Yeah, I've witnessed this myself. The amount of money that goes into materials projects with "medical imaging" or similar supposed applications is crazy. Most of these "novel" materials are created by some process the authors don't fully understand. They usually have some electrical or optical properties that are unusual, but given the range of possible materials almost anything can turn out to be unusual in some way. Anyway, you combine such materials with a few big names, and you keep the grant snowball rolling rolling rolling, and you publish in Nature XYZ on a monthly basis. Meanwhile I see professors doing good and serious fundamental work in condensed matter (and many other areas) losing their jobs.
I feel that ISPs are far from a free market. The regulation as it is works to ensure a monopoly or duopoly. I'm not saying a true free market is a solution, but it would be good if we stopped letting them pretend it's a "free market". It's also pretty funny how 100Mbps is presented as some laudable goal. The technology to give everyone 1Gbps+ is not new and any well-designed modern infrastructure will easily allow such speeds. 100Mbps as the goal tacitly admits that there is no prospect of actually developing well-designed and efficient infrastructure.
Yeah I'm not a fan of the law either. Google's response was also irritating: plastering ads for their video (against the new law) on every search made from Australia.
It's really good for heating/cooling buildings. Outside of that it's less clear. It's still extremely underused for heating/cooling. I think there isn't much incentive for people to incorporate it at the moment because it mostly saves on long-term costs, but let's face it most of our new buildings are made in the pursuit of short-term profit. The technology is also underdeveloped therefore expensive in most cases.
That's cool, but nothing can "eat" CO2. Eating implies a gain of energy, but converting CO2 to whatever is going to be a loss of energy. Plants use CO2 to get carbon and store energy, but converting that CO2 still costs energy. Unless of course the fungi are performing nuclear fusion with the carbon and/or oxygen.
Exactly what I thought. I don't really care that digital ocean had "good intentions". The scheme is obviously abuseable and seems to have indeed wasted the time of a number of actual developers.
This is certainly my view as a physicist, although I'm not the greatest physicist by any measure. QM can give us a perfectly clear picture of "collapse", although it's not a trivial matter and it's hard to explain to laypeople. Especially when physics fans have these ideas about ~conscious observers collapsing the wavefunction~, or something.
Not true at all. There are issues with making vaccines for some viruses that are well-understood and seemingly quite intractable. And what about HIV? We've spent far more resources trying to find a cure for that, and although some good treatments exist, there is no vaccine.
That's all well and good, but you can't realistically expect a vaccine to be created. It MIGHT be created, or it might not. There are many viruses for which we've tried and failed to produce effective vaccines.
Guns aren't "killing for self defense". They're killing machines which lie around for a long time, and may have many effects one of which is self defense.
Control of games, especially keyboard control, has long been an interest of mine... Many games go to great length to help the player control the game properly/optimally, yet many games fall short and can be improved by simple AutoHotkey programs, or more complicated xlib programs.
I used to do more internal monologuing. But if you sit quietly and observe your thoughts, you may notice that whenever you "speak" a thought to yourself, that thought was already in your mind beforehand. The speaking adds nothing to the thought, except to reinforce it or loop it back. That is not bad, but a lot of the time it's unnecessary and in fact slows you down.
Who can provide holistic advice then? Maybe a management consultant, or a frequent reddit user? Plenty of scientists know about things outside their laser-narrow domain.
If anything?? There seem to be a few problems that are unrelated to hiring practices. These warehouses are deathtraps regardless of your age or other attributes.