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I'm not positive that's true. I think the most challenging thing for MOND is that basically no one will touch it unless they already have tenure because it's a death sentence. I sa…

This isn't the case with thorium salt reactors or, if we had enough funding to finally crack it, fusion.

I'm not sure if "accidents" count as "cooked" statistics... modern nuclear plants are much safer than 20th century ones as well, so if we're updating numbers I think nuclear is sti…

Not on the scale of "we need to move the bulk of the energy from Texas to New York for 3 hours, then when the sun sets shift state-level power supply routing from the cornbelt to c…

if you look up deaths by energy production method, nuclear is far and away the safest, in every single country by orders of magnitude, even wind is deadlier.

Is it though? Renewables that are popular now, like solar and wind, are weather dependent, which means the grid needs to handle variable input, which it's not designed to do and wo…

OCD isn't double-checking your line-spacing in a document, it's being unable to leave the house in under 45 minutes because you check the stove twenty times, then the door lock twe…

This really rubbed me the wrong way, the closing sentence sums it up: "What if a doctoral program’s prestige arose, in part, from the way that it treated its students? We should da…

protip: if your prof is tenured and still first author on more than 2 papers a year, they're siphoning their student's work, or they're setting you up for pipelining positions (whi…

Really depends on your mentor. I've seen some gross abuses where the union was absolutely essential. Also the union hooked up like BBQs and whatever so like, that's nice.

I disagree a bit about freedom and flexibility in switching faculty, and I disagree strongly about the phrasing of "willing" to work with x faculty on y problem. I don't care how s…

FAST can also move it's "mirror," the shell has some huge number of triangular sections on wires, so it should be able to point even more than arecibo which has an immutable reflec…

FAST is actually having difficulty hiring (on-site specialists like operations director) the smartest minds because it's in a jungle in small-town China. But yes, overall China is …

Not sure why you're being downvoted. This is correct to an extent, the surface of a mirror needs to be polished to a degree such that abnormalities in the lens are small relative t…

Why does this scientific publication read like an op-ed? Absolutist language strikes me as exceptionally unscientific. "it’s time to panic." "We are in deep trouble." "That’s it. F…

In NLP (specifically vectorizing words, ala word2vec) there's a famous test of whether or not your training has worked properly whereby you calculate the vector of "king" and subtr…

There's a good book on this called "Why Nations Fail," [1] they posit that extractive economic policies (corrupted governments) essentially de-incentivize entrepreneurial businesse…

Some people claim to have ruled out type III civilizations [1], which I think is what you're referring to. I thought also that some researchers claimed a star had signals consisten…

Sure, but those "constraints" could be compared to switching from a piece of letter paper to a canvas. The modern "liberations" would be having a box of a million tiny artistic leg…

A paranoid individual might claim that this ink could be tampered with or replaced with washable ink. Can the same argument not be made for requiring voter IDs? youeseh I'm replyin…

What are better suggestions to prevent voter fraud? We know from history that voting fraud is a thing, in the 1800s it was known that political parties would pay fresh immigrants t…

I said that not having 400$ is a failure of fiscal planning and doesn't indicate that the population is poor. Declining life expectancy is not an indication that the population is …

1) It's not great, however it's not Xi's main point, wealth was Deng Xoaping's promise to China, respect is Xi's promise. Xi is actively expending wealth in trade for respect (mili…

A chinese person does not age faster. The chinese people are aging faster because they have less youth than is needed to pay for the social support for the generations approaching …

Living paycheck to payckeck with a new phone every 2 years, a new car lease upgrade every 5, a mortgage on a 3 bedroom house, and eating out 4 times a week, and 1000 TV channels is…