in the context of that given blog it seems that feminism is anti-thetical stereotype to the stereotype of all the bad stuff the blog attributes to "white men"
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transhumanism is for the folks who've made the money, and age doesn't matter for transhumans
and Silicon Valley’s Cognitive Dissonance is how it looks for the folks outside of the Valley to whom the above mentioned distinction blurs away due to the distance (in mental and real space).
a Vulcan reading this would make a mental note "still not ready, check back again in a couple of hundreds years".
While trying to be a parody, the page basically describes ALEC.
Not that these guys are in any rush to produce practical reactor as they are also mostly nuke weapons research, yet as a side effect they have been making very interesting and meaningful progress during last 15 years. The machine itself isn't for fusion research, it is for X-ray generation, and it just happens that it generates so much and so efficiently that it seems they couldn't resist and finally started trying mini Teller-Ulam :)
i somehow don't see how actions of Somali pirates wouldn't be considered as such even if it happened inside the 12 miles zone. Piracy inside or outside of territorial waters is still a piracy.
Compare that to a hypothetical situation - if Somali could gather a presentable navy and start harassing ships outside of the 12 miles zone and a presentable looking spoke-person would communicate some theory why it is a right of Somali people - then we'd have just a legitimate territorial dispute :)
>Somalian boarding for inspection and collection of fees (which other countries call piracy)
for it to not constitute piracy it should be performed using guided missile destroyer, not an inflatable rubber boat.
on that side. Other side is already full steam:
look at climate changes during last 2-3 thousand years and how whole empires/civilizations got appeared and disappeared as a result.
On the [kind of] positive side [for high-tech industry i mean] Canada will become a big customer for air-, ground-, navy- and submarine drones :)
I understand that pure statistical interpretation allows for non-negligible chances of the violations. What i'm wondering about is whether strong, non-statistical, interpretation is valid - ie. whether anything looking like a violation is just a non-complete calculation. After all it is pretty fascinating that entropy principle applicable (at least in statistical interpretation) on all scales - from the whole Universe down to quantum systems and for all the physical laws/forces.
>The glib answer here is that there's really no such thing as the 2nd law when you're talking about a small number of individual fundamental particles. The statement "entropy never decreases" is actually a purely statistical claim, and it only rises to its usual level of essentially unbreakable validity when you're dealing with macroscopic numbers of particles
All the fundamental laws of physics, including the Schrodinger equation, follow the 2nd law or in other words they describe application of 2nd law to the given area of physics, i.e. they express "entropy never decreases" principle in terms of the objects of that physical area.
>"there is less "phase space" available (fewer possible momentum states)"
ie. less entropy :)
>an electron and positron are electrically attracted to each other and will naturally tend to meet up to annihilate
2 particles having negative and positive charges - less entropy than the entropy of 2 resulting neutral particles. Attraction (getting closer - increasing entropy) and annihilation (erasing the charge difference - increasing entropy) are in full compliance with, and i'd say direct manifestation of, the 2nd law :)
All the fundamental laws of physics, including the Schrodinger equation follow the 2nd law, so it is somewhat
i'm been wondering about validity of virtual particle trick - while it is preserves charge, etc... doesn't it violates entropy principle of the 2nd law, ie. a pair of e-/e+ seems to have less entropy than the original/resulting photon, thus e-/e+ always happy to produce a photon, while photon would never produce e-/e+ pair without "help".
when another dog is inside a car that just stopped at the intersection?
Another issue here is that smell of different dogs is supposed to have at least some variation as well (is this feature variation bigger or smaller than variation in size?), and if one dog is downwind then another is upwind - i.e. while smell obviously plays a major role in dog's sensing of the world we just can't ascribe it all to the smell. In my experience visual recognition plays major part in many cases as well (note: i'm not arguing which dog's sense is strongest, only that there are situations when visual is basically the only one that could have brought the information)
>However, the vast majority of cat breeds retain the same facial features and shape.
i had cats for many years and with time learned to see the difference, and i'm sure that some people like judges from cat shows would see even more distinction.
It is all about model of perception (and we naturally think and talk like our, human, model is the [only] model) and how well it is trained.
>Dogs can vary between 8-80 lbs
btw, it is at least 2-180 lbs for adult dogs :)
only to people i guess. Reminds me about experiment with chimpanzees having problem to recognize faces (face recognition is a sign of intelligence according to the human thinking about intelligence) ... well, until experimenters stopped showing human faces to the chimpanzees and started to show chimpanzees faces :)
It would be interesting to see whether well-trained AI would "think" that "cats look mostly alike" compare to say dogs as it is only artifact of humans perception and of how our perception propagates into the software what we create.
my dog without using TV or computer (at least to my knowledge as i don't know what he is up to when we are not at home) easily recognizes other dogs of all the different breeds and sizes from the distance like across the street, etc...
Was he free to leave the bus? No (and physical presence or absence of an officer of the State on the bus isn't necessary and isn't material here - that's is the nature of the Force of the State) Thus we have illegal imprisonment/kidnapping at least until the moment the bus left Nevada.
i wouldn't mind if NSA was doing something really useful like that instead of building total surveilance and instilling fears of it into its own citizenry
What i'm genuiely wondering about is how Marx missed the "toilet paper effect" in Das Kapital while he was so true on the money with the rest of the theory.