In reality no one can be said to be absolutely pessimistic nor absolutely optimistic
The successful compromise has been reached though: both sides are equally dissatisfied.
Rossi claims he has constructed 1 MW reactors. Assuming this was true, and assuming Rossi could sell that power for just $0.10 USD per kW-hr, then he has a machine that effectively generates income at the rate of $100 / hour.
No radiation was observed.
THey were imprecise, yes. They observed IR, of course but, to the point, what kind and how much of hard radiation would you expect from a device with supposed output of ~ 2kW (if I didn't bungle the zeroes)?
Even after release, because it means fewer viewers in movie theaters and fewer DVDs sold later on...
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the idea of Socialism: the state owned everything
That's kindergarten (mis)understanding of what socialism is. Socialism makes property become irrelevant. Communism begins when private PROFIT has become irrelevant.
Private property was outlawed. You could go to jail for making a profit.
That came straight out of a bovine rectum.
That's the worst thing about advertising
No, these are: 1. it raises prices, 2. generates NO improvement (on the contrary, 3. it is designed to push crap to consumers) and 4. wastes resources which could be used in R&D.
botox actually can impair your ability to perceive well the emotions of others
That's interesting. I'd like to see some article on that, as the toxin only acts on effectors.
emergent property
"My thoughts exactly."
Computability and Emergence, by S. Barry Cooper, University of Leeds
Retrieving a memory strengthens it, and encoding a memory in brain is lossy or non-lossy only based on what you consider the information being stored
One might add, most of the brain is actually a filter and much of the information gets lost before it gets integrated into memory or even into associative pathways.
I've noticed several design suggestions in your code.