IAmBroom

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by IAmBroom 1mo ago
Found Q's alt account.
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by IAmBroom 1mo ago
The OTHER effect of time dilation that isn't being mentioned: the rest of the universe is not accelerating with you, so it doesn't experience time dilation. Along your trip you will see stars turn red, sometimes flashing white and
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by IAmBroom 1mo ago
"Before times" is a fairly common phrase in post-apocalyptic media. Silo just coopted it as an easy shortcut for the audience.
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by IAmBroom 1mo ago
I had a girlfriend who was chronically underhydrated, and for her a drinking regimen was actually useful. (Unfortunately, she learned this after we broke up... Her dehydration actually reduced her sex drive, because: low lubrication.) I onl
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by IAmBroom 1mo ago
There is such a thing as a No Man's Land[0]. It can move, but if you don't dare cross it for even a few days, it's very real. It doesn't have to be glacial, and it currently exists in Ukraine. Breakout pockets don't
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by IAmBroom 1mo ago
"Artists don't deserve to build wealth off of their own work" is certainly one point-of-view.
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by IAmBroom 1mo ago
Do you have to finger them before you poke them? <smoking emoji>
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by IAmBroom 1mo ago
You can also be a generous person, and share a few pennies from your pocket.
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by IAmBroom 1mo ago
I'm even cooler. I never used it. Also, I don't watch TV and only smoke menthols. I mean vape. Or whatever.
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by IAmBroom 1mo ago
Their status is curious (along with clearly fictional saints like St. Brigid, the former Irish Goddess of Fire). Canonization is mostly considered to be under the remit of Papal Infallibility, which means it cannot be revoked. If the Pope g
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by IAmBroom 1mo ago
A whole lotta "No True Scotsman" BS going on in both/all sides of this argument. "A Christian is a person who believes in Jesus Christ and follows the religious teachings of Christianity." Some are good people. Some
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by IAmBroom 1mo ago
Religious stories about the Buddha were readily and literally coopted into Christian lore by early Church writers. Unless you presume the Buddhist stories were themselves historically accurate - which would start down a road of "both B
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by IAmBroom 1mo ago
It would reduce the plane's weight by a trivial amount, like eating ice cubes to lose weight (nutritional "calories" = 1000x heat calories). Also, helium requires airtight containment - which itself would add weight. Not beli
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by IAmBroom 1mo ago
So you're saying the complete lack of evidence of economic depression is a mere distraction from the reality that the evidence is just hiding? Is the depression in the room with us now? Can I speak to it?
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by IAmBroom 1mo ago
Oh, you didn't mention you have a deep understanding of business and economics. The rest of us dolts are grateful for your attention to this matter. Now can you focus some expert thinking on world peace?
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by IAmBroom 1mo ago
> the Great Depression in the early nineteen hundreds, and the effect of that was minor compared to the effects of extreme inflation (hyperinflation) that occurred in places like Weimar Germany and Zimbabwe. Millions unemployed, depende
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by IAmBroom 1mo ago
> Humans are really the only animal that lies overtly. Cite required. I've seen dogs "lie" to me by hiding the snacks they stole. That alone disproves your claim. I've also seen video of two monkeys hide their mating
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by IAmBroom 1mo ago
Both you and the GP are demonstrating the REAL problem, when you resort to insults: ego/pride. "Mater malum superbia est" (Pride is the mother of all evil), as the medieval Roman Catholic Church knew. Buddha agreed, independe
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by IAmBroom 1mo ago
I generally view human decisions as a result of evolutionary pressure. We've been molded by our brain development to make things good enough to survive short-term (to next year). We're very good at planning for winter. We might
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by IAmBroom 1mo ago
That's a weird, uncited, and vague attack on him. Like, who GAS if he did or did not cofound Reddit (which no one here has claimed)?
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by IAmBroom 1mo ago
Does Filebot not do this for you? A quick glance suggests it does, but I'm not overly concerned with its decision-making; name matches are close enough.
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by IAmBroom 1mo ago
The number of breaches would have to be honestly reported for that idea to work. None of the security firms would want to do that; least of all the lowest quartile of them.
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by IAmBroom 1mo ago
News: "LLM Models might kill us all!..." HN user: "I take issue with the precise definition of one word in the article..."
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by IAmBroom 1mo ago
We live in an age where we know the phrase "avoid it like the plague" actually means "50% of us will gleefully get and transmit the plague to mock the other half".
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by IAmBroom 1mo ago
Are you pretending OpenAI employees are "academics"? Or are you stating that the researcher is a "horrible human being" for refusing to allow AI?
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by IAmBroom 1mo ago
I work in rail, in the US. This is not true. The FRA mandated a massive upgrade to rail safety for passenger rail about a decade ago, pushed by Congress, and it's still filtering through (though mostly achieved). That being said... fed
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by IAmBroom 1mo ago
Helium only reduces the weight proportional to the volume it occupies - which is why dirigibles look like big balloons. Filling a wing with helium would barely shift the weight of the plane measurably. Filling the cabin and cockpit would be
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by IAmBroom 1mo ago
As noted elsewhere in this thread: probably ain't gonna happen. Battery energy density increases are tapering off. We may already be close to the maximum possible (where close means within a factor of 2 or so).
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by IAmBroom 1mo ago
Making the battery replaceable by heavy equipment would drop the turnaround time for these. The planes fly regular routes (mostly), and could store a few extra batteries at their regular destinations. Odd added benefit: the potential abilit
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by IAmBroom 1mo ago
"India does it!" is not the absolute proof of a lack of racism that you believe it is. For multiple reasons.

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