jbmorgado

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/10/30/health/male-birth-control/

I mean, one would think that anyone with the minimum sense of logical thinking would understand that it is way easier to prevent 1 (as one, singular) single egg to get fixated in the uterus during the course of 28 days, than to prevent millions (as in > 1000000) of spermatozoids to be produced every single day.

But perhaps it's just me that actually looked at the obvious numbers...

I wouldn't mind for an easier way to introduce mathematics, but just from the example given, I can see right away that the typography in AsciiMath is not good.

Just look at the space (or lack of it) around the inner parenthesis for instance.

Yes, that's the all point of the article and also the one I explaining: Capitalism is about "maximizing profits" not about social, intelectual, or even productive efficiency.

Hence the motto of the article: capitalism creates unnecessary jobs.

To make things more difficult, any mathematician opposes vehemently to any change in notation or to use easier notation to pass the same concept.

Because that doesn't actually exist and it's just a faux and very poor argument.

If you are intellectually honest you would understand there is a big diference between someone from a certain group (may it be christian, muslim, etc) just committing a crime as an individual and someone from a certain group committing a crime invoking principles that derive from belonging to that group (like their religious supremacy for instance).

In that regard, yes, there are a lot more islamic attacks than there are christian attacks. We had one single attack in Europe that could (emphasis on could since the guy was by foremost an extreme right winger and not some christian fanatic) be connected to christian ideologies in the past decades (by Anders Behring Breivik, which did in fact kill a lot of innocent people)... but now go and check how many terrorist attacks you have connected to islamic ideologies.

As bitcoin exists right now that's not the case of course. Bitcoin is now a mostly speculative asset since the amount of transactions you can do is extremely small compared to the market value of bitcoin at the moment.

If you want that kind of excitement, try other area, in here, the only excitement comes from finding an answer to a problem based on science, not in some sci-fi novel.

P.S.: The simple explanation in this case is of course some physical process we can't understand. Not an alien civilization making planet sized machines to power their spaceships. This ain't star wars.

We are researchers, we try to explain the universe by improving our understanding of the physical processes that lie behind what we observe. The moment we bring aliens or gods into the picture to explain something for which we don't have an answer, we are doing a disservice to science.

Vegan diets are the product of intensive agriculture basically anywhere in the world. Paleo, depending on country, can be pretty low intensity, for instance, in Argentina where cattle roams free in the grassland.

While I easily concede that in places like most of the USA - where cattle is a product of intensive livestock exploitation - a paleo diet will produce a lot of CO2 compared to a vegan diet, that is actually not true in places like Argentina, or, to a lesser degree, in places like southern Europe.

I mean, in installing a base system that is just not optimised both in processing power and in interface in a tablet?

I've installed Ubuntu in my parents laptop (some Core 2 Duo with 3GB RAM) and it runs really slowly. I guess in the tablet it will be even a bit slower, so I can't see anyone actually using this other than a gimmick.

From what I've been reading about the upcoming Ryzen, no motherboard so far claims to support ECC.

What if the Sun has a SEP event during that period? Everyone on board will die in the period from hours to days from exposure to radiation.

We presently have absolutely no knowledge on how to predict that this will happen or to protect a ship in case it happens.

The Moon missions where done before we knew of the existence of SEPs and fortunately we were lucky... but we are not supposed to just rely on luck now that we know they exist.

Namely do these processors support ECC and what virtualisation capabilities do they have (for KVM with full GPU access).

Thinking that just because a tech company is big and therefore has the brightest minds there running the products and as such they can't go wrong and it's us, the users, that just don't understand their fantastic strategies is, as we can clearly see from the past, just not true.

Just look at Microsoft in the 2000's for instance. Or at Yahoo in the end of the 90's.

In fact the same goes for WWII. True, it was a bloody, devastating and awful conflict that brought out the worst in mankind... but at the same time created the tools that put the 1st humans in the Moon and gave us atomic power.

The unfortunate truth is that many of the major technological advances of mankind are closely connected to war.

In the ETH case, you are creating a law to REVERT a previous deal. Democracies don't do that.