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ProfessorScience

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  • Why Republicans Are Terrified of Nonexistent Crime

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  • Well, they also need things for their base to be afraid of. Gays. Trans. Immigrants. Urban crime. "Only we can protect you from the scary, scary things!”

  • Have you ever cried because of a video game?

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  • Oh, and the second one.

    "...When my name was Ori."

  • How do people calculate pi to the hundredth+ decimal place?

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  • If you don't care about the digits of pi being in base 10, there's also a formula that can be used to calculate digits at any position you want in hexadecimal without having to compute the preceding ones!

  • Is Bitcoin actually worth anything?

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  • This is not the same for all crypto currency, but a bitcoin represents a "proof of work". When people "mine" bitcoins, they are consuming computational resources, and when they find a bitcoin, it is a certification of the work that was done to find it that becomes the value of the coin. And then, as others as mentioned, people just agree that that work has a certain amount of monetary value. But the proof of work is what limits the supply and allows that value to exist. 3Blue1Brown has a really good video that goes into the technical details if you're interested.

  • Defense Department stops boat renaming project after only changing the one named for Harvey Milk

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  • No, half the country voted for this. Or failed to vote against it.

  • Is there anywhere in the world that you visited previously that you'd like to return to if time and costs permit? Why?

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  • I went on a trip to Oslo and Bergen last summer. I'd love to go back; they're great places for mixing hiking and city exploration.

  • Which word do you love most?

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  • I think this would fall in to the latter scenario. 46 billion light years is the edge of the observable universe in the sense that light emitted by those regions has reached us by now. But these regions are beyond the cosmic event horizon, which is the distance at which light emitted now will ever reach us. That distance is about 17 billion light years.

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  • Is there any point at which the distance becomes too large to the extreme where you basically get “deleted” from existence?

    This is basically what the definition of "observable universe" is. It is the part of the universe that is close enough in space and time for light to reach us. So if you say they get transported to the observable part of the universe, then yes, their signals will eventually reach earth. But the closer they are to the edge of the observable universe, the longer the signals will take to reach, and the more red shifted they will be due to the expansion of the intermediate space as the signals travel to Earth.

    Note that there are some semantics at play; "observable universe" might refer to the parts of the universe that have emitted light in the past that is reaching earth now. But the the light emitted by those places now might never reach Earth because they are now too far away. So if these astronauts got sent to one of those places then no, their signals would not reach earth.

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    What do you think the most famous phone number of all time is ?

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    What do you think the most famous phone number of all time is ?

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  • 634-5789

  • Oregon becomes first US state to ban private equity control of doctor and clinical practices

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  • Oregon becomes first US state to ban private equity control of doctor and clinical practices

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  • I'd love to see more of this.

  • How is taxation not theft?

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  • How is the definition of theft determined? Typically the definition is determined by the government. Why would the government define its own funding source as theft?

  • Why do americans assume they invented the internet?

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  • We have Al Gore!

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  • HIPAA allows medical care providers to share your information with each other for the purposes of providing care (whether that sharing happens through MyChart or some other means). It does not require your consent (and this could be a good thing if, for example, you were taken to a hospital while unconscious). You simply may not have a lot of options for preventing this. As NOT_RICK mentioned, you could opt out of Care Everywhere at the psychiatric hospital to prevent them from sharing your information that way. You could also try to amend their record or request that they restrict access to your records, as per https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/laws-regulations/index.html#general. All of those options would require interacting with the original psychiatric hospital, so if you're unwilling to do that, I'm not aware that there are other options available.

  • ELI5: Why does time slow down for something as it approaches the speed of light but then are suddenly fast when they are the speed of light or faster?

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  • Small correction, but this bit isn't quite correct:

    If you go just below light speed, you’ll see the world outside go past like it’s being fast forwarded, and when you return, 8 years will have been compressed into something that seems much shorter to you.

    During the time that you are just below light speed at a constant velocity, clocks that are "stationary" will appear to be moving slow to you. And clocks moving with you will appear to be running slow for a "stationary" observer. As I mentioned in a comment in another reply, the trip would feel short to you because the distance to your destination would contract to nearly zero. "Fast forwarding" (ie, having both you and a stationary observer agree that more time has passed on the stationary observer's clock) would happen during the periods of acceleration/deceleration at the beginning and end of the trip.

  • ELI5: Why does time slow down for something as it approaches the speed of light but then are suddenly fast when they are the speed of light or faster?

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  • Just want to add that what the person on the ship observes is length contraction. When their ship is at near light speed, the distance to their destination contracts to nearly zero (because it is moving at near light speed relative to them); this is why the trip seems short to them.

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  • If I ran the zoo, then any AI that trained on intellectual property as if it were public domain would automatically become public domain itself.