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Comment: Re:Science (Score 4, Interesting) 162

The latest Scientific American has an article about a newish bayesianized quantum theory. To the limited extent that I understand it, the wave function is just the bayesian priors - what you think before you collect the evidence. The only thing that collapses when you measure something is your ignorance about the state of the universe.

Comment: Re:Mother Theresa is an unfortunate choice (Score 0) 192

by Black Parrot (#43799431) Attached to: 3D Printers For Peace Contest

I think Mother Theresa would choose not to print anything.
She was a friend of poverty, not of the poor, and considered suffering to be a state of grace.
She was a rather nasty piece of work, who kept the poor in poverty, and prevented many dying people from getting access to medicine.

So you're saying she was a Republican?

Comment: Re:This just in (Score 2) 192

by Black Parrot (#43799185) Attached to: 3D Printers For Peace Contest

The two causes are not mutually exclusive, and I say this as a gun enthusiast who would not fire a 3D-printed gun with his own 2 hands.

I shoot with my 3D printed hand. You should see the looks on peoples' faces when I have my hands in the air, and suddenly the 3D printed hand whips out a 3D printed gun and shoots them right between the eyes.

Comment: Re:After the fertilizer hits the ventilator (Score 1) 121

Your conclusion is probably right, but one workaround would be for Congress to grant the utilities big bucks to fix it, whereupon entrepreneurs with solutions (and con artists with "solutions") would pop up all over. That would take care of (1), (2), and (4).

Not sure I like that suggestion, but admittedly it is in our national interest to do something about it.

I vaguely remember reading that our national grids are a mere hop and a skip of the Grim Reaper, even without cyberattacks.

Cure the disease and kill the patient. -- Francis Bacon

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