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All of this is perfectly covered by the Peter principle. It doesn't assume an increase in difficulty at all, it just assumes a different skillset. People are promoted (maybe to manager) based on their performance in their previous job (maybe programmer). If they can adapt, great, and maybe they are even promoted further. If they cannot, they have reached their level of incompetence.

There is no such thing as 'jaywalking' in Germany.

Sure, stick to the Model T, why not. It had wheels and seats, so there's that.

What’s more, it creates an incentive to accept more papers for publication, with obvious implications for quality.

To be fair, Americans use decimal already where it’s dearest to the heart: money, ammunition, and filling gasoline.

Efficiency is the standard red herring of the battery crowd - if efficiency was the prime motivation, we would all be driving bicycles and SUV or sportscars would not exist.

What are your other metrics? It’s an electric drivetrain with all advantages, but with the range of a gasoline car. Refueling cNG or LNG is standard in Europe, LH2 works just fine.

Google “burning Tesla” for that ridiculous take on why batteries would be inherently safe.

Main news for me here is that this is (still?) considered newsworthy in Germany.

At top US universities, I’ve been threatened with deportation, yelled at, prevented from going to faculty job interviews, credit to my work removed, papers highjacked and my name removed after I developed the initial idea and the break-thru analysis, etc.

There is no way out: you’re relying on supporting letters of reference from your advisors at least until you’re tenured. Your advisor doesn’t like you? Congrats, he can easily destroy your career before it even started.

A sonic boom is not necessary when moving faster than sound, the Busemann biplane resolves that completely.

There's been considerable work on sonic boom mitigation for many decades. Boom's long nose, flat underside, top engine, small wingspan delta wings are all designs expected to mitigate a sonic boom. Let's see if it works in practice.

From personal experience: in Nature Communications the handling editor and editor in chief absolutely do intervene, in my example to suppress a proper lit review that would have revealed the paper under review as much less innovative than claimed.

That's - not how that works. I suggest you look at any fluid data `riding' that border. "Super compressed" and "ideal gas" are mutually exclusive. "Equilibrium" has even less to do with any of that.

That's got nothing to do with some fluid behaving like an ideal gas or not. Also, except for very low pressures, vapor does not behave like an ideal gas.

Too bad they don't reference the actual inventor of vorticity confinement, Dr. John Steinhoff of the University of Tennessee Space Institute:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Steinhoff

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorticity_confinement

And some papers:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/239547604_Modificat...

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/265066926_Computati...

> The assertion of the US' founders is that such rights are inherent to all people, natural rights, and inalienable.

It very obviously wasn't [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_United_States

“Only base 10” is already the measure of choice where it matters most for most Americans: gas, money, ammunition. It works just fine.

Let’s hope we’re not getting to “Vamos a la playa” narrative soon …

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vamos_a_la_playa_(Righeira_s...

So are there strange quarks?

He was recently on Tim Ferris and discussed his ideas.

I’m in the same camp. I love that movie but can’t bring myself to show it to my kids yet with that relationship, the rapey behavior of Jones forcing to get his kisses, and the casual killing.

Exactly! Nothing screams “Democracy!” like repeating a vote a dozen and more times until it shows the desired result!

This makes no sense. Of course sound is a pressure wave - but so is being hit by a nuclear blast wave (after the initial flash). Obviously, the magnitude plays the decisive role here and not it being a pressure wave.

> We're not jerks. We're people who notice problems. You're shooting the messenger.

The definition is literally in the title: "disagreeable personalities (selfish, combative, and manipulative)".

So, yes, by definition, disagreeable people are jerks. If that's you, then you, too, are a jerk.

That is completely orthogonal to "people who notice problems". If someone thinks that it's necessary to be "selfish, combative, and manipulative" in order to notice a problem, then that person is not only a jerk, but also deluding themselves that they're just misunderstood.

In any case, thanks for putting it out there!

How is not “maintaining the same level of naval readiness “ not a “loss in capability”? I guess the grapes were sour anyway?

Just in time for my family!

However, the instructions remain hidden behind the browser address bar on my iPhone SE, so it took me a while to figure out what to do.

I thought tapping der / die / das at the bottom seemed like the most intuitive thing, rather than having to learn where to swipe.

Anyway, thank you!

Sure, I guess you can hire someone to represent you posthumously to attend your child’s high school graduation or wedding.

“Surprising” refers to journals, not universities. It’s completely unsurprising (albeit unethical) that universities take the easy way.

In my experience, journals are surprisingly (?) uninterested in these sort of things. The university will then just refer to the journal and reply that the claim of plagiarism must be fabricated as the journal would surely have done something.

I noticed I did the same thing when looking for hotels - what's the possibly best hotel out there for some reasonable price? Ooh, they have breakfast, ooooooh, but this one has breakfast and a bar, and this one even has a spa and nice hardwood floor!

At some point I made the same switch you describe: what is my minimum requirement so that I do not regret booking the hotel (for me: breakfast, reasonably close to destination, no-smoking on premises, rating above 8), then simply book the cheapest one that fulfills this. Reduced FOMO and time spent, not looking back.

With the only tiny difference being that guns in the US kill orders of magnitude more people than driving on the Autobahn (~50000 vs ~300 annually).

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/02/03/what-the-da...

https://www.zukunft-mobilitaet.net/172160/analyse/tempolimit...

Some people like to not hand over complete sovereignty over their bodies to their state and live in freedom instead.

Oh, and the disincentivizing effect of the death penalty is a long refuted myth.