Am I missing something or is this actually bad? > Glenfiddich has sold off spent grains left over from the malting process to be used for a high-protein cattle feed. This sounds as if the leftovers used to be sold as…
Only if that complex process provides any value. So what is the value of a paper journal over a website? That the pictures look better? I love how you compare a scientific journal to a cinema. It really brings your…
Fluoride (with a 'd') is not fluorine (with a 'n'). The difference is as big as that between sodium and sodium chloride. You can eat one, but not the other. The most powerful oxidizer in MSR fuel salt is the U(IV) ion.
You mean ceramics? There are so many to chose from, and most are unusable for one reason or another. The leading candidate being investigated is carborundum (silicon carbide). It doesn't corrode in molten salt, it low…
However, that's an eight hour shift, not twelve as mentioned in the article. Eight hours of work, eight hours of sleep, and two hours of commuting and personal hygiene still leaves a full six hours per day to use…
No, it's the Unites States' fault. In 1982 (iirc), the US decided that Thorium is a "source material" for nuclear weapons, even though it very clearly isn't. Since rare earth metals have chemistry very similar to…
Quick point by point: - A bugfix to a library requires every program that uses it to be relinked. It's true for dynamically linked programs, too, they are relinked over and over. The solution to a forgetful admin is a…
> Using copyleft code means the whole resulting binary is subject to copyleft. No. That's formally wrong, and it doesn't imply what you think it implies. Using copyleft code means that if you distribute the resulting…
Whether it has an effect is not an issue. The issue is that it is referentially transparent. Sure, we could have a discussion about whether partiality is an effect. Someone, somewhere is having that discussion. If the…
What exactly is the UNIX philosophy? As far as I can see, it's roughly "Data structures are hard, so let's pretend everything is ACSII text. Now we can use a really difficult systems programming language (C) to build…
Well, my first question would be "How does it work?", then I'd have a good laugh after you explained it. But that's just me... Anyway, nuclear fans know about the trade off between safety and cost. It is the antinuke…
This single sentence explains the problem very well: > The thinktank British Future has studied how best to win arguments in favour of immigration and multiculturalism. BF didn't set out to figure out whether…
You don't know if patients treated with a placebo feel a benefit, you only know that they report feeling a benefit. What's the task of the physician? Is it to relieve the patient's pain or is it to get the patient to…
Right, and that's not rational, is it? He's probably mentally ill and should be treated professionally.
MSO works and TDP was a scam. TDP was sold by Changing World Technologies as a tech that turns any waste into oil by reacting it with water. A cursory inspection reveals that this cannot work out chemically, and it…
This is strangely specific. Is it still okay to dehumanize people afflicted with other kinds of mental illnesses?
> Why not get that at the source? Because building a power plant next to a power plant so the power plant can turn the waste of the power plant back into fuel for the power plant is lunacy. It's easier and cleaner to…
A ridiculous idea. The article doesn't go into technical details, but it appears this boils down to a compact proton accelerator. Those protons could be smashed into heavy metal atoms, which will release high energy…
> junk food - burgers, sliced bread, candy bars Sliced bread?! What isn't junk food in your estimation?
60 years ago, when nobody knew anything about fusion (so not a very different situation from today...), the stellarator was the favored design. The advantages are obvious on paper (which is all they had back then):…
Does anyone know of a study that finds an actual placebo effect? As far as I can tell, there are two distinct effects, and both are meaningless. The first "placebo effect" is observed everywhere, and is simply reversion…
Why do you think it needs to be enriched?
> The energy, land, and water required to produce 1 lb of beef is several times greater than It also tastes several times greater, and in exchange is several times more expensive. > Not saying we need to stop eating…
Ever noticed that the person who appeals to your sense of duty is always your boss who doesn't want to give you a raise?
Well, the long version is this: "When trying to reject the null hypothesis (sensu Fisher), absence of evidence (for its invalidity) is not evidence of absence (of its invalidity)." Fisher wasn't the only statistician,…
Am I missing something or is this actually bad? > Glenfiddich has sold off spent grains left over from the malting process to be used for a high-protein cattle feed. This sounds as if the leftovers used to be sold as…
Only if that complex process provides any value. So what is the value of a paper journal over a website? That the pictures look better? I love how you compare a scientific journal to a cinema. It really brings your…
Fluoride (with a 'd') is not fluorine (with a 'n'). The difference is as big as that between sodium and sodium chloride. You can eat one, but not the other. The most powerful oxidizer in MSR fuel salt is the U(IV) ion.
You mean ceramics? There are so many to chose from, and most are unusable for one reason or another. The leading candidate being investigated is carborundum (silicon carbide). It doesn't corrode in molten salt, it low…
However, that's an eight hour shift, not twelve as mentioned in the article. Eight hours of work, eight hours of sleep, and two hours of commuting and personal hygiene still leaves a full six hours per day to use…
No, it's the Unites States' fault. In 1982 (iirc), the US decided that Thorium is a "source material" for nuclear weapons, even though it very clearly isn't. Since rare earth metals have chemistry very similar to…
Quick point by point: - A bugfix to a library requires every program that uses it to be relinked. It's true for dynamically linked programs, too, they are relinked over and over. The solution to a forgetful admin is a…
> Using copyleft code means the whole resulting binary is subject to copyleft. No. That's formally wrong, and it doesn't imply what you think it implies. Using copyleft code means that if you distribute the resulting…
Whether it has an effect is not an issue. The issue is that it is referentially transparent. Sure, we could have a discussion about whether partiality is an effect. Someone, somewhere is having that discussion. If the…
What exactly is the UNIX philosophy? As far as I can see, it's roughly "Data structures are hard, so let's pretend everything is ACSII text. Now we can use a really difficult systems programming language (C) to build…
Well, my first question would be "How does it work?", then I'd have a good laugh after you explained it. But that's just me... Anyway, nuclear fans know about the trade off between safety and cost. It is the antinuke…
This single sentence explains the problem very well: > The thinktank British Future has studied how best to win arguments in favour of immigration and multiculturalism. BF didn't set out to figure out whether…
You don't know if patients treated with a placebo feel a benefit, you only know that they report feeling a benefit. What's the task of the physician? Is it to relieve the patient's pain or is it to get the patient to…
Right, and that's not rational, is it? He's probably mentally ill and should be treated professionally.
MSO works and TDP was a scam. TDP was sold by Changing World Technologies as a tech that turns any waste into oil by reacting it with water. A cursory inspection reveals that this cannot work out chemically, and it…
This is strangely specific. Is it still okay to dehumanize people afflicted with other kinds of mental illnesses?
> Why not get that at the source? Because building a power plant next to a power plant so the power plant can turn the waste of the power plant back into fuel for the power plant is lunacy. It's easier and cleaner to…
A ridiculous idea. The article doesn't go into technical details, but it appears this boils down to a compact proton accelerator. Those protons could be smashed into heavy metal atoms, which will release high energy…
> junk food - burgers, sliced bread, candy bars Sliced bread?! What isn't junk food in your estimation?
60 years ago, when nobody knew anything about fusion (so not a very different situation from today...), the stellarator was the favored design. The advantages are obvious on paper (which is all they had back then):…
Does anyone know of a study that finds an actual placebo effect? As far as I can tell, there are two distinct effects, and both are meaningless. The first "placebo effect" is observed everywhere, and is simply reversion…
Why do you think it needs to be enriched?
> The energy, land, and water required to produce 1 lb of beef is several times greater than It also tastes several times greater, and in exchange is several times more expensive. > Not saying we need to stop eating…
Ever noticed that the person who appeals to your sense of duty is always your boss who doesn't want to give you a raise?
Well, the long version is this: "When trying to reject the null hypothesis (sensu Fisher), absence of evidence (for its invalidity) is not evidence of absence (of its invalidity)." Fisher wasn't the only statistician,…