Comments by "bj0rn" (@TheLivirus) on "TED" channel.

  1. Her eyes look so sad.
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  2. It seems like TED are advertising more commercial products than new technology nowadays.
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  3. I got to warn you kids that being a researcher comes at a cost. You'll get little job security. Career prospects are pretty poor. It's highly competitive, so you'll probably have to sacrifice private life to get anywhere. You'll probably have to focus on very narrow topics where there's opportunity for publishing rather than where your curiosity really is, and you'll have to spend a considerable chunk of your time begging for funds. You will have an administration over you monitoring your performance in terms of dumb numbers like number of papers published and citations. All of this bullshit aside, it's pretty fun.
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  4. I hope you're referring to the comments and not the video.
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  5. I don't think I have. I'll look into it.
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  6. Epic last name.
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  7. If everyone settled for what was in front of them, your oppinion would only reach so far.
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  8. Her posture is fantastic!
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  9. As long as they're about "Let's discover the beauty of God's creation" I don't mind them.
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  10. @CognosSquare Are you talking about masterbation?
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  11. I'm frequently having second thaughts about my choices in life with respect to studies, career, social life, love, etc. Sure, in the context of a casual conversation I usually say I'm happy with my choices to maintain character or make good impression, but in reality I'm often ambivalent or unhappy with my choices, especially since they are indeed irreversible. Simulated happyness is a gift.
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  12. @AdamDLDixon Did you miss this part? "...but you don't need religion to 'get you through the staircase'. Lots of people find self-transcendence in nature, other overcome their selves at raves..." 03:17
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  13. If there are only 12 particles, what is the "higgs particle"? He talked about "higgs field" too so maybe it's not an actual particle?
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  14. Sure, everything is relative, but in the context of developed countries, USA is certainly among the worst with respect to social mobility.
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  15. Relevant talk. I'm in total frustration over the fact that information intake is limited and that I need to prioritize. There's so much I want to learn, but so little time to do so. If scientists were working on virtual extention of the human mind with respect to dataflow, processing and storage, I'd volunteer as a test subject.
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  16. You just triggered my bullshit alarm. What are you? A scientologist or a troll?
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  17. Her message reminds me of Mark Blyth.
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  18. @bboschboi It's funny that you imply that "secularists" are non-religious. F.y.i. most christians belive in the separation of church and state.
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  19. @Jaxomy Yes, but he pointed out some of the problems the strictly rational secular approach that the enlightenment era braught us. Don't get me wrong, our rational side is very useful. However, we shouldn't pretend we are purely rational. We should acknowledge that we are social, emotional and intuitive beings too.
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  20. Of course he didn't invent the DC. But his inventions were based on it, and he developed a power distribution system for it. He is seen as the father of industrial scale labs. He was a great inventor and he contributed a lot to the modern society.
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  21. What if I told you, that by increasing health and wealth, less people will die, not more. Only difference is that less babies are born, and this is the mothers choice, no one elses. Contraceptives does not kill, but inhibits the egg from being fertilized. Still a moron.
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  22. You didn't listen to what I said. It's a real time music production system, tailored for the purpose. If you try to put a similar system together by combining commercial products you will run into limitations regarding eg. capability, compatibility, reliability, convenience, etc. In fact, that's exactly what he did, and why he started developing the system in the first place. Stop being a fucking douche bag.
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  23. @bluefootedpig The illegal immigrants of course. .. Haha nah just kidding. Couldn't resist.
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  24. I like Minecraft, but I love Vintage Story. I keep discovering new things despite many hours. Vintage Story is so rich with content!
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  25. inb4 malestrom
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  26. 00:50 "I've spent more than 2% of my life living in a tent inside the arctic circle, so I get out of the house a fair bit." Only if you don't consider the tent your house, and why would you not?
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  27. If you think Tesla isn't as famous as Edison you're fucking delusional. Both are respected and acknowledged inventors and scientists, but one is still portrayed and discussed frequently in popular media, and it isn't Edison. If anything, it's the other way around.
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  28. You're looking at the world through a keyhole. Don't belive in people who say the door is locked; just open it and walk out. When you get to see the world in all its glory, you'll look back at the church you came from and go "mjeh".
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  29. It seems dangerous to give people the doctors they want rather than the one they need. Any snake-soil salesman can convince a portion of the population that they're the preferred option.
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  30. The "MORON" says that you should take a look at the image below: earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/WorldOfChange/images/decadaltemp/2000-09.png That is the mean temperature anomaly 2000-2009 with the mean of 1951-1980 as reference point. Red is above, blue is below. This proves: 1. They DON'T leave out the low temperatures. 2. The tilt of the axis is accounted for. If the warming was caused by tilt, we would expect rise in one hemisphere and drop in the other, leaving the mean unaffected.
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  31. I would argue that a conversation is not really an argument.
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  32. It's lighter and cheaper.
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  33. Ironically, Gapminder's statistics visualization software Trendalizer was aquired by Google three months after this talk. And even more so, I haven't seen any ads ever since. :/
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  34. I was referring to John D. Rockefeller in specific, who was a ruthless capitalist, even more so than Gates. During his later days he donated large amounts of money to charity. That's why I braught him up. I'm not saying business is interested in charity, of course not. I'm saying some individuals are, especially people who have accumulated a lot of wealth. And oh, unlike most private charity funds, the Gates Foundation is trying to be transparent, publishing annual reports on gains and spending.
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  35. Her talk was not about presenting new innovations.
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  36. He's not talking to the consumers. He's talking to private enterprise. He's trying to make them realize they're about to miss the business opportunity of an entire industry by clinging to fossile fuels. He's not talking about what's out on the market, he's talking about the possibilities of modern technology. He gave a few examples of actual commercial electric vehicles just to alert them that it's going on as we speak. They're being overrun.
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  37. The innovation is to mix the bitumen with steel particles that allow for heating through the means of induction. The bitumen that binds the stones togeather is no different from that of ordinary asphalt, so if ordinary asphalt does not self-heal under the sun, neither does this.
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  38. I understood you were referring to financial value the first time.
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  39. But who's gonna sit in the megajails? They need their customers.
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  40. @AlexLococo Although I admit there are _fanatic_ atheists I can assure you that there's no such thing as "fundamental" ones. This fact should be clear if you just pick up a dictionary.
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  41. Are you saying Norway is tight on immigration? *facepalm* Why don't you go ask Anders Behring Breivik what he thinks?
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  42. I didn't hear any "smacking". Maybe you were more focused on his speach, than the actual content?
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  43. Seems necessary to substantiate the relationship between political/personal freedom of people in Ukraine and taking back versus giving up Russia-occupied territory.
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  44. Heather: "Hi, I'm heather brooke" Man: O.O Heather: "What... something wrong?" Man: *caugh* "No I was just um... a bit surpriced by your... voice." Heather: "How come?" Man: "Well you know... I just pictured it to be... a bit DEEPER"
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  45. Eugenics is about refining the genome through selective breeding, not reducing world population through random killings/sterilizations.
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  46. "If the cure is worse than the disease, and only a few win big $ without repercussions: something is wrong, right?" Correct, but it was not worse than the disease: Estimated potency of H1N1 (April – October 17, 2009): 0.00018% (5 500 out of 34 million) Chance of vaccine causing Guillain-Barre syndrome: 0.00000011% (11 out of 100 million) Chance of death from vaccine: 0.000007% (104 out of 15 million)
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  47. @DoYerBest If not the theory of relativity, how would you explain that magnetic, electric, and gravitational fields propagate with c in vacuum, no matter the velocity of the observer? Call it 'mainstream' if you want, but I hold that it is the best explaination available. It have made extrordinary prediction such as the existance of neutron stars, black holes, time dilation, gravitational lensing and waves, etc. Why should I mistrust a theory with such a record?
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  48. What is this I don't even...
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  49. Would have been nice if she could give an example where this kind of communication between a scientist and a layman is required. If the scientists are not part-time teachers, why would they spend time dumbing down their journals?
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  50.  @flickwtchr  Pure speculation. You don't know what the documents say, nor who supposedly have seen them. It is nevertheless minor in comparison to, for example, sacrificing hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian lives in order to transfer their farmland to Blackrock, or sabotaging infrastructure of a close ally sending them and Europe into an energy crisis, or fabricating amendments to international law referring to votes that never took place. I know it's a lot to unpack, but my point is you are being deliberately distracted from what's really important.
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