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>People are still unironically anti-nuclear
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>Americans can't even stop their government from intentionally putting lead poisoning in their water
>Nuclearfags think it's a good idea to put this corrupt, third-world shithole in charge of nuclear plants
I'm not against nuclear plants, but you can't be dogmatic about it. You have to recognize that the safety of nuclear power depends on a stable and reliable society. I would fight to make America a better society, rather than fight to stop nuclear plants, but the people fighting nuclear plants aren't nutcases for taking their stance.
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>>8293049
You've never actually been to America, have you?
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>>8293049
>oh look
>the same shill posting the same pronuke shit
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There's nothing in quantum physics that can't be easily explained with classical logic
>muh double-slit experiment
pilot-wave
>muh entanglement
worm-hole
Anything else?
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post more kirino
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Hello, little niche request.
My grandma (now 80) spent most of her life working in an apothecary and in her days (espacially after the war, I live in austria) herbalism was still very big and she knew a lot about it.
Yet she could never really pass her knowledge on to me as 8 years ago, when I was still young, she had a stroke (due to a bad medicine plan which her doctor was responsible for) and had major problems with talking ever since.
But as I became adult and thus aware of my surroundings I realised I want to gather a lot of knowledge about the plants around me and their use in medicine, yet my grandma will be unable to help me with this goal.
So, what books (or book collections) are out there about that topic? I prefer german, free books and ones available in the net of course and I bet there are a lot of them out there since copyright only lasts a limited time after death, but first I don't know if those books are dated and second sites like Gutenberg offer all kinds of books and do not help in guiding which books are actually good and complete in that topic. If necessary I do not fear visiting the vienna library of course.
Apart from classic herbalism sources on plants in combination with destillation (oils, perfumes, etc) would be very interesting to me as well (as this was partly practised in apotehcaries as well)
So, is anyone of you proficient in herbalism or can help me in finding good sources of knowledge?
For a discussion part, what do you think of traditional herbalism today? Is it more trustworthy or even better than medicine (espacially in petty illnesses where they can be an alternative to the overused antibiotics) or do you think that this is outdated and should be replaced completely by "artificial" pharmacy as it is way more dependable? Where you ever interested in plants and their effects on humans at all?
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Btw, as I just discovered this could be misinterpreted here, I am not one of those who wants sources on pseudo-science. If something is proven untrue by todays science, it is very likely to be wrong (referencing to the "belief" part on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_medicine)
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>>8292715
I was really interested in plants and what use they can be for humans. I considered it a "lost knowledge" of some sort. Also, knowing that you can grow soemthing in your backyard and harness some medical effect from it was motivating for me to start some biotech company. Unfortunately, plants are unpredictable and they mostly have a lot of other compounds in them then the one which you want to extract for, lets say, a heart-disease. So, you kind of never now the right concentration and what you have in one plant. Variability is high and extraction yield might be low. But I am still considering it, especially that one could "optimize" the production of a compound by plants nowadays with genetics or breeding technology. I am in Germany btw...lets get a start-up :D
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>in German
who are you trying to genocide this time? tell it on >>>/pol/
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Was he really all that smart /sci/?
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>>8292613
all of his work has been disproved, so no.
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>>8292622
>all of his work has been disproved
even this?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_relation_(kinetic_theory)
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>>8292613
If anything his achievements are underrated. Dude broke reality as we know it at least twice. Still being proven right 100 years later with experiments we just now have the tech for.
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The cat is either dead or not. It is not both dead and not dead.
What was the point Schrodinger was trying to convey?
You may say it's just an analogy, but fact of the matter is, the experiment could be easily replicated. And the cat would be either dead or not.
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The point he was trying to convey was how ridiculous the many-worlds interpretation is, for the reason you stated.
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>>8292531
It is both dead and not dead, that is the whole point of the example..
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>>8292531
>the experiment could be easily replicated. And the cat would be either dead or not
That was the kind of the point. It shows how different quantum mechanics are from how things happen in the macroscopic world.
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I'm currently in high school and I want to work at cern as the people who do the physics. I know some quantum physics and a little bit of particle physics. What colleges should I go to work at cern or work at a place where you need to know quantum physics. And what causes should I take in order. If you want through this can you tell me how hard or ez it was. Sorry for many questions.
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*classes
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>>8292503
>He thinks he can get work as a physicist, much less at CERN
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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>TI-89 and TI-Nspire prohibited in this class
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I have had classes where any calculator was prohibited
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good. Only an idiot would use one of those instead of a turing complete machine.
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>>8292441
>he fell for the graphing calculator meme
Why is a 3D universe more energetically favorable than a 2D one?
The math looks so simple for 2D models desu so this confuses me immensely.
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Testing out latex. Don't mind me.
E &= \frac{mc^2}{\sqrt{1-\frac{v^2}{c^2}}}
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>>8292397
[latex]E &= \frac{mc^2}{\sqrt{1-\frac{v^2}{c^2}}}[\latex]
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[math]E &= \frac{mc^2}{\sqrt{1-\frac{v^2}{c^2}}}[\math]
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>constant brain fog
>weird momentary headache
>regain clarity of thought for a few minutes
I'm gonna die aren't I? Do people with stroke feel anything when it all goes wrong?
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>>8292322
>get at least 8-9 hours of sleep without waking, if you go to the bathroom resume and sleep for few more hours, make it 10-12 total.
>drink a lot of water during the day, soda and other shit like that doesn't count, coffee and alcohol too.
>eat something with lots of fat and protein (KFC is good, and while you'r at it, get a watermelon too)
>exercise for a moment.
>>repeat this for a weak, if the feeling is still there, go see a doctor.
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>>8292332
Or
>see a doctor
>if you're ok and it's safe, proceed with exercise
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>>8292350
/thread
good luck bro hope you make it
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When people get ridiculously fat, like american-tier fat, do they have to dedicate a larger part of their brain for motor functions and sensory input, like whales do for example?
They certainly have a lot more skin, and skin with "complex" shapes.
Is there any literature on the subject?
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When people get ridiculously muscular, like the rock-tier built, do they have to dedicate a larger part of their brain for motor functions and sensory input, like whales do for example?
They certainly have a lot more skin, and skin with "complex" shapes.
Is there any literature on the subject?
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>>8292230
None of them should be at a gym.
Running and cycling will literally just grind their joints to dust.
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>>8292232
You pretend to be retarded but you actually are retarded.
Fat people have at least twice the skin surface area of a normal person, weird folds and abnormal weight distribution. Even their hands can't reach to places you'd expect them to reach. Literall down a fucking degree of freedom.
Why are you so passive-aggressive? Are you a fatty? And angry fatty?
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I have 24 years and the next semester will start studying a BS in physics Can my age affect my career to be accepted in Masters, PhD or future work?
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>>8292199
Not that much, no.
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>>8292199
yes but not that detrimentally and there's nothing to do about it anyway.
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>>8292199
fuck man why so late?
What's the most romantic way for humans to go extinct?
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>>8292077
Meteor
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>>8292077
An act of sacrifice for the sake of a human branch-off species.
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>>8292077
Plummeting birthrates because of porn and sex toys
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Waste of brain process 2016-08-23 17:29:43 Post No.8292013
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Are all casual hobbies (ie. used for procrastination) like video games and anime just a waste of brain processing power with what we have learned about neuroplasticity?
What about the reward system?
Is it keeping people from unlocking their true potential?
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entirely depends on what you subjectively want to achieve in life.
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>>8292018
I want to leave brainlet and NEET status
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>>8292020
Start solving math problems and reading journals as a """"'"hobby.""""""
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Help me improve this calculator 2016-08-23 15:38:55 Post No.8291855
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hey /sci/, i need some help
I'm a physicist who is trying to figure out stuff about personal finance but everyone who should know about this stuff either sucks at math or is simply not quantitative in their thinking. For this reason, I decided to take a shot at it myself because fuck it, /sci/-oriented people are good at this shit.
I made this little net worth calculator on MATLAB that takes your income, savings, investment accts and property, and shows your total assets through time. I'm trying to make it as complex and realistic as possible so I need some examples or real world situations to test this out for bugs.
>pics are for a situation of 2 high incomes with bonuses who just bought a $600k house
I'm still testing it out so I can try your scenario if you give me the following parameters (any parameter that you DON'T give me, I'll just use the default).
>Cash savings (i.e. not in any 401k or IRA, it has to be cash in the bank) (default: $5000)
>Gross Salary (before tax), e.g. $70k gross ends up being $50k net (if multiple incomes, give me each one)
>Annual Bonus as a percent of (each) gross salary (default: 0%)
>Salary increase each year (default: 1%)
>How much do you currently have in a 401k, IRA (or other investment accts)? (default: $0)
>What percent of each salary goes into 401k (or IRA)? (default: 0%, i.e. you have no 401k or IRA)
>Percent yearly growth of 401k or IRA (default: 5%)
>Value of any property you own or are paying (default: $0, you have no property)
>Property appreciation per year (default: 1%)
>Property loan down payment and interest rate (default: 10% and 4%, respectively)
>How long will it take to pay this loan (default: 30 years)
>Monthly non-mortgage total expenses (default: $3000)
There are a bunch of other parameters but it's too complicated to ask for those and they don't really matter.
Anyway, I'm trying to get this to a point that I can put it online without getting spammed by people shitting on me because something is wrong.
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>>8291855
>This is a description of the loan in the OP situation and a breakup of the monthly payment they would have to make.
>The house is appreciating so its value ends up being bigger than what is payed by the end of the 30 year loan.
>The bank makes almost $300k in interest from this loan. This is at a compounding interest rate of 3.65% but the bank is actually making over 50% of the total loan amount (I never realized how much they make)
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>>8291855
>This is a plot of income in the OP scenario
>Also, I calculated what the effective tax rate would be for each yearly income (I go through all the tax brackets and deductions in each case to get the final tax amount, and then divide that by the original amount)
>It was interesting to find that rich people don't get taxed 30% or 40% like they claim... It's a lot less
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>25
>just graduated with a Bachelors in CS
I know I fucked up /sci/. What can I do except for accepting my fate or end my suffering?
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>>8291807
Start networking, you are far behind the curve though.
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Cheer up! The fact you realized that you fucked up implies that you're smarter than 95% of the people in your field.
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Gotta get to work on that shitty portfolio m8 xd