Hidden varriable theory is the idea that your model is incomplete - that there is some effect that is hidden to you that controls where the photon went,and which atom is actually vibrating. Those theories have been proven incorrect. See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_variable_theory
Yeah - if your knowledge of the EU history comes from High School, it's actually not bad. The EU with that name started with the various treaties in the 60s, but the core idea is really rooted in WW1 and WW2.
EU started out with the goals of guaranteeing food security for Europe with agricultural programs to stabilize prices, and also to boost international trade by harmonizing safety and export legislation.
No. I hope you're American, because at least you have a reason to be clueless about the reason behind the existence of the EU. If you're british..... well, I hope the US won't save your ass next time the continent decides to blow up again.
Here's how the EU got started: http://europa.eu/about-eu/eu-history/1945-1959/index_en.htm The start of the EU was a steel and coal industry treaty. It's purpose? To keep countries from trying to monopolize steel and coal to build the best armies. In short, the EU has its roots in a very simple idea: the only way to prevent Europe from being engulfed in another massive war is to economically integrate everybody. France won't start a war with Germany for the same reason you don't shoot your foot (on purpose, at least).
That is why everyone is up in a fucking tizzy over the possible breakup of the Euro, and consequently the EU. There WILL be another war in Europe in our lifetime if that happens. There might be one if the EU sticks around, but it's far less likely.
It is very feasible for a "helpdesk" job to pull down 6 figures. How? Get one that requires specialized skills and that requires you to have a one-on-one relationship with the customer. Hint: that's not manning the phone in a call center, but you can get started like that.
So would it be ok if I just shoot you now? I mean, in 100+ years no one is going to know it was me who shot you, or who you were, or care that you existed. I mean, you'd be just as dead in a few years anyway, so why wait?
Oh...... I see. This attitude is only ok when it means you can get away with shit.
Yes, I'm sure that there is no reason ever to change how we behave. I mean, Easter Island will always be full of trees! There's always going to be space for public dumps!
No, it's a simple litmus test to know whether someone is interested in a real discussion, or just throws out random words that are loaded with emotional context.
As for your Nazi comment, I'll ignore for a second that it has no place in this discussion, and instead just one-up you: your need for ideological purity would have made you fit right into their party.
1) And the US has a metric shit ton more resources than Germany. Your point? 2) You fail basic economics. If the mark or the euro are overvalued, exports are terrible because they're more expensive than local goods. Try again. 3) A declining population has nothing to do with economic greatness. Unless you're thinking immigration - in which case, the US is trying real hard to come down to Europe's level. 4) You know squat about German corporate taxes, squat about US taxes and even less about real corporate taxes that arise from such niceties as the dutch sandwich or various indirect contributions. 5) You also know squat about the German university system. Anyone can go to University, except those who keep failing their High School classes. Those that do fail classes go to technical trade schools. It's exactly like the US system, except it's predicated on grades rather than money. 6) Your choice. 7) You're making a lot of assumptions about future events. Would you also like a pony? 8) No idea how that bit of (factual, for once) information relates to how well Germany is doing. 9) Yes, you can get fancy food all over the place. That said, I'd rather walk into a random Braustaette than a random American diner. 10) Your info is about 3 years out of date. In the meantime, the Porsche Panamera bettered the laptime by about 4 seconds.
There are a ton of reasons why Germany has a ton of problems and is worse than the US, but for some reason, you managed to barely allude to only one in your list of ten.
I was about to reply when I saw yours. Spot on. I didn't check all the comments, but the ones I did reinforced my perception that the moderation system works. off-topic for a speech about how government is always bad, downmodding of posts with no internal logic... it seems to be working.
Now there are posts that are factually wrong that get modded up. I know I've been guilty of those from both sides - both the posting and the modding. Unfortunately, that has more to do with the knowledge of the modders than anything else. There's no way to fix that, unless we go the appointed-expert route, and that's just not going to work.
I've said it before, I'll say it again: the Slashdot moderation system has many flaws, but no one has been able to provide a better alternative. Most are just some form of "make me a benevolent dictator" or "abolish all moderation", which are both non-starters.
There is no way to have a moderation system that doesn't in one way or another suffer from "the tyranny of the majority". Well, yes, there is, but it's called the "tyranny of the elite". Slashdot's system is about the best I've yet to find that doesn't involve paying moderators. Is it perfect? No, but Churchill's quip about democracy comes to mind.
The cold, hard reality is that every post that complains about the tyranny of the majority and group think is just upset that that they didn't win the modding game, and that they're special snowflake-like uniqueness has been callously trampled by the unwashed masses. Newsflash: no one else cares. The odds are good that a post at -1 is there for a reason, and complaining about group think is the online equivalent of throwing a tantrum.
Quite frankly, at this point I'm almost ready to just foe anybody who complains about group think. I haven't seen much useful information come from them anyway.
Reddit? That cesspool? I tried it because someone mentioned it before. I couldn't read the comments for more than 5 minutes before getting nauseous. It's like Yahoo! story comments, only with more neckbeard and basement-dwelling.
I think that's the main problem - metamod is pretty dead to me. I used to do it, because it was kinda interesting to see some old posts and provide some input, even if you didn't have mod points. Not to mention that it was kinda fun to challenge some notions about who is posting what. Now.... I haven't metamodded in probably over a year. The new system is worse than the old one, and really needs some help. And since metamodding is an integral part of the modding process, this ought to happen sooner rather than later.
I call Shenanigans. For someone with your UID, you should have accumulated enough Karma that it is basically immovable. I know mine is, and I've had far less time to accumulate Karma,all the while still pulling out the ol' flamebait/troll post if something pisses me off enough. Not to mention that I've seen the odd bury brigade here and there as well.
You're either overestimating the average quality of you posts, or you're posting way too much about Google and Android, where your position gets you modded into oblivion.
Hah, I was afraid of this - this stuff's real. Thanks for the long post by the way,it definitely helped with context. That said, the reason that I think that your initial post shows that science is in trouble is that about a decade ago, I was enough up to speed on QM and QED that my professors decided to hand me my Physics degree. And now I can't even figure out if a description of the state of the art is real or just a troll. It might be just me, it might be just QM (that Feynman quote got me through many dark hours going over QM calculations), but I have the distinct impression that we're seeing the limits of what a single person can contribute to Physics. If it takes you 30 years of study to just get to the state of the art, how much can you contribute to the field? Is the extension of knowledge that a single person can add getting smaller and smaller, until one day it is essentially zero?
I don't know. I'm fascinated by posts like yours, because they sound like something I should understand, but I don't. I'm glad someone still does, though.
By the way, thanks for that story about Biology in Pakistan. I will probably never travel there, and it is posts like that help me understand the culture.
As someone else said - don't criticize someone's English, because it's possible that your command of their native language is worse than their command of English. In this case, I think it's dutch.
It matters if you're trying to use empiricism to prove the existence of an all-powerful, all-knowing entity. It doesn't work that way. Our scientific method assumes that the world is ordered according to immutable laws. An all-powerful, all-knowing entity escapes that model. Note that this has no bearing on whether the models are useful to our daily lives. They might all fail one day, but until they do, they are useful.
I can't tell whether this is a joke, or a serious post. Most of the individual pieces and terms check out, but I have no idea if the actual sentences make any sense whatsoever.
I think this might be a sign that science is in trouble: most people have no idea what REALLY goes on in the various frontiers of scientific exploration.
Let's put it simple: NO! The day where not everybody gets what they order for hasn't come YET. Demand is still increasing, yet everyone gets what it is ready to pay for (but yes, it's getting more and more expensive).
The only way that you can argue that is by using the absolutely ludicrous definition of unlimited as meaning "as long as someone can buy any amount of oil for any amount of money, we haven't run out of oil". in the meantime, everyone understands that oil is limited, and that we will be in serious hurt long before we have actually run out oil. Imagine for a second that oil extraction has reached a level where a barrel costs $200. That's just a doubling of the level where people are already panicking and talking about Doom and Gloom for the world economy.
I believe it all depends on your definition of "peak oil", but for me, that's the peak of the "production" curve, and that curve is continuing to go up.
Cars cost more, jobs pay less, food and gas cost more. Some businesses are getting seriously hurt. (Try making cement in California)
Yes, because pushing the cost of doing business onto the people living around your factory, farm or the users of your products is a god-given right in the Free Market. You're subsidizing businesses if you allow them to destroy the health and environment that people live and work in.
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Hidden varriable theory is the idea that your model is incomplete - that there is some effect that is hidden to you that controls where the photon went,and which atom is actually vibrating. Those theories have been proven incorrect. See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_variable_theory
Yeah - if your knowledge of the EU history comes from High School, it's actually not bad. The EU with that name started with the various treaties in the 60s, but the core idea is really rooted in WW1 and WW2.
Too obvious. Good trolls are more subtle. Nice try, though.
EU started out with the goals of guaranteeing food security for Europe with agricultural programs to stabilize prices, and also to boost international trade by harmonizing safety and export legislation.
No. I hope you're American, because at least you have a reason to be clueless about the reason behind the existence of the EU. If you're british..... well, I hope the US won't save your ass next time the continent decides to blow up again.
Here's how the EU got started: http://europa.eu/about-eu/eu-history/1945-1959/index_en.htm The start of the EU was a steel and coal industry treaty. It's purpose? To keep countries from trying to monopolize steel and coal to build the best armies. In short, the EU has its roots in a very simple idea: the only way to prevent Europe from being engulfed in another massive war is to economically integrate everybody. France won't start a war with Germany for the same reason you don't shoot your foot (on purpose, at least).
That is why everyone is up in a fucking tizzy over the possible breakup of the Euro, and consequently the EU. There WILL be another war in Europe in our lifetime if that happens. There might be one if the EU sticks around, but it's far less likely.
It is very feasible for a "helpdesk" job to pull down 6 figures. How? Get one that requires specialized skills and that requires you to have a one-on-one relationship with the customer. Hint: that's not manning the phone in a call center, but you can get started like that.
So would it be ok if I just shoot you now? I mean, in 100+ years no one is going to know it was me who shot you, or who you were, or care that you existed. I mean, you'd be just as dead in a few years anyway, so why wait?
Oh...... I see. This attitude is only ok when it means you can get away with shit.
Yes, I'm sure that there is no reason ever to change how we behave. I mean, Easter Island will always be full of trees! There's always going to be space for public dumps!
No, it's a simple litmus test to know whether someone is interested in a real discussion, or just throws out random words that are loaded with emotional context.
As for your Nazi comment, I'll ignore for a second that it has no place in this discussion, and instead just one-up you: your need for ideological purity would have made you fit right into their party.
And, just like Mythbusters, Penn & Teller is not the end-all be-all answer to every topic covered on their show.
1) And the US has a metric shit ton more resources than Germany. Your point?
2) You fail basic economics. If the mark or the euro are overvalued, exports are terrible because they're more expensive than local goods. Try again.
3) A declining population has nothing to do with economic greatness. Unless you're thinking immigration - in which case, the US is trying real hard to come down to Europe's level.
4) You know squat about German corporate taxes, squat about US taxes and even less about real corporate taxes that arise from such niceties as the dutch sandwich or various indirect contributions.
5) You also know squat about the German university system. Anyone can go to University, except those who keep failing their High School classes. Those that do fail classes go to technical trade schools. It's exactly like the US system, except it's predicated on grades rather than money.
6) Your choice.
7) You're making a lot of assumptions about future events. Would you also like a pony?
8) No idea how that bit of (factual, for once) information relates to how well Germany is doing.
9) Yes, you can get fancy food all over the place. That said, I'd rather walk into a random Braustaette than a random American diner.
10) Your info is about 3 years out of date. In the meantime, the Porsche Panamera bettered the laptime by about 4 seconds.
There are a ton of reasons why Germany has a ton of problems and is worse than the US, but for some reason, you managed to barely allude to only one in your list of ten.
I was about to reply when I saw yours. Spot on. I didn't check all the comments, but the ones I did reinforced my perception that the moderation system works. off-topic for a speech about how government is always bad, downmodding of posts with no internal logic... it seems to be working.
Now there are posts that are factually wrong that get modded up. I know I've been guilty of those from both sides - both the posting and the modding. Unfortunately, that has more to do with the knowledge of the modders than anything else. There's no way to fix that, unless we go the appointed-expert route, and that's just not going to work.
I've said it before, I'll say it again: the Slashdot moderation system has many flaws, but no one has been able to provide a better alternative. Most are just some form of "make me a benevolent dictator" or "abolish all moderation", which are both non-starters.
Pretty much spot on.
There is no way to have a moderation system that doesn't in one way or another suffer from "the tyranny of the majority". Well, yes, there is, but it's called the "tyranny of the elite". Slashdot's system is about the best I've yet to find that doesn't involve paying moderators. Is it perfect? No, but Churchill's quip about democracy comes to mind.
The cold, hard reality is that every post that complains about the tyranny of the majority and group think is just upset that that they didn't win the modding game, and that they're special snowflake-like uniqueness has been callously trampled by the unwashed masses. Newsflash: no one else cares. The odds are good that a post at -1 is there for a reason, and complaining about group think is the online equivalent of throwing a tantrum.
Quite frankly, at this point I'm almost ready to just foe anybody who complains about group think. I haven't seen much useful information come from them anyway.
Reddit? That cesspool? I tried it because someone mentioned it before. I couldn't read the comments for more than 5 minutes before getting nauseous. It's like Yahoo! story comments, only with more neckbeard and basement-dwelling.
I think that's the main problem - metamod is pretty dead to me. I used to do it, because it was kinda interesting to see some old posts and provide some input, even if you didn't have mod points. Not to mention that it was kinda fun to challenge some notions about who is posting what. Now.... I haven't metamodded in probably over a year. The new system is worse than the old one, and really needs some help. And since metamodding is an integral part of the modding process, this ought to happen sooner rather than later.
I call Shenanigans. For someone with your UID, you should have accumulated enough Karma that it is basically immovable. I know mine is, and I've had far less time to accumulate Karma,all the while still pulling out the ol' flamebait/troll post if something pisses me off enough. Not to mention that I've seen the odd bury brigade here and there as well.
You're either overestimating the average quality of you posts, or you're posting way too much about Google and Android, where your position gets you modded into oblivion.
Hah, I was afraid of this - this stuff's real. Thanks for the long post by the way,it definitely helped with context. That said, the reason that I think that your initial post shows that science is in trouble is that about a decade ago, I was enough up to speed on QM and QED that my professors decided to hand me my Physics degree. And now I can't even figure out if a description of the state of the art is real or just a troll. It might be just me, it might be just QM (that Feynman quote got me through many dark hours going over QM calculations), but I have the distinct impression that we're seeing the limits of what a single person can contribute to Physics. If it takes you 30 years of study to just get to the state of the art, how much can you contribute to the field? Is the extension of knowledge that a single person can add getting smaller and smaller, until one day it is essentially zero?
I don't know. I'm fascinated by posts like yours, because they sound like something I should understand, but I don't. I'm glad someone still does, though.
By the way, thanks for that story about Biology in Pakistan. I will probably never travel there, and it is posts like that help me understand the culture.
It is, however, a good heuristics as to whether one should spend any further time investigating or propagating a story found in it.
As someone else said - don't criticize someone's English, because it's possible that your command of their native language is worse than their command of English. In this case, I think it's dutch.
It matters if you're trying to use empiricism to prove the existence of an all-powerful, all-knowing entity. It doesn't work that way. Our scientific method assumes that the world is ordered according to immutable laws. An all-powerful, all-knowing entity escapes that model. Note that this has no bearing on whether the models are useful to our daily lives. They might all fail one day, but until they do, they are useful.
I can't tell whether this is a joke, or a serious post. Most of the individual pieces and terms check out, but I have no idea if the actual sentences make any sense whatsoever.
I think this might be a sign that science is in trouble: most people have no idea what REALLY goes on in the various frontiers of scientific exploration.
By unmasking the anonymous users and taking the shirt off their back.
(if oil prices were increased to $1000/barrel today, would you still say there are 40 years left?)
No, I would say that from an industrial perspective, it has ceased to exist already.
- that the quantity of all the oil in existence in known (hint: it's not - exploration and finds continue)
I take it you have never looked at an asymptotic function, have you? Or have looked at what kinds of oil finds are being made?
Let's put it simple: NO! The day where not everybody gets what they order for hasn't come YET. Demand is still increasing, yet everyone gets what it is ready to pay for (but yes, it's getting more and more expensive).
The only way that you can argue that is by using the absolutely ludicrous definition of unlimited as meaning "as long as someone can buy any amount of oil for any amount of money, we haven't run out of oil". in the meantime, everyone understands that oil is limited, and that we will be in serious hurt long before we have actually run out oil. Imagine for a second that oil extraction has reached a level where a barrel costs $200. That's just a doubling of the level where people are already panicking and talking about Doom and Gloom for the world economy.
I believe it all depends on your definition of "peak oil", but for me, that's the peak of the "production" curve, and that curve is continuing to go up.
And you'd already be wrong.
Cars cost more, jobs pay less, food and gas cost more.
Some businesses are getting seriously hurt. (Try making cement in California)
Yes, because pushing the cost of doing business onto the people living around your factory, farm or the users of your products is a god-given right in the Free Market. You're subsidizing businesses if you allow them to destroy the health and environment that people live and work in.