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  • Theres a very simple answer to that: The things you are mentioning (height, weight, arm-span, testosterone levels) are not normally distributed in the human population, but follow a binormal distribution. It makes sense to let people from one of the two parts of the distribution compete within their own bell curve. It makes far less sense to set a cutoff at the tail of the curve and disallow people from the tail from competing.

  • Pure sci-if speculation: Your FTL (or near-c) tech is reliant on a deep gravitational well or a strong radiation source (like a star) to stop. I can see a sci-go scenario where that is the case.

  • In that case they should go ahead and declare war, at least if they care about keeping a sliver of legitimacy around their illegal assassinations. Let's see how well that goes...

    Israel is 100% reliant on the goodwill of the international community. They've been working double time to wear it thin the past year, I'm honestly starting to wonder how far they'll push it. Without international support, they're just another small Middle Eastern country than can be walked on by Iran/Egypt/Saudi Arabia/Whoever has the biggest stick...

  • Get fucked China. Just keep crying about your "wolf diplomacy" not working. You took the mask off years ago, now let it sink in that we're not going to listen to your crying anymore, because you've shown the whole world that you want to play by your own rules and refuse to act in good faith.

  • "Mediocre" can be a relative term. I would call myself a "mediocre" runner, because I run a handful of times a week and can beat most people on a 3000m, but am eons away from the pros. A "mediocre" fpv pilot can be someone who flies regularly and who most people would look at and consider "really good", but who is still far from being a pro.

  • Even though the killing of the diplomat may have been legal, conducting an attack on the territory of a country not taking part in the conflict is typically not.

    Countries usually don't like it when you conduct assassinations or acts of war on their territory.

  • My impression is that they'll be important in pushing Russian jets further back from the front line, which is crucial in stopping the glide bombs, which have been all too effective.

    In addition, while Ukraine already has HARMs, my understanding is that using them from an F16 gives some capabilities that make them much more dangerous to Russian air defence.

  • It's stable and works with most commercial software. I have homebrew that I use to install gcc and whatever else I need, and I have yet to experience an answer on a Linux forum not being directly applicable when I need to solve a problem. Best of both worlds if you ask me.

  • I love how the mathematician ends the interview by saying

    [this] may help us uncover something beautiful, or maybe even useful.

    It's great seeing how these people work with science for the sake of science itself, because it's beautiful, not because they suspect that they'll find something that immediately changes the world. It makes me think that they see themselves more as artists than as engineers, and I think that if you have a career in science it's a healthy approach to have. Most scientists never have an "Einstein-like" breakthrough, but contribute pieces to the puzzle that may lead to breakthroughs long after they're gone. Being satisfied with that is probably key to having peace of mind as a scientist.

  • Very. There are people I know that had spent hundreds of days navigating technically challenging terrain on everything from dry rock to wet ice by the time they were 21. Not saying this guy was that experienced, but don't underestimate the fact that some people spend 2-3 days a week in challenging mountain terrain from the time they are 15.

  • A protein is like a really long chain of simple monomers (amino acids), that you can think of as a long string of differently coloured beads. The ordering of the beads somewhat determines how the protein functions, but the major factor that determines it is how this long string is bundled up, i.e. "folded" (think of a ball of yarn).

    A DNA sequence tells us the sequence of the amino acids in a protein, but tells us nothing about how it is folded. It is of great interest to compute how a protein will fold, given its sequence, because then we can determine how and why it works like it does, and use gene-editing techniques to design proteins to do the stuff we want. This requires huge amounts of computational power, so you get the fold@home project :)

    Thanks for contributing!

  • To clarify a bit: what I mentioned above is the legal minimum an employer can give me regarding sick days. They are of course free to do more, and I my personal case, I'll usually just work reduced from home (answer mails and do lightweight administrative stuff) if I'm starting to get a cold or something, get better in a day or two, and come back full time, without logging any sick days, because my employer prefers that I'm available for small stuff and get well fast rather than that I take "full" sick leave if I'm just mildly sick.

  • Holy shit.. if I get sick during my vacation, I'll get those vacation days refunded so I can use them later, when I'm not sick anymore. I can call in sick for up to three consecutive days, 25 days total per year without a doctors note. You only need a doctors note if you exceed those limits, and with a doctors note you have paid sick leave until the doctor says you are fit to work (although the government covers your salary, or part of it, not entirely sure about the details, after the first two weeks or something).

  • I'm straight, 100%. I know because I've been very close to trying, and figured out I was too straight to go through with it. If you had asked me when I was 18-24, I would probably not be so sure. Being "bicurious" around that age seems to be quite common, but is probably (my speculation) not closely linked to the proportion of people who are actually not straight.