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We have the physics but not the engineering. See the Breakthrough Starshot project for instance

The whole problem with CalHSR is precisely that they can’t spend any real money… There were governmental barriers like CEQA and local NIMBYs but the primary cost culprit is that th…

Kinetic strikes sure. It seems like space marines would be incredibly easy to shoot down. They would be on a ballistic re-entry and must slow down without extreme g-forces before t…

SRY testing was done at the 1996 games and for a while before that. 8 cisgender women tested positive at that games. Far more than the number of transgender athletes who have ever …

There is no evidence of widespread electoral fraud in the US. There is a political talking point that “aliens are voting” in our elections but it has been proven false again and ag…

In reproducing code that requires the license be reproduced alongside it.

What does specialized to the process mean? Lots of JIT tooling these days readily supports caching and precompilation. Invalidation is hard but things like reloading global referen…

That Erdos problem solution is believed by quite a few to be a previous result found in the literature, just used in a slightly different way. It also seems not a lack of progress …

The zoning laws are far from the only tool used by municipalities to dramatically reduce supply. Permitting, requiring expensive changes at various points in the process, local bui…

I'm not opposed to alternative research organizations, funding structures, etc. But this does seem like a fairly direct attempt to shift funding from universities into private firm…

The store I worked at for a while had a surprising number of real bearded experts, alongside at least a few younger folks who really understood the internal systems. It was great, …

Their internal setup was also an absolute mess as of 4 years ago. A horrific hybrid of extremely legacy systems and new systems created around COVID which are both nicer and also d…

Do you have evidence for this? I don’t think Nvidia is switching to Ultra Ethernet, just adding it to the product line-up

> are women just poorer? Within living memory absolutely 100%.

What parts of the biology of sex mandates different treatment? Do you mean that medicine should be tailored to biology? Yes obviously, and even very progressive research hospitals …

I bet they’re reading the room. They will have some problems if they’re the only ones who sign, but fewer if there’s at least two others who join them.

Who, what? Elaborate. Waving your hands like this is meaningless. What are these progressive views? What is this scientific evidence? Who are these people trying rigorously?

Again, I am not in favor of those things. I am perfectly happy for interviewees to be filtered for basic respect for people of all walks of life. I hope the reasoning there is obvi…

None of the other universities have agreed yet. What do you mean by laser focused? Do you have specific policies to address this? If not then this is a natural part of the unfocuse…

There is a fundamental issue with this kind of federalism though in that it increases strife and could easily lead to civil war. Let’s say we get rid of Medicare, Medicaid, social …

What are “they” doing now that is not conducive to scientific knowledge? > they produce a lot of anti-knowledge Regardless of the hilarity of that phrase being associated with univ…

> whatever the mechanism Is straining to carry the rest of this sentence. I responded to an assertion that a policy by certain limited universities was attempted and deemed unfit b…

Sure, that’s why I said the process is an approximation of truth and only then in the limit. This is known in the scientific, philosophical, and research communities. It is a reali…

> universities pushing restorative justice Universities? Can you point to a university whose explicit policy is restorative justice? That’s not how universities generally work. You…

I am not in favor of mandated DEI statements outside of basic respect for students and colleagues, I’m not sure why that’s relevant or why you responded to me about it. Most univer…