Sniffnoy

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by Sniffnoy 8y ago
> All stages have Omega (single platform) and Battlefield (4 platforms) modes. Original versions of stages still exist though. More importantly, there's a stage hazard toggle. (And also importantly, this time around the Omega stage
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by Sniffnoy 8y ago
Very interesting. Would it be correct to say that if true this could lead to an earlier end of the periodic table[0] than had been previously predicted? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_periodic_table#End_of.
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by Sniffnoy 8y ago
Non-mobile link: https://phys.org/news/2018-06-periodic-table.html
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by Sniffnoy 8y ago
I'm going to repost the same comment I made on Reddit: This is quite interesting. It certainly sounds like this does dissolve the Fermi paradox, as they say. However, I think the key idea in this paper is actually not what the authors
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by Sniffnoy 8y ago
Such a preference ordering has nothing to do with real numbers or expected values, though. Orderings don't by themselves lead to real numbers without some sort of countability or Archimedean requirement, and they certainly don't
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by Sniffnoy 8y ago
I mean, assuming the behavior satisfies appropriate coherence conditions... (which actual human behavior doesn't as Misdicorl points out, but that's another matter).
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by Sniffnoy 8y ago
There's a lot interesting in here, but a few real howlers. In particular: > Homo economicus, not only has it never existed, my contention is that if homo economicus evolved for some peculiar reason, it would die out very, very quic
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by Sniffnoy 8y ago
Various corrections: The article says that ternary uses exponentially fewer symbols (actually, in further nitpicking, it says "bits" rather than "symbols") than binary, but that's not correct. The decrease is just
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by Sniffnoy 8y ago
This particular victory condition -- highest life/score when one player is eliminated -- seems to have been reinvented a few times. Nexus Ops used it as one possible way to win (although not the main way). Then David Sirlin used it a
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by Sniffnoy 8y ago
> Most world maps use the Mercator projection. This 16th-century projection leaves New Zealand in the bottom right-hand corner of the world, and places Europe in the center. That's not intrinsic to a Mercator projection...
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by Sniffnoy 8y ago
That's not exactly accurate. The government has gone after and shut down prediction markets before. They made an agreement with PredictIt not to, but PredictIt's $850 limit was apparently a big factor in that. I hadn't hear
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by Sniffnoy 8y ago
So in short, if you have all mails set to display as plain text rather than HTML, there's no problem?
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by Sniffnoy 8y ago
That's not really what's going on here. Typically when quantum computers are compared against classical computers, it's assumed that the latter have access to a source of randomness. It's not the randomness by itself t
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by Sniffnoy 8y ago
The "boxes in boxes" problem actually turns out to be true in much greater generality, using a different solution: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1909085/suppose-a-b...
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by Sniffnoy 8y ago
"If we take ε to be huge" just means "let's analyze the growth rate as ε goes to infinity". More formally, what's going on is that you have a function which is polynomial in ε and which is always positive; the
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by Sniffnoy 9y ago
Non-mobile link: https://www.theguardian.com/games/2018/apr/25/nintendo-inter...
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by Sniffnoy 9y ago
While Hermel certainly appears to have no idea what he's talking about, that doesn't make this reply of yours correct either. In particular, the incompleteness theorems are not physics.
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by Sniffnoy 9y ago
Clarification for those who haven't read the article: By "glutenizing" here, 8077628 is not referring to some physical process performed on the protein; rather he means demonizing it. By "gluten-free" milk, he does
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by Sniffnoy 9y ago
"Proof of stake" does not appear to have anything to do with "proof" in the logical sense. I really, really do not think the incompleteness theorems are at all relevant here. Apologies, but this reads just like every o
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by Sniffnoy 9y ago
You're mistaken about that not being 4-colorable. Color the "rings", from outside to inside: red, blue, green, blue, yellow. Again, as mentioned in my earlier comment, I would suggest thinking of things / describing thi
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by Sniffnoy 9y ago
Your construction is a bit hard to understand. Would you mind describing it as an explicit plane graph, rather than in terms of a "map"?
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by Sniffnoy 9y ago
Possibly worth noting that this article explicitly credits "Can a biologist fix a radio?" as inspiration.
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by Sniffnoy 9y ago
Question: Why the galactic synchrotron and not, say, the solar synchrotron? I'm assuming the latter exists but is negligible for some reason? Why is that?
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by Sniffnoy 9y ago
OK, I don't really understand this. What exactly is this cosmic dawn signal that's distinct from all the other things on 21cm?
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by Sniffnoy 9y ago
Non-mobile link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/12/us/lottery-winner-privacy...
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by Sniffnoy 9y ago
Whie tptacek has basically the right answer here, it's worth reading the actual text of the Corwin Amendment: > No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfer
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by Sniffnoy 9y ago
The earlier article that the article links to says a bit more about this. It's still pretty far from concrete, but it does say a bit more. When they talk about the path that light travels between two points, they're talking abou
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by Sniffnoy 9y ago
Hm, seems to just be part 1 so far... Edit: This seems to be an earlier, less detailed post on the same subject, but which does mention one or two things this post doesn't: http://www.os2museum.com/wp/undocumented-
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by Sniffnoy 9y ago
I think you're drawing a false binary choice here. There is such a thing as "thick libertarianism", for instance. There's nothing inconsistent with the view that sure one is within one's rights to do such a thin
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by Sniffnoy 9y ago
And? Would you care to tell us more? It's not very helpful to just say "you're wrong" without providing any sort of correction.

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