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> What causes it? Consistency of a model cannot be the ultimate reason, right?

Well, you'd need to ask a question that can be answered with science rather than philosophy, generally.

What a strange response. You think he quickly devised a way - which would work - for a webboard comment?

It sounds more like cynicism and denial of others' internal lives

Check out the paper

Yep. I loaded the app, looked at the name, and screwed it up.

Yeah, I donked it. I think there was some serious drama around Reply-All - they both float in the same shallow pool

Yes, the story is essentially linked to a podcast called Radiolab* that has used the story as a story pitch about submitting the name for the the asteroid.

The link isn't the thing-itself, it's part of a media campaign. The naming committee apparently has two dangling votes left for the decision. The podcast came out today and the decision is expected in the next few weeks.

* I originally said Reply-All

> we don't use that as an excuse for not having laws preventing children from buying alcohol.

Listen, social media is just disrupting society like Uber disrupted taxis and Door dash disrupted food delivery.

The downsides are always fine and ignorable because of the financials, and regulation is just an archaic attempt to hamper disruption

We should never disrupt the forward momentum of the disruption economy, whatever the harm. Business owners will make enough money that we can soothe all harms. Later. With initiatives.

I like how it's called "Midilibrary" so it's obvious what it is

"Midjlibrary" would have been so gauche and unclear

Why do you think it would do that, if the import poses no risk to the inhabitants of the country?

I don't think that's Jeremy England's idea.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_and_life

Henry Adams first put it to print in the 1910s, and Schrödinger did a fine turn on it and wrote a whole book in the 40s.

The idea that life exists as the most efficient method to facilitate thermodynamic equilibrium is older than the neutron.

If you're accepting a dim star only visible through space instruments I imagine it happens near-constantly

Having it happen to a star you're actually aware of and can see tonight is pretty cool

It's mildly distressing that only 5 AU is 42 light minutes

The speed of light is pokey, astronomically-speaking. It's like existence functions via telegraph in 2038, and everybody has to Google Morse tables

Is anything intrinsically useful? Or intrinsically anything, for that matter?

It's so intuitive he does it naturally

Not like that arrogant metric, for which he can find no useful representation...for some reason

A reason that is clearly about the utility of metric itself rather than one's constant use of imperial.

My friends who took up vaping (esp in pandemic) ended up vaping near-constantly

It's not the 80s, so vaping allows one to sit around the house and duff it in a way that most people wouldn't do with cigarettes.

I feel like nicotine intake can dramatically increase with vaping.

So did you mention it to him?

You can contrast it with the sciences

There's a joke that grad school and med school are polar opposites - med school is hard to get into and easy to get out of, while a PhD is easy to start and hard to finish

Being a postdoc sucks, and you have to be pretty willing to do something radically different than what you did as a student - but it isn't the end of the world.

I can't see a situation where it makes health in the US worse overall to increase the number of students.

Important point - it was doing integrations! Which seems both intuitive and incredibly impressive for the 1930's

It's also an interesting anecdote for that thread about paper that popped up the other day

I'd guess he doesn't have the disk or files (although I wouldn't be surprised if they did - I was not so neat or organized at 10)

The vast majority of people dont really "get" functions or plots or line fitting

They took 7th grade math, but assert that y=mx is meaningless in real life and doesn't help them understand anything they have to deal with

I'm surprised they haven't memoryholed Paint and attempted to pretend paint3D is useful and sufficient

You have to build the thing and test every possible problem before you build it again and do it for real

We all know everyone is perfectly willing to pay and wait for thorough testing so it works perfectly

Nobody would ever underfund something and then complain about how the final product didn't produce 150% of what was promised

I think if you start consider what it does to enthalpy and entropy at the microscale and then consider how to use that to modify dynamics (i.e. reactions in progress) you can start to do some pretty fun things.

"John Keats, John Keats

Please put your scarf on."

I think a better formula would be economic rather than philosophical: find a job that pays a lot of money whether you like it or not, then establish your career in something you're passionate about regardless of how lucrative it is

It's a fun style of advice-giving

I always wonder if/why pressure aging hasn't become more common

Seems pretty solvable to replace t through P or A in a barrel-aged liquor

The best part is that OP edited his comment to make it seem like he didn't argue that an exhausted battery consumed lithium

Fun!

It depends on what range of the x-axis you select, and what units you use for y

I wasn't aware that using a battery destroyed the lithium

Their leaders may be dumb

But their voters are an order of magnitude dumber