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So you're suggesting the separation of the editorial and peer-review services from the publishing service?

If by 'better Pandora' you mean 'available where I am' then yes, I'd like a better Pandora.

Both the article and summary sound like, "too much information is bad for me because someone else might use it to do something bad."

The orbital mechanics seem to be accurate. Shooting up or down just causes oscillations. To move up or down orbits, fire forward or backward.

If you fly too high the game breaks.

By these metrics, I never indulge in escapist entertainment. That can't be right; either I'm incredibly wise, or else the description is incomplete.

A simpler explanation is that the Higgs boson doesn't actually exist. Might want to check that one out before positing chronological paradoxes. This would be a great article for April 1st.

Conservation of energy also seems to operate in surprising, sometimes even magical ways. Physics could easily compensate for a lack of a Higgs boson in a similar way.

Actually, I was trying to direct you away from the sensationalist title, but hey, maybe next year.

"When the debasement rate is 10% and interest rates are 7%, the negative debasement-adjusted interest rate is a debt factory. It is easy for borrowers to make decisions that assume these rates will continue. If they end, the typical result is a recession. These kinds of dependencies make it very hard for politically sensitive authorities to end debasement, or even significantly reduce it."

From (http://www.safehaven.com/article-5205.htm) likely by the same author in a different mood...written in 2006.

They're in-game inspired diagrams. The key is in the paragraph above the start of the 'Unclocked Logic' section.

     A
  →o * o→M O
   o * o
     B

Ask for a thermos instead of a Dewar Flask. They're the exact same technology, but the term 'Dewar Flask' implies a much higher grade.

Remember not to seal the thing airtight unless you're trying to build a bomb.

(2) Is most certainly true.

If A == B, then B just is A, we're saying A == A. A possible world where B != A is a world where A != A. You seem to believe that A != B even in our world.

(1) is the essence of the physicalist claim. You can certainly declare it bullshit if you want...

The leap in in (3). While brains and mental states as we know them must be identical, according to physicalists, other worlds may do brain-like and mental-state-like things not as we know them.

For instance, we may have misunderstood our own world.

Oddly, (4) gets back on track. If zombies can be proven to be possible (which conceivability does not do) then physicalism is false. (Although, this generally implies epiphenomenon, which also implies causality is false, which puts consciousness outside of logic {P -> Q} let alone physics.)

While the walking distance is not optimal, there is an upside. The ice cream vendors will be driven to differentiate their ice cream lines, and the beach dwellers will be able to comparison shop without walking halfway across the beach.

This would be pretty awesome if the screen were bigger, according to me.

"But for a few quirks of fate - international depressions and world wars - it would probably be the main power source for getting us around."

No. The containment requirements for steam, plus recycling the water, vastly outweigh the same for the internal combustion engine.

Flight requires internal combustion, because the power-to-weight of steam is just to low, even though, yes, the raw power of steam engines is generally much higher than internal combustion.

If the reason wasn't technical, what was the reason?

The first thing that springs to my mind is that Google calculator is free, and more precision isn't.

On awards.

"Basically it’s like going around a party informing everyone that you’ve had sex with a human being last week: I’m sure it matters to you a great deal - and hopefully to the other person as well - but the rest of us likely don’t give a hoot."

Nice line.

"There are exceptions to this rule, but very few (they include ... a Crunchie ...)."

Um, I'm sure they matter a great deal to you, Mr. Wauters, but... Way to attack the symptoms of a disease you yourself have.

There is indeed enough variation. I unfortunately can't find the link, but they went further and had people imagine something like the letter 'n,' and of the whopping eight people they tested, one came out completely garbled, even after training.

Also, I suspect that variation increases with abstractness, so it will almost certainly be impossible to extract high level thought without extensive cooperation.

For example, the brain state that the word 'conciousness' invokes in me is going to be entirely different from you because I have different associations, examples, knowledge, and general representation.

Now try to extract an entire sentence without training first. Have fun!

Our thoughts aren't standardized, so you get encryption for free.

So it's true. It's common knowledge, among people who look into it, that universities are utterly perverse and quite doomed.

"Roughly."

As in, not exactly. Clearly, atoms moving at a speed of negative infinity don't make any sense at all and violate special relativity.

Way to make my point for me.

It will be incomplete in the sense that it will contain axioms with no formal proof. Technically speaking the TOE is this axiom.

However, you can even prune these axioms by selecting for the simplest one that conflicts with the least data.