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You mean another example of apples and oranges?

Is software and transportation really a good example?


The west lost? When did that happen?


You won't prove it to those who don't want the proof. Just clean up the place and build what's needed, let those who "know better" to keep claiming they're the masters of the universe.


The war's been at a stalemate for over a year with Ukraine having lost control of its eastern provinces in spite of receiving hundreds of billions of dollars in aid from "the West". Sounds like a loss to me, regardless of one's personal feelings.


Stalemate is not loss. Kyiv still standing is not loss. The loss could've been way worse months ago. Both sides are still planning action. "Lost" is disrespectful to people on the ground still fighting and risking lives every day.


True, but let's not forget that the US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin declared the US goal in Ukraine is to 'weaken Russia'. Puts a different perspective on what winning means.


Also in 1904, Franjo Hanaman and Alexander Just developed and patented the incandescent tungsten-filament lightbulb

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franjo_Hanaman https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Just


"The Taming of Tungsten" is a chapter in "Men and Volts", a history of General Electric.[1] GE bought up the patent rights of Hanaman, Alexander, and a few others for tungsten filaments. It still took years of metallurgy work at GE to get a production process for making tungsten wire in large quantity. Here's a video of the whole insanely complex process, from ore to wire.[2] That plant was in Euclid, Ohio. Opened in 1913, closed in 2010, now a huge vacant lot. I once lived about two miles from there.

The FBX crypto people ordered a tungsten cube for their lobby, as a status symbol. It was made and delivered, and found in a storage building in the Bahamas. I wonder where it ended up.

[1] https://archive.org/details/menvoltsstoryofg0000john

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuhapGSexyg


Well, all bad practice will lose money only if such practices get public.


There is already a similair tehnique called muography which uses muons and has already been used for scanning the pyramids in Gizah and currently for the Mayan pyramids in Chichen Itza amongst others. Pretty SF stuff!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muon_tomography


Both parties need to have a specific good or service the other wants for barter to be successful. Money, however, can serve as a medium of exchange eliminating that problem thereby being useful enough to let yourself get taxed for its use.


From Latin abductiō (“robbing; abduction”), from abdūcō (“take or lead away”), from ab (“away”) + dūcō (“to lead”)[1]. Equivalent to abduct +‎ -ion.

"Away" and "to lead" indead does imply a reverse direction.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/abduction


It does not imply a reverse direction with respect to "deduction", which was the intention of the name, as used in the book discussed here.

Both "abdūcō" and "dēdūcō" mean "lead away", except that the latter implies that the origin of the movement was somewhere above, i.e. the movement was descendant (the prefix "dē-" in descend is the same as the prefix "dē-" in deduce).

"Abduction" implies a reverse direction only vs. "adduction", which means leading towards something, not away of something, like "abduction".

The words "abduction" and "adduction" are frequently used to describe the movements of the human arms and legs, where the place that is the initial point of the movement for abduction or the final point of the movement for adduction is understood to be the median axis of the body. Thus there are abductor muscles and adductor muscles. (For example the abductor muscles of the thigh raise the thigh laterally, away from the other thigh, while the adductor muscles of the thigh bring the two thighs together.)

"Induction" also implies the same direction of movement as "adduction", i.e. towards something, and opposite of deduction/abduction, but "induction" implies that the final point of the movement is inside the target.


Latin dē, especially in etymollogy of deduction, usually means "of" - meaning: regarding, in respect of, concerning etc. (Look de facto, de jure, de dato, de futuro...);

with dūcō - meaning to lead, to guide forming deducere as present active infinitive;

in contrast with the prefix ab which usually means "from" or "away from" as in "ab ovo" where "de ovo" would mean something regarding the egg instead of originating from or away from the egg (also look ab initio, ab extra, ab hinc...).

Similair to the word absent coming from latin absens, absum where ab means "away from" and sum means "I am", taken together meaning "not present".

Thus in the context of logic where deduce would mean going in one way, abduce would imply going away from that way i.e. reverse direction.


There has never been any usage in which "dē" and "ab" signified opposite directions.

In all usages of both words, they designate the starting point of a movement. Anything that moves, moves away from the starting point of that movement.

The only difference in meaning is that for "ab" there was no information about the direction of movement in space, while "dē" implied that the direction of the movement comes from somewhere above towards somewhere below, e.g. something that falls from a tree.

In later stages of the Latin language there was a tendency to no longer pronounce the final consonants of both "ab" and "ad". So in classic Latin going "from X to Y" would be "ab X ad Y", which in later pronunciation would become the ambiguous "a X a Y". Because of this ambiguity, the formerly almost synonymous "dē" became completely synonymous with "ab" and it replaced "ab" in all usages, so that in the Romance languages going "from X to Y" became "de X a Y".

In classic Latin, the less definite "ab" was usually preferred when referring to real or concrete movements, while "dē" was usually preferred for imaginary or abstract movements, e.g. when saying that a child comes from its parents, a literary work comes from its author or a steel tool comes from a blacksmith.

"ab ovo" meant "from egg" and "de ovo" also meant in older Latin "from egg".

However, in the late Roman Republic, after it became fashionable to educate the children in the traditional Greek ways and typically with Greek professors (normally slaves), the necessity of translating the Greek texts has produced a very large number of new words in Latin, either by creating new composite words following the model of the corresponding Greek words, e.g. "hypothesis" => "supposition", or by giving additional new meanings to existing Latin words, to cover the meaning of the Greek words for which they were substituted in translations.

A very large number of Greek philosophical texts had titles such as "About X", i.e. "Peri X" in Greek. When translating such titles, "dē" has been chosen to translate Greek "peri" (which had a meaning close to English "around" or "about").

After Latin became strongly influenced by the Greek literature, "dē X" became frequently used to also mean "about X", not only "from X". However the sense "from X" has always remained valid, and which sense was meant has to be discovered from the context of "dē X".

One who would tell how someone had thrown an egg to the ceiling and the egg had broken and the yolk had fallen from the egg on his head, would say that the yolk had fallen "de ovo" with the meaning "from the egg", and not with the meaning "about the egg".

In "de facto", "de jure" and many of the similar expressions, "de" does not mean "regarding" or "concerning". It means "from", in the sense "caused by".

"De jure" does not mean "concerning the law", it means "from the law", in the sense that the cause why something has been done or must be done is because the law says so.

"De facto" does not mean "concerning the facts", it means "from the facts", in the sense that some present state has its cause in the facts (i.e. past actions) of some entity, e.g. the x86-64 ISA has become a "de facto" standard ISA for personal computers, because for many years the Intel/AMD CPUs in IBM PC/AT compatible computers have outcompeted everything else.


The link to the paper is n the 1st paragraph:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.00671



I love the story about soviet bootleg records pressed on used X-ray images!

https://www.x-rayaudio.com/x-rayaudioproject/ https://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/32308/1/russia-x-...


One of two components of phase 1 implementation of the SKA[1], the SKA1-LOW in Australia, will host around 130,000 dipole antennas[2] when finished with construction starting soon.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_Kilometre_Array

[2] https://www.skatelescope.org/key-documents/


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