> And we just so happen to have a nearly permanent laboratory in orbit, which was built and is maintained at tremendous taxpayer expense?
Resources are finite, and even though they're not fungible, which current ISS experiment would you replace for this?
Also: https://link.aps.org/accepted/10.1103/PhysRevD.100.062003
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LISA Pathfinder (LPF) [10] was a drag-free interfer- ometer located at the first Lagrange point in space be- tween the Earth and Sun. It measured the differential acceleration between two gold-platinum test masses sus- pended in drag free control. By the end of its lifetime, it had surpassed both its requirements and those of its full scale model LISA [11]. Given the success of the mission, and in coordination with other system tests, a handful of days near the end of the mission extension were allocated to performing a dedicated big G experiment for the first time in space. However, because Pathfinder was not de- signed to perform this sort of measurement, it was known that systematics such as absolute distances would limit the results to no better than 1 % relative uncertainty.
> They intentionally misrepresented the data and hence the conclusions by an order of magnitude, which allowed them to delude the whole world for decades that "humans are 98.8% the same as chimps!"
Your second link doesn't work, but more broadly you and I both know that there are lots and lots of different ways to measure sequence similarity.
Sure. None of those organisations have power over you (unless you work for them, I guess). You’re free to use whatever name you like for whatever you want. Whichever organisation names venomous snakes has no power over you either, but if you’re bitten by one and they ask you which one it was so they can administer an antidote, I highly recommend you stay with the name they gave it instead of some other name you made up. You do you, though, don’t let me stop you.
Ya lol, I love this world where you tell a doctor "help, I'm having a cardiac arrest!" and they say "no, you're experiencing sudden cardiac death, now sit down and act dignified!!"
Agreed. Tech-bros think this is a flex. But at some point americans need to recognize when they have a unhealthy relationship with work, and with consumption.
Because this is affecting the planet, our social ties, and everything else. And it's having impact on all of us indirectly
The first case makes sense: ex-CIA officer explicitly outing CIA officers. Naturally, the government is going to step in and it's a false equivalence to compare to restricting random citizens.
As for your second case, US schools teach about the perils of McCarthyism. You neglected to link to the subsequent Supreme Court ruling in 1958 overturning the confiscation of the passport over protected speech. Note how long ago that was and how it's taught as a black stain on US history.
Anyone with a child support order that makes decent money is only one misrecorded or bounced payment away from being ineligible for a passport. The trigger is only 4 digits of USD.
In the US, the Passport Denial Program, since 1998 (other developed countries enacted similar legislation), following the 1992 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) [2]:
> The Child Support Enforcement Passport Denial Program was enacted as part of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996. While authorized in 1996, the program was jointly implemented by the U.S. Department of State and the Federal Office of Child Support Enforcement in June 1998.
So were these founders found violating a child support order?I'm still unclear on what crime they actually committed and what they're being investigated for.
Is it possible that they are merely pawns in a political dispute between two rival countries?
It's one thing to block an acquisition because you don't want your rival to gain an advantage, an action which is not limited to the CCP.
It's another thing to detain an individual when no crime was committed.
"Missing" (but quite often only due to a clerical misreporting) a payment isn't facially criminal and isn't even established as "violation" without a contempt hearing where you can argue why you didn't actually violate it. So the passport denial is even looser than that.
I'm just pointing out the bar isn't much different except dressed up in a think of the children meme. I'm not justifying either one.
Understood. I'd note that the difference is that with a missed payment, you can simply make that payment (which can be a relatively small one as you noted) and you're free and clear.
With these Chinese founders, I'm not sure it's quite so simple.
Complex numbers and Schwartz distributions (the thing the dirac delta is) come immediately to mind. “Not all numbers have square roots, but what if they did?” It seems like a common pattern.
I think they're talking about conjectures that are unproven but seem "likely true" and people build further math off the assumption. E.G Reimann hypothesis
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