is given to infer a causal relationship between teacher attitude and score gap.
Psssh. Dihydrogen monoxide is for amateurs. I double dog dare you to drink a glass of Hydric Acid.
I do that as a party trick in the chemistry lab.
The secret is to first neutralise it with an equal volume of hydrogen hydroxide.
I believe you meant morons...I don't know what a moran is.
Get a Brain, AC!
Again, you seem to be reading what you want to hear, and not what people actually say. I never said it was AGW.
The point was that we having witnessed dramatic climate change, we are less prone to the irrational anti-science denialism seen in parts of the US.
As it happens, there is some evidence that this could be significantly due to GW, which would be a rare example. Or it could be more from land-clearing.
http://www.abc.net.au/science/...
Apparently, you can take it with you.