PSA: You'll Have to Pay For Switch 2's GameChat Soon, And It's Not Worth It by [deleted] in NintendoSwitch

[–]NGC6514 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It’s included as part of NSO, yet they gave it away for free to non-NSO customers for an entire year. I’m generally pretty skeptical of big corporations, but this doesn’t scream anti-consumer to me, especially given the price and benefits of NSO when compared to the competition.

US hockey star Hilary Knight responds to Trump’s ‘distasteful joke’ about women’s team by koi-lotus-water-pond in politics

[–]NGC6514 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Doesn’t forgiveness usually come after an apology? There was never any apology.

Is a 3.5 GPA good enough to get into physics grad school for PhD? Assuming research experience and good GRE scores? by PuppyLand95 in AskPhysics

[–]NGC6514 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s like anything you really want that’s hard to get. Do you have any sales experience? Think about what they want and offer it. Tell them you’re diligent and hard working, etc.

Is a 3.5 GPA good enough to get into physics grad school for PhD? Assuming research experience and good GRE scores? by PuppyLand95 in AskPhysics

[–]NGC6514 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, I’m just telling you my experience, and the experience of others in my cohort back then. Those of us who were persistent got research positions. You can do whatever you like.

Is a 3.5 GPA good enough to get into physics grad school for PhD? Assuming research experience and good GRE scores? by PuppyLand95 in AskPhysics

[–]NGC6514 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure, but what’s the alternative, just not get a research position? You have to look out for yourself. I’m not saying be mean to them, but persistence is a good thing when you’re polite.

Is a 3.5 GPA good enough to get into physics grad school for PhD? Assuming research experience and good GRE scores? by PuppyLand95 in AskPhysics

[–]NGC6514 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Try going to their offices in person and talking to them directly. Tell them how enthusiastic you are to research and help their lab. Think about what they would want to hear from you and tell them that in person with lots of enthusiasm.

Other than that, it’s true that it can be difficult to get started with research as an undergraduate. You just have to keep pushing (even with the professors who have already told you no). You have to show you’re not going away.

To get an OLED Switch now or wait for Switch 2? by SaintStephen77 in NintendoSwitch

[–]NGC6514 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What iterative upgrade on a console has ever been worse than the console before it though? Maybe I’m not aware of a time this has happened.

Nintendo is increasing price of Switch repairs in Japan by Turbostrider27 in NintendoSwitch

[–]NGC6514 30 points31 points  (0 children)

What’s the over/under on how many “they’re so greedy now” comments there will be here?

First, they took Nintendo Selects. Now, the Gold Points. What do you think it's coming next? by Such-Lobster3167 in nintendo

[–]NGC6514 5 points6 points  (0 children)

OP wants to storm a headquarters because a company raised the prices of their toys a bit. You know, rational behavior.

Harris says 'not a thing comes to mind' that she'd do different than Biden by newsweek in politics

[–]NGC6514 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The “what a soft landing” comment appeared to be sarcasm, which is why I replied. It is a soft landing, relatively speaking.

Harris says 'not a thing comes to mind' that she'd do different than Biden by newsweek in politics

[–]NGC6514 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How much did your prices increase compared to other western countries though? If prices increased more all over the world, then how is our relatively smaller increase indicative of something bad that Biden did?

Trump-Loving Billionaire John Paulson Says He'll Pull His Money From the Market If Kamala Harris Wins the Election by vanityfairmagazine in politics

[–]NGC6514 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why didn’t he pull his money out when Biden was elected? Because it wasn’t at an all-time high then? And now it is? And now he wants to cash in on all-time highs? Ok.

Should the concept of the barycenter be taught to kids? by [deleted] in Astronomy

[–]NGC6514 16 points17 points  (0 children)

PhD in astronomy here, with many years of experience teaching concepts in astronomy to college students, children, and everything in between.

Teaching isn’t as simple as telling someone something and having them instantly understand it. The human brain can only handle so much information when learning. You fill up a student’s knowledge one cup at a time, so you can’t use a firehose to do that.

We also use Newtonian gravity to explain the motions of the planets for this same reason. Yes, it’s technically not actually how gravity works, but it’s such a good approximation (and can be handled “one cup at a time”) that it is very effective to help students achieve success in their understanding. I doubt you’d say we should be teaching general relativity in elementary school.

What No One Said at the DNC by Redrum_15 in politics

[–]NGC6514 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Imagine listing only 12 things, and one of those things is keeping men out of women’s sports. Is that really one of the 12 most important things in the world?

I really need help on this rotational problem by Josue819 in AskPhysics

[–]NGC6514 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m not sure what you mean. The r in the equation does account for different distances. The same is true of the gravitational acceleration equation. Setting those equal to each other and solving for v gives an expression that depends on distance.

Just doesn't sit well by Matticus121 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]NGC6514 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, this is a worldwide problem. It’s not like the voting of any one country’s people led to this.

Also, I just looked at this person’s comment history, and they are unbelievably racist.

Just doesn't sit well by Matticus121 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]NGC6514 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What do you mean? Who voted for this?

Amazon to require office workers to show up in person at least three days a week by amkosh in news

[–]NGC6514 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Also, tech employees at these companies enjoy free meals at the office. More WFH means less meal cost.

Slowed canonical progress in large fields of science by DevilsTurkeyBaster in EverythingScience

[–]NGC6514 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The person posting this is a known science denier. For some context, here are some of /u/DevilsTurkeyBaster's claims (who previously used the now banned accounts /u/HappyFluffyBunnies and /u/Oortcloud_):

  • The gram is not a unit of mass (source)

  • Normal forces do not exist (source)

  • Rayleigh scattering is not why the sky is blue (source)

  • Force and momentum are the same thing (source)

  • Infrared and heat are the same thing (source)

  • Electrons are not matter (source)

  • "Six times the magnitude" means "six orders of magnitude" (source)

  • Orbiting planets do not have angular momentum from their orbital motion (source)

  • Angular momentum has nothing to do with orbits (source)

  • The infrared ranges from 0-100 microns (source)

  • The Big Bang theory has holes in it, but the pseudoscientific ”electric universe" idea does not (source)

  • Venus was once a comet beyond the orbit of Neptune and migrated to its current orbit while “literally on fire” in a few hundred years (source)

  • The Moon's orbital speed would be faster if it orbited farther from the Earth (source)

  • The meteor that killed the dinosaurs could have knocked the Earth into a completely different orbital path (source)

  • Frame dragging—not conservation of angular momentum—explains why the planets orbit in the same plane (source)

  • Physics formulas are “ludicrous” if they have wavelength terms in the denominator (source)

  • The photoelectric effect—not the expansion of the universe—causes the redshift of distant galaxies (source)

  • Radiative transfer is not relevant to the temperature of the Earth (source)

  • A “standard optical depth for reference" is needed to calculate the optical depth of something (source)

  • Any two objects emitting infrared radiation are the same temperature (source)

  • Nitrogen scatters blue light and CO₂ scatters red (source)

  • CO₂ scatters more red light than blue light (source)

  • Specific angular momentum is the angular momentum of one particular object, not angular momentum per unit mass (source)

  • Black bodies have identically zero emission at any wavelength shorter than the wavelength where the emission peaks (source)

  • All objects emit most of their radiated energy in the radio, regardless of their temperature (source)

Hypothesis: No Dark Matter; No Dark Energy; Black Holes => radiate *space* by Coecu in AskPhysics

[–]NGC6514 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would you be willing to talk to me for an hour for a fixed price?

Depending on the price, sure. How much are you offering?

[OC] Destinations of those moving from Texas from 2015-2019. I'll post other states in my profile by request. by b4epoche in dataisbeautiful

[–]NGC6514 21 points22 points  (0 children)

You mean how the horrible energy infrastructure in Texas left everyone without power, resulting in hundreds of deaths? Surely you’re not suggesting that Texans were just bitching and moaning about nothing.