TangoTrotFox

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by TangoTrotFox 9y ago
Fun factoid. Have you ever noticed how absurdly tacky casino carpet is? This is intentional. The idea is to keep people's eyes up and looking at the casino games. There's also that characteristic smell many casinos have, and I&#x2
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by TangoTrotFox 9y ago
You're fighting a strawman, just in the same way the opposite of you would do. Just like you, your opposite will build up a straw man of you, throw together some sophistic logic to claim your very existence is a threat to society, and
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by TangoTrotFox 9y ago
Math and physics can describe juggling, but that description is not what helped discover juggling - holding a few balls in your hand suffices for that. Engineering and physics on the other hand to be math derived fields. In other words, the
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by TangoTrotFox 9y ago
You must consider that there is an equal but opposite version of you thinking this very thing. Just as implicitly convinced that if you fail to abide their way of thought in calm discussion, then there must be something wrong with you.
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by TangoTrotFox 9y ago
The question is which experience is the outlier. Social media has a problem in that everybody wants to participate, but the vast majority of people have nothing of value to add. So the signal:noise ratio is going to inherently end up very p
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by TangoTrotFox 9y ago
No, it's correct - but speaking of physics on pop forums is pointless, because of the Dunning Kruger effect. There tend to be three groups of people: - Those that accept things at face value, which is quite silly. What I'm saying
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by TangoTrotFox 9y ago
We'll just say kkm/s.
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by TangoTrotFox 9y ago
How exactly would you suggest people read the paper? The article linked to a brief [1] which says literally absolutely nothing about how they conjured up their numbers. And the paper itself is here [2]. It's rather worse than a paywall
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by TangoTrotFox 9y ago
Absolutely. You are not understanding what you are reading. Let's differentiate between 'mover' and 'observer' for clarity. In reality they're completely interchangeable as being at rest relative to something m
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by TangoTrotFox 9y ago
This is a common misunderstanding, and was the point of the example. A stationary observer observing a particle being accelerated towards the speed of light would observe that particles apparent mass begin to approach infinity as its ob
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by TangoTrotFox 9y ago
I find articles like this dubious when they state an outlandish claim, even if supported by a study, and make 0 effort to explain or justify the results. Instead appealing to the implied authority of said study, that the reader is apparentl
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by TangoTrotFox 9y ago
The speed of light is not a speed limit on effective travel, but on observation. Imagine you build an engine that gives enough thrust to roughly produce an extra effective 1km/s of velocity each time you operate it. Even though the spe
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by TangoTrotFox 9y ago
You're conflating survival with success in passing on genes. They're very different. The most obvious example here, and one that goes all the way back to perplexing Darwin, is peacocks. Male peacocks (which is a tautology - '
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by TangoTrotFox 9y ago
Another resource there: http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/ That collection is a series of lectures from Feynman, and his characteristic clarity, on physics across the breadth of all major topics. It's quite amazin
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by TangoTrotFox 9y ago
An absolutely phenomenal book I'd recommend on writing your own computer graphics from scratch is 'Tricks of the 3D Game Programming Gurus' [1] by Andre LaMothe. It was published in 2003, but as it's about how technology
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by TangoTrotFox 9y ago
I think there is a substantial difference in things that are, let's say, naturally 'forgotten' versus things that powers that be attempt to force society to 'forget.' I completely agree with you that bitrot is a maj
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by TangoTrotFox 9y ago
The article omits what I think is probably the most important datum: '0.2% of requesters accounted for 20.8% of all accepted delistings. Many of these frequent requesters were individuals using law firms and reputation management serv
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by TangoTrotFox 9y ago
I seem to be unable to edit my post. The link was to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_Transracial_Adoption... The study itself is paywalled. And given the decades of controversy it sparked, the Wiki entry is qu
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by TangoTrotFox 9y ago
Low adolescent IQ is a strong predictor for obesity later in life. [1] So I'm not sure how or why you'd want to control for obesity. You could be looking at a comorbid effect. Low IQ -> obesity -> early death. [1] - http:&#
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by TangoTrotFox 9y ago
Your middle link there refers to the Minnesota Transracial Adoption Study [1]. That brief seems to assume the reader is familiar with the studies as otherwise it would be very easy to misunderstand what they're saying - which is not wh
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by TangoTrotFox 9y ago
I look at things the other way. Imagine we were living in times when we were still legally segregating people by race. Speaking against this was like to raise the ire of many individuals and groups. People could, and did, lose their livelih
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by TangoTrotFox 9y ago
A really surprising thing here is that their analysis is also based on an somewhat unrealistically negative datum. They're using the labor force participation rate. The labor force participation rate counts people who are happy to not