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I have a side question. If gravity (i.e. warping of space time) propagates at the speed of light. Then does that mean that the Alcubierre warp drive is fundamentally incapable of s…

Awesome! Thanks for that.

Beautiful ideas! Do you have a way to control the final stereo-isomer that comes out of the synthesis? I'm thinking of the "256 stereo-isomer" molecule that you mentioned. Or is it…

You say statistically but you don't have any references to support that statement. My anecdotal experience says otherwise.

Why even comment with such a lackluster critique?

No, that rings hollow to me. Humans are sophisticated enough to genuinely have other needs aside from primal mating urges. Self-actualization is a huge one and more than sufficient…

Ish. How much do you know about the Russian cultural psyche? I'm not disagreeing that the paranoia around American Russian relations isn't massively overblown, but I think you unde…

Yeah I pictured being a foreign national during that, I can imagine it being a little irksome. Edit: foreign national working at SpaceX. If there were not foreign national's involv…

Go for 20, I'd be interested to see if you can do it.

I really love this story (no sarcasm intended at all). It's such a physicist's story. The recollections of Einstein amount to "he was a nice guy", but the bulk of the story is deta…

Thank you!

I feel like I've fallen into a hole. There's jargon everywhere, I'm not sure if I'm in the middle of some sort of satirical art experiment. Can anyone explain what is going on?

Can you link to an explanation/derivation of the geometric formulation?

Would be interesting to see how the lack of gravity affects growth.

Ahh yep, got it.

So I read the wiki on the One-time pad and there's something I'm a little stuck on. There's a statement (paraphrasing) that the OTP is immune to cryptanalysis (brute force) because…

I think your tl;dr is unjust. I read the author as criticizing the imposition of a simple story onto the nuanced experiences of people. I think he criticizes it for the lack of art…

Practically speaking, even armed you're a subject. The government is free to impose its will on you any time it likes unless you're in the business of shooting police offices who p…

I was thinking about this the other day, what's the loss factor in compressed air storage?

Lasers make a lot of sense in space, much more so than in the atmosphere.

It's not clear at all that Mouse->Human is simply a scaling problem. It would appear that there is some emergent phenomenon (consciousness) somewhere on the scale between mouse and…

My point is that offering up IQ as an explanatory variable which alleviates any obligation to help another group is cowardice. Even accepting that IQ difference is an irrevocable c…

It might make a lot of sense actually. It could serve to speed up instinctive responses to stimuli which have been encountered before, i.e. whipping your finger away from a hot sur…

Perhaps, if one asserts IQ is some quantity defined and birth, and not amenable to influence through education, diet, living conditions etc. Then one might be justified in implying…

There is so much wrong with the taking of this view. Instead of looking at the experience of growing up black, the horribly unlevel playing field, the reverberating echos of slaver…