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Who are our modern J. Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi, Richard Feynman, Edward Teller, John Von Neumann, and Stanislaw Ulam?

Sorry, but I think it's you who are out of touch here. Requiring 15-20 years of experience? Just... no. Software engineers are so well paid that many of them retire from the job ma…

> Once you are at the stage of looking for tenured faculty jobs, your publication record is everything If a university thinks a PhD student's publication record is good enough to g…

I don't understand your sentence.

With the news stories about overseas Chinese police stations, I wonder why they didn't go after him directly in Italy. Maybe they lacked his home address. But that could be obtaine…

> Also, politicians and other important public figures don't use Reddit like they use Twitter I think that may change in the future. Many politicians, including prominent ones, hav…

I don't mind having to conform to some norms. I would even go so far as to argue that close-knit communities are impossible to maintain over long time horizons without these gateke…

Your comment reminds me of a line by Boromir (Sean Bean) in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring . "It is a strange fate we should suffer so much fear and doubt… over …

I wish society in general worked like this: less formality, more informality, more relationships..... .... I could move to a small town. I've always lived in a large metropolis and…

Impressive. Now do it without using a computer, the old fashioned way, with books, paper maps, star charts, slide rulers, sextants, compasses, and pens. I'm sure some people would …

I didn't know Prof. Wien had a HN account.

Let's have some fun. Here's a basic special relativity problem from John R. Taylor's Classical Mechanics . A space explorer A sets off at a steady 0.95 c to a distant star. After e…

By his logic, an object moving at 0% of the speed of light would arrive instantly.

I want to bring my family with me on a two week summer trip to Hawaii onboard a military C-130.

It's 8.5 billion light years away. It would be like aiming a water hose at Mars from low Earth orbit.

You're right, but my point is more about uniformity. Society seems to have tacitly agreed that there's only 3 beautiful looks for everything. You can be beautiful - and by "you", I…

It's come to the point where I find some conventionally attractive individuals not particularly interesting. For example, men who look like this: https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com…

The C-130 Hercules platform says "Hello there!"

> Don't fool yourself; we're not overpopulating ourselves to global economic and environmental meltdown; Yes we are. Yes. We. Are. Let it happen. I'll start panicking if the human …

I respectfully disagree. In the 12 months following a nuclear war, Americans would still need to file their taxes before the April 15 deadline, the federal and state governments wo…

This raises a tricky question: Should the United States open or reopen a production line for nuclear weapons in order to avoid losing their manufacturing know-how, the way we do wi…

> After a month at a Zen silent-meditation retreat, Heller went back to his job at Goldman Sachs as a commodities trader in oil and gas. That sounds pretty successful to me.