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Yes, the current understanding is that general relativity breaks down inside of black holes and, to understand how it really works, we need a quantum theory of gravity. However, I …

This is not true as often you find surprising things that are not general which ARE NOT GOSSIP. To stay with the physics theme, the Schwarzschild solution of general relativity is …

No. Usually you talk to your colleagues and you help each other -- especially in the same department.

If I remember correctly, there are needle-like implants with around a thousand contacts and it is quite a difficult task to get the signals out of the brain. Either you have the AD…

You're mixing up programming with computer science. The former is a task that does not necessarily need any math (e.g. web development), the latter is literally math (e.g. category…

The questions are actually pretty clear. The problem is that you lack a general understanding of mathematical concepts and therefore you don't know what to do with it. But that's f…

I never needed to bother with a filter where I live. So everybody uses them where the water is chlorinated?

The water in the US is chlorinated (at least where I was in Washington, DC). It smells and tastes really terrible.

I strongly believe that we should not easily segregate people into a smart kind and a not-so-smart kind. Intelligence comes in many ways and the genetics and upbringing of a person…

Nope, not fake. Just another way to look at it. From the paper: "One of the deepest insights about quantum gravity that emerged in recent times is that it is expected to be hologra…

I think you wanted to say: "Are we simplifying things in software development?" All of the points you have made are actually simplifications of what might be the optimal solution. …

Once you own data centers, energy consumption becomes a major consideration. I'm not doing stuff like that but I assume the train of thought concerning the economics of energy cons…

You can view things like abstract concepts as information. You can create information by using energy and e.g. encode it onto a surface or encode it in a human brain. There is a mi…

I see your point. What I meant was that existence and interaction are equivalent. But I see that I didn't express myself well there. Let us presume that existence and interaction c…

The kind of predictive statements that all physicists are making for quite a while now and on which all of our technological progress is founded. If there were some other fundament…

> By the same token, consider an ultra-relational metaphysics such as that of Bruno Latour, who tells us that a thing is nothing more than whatever it modifies, transforms, perturb…

Nothing about this makes any sense. The cat is an analogy, the box is an analogy. Everything about that thought experiment is an analogy. The moon is still there, even if noone loo…

Typically, when people think about the future, they think about what they're doing today and how technology could transform that. But when predicting the future, you need to figure…

Aixtron hasn't been doing too well lately. So there is definitely a positive side to an acquisition. From Aixtron's website on November 17 [1]: >CFIUS [Committee on Foreign Investm…

Do not use the Internet. Do not use phones. Do not use bank accounts. Do not travel by plane. Do not enter public spaces. Do not show your face. Otherwise you accept our Terms of S…

Insulting millions of people serves no other purpose than to point out your own superiority in some way. I can't fathom how much hubris is necessary to do that without feeling asha…

Of course, you're right.

They stopped doing the age related holiday amount thing at German universities about 4-5 years ago (I'm not sure if everywhere but at least where I'm at). Their argument for stoppi…

Asking to turn off the adblocker and at the same time showing the following quote: "I'm doing the thing that scares me the most every single day." Like what? Browsing without an ad…

Apple has a lot of developers. I wonder what they think about the new MBPs. There are so many complaints from developers that I cannot believe that all Apple engineers are happy wi…