Assume Ebola goes airborne and hits all. Once it is through the population, it is done. OTOH, radiation is an environmental issue that would continue for centuries. Biological death is far better than nukes.

You did not understand what i meant.

If something is inside the universe we can interact with it. If we cant interact with something, then it is outside our space-time.

I dont waste my time thinking about untestable things.

So in KDEs terms that would be 1 year?

we have no idea what is outside our universe. we can only test theories inside the universe.

making testable predictions is the realm of science.

making untestable predictions is the realm of religion.

the hypothesis that there is no god/higher force outside the universe is as untestable as the hypothesis that ther is any kind of god outside the universe.

as a physicist I therefore am agnostic, buy I expect religions not to make any conclusions which affect my life by conclusions from unproven fairytales

The truth is, that whenever the world has mass die offs due to nature, we do not get wars.
Right now, we have massive numbers of small wars popping up. This has gotten old. In addition, it could lead to a real war with nukes.

But, if the world takes a massive loss of life due to say Ebola going airborne, it would lower the likelihood of a nuke war.

Where "huge" is 3 degrees... :)

> in all my classes, students from Asian and African education systems beat my native born Americans. This has been the case ALL the time.

That might be (selection) bias. Asians and Africans that go the US, have received proper education, better than average. They're probably from relatively wealthy parents. The other Asians and Africans did not get such a good education. The Americans (although probably not natives!), on the other hand, are in your classes after receiving common education, and --unless you teach at an Ivy League university-- are not the best of their generation. So you might be comparing apples and oranges.

The eye is bigger than the stomach. That is certainly part of the MOOC "failure". However, I don't consider it a failure. They have hundreds of thousands of students that finished a course. Is that failure? In comparison to the 8 million enrollments perhaps, but in comparison to the zero that would have done the course without MOOC, it isn't. I did a course. Followed all classes, didn't bother to get a grade or certificate, because (a) I couldn't put in the effort in the single week there was to do the project, (b) I didn't care about the certificate. It was just to learn something new. And I'm grateful to coursera that they offered this possibility.

> The obvious poor quality elementary and post elementary pupils western countries produce compared to kids from the Asian subcontinent

I think you might be ever so slightly mistaken there. If you're referring to the PISA or OESO scores, they are heavily biased. And many Western countries have quite decent elementary education, thank you very much. I agree the effort could be improved, but you can't call it poor.

zfs also keeps more data (a lot more) in memory than a "regular" filesystem, so you are more likely to encounter flaky memory in the first place. If I weren't going to use ECC RAM, I would probably forgo these fancy hashing filesystems and instead run something more mundane and then do a separate data integrity check with my backup. I use Unison for my data that is impractical to keep on ZFS. It is slow but has saved my butt on data that is important to me (family photos with some corruption on the master).

Sea water is more abundant than fresh water. There is nothing exact about the point at which "fresh" water freezes. And pure water won't freeze until you give it a nucleation site. Try it in the freezer with deionized or distilled water sometime, it's actually really "cool". :p

So you agree reclaimed land is valid. Now that we've established that, we can worry about the minutia of this case.

A calorie is not SI. That would be the Joule.

I think you are mistaken. The equation converting F to C is linear. F = C * 1.8 + 32.0. Both units are completely arbitrary. F used the freezing point of brine while C used the freezing point of pure water as a zero reference. F used the human body temperature and C used the boiling point of pure water as the 100 reference. Arbitrary.

0 degrees F is the triple point of seawater, which is a lot more common than pure water.

100 degrees F is the human body temperature.

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