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So what does it really mean for light to be polarized?

Since 3D movies use polarized light, could this contribute to the nausea some people experience when watching them?

First past the post voting systems mathematically guarantee polarized two-party systems aligned on emotionally charged but relatively inconsequential issues.

Nope it's very clear once you know what to look for, as long as you're looking at something highly polarized.

Not if it also works on polarized light in the sky.

Ratings are often very polarized - like up / downvotes.

Those discussions have ceased because austerity has become the political rule in Europe (and to a lesser degree but still strong in a polarized US electorate).

If you have polarized sunglasses you should be able to verify those polarizations by rotating your sunglasses to see when the screens go black vs look normal.

Because I believe the market already shifted towards this type of vehicles, but I may be polarized, because I already desire an electric car.

If you put an electron and shoot polarized light at it, it's movement will be consistent with the electric field going up and down in a particular plane.

As the newness fades away and it becomes simply normal and less polarized, more room will bloom again in the middle for an understanding of non-sexual forms of closeness.

And when I look through polarized sunglasses there's no blocked angle.

> in non-polarized light, the "amplitude" of the light wave points in all directions The average is all directions.

I've never understand the idea that in non-polarized light, the "amplitude" of the light wave points in all directions, whereas in polarized light it points in only one.

Reading all these heated discussions on HN, I find them to be extremely polarized ("good Germany/bad Germany") and missing the essential component: Greece is not a country that can sustainably live without working hard.

America is that polarized, and when people with more nuanced views speak up, they tend to get shouted down immediately by the "side" that sees some aspect of "the other side"'s views in the nuance, drowning them out in the noise.