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Post by AngryFrozenWater on Sept 17, 2023 14:12:49 GMT
If you like bedtime stories, big numbers, physics and more time than the average age of a mole then the video below is for you... Travelling to the Stars by Ladder - Numberphile. Forever Young - Bob Dylan. It appears that the idea is taken from the above song, which says...
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Post by AngryFrozenWater on Oct 10, 2023 17:25:20 GMT
How culture effects education, careers and happiness... Dutch 'Sixes' Culture vs US 'Performance' Culture (Education) - David Wren.
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Post by q5tyhj on Oct 18, 2023 16:01:29 GMT
Anton with a good video on a very bizarre observation ( here is a list of other known fast blue optical transients)
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Post by B. Hieronymus Da on Oct 18, 2023 18:03:33 GMT
How culture effects education, careers and happiness... Dutch 'Sixes' Culture vs US 'Performance' Culture (Education) - David Wren. Of course an Asian student gets a '7'. 🤔And I predict future floodings when this generation starts dominating Dutch engineering.
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Post by B. Hieronymus Da on Oct 18, 2023 19:25:12 GMT
Anton with a good video on a very bizarre observation ( here is a list of other known fast blue optical transients) You think this is bizarre and hard to explain, try the Big Bang.
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Post by q5tyhj on Oct 18, 2023 21:00:33 GMT
Anton with a good video on a very bizarre observation ( here is a list of other known fast blue optical transients) You think this is bizarre and hard to explain, try the Big Bang. Well sure, but that's sort of an apples/oranges comparison, in terms of scale... we're talking about "explaining" our cosmological model of the history of the entire universe as we know it vs. one specific astronomical observation. That's like "explaining" the origin and evolution of life vs. one specific new species of weird creature or organism that someone discovered in the Amazon or whatever. But yeah, the Big Bang is fascinating and is unlikely to be "explained" anytime soon (look at string theory- 50 years of empty/broken promises and zero tangible progress). At least the proposals are interesting (eternal inflation, Penrose's awesome conformal cyclical cosmology, loop quantum cosmology, etc), even if we never seem to get any closer to getting any sort of testable predictions let alone positive confirmations
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Post by AngryFrozenWater on Oct 18, 2023 22:00:19 GMT
And I predict future floodings when this generation starts dominating Dutch engineering. It is not only this generation. It goes way back. We are not interested to reproduce facts for a rating. We are trained to learn and find facts. That seems to work just fine.
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Post by q5tyhj on Oct 20, 2023 17:33:57 GMT
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Post by q5tyhj on Oct 20, 2023 17:35:30 GMT
is it too early to declare JWST the GOAT of human engineering and observational/scientific productivity? This fucking thing is everything we hoped it would be, and more...
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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2023 19:32:11 GMT
These findings conflict with narratives The people spinning those narratives likely know exactly what BS they're peddling and are lobbying so they can continue to benefit from misconduct. Or they have people breathing down their necks who benefit from misconduct telling them what to say. It's the way people lap it up that gets me.
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Post by q5tyhj on Nov 4, 2023 18:45:23 GMT
Now here's some real space magic: certain stars undergoing gravitational collapse into magnetars may create gigantic relativistic plasma blades, causing gammy ray bursts
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Post by Beerfish on Nov 4, 2023 18:49:28 GMT
Now here's some real space magic: certain stars undergoing gravitational collapse into magnetars may create gigantic relativistic plasma blades, causing gammy ray bursts We as humans know so dang little in the grand scheme of things.
It seems once a week we get some report of something being discovered in space doing things scientists can't explain.
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Post by q5tyhj on Nov 4, 2023 20:19:58 GMT
Now here's some real space magic: certain stars undergoing gravitational collapse into magnetars may create gigantic relativistic plasma blades, causing gammy ray bursts We as humans know so dang little in the grand scheme of things.
It seems once a week we get some report of something being discovered in space doing things scientists can't explain.
Agreed... although rarely is it quite so darn cool as planet-sized blades made out of hot plasma (!!) moving at relativistic speeds, formed during a collapsing star no less. That's like, all of the awesome all wrapped up together all at once
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Post by Beerfish on Nov 4, 2023 21:32:23 GMT
We as humans know so dang little in the grand scheme of things.
It seems once a week we get some report of something being discovered in space doing things scientists can't explain.
Agreed... although rarely is it quite so darn cool as planet-sized blades made out of hot plasma (!!) moving at relativistic speeds, formed during a collapsing star no less. That's like, all of the awesome all wrapped up together all at once A planet killer weapon created by some ancient civilization!
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Post by B. Hieronymus Da on Nov 8, 2023 18:26:41 GMT
I'm raising my eyebrow somewhat, at the suggestion such a "narrative" was actually going around. Really? I'm thinking the things weren't quite like that. The phrase "likely did not significantly impact crime or officer activity" is also kinda smelly. But nvm that. What should always be clear to everyone, is that rules and laws must always be upheld. There must be a control mechanism. Always, any kind and in any context. It might well be that some rules/laws are contra productive, a nuisance, or at least irrelevant. But how would you ever know that? If you don't even know which rules are followed and which are ignored? Police body cams have been a great success. So great success that some activists now want to get rid of them.
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Post by q5tyhj on Nov 8, 2023 21:13:30 GMT
I'm raising my eyebrow somewhat, at the suggestion such a "narrative" was actually going around. Really? I'm thinking the things weren't quite like that. The phrase "likely did not significantly impact crime or officer activity" is also kinda smelly. But nvm that. What should always be clear to everyone, is that rules and laws must always be upheld. There must be a control mechanism. Always, any kind and in any context. It might well be that some rules/laws are contra productive, a nuisance, or at least irrelevant. But how would you ever know that? If you don't even know which rules are followed and which are ignored? Police body cams have been a great success. So great success that some activists now want to get rid of them. The narrative (myth, as it turns out) is so prevalent that in order to not have heard it countless times by now, you must be actively avoiding reading or listening to any news coverage or discussion about police violence whatsoever. It comes up every single time increased police oversight is brought up in the wake of controversial police misconduct and violence. And the study explicitly cites instances of this narrative so I suggest you take a look at the study's own references. And btw, the judgment that something "smells kinda funny" is subjective and vague to the point of meaningless- this is not a substantive criticism or counter, in order to meaningfully critique with an empirical study you need to dispute the factual findings on either evidential or methodological grounds. In any case, this study was not concerned with whether "rules and laws must always be upheld" or not, but with whether increased police oversight has a detrimental effect on crime rates and public safety. The former is a moral/normative judgment and the latter a factual/descriptive question with no logical relation to one another. That's not to say that whether "rules and laws must always be upheld" isn't a reasonable or interesting philosophical question, only that it is a question that falls outside the purvey of this study (or any empirical study for that matter, since empirical science cannot adjudicate normative or moral disputes only factual/descriptive ones) and so I'm not going to engage with it in this thread. But certainly if you have any substantive on-topic comments or criticisms of the study, I'm all ears.
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Post by q5tyhj on Nov 8, 2023 21:33:03 GMT
What should always be clear to everyone, is that rules and laws must always be upheld. There must be a control mechanism. Always, any kind and in any context. It might well be that some rules/laws are contra productive, a nuisance, or at least irrelevant. But how would you ever know that? If you don't even know which rules are followed and which are ignored? I have to wonder, though- does the claim that "rules and laws must always be upheld" mean that rules and laws must always be upheld, even when the violators are police officers? Must police obey rules and laws as well, or only the rest of us? If one is genuinely committed to the idea that rules and laws must always be uphead, then they're apparently committed to police oversight and accountability as a matter of principle, regardless of whether it has a negative effect on crime or not. Then again, that's sort of the entire problem at the bottom of this debate: one side wants to hold police to the same standards police hold the rest of us, while the other side (including/especially police themselves) argues that holding police to the same standards (or any standards, really) will have a negative effect on crime rates.
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Post by B. Hieronymus Da on Nov 8, 2023 22:39:56 GMT
What should always be clear to everyone, is that rules and laws must always be upheld. There must be a control mechanism. Always, any kind and in any context. It might well be that some rules/laws are contra productive, a nuisance, or at least irrelevant. But how would you ever know that? If you don't even know which rules are followed and which are ignored? I have to wonder, though- does the claim that "rules and laws must always be upheld" mean that rules and laws must always be upheld, even when the violators are police officers? Must police obey rules and laws as well, or only the rest of us? If one is genuinely committed to the idea that rules and laws must always be uphead, then they're apparently committed to police oversight and accountability as a matter of principle, regardless of whether it has a negative effect on crime or not. Then again, that's sort of the entire problem at the bottom of this debate: one side wants to hold police to the same standards police hold the rest of us, while the other side (including/especially police themselves) argues that holding police to the same standards (or any standards, really) will have a negative effect on crime rates. "Always, any kind and in any context." What's the point of laws and rules otherwise? The point being there always have to be a control mechanism. Rules which are not enforced, does not, in practice, exist.
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Post by q5tyhj on Nov 9, 2023 0:32:18 GMT
I have to wonder, though- does the claim that "rules and laws must always be upheld" mean that rules and laws must always be upheld, even when the violators are police officers? Must police obey rules and laws as well, or only the rest of us? If one is genuinely committed to the idea that rules and laws must always be uphead, then they're apparently committed to police oversight and accountability as a matter of principle, regardless of whether it has a negative effect on crime or not. Then again, that's sort of the entire problem at the bottom of this debate: one side wants to hold police to the same standards police hold the rest of us, while the other side (including/especially police themselves) argues that holding police to the same standards (or any standards, really) will have a negative effect on crime rates. "Always, any kind and in any context." What's the point of laws and rules otherwise? The point being there always have to be a control mechanism. Rules which are not enforced, does not, in practice, exist. Right, so then this moots the empirical question since the position that "rules and laws must always be upheld" entails that police must be held accountable when they break laws and/or violate their own rules and protocols, even if the proposition that this would lead to a rise in crime rates was actually true and not just a self-serving fable.
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Post by B. Hieronymus Da on Nov 9, 2023 17:02:51 GMT
"Always, any kind and in any context." What's the point of laws and rules otherwise? The point being there always have to be a control mechanism. Rules which are not enforced, does not, in practice, exist. Right, so then this moots the empirical question since the position that "rules and laws must always be upheld" entails that police must be held accountable when they break laws and/or violate their own rules and protocols, even if the proposition that this would lead to a rise in crime rates was actually true and not just a self-serving fable. Lack of oversight is a fast track to corruption and abuse. (I'm not the kind of person that believes systems or organizations can be made to work in an ideal way. If it's good enough, let's not do anything radical, but move in an evolving way instead.) If more oversight would indeed lead to a rise in criminality, well wouldn't that indicate some of the rules are flawed? But again, without any control mechanism, how would you know which or what? To evolve anything, you need feedback, otherwise you're in the dark. And you need facts, not claims, which is why body cams are so great.
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