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I changed the wording. It does not affect my main argument, though.

So the share of income going to the top 1% has increased to new heights during the Obama presidency, yet the election of Trump - as opposed to his rival who was expected to continue Obama's policies - is seen as irrational?

What was the name of the article you created? The deletion log shows nothing for "rsync.net". [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=...

My village's voluntary fire department's website has been down for a few days now. Do you think it's related?

Edward Purcell, Electricity and Magnetism, it is a standard lower division undergraduate textbook. The only prerequisites are basic calculus and some mechanics.

One way is to probe them indirectly. For example, string cosmology makes testable predictions (verifiable by observation, e.g. of the CMB). Conceivably, evidence could be found of something that happened in the early universe that is most easily explained within the string theory.

For a typical person, there are no useful news on most days. A personalised, aperiodic list of relevant news would be interesting.

I registered as a donor in the UK. I received a leaflet saying that I should discuss this with my relatives because apparently those people have the power to kill the person needing my organs [1]. Fuck that.

[1] https://www.organdonation.nhs.uk/news-and-campaigns/news/fam...

Exactly. It is easy not to read the agreement, general terms of use, fee schedule, terms of use for your particular account or monthly revisions of these documents and then complain. How about you respect the rules for once, OP?

Not sure what your problem is. Personal use might include commuting to work, clothes for work, landlord referencing fees, overdraft fees, perhaps some basic food.

Put them in prison for all I care.

Looks like streamlining the red tape would be a good place to start (19k additional units, 500M in taxes).

Does not matter which one, does it? Pick any.

They know what they are doing all right. For instance, ITER's managerial staff surely enjoys the jet-setting between Barcelona and the French Riviera. But their goals are not aligned with making progress.

It makes me wonder how much does the society suck, or what else could be achieved if more of the humanity's resources were managed the way they are at SpaceX. If Musk had decided to do fusion energy instead of rockets, would it be commercially viable by now? How about curing cancer?

Policy wise, this comment is a blatant violation of [[WP:COI]] and [[WP:SPAM]].

Substantially, I am so glad that Wikipedia is governed by the community. Otherwise, it would be a matter of time until some young, bright and dynamic manager decided to implement a subset of the "improvements" you propose - with a disastrous effect.

Here is a guide made by Nobel laureate Gerard 't Hooft: http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~gadda001/goodtheorist/index....

Or, to learn basic physics in a structured and rigorous way, you could take this course (but it's quite expensive): http://www.open.ac.uk/courses/modules/s217

2.5 hour flight to Krakow or Warsaw, then take EIC train to https://www.airbnb.co.uk/s/Zakopane--Poland

Speaking of moral courage, how does one contribute institutional login credentials to sci-hub?

Just restrict the scheme to the top n (n <= 50) schools according to, say, ARWU.

Overall, I think the views presented in the book are superficial and do not give significant insight into power relations underlying the decision making. The wider context is often ignored. A lot of bold, unjustified statements that sound like a piece of propaganda. I just opened the book at a random page and found this: There are lots of planned economies-the United States is a planned economy, for example. I mean, we talk about ourselves as a "free market," but that's baloney. The only parts of the U.S. economy that are internationally competitive are the planned parts.

For example, his treatment of the Cold War. Like many people whose countries fell on the dark side of the Iron Curtain, I am grateful for all that the US did to contain and defeat the Soviet Union. When countries like Poland were oppressed under the communist rule which was in some ways more destructive than the second world war, Chomsky would have liked to let a large chunk of the third world fall under the same yoke just to avoid confrontation and casualties. This is a view that I find dangerous, ignorant and BS.

One could get a much more objective, fuller and clearer picture of things as well as appreciation of the complexities involved by getting an international relations textbook such as International Relations Since 1945 by Kent or a lighter read, The Global Cold War by Westad.

Absolutely amazing, changed the way I look at the society, will re-read:

- George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying

Loved:

- Alastair Reynolds, House of Suns

- Andy Weir, The Martian

- Neal Stephenson, Seveneves

- Greg Egan, Teranesia

Liked:

- Arthur C. Clarke, 3001: The Final Odyssey

- Arthur C. Clarke, 2061: Odyssey Three

- Richard Feynman, The Character of Physical Laws

- Richard Feynman, The Pleasure of Finding Things Out

- Jonathan Slack, Stem Cells: A Very Short Introduction

- John Scalzi, Fuzzy Nation (bought the audiobook for Wil Wheaton's narration)

- Ray Monk, Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center

- Alastair Reynolds, Revelation Space

- David C. Cassidy, Beyond Uncertainty: Heisenberg, Quantum Physics, and the Bomb

Found full of BS, did not finish:

- Noam Chomsky, Understanding Power

Textbooks:

- order of 10^3 pages of Open University textbooks

- Klauber, Student Friendly Quantum Field Theory

- Feynman & Hibbs, Quantum Mechanics and Path Integrals

- Wald, General Relativity (5 chapters)

- Peskin & Schroeder, An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory (5 chapters)

Not as bad as I felt before making the list, but underwhelming in terms of quantity. I intend to read a whole lot more in 2016.

There are some in theoretical physics.

Same with medical professionals

Here, have a dislike.

Conference posters

And what an education it is!

https://freedomhouse.org/report/special-reports/saudi-arabia...

There is a comment in this thread that discusses slaughtering people in order to reduce their carbon footprint.

Also see this ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDXQsnkuBCM

This kind of attitude is one of the reason why I do not want anything to do with the climate alarmists. Quite possibly the cure is worse than the disease.

As regards the climate change itself, even the pessimistic projections of its effects are not too bad as I see it.

The army is a muscle.

This is a fine piece of writing but I have a problem with the following statement:

With the introduction of a UBI, employers would have a powerful weapon to force wages down, as they good argue that they needn’t pay as much any more, because they already had enough to maintain their standard of living.

If this was true, the employers would already be forcing the minimum wage down on everyone.

The UBI would give the lowest paid workers a powerful leverage they currently lack: the ability to choose not to work instead of accepting whatever wage the market offers. For other workers, the minimum wage or any viable UBI is small compared to their earnings, so it is hard to see how it could be used by the employer in salary negotiations.

> but sometimes there are horrible generations.

What do you mean?