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Is it ok to think of a field as passing through both slits when a single particle passes through; the particle field is always connected in both slits but can interfere when they reconnect the other side? I'm thinking like a flow of water passing around a rock both sides
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You need to make friends with yourself. Regardless of the level of closeness of ones relationships they are all transient and will end, in some way, at some point. You enter the world alone and you will leave alone. It's not easy, but seek to find a sense of completeness and self-containment in your own company so that the inherent selfishness of everybody around you does not affect your sense of who you are. Expect nothing from anyone and then you should never feel let down. The only people that you should love unconditionally and give, without expectation of return, are children in your care.
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Italy makes 12 vaccinations compulsory for children
StringJunky replied to StringJunky's topic in Politics
From what I understand, it's not mandatory but children can be excluded from schools for not having them. -
Yondr is the "technology" that's being used in some events places. It looks like this: You put your phone or smart watch in one of these which is then locked. You take it in with you and you also go through a metal detector to ensure compliance. After the gig it is unlocked and the phone is given back to you. Quite a simple solution. It's still too early to gauge response and effectiveness.
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Italy makes 12 vaccinations compulsory for children
StringJunky replied to StringJunky's topic in Politics
That'a a good point. I can see a relation with being sectioned when a person has a serious psychiatric episode and is a danger to themselves or to others. Non-vaccination is a public health risk; it's as simple as that. it's not about personal choice, it's about societal responsibility. Some things have to be done collectively in order to work as intended. -
Italy makes 12 vaccinations compulsory for children
StringJunky replied to StringJunky's topic in Politics
Its a statistically significant number that are not doing it in the US. Just a NY Times article but gives an overview of the types that are not vaccinating: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/31/us/vaccine-critics-turn-defensive-over-measles.html?_r=0 -
Bit of a contrast to the US isn't it? No messing. Bravo Italy. What do you think?
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Cannot understand the red bolded, you've missed words out, I think.
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Don't ask for a citation but it was quite recently, whilst looking stuff upon hep c, I read the typical proportion of years of life lost is now about 10%. 6 or 7 years. it's near parity with uninfected people. for those undergoing treatment.
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Do Scientific Models Ever Exist in a Single Place?
StringJunky replied to zapatos's topic in Physics
There'd never be agreement on the finer points and the leading edge is always in flux. As a microcosm of that, you only have to look at some conversations here between people who are conversant professionally on some physics matters; there are as many interpretations as there are scientists. Nailing down a definitive scientific reference tome between them would be a pretty difficult project. -
Does that mean they are immune to all pathological effects from hiv?
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Momentum can be distinct from mass, as illustrated in the form of radiation pressure. When a photon is reflected or absorbed, momentum is transferred to that surface and can push the object if there's enough. Solar sails exploit the phenomenon. More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_sail
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Great idea. I haven't been to a gig for a few years but seeing Youtube film of concerts and seeing a sea of raised arms, cameras in hand, is not my idea of a good time. There should be technology to remotely disable phone phones in that kind of environment where they'll be a nuisance. Uploaded video of gigs to Youtube are rubbish anyway.
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I found an example of emergent behaviour using computing in the boids program. The rules in the program can be seen as analogous to the physical laws determining the behaviour of matter and complex biological systems.There's an animation in the Wiki page but the Youtube one is nice.
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North Korea unification how will it work? Will the US pay for it?
StringJunky replied to nec209's topic in Politics
Are you assuming S. Korea is poor? It is 12th in the world rankings for GDP. From what I've read about it, I've not seen any mention of other countries paying for it. The cost would likely be borne by increased taxes on the South Korean population.They have a Ministry of Reunification planning for the time it happens. Ultimately, a unified Korea would create the 7th largest economy globally. I imagine other countries would assist in the immediate humanitarian problems if the N.Korean regime collapsed. Also, reunification would ease the South's military spending. -
What are you listening to right now?
StringJunky replied to heathenwilliamduke's topic in The Lounge
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Wannacry Wannacrypt and Windows XP patches
StringJunky replied to Enthalpy's topic in Computer Science
Here's the MS blog article Customer Guidance for WannaCrypt attacks. -
I use Macrium Reflect Free. You have the option select it in the boot screen when you start up as well as with external boot media. It's been over 99% reliable in the 10 years I've been using it; had one cock up.
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I think as far as nobody being able to read them, then yes, they are safe but encryption malware will own your account so that you can't access them, if they are in your user account on the operating system AFAIK. Best to image your computer with everything on or put your important stuff on a flash stick or external drive or in an online storage facility. The other option is to make an encrypted partition on the same hard drive, storing your stuff there, but that's a bit more nerdy to set up.
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Unfortunately, the people that can understand what you are saying will be backing up anyway.
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The vast majority of people won't listen until it happens to them.