accidentallfact

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by accidentallfact 8mo ago
It's called "a stupid man with money". It's really quite simple: * He has money * People want a share of his money * He has enough people to tell him stuff to make his bullshit seem to have some connection with reality *
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by accidentallfact 8mo ago
It's a literal streetlight. It has the bigger E40 screw, not the standard E27 screw. It has an awful spectrum, it's basically blue + yellow, with a massive gap inbetween.
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by accidentallfact 8mo ago
The problem with twin studies: 1. There are genetic mutations that make you immune to HIV. 2. Monozygotic twins will both be immune, or not immune, while dizygotic twins may be either, one can be immune, while the other one could get AIDS.
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by accidentallfact 8mo ago
Well, at the very least you need to agree that its effect was smaller than the harm done by whatever the actual problem is.
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by accidentallfact 8mo ago
That is expected. The problem is that people are not getting healthier, or more intelligent, quite the opposite. Obviously there is an absolutely massive problem that you're missing as you're congratulating yourself on "succe
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by accidentallfact 9mo ago
There is no reason to believe that a lack of nitrogen was a problem in particular. It seems that most effort was spent on getting fertilizers with phosphorus and other minerals, nitrogen was secondary, as many plants can obtain it from the
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by accidentallfact 9mo ago
I think a quite unexpected (but more common sense) picture begins to emerge: 1. Language already emerged with early hominins (paranthropus and such). 2. Habilis et al developed toolmaking to a level that carrying stuff around was of critica
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by accidentallfact 9mo ago
It isn't really "theft" when you know how to make something, but bullshit paperwork forces you to pretend otherwise.
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by accidentallfact 9mo ago
It seems to me (and maybe I'm wrong), but it seems to me that "a lack of IP" increasingly means "we have no leverage to get the licences that we need" in China, and "we have no idea how they used to do it"
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by accidentallfact 9mo ago
I mean that steampunk looks plausible, because it indeed seems to be purely a historical coincidence that electricity was developed at the same time. They are unrelated, one doesn't follow from the other in any way, so there is no obvi
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by accidentallfact 9mo ago
I don't know. Steam and electricity seem more like a coincidence that they were developed at the same time, so worlds without one seem natural. Another possibility might be no semiconductors. No nuclear also feels plausible, but it&#x2
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by accidentallfact 9mo ago
My biggest worry is that the development of AI will stop once people can no longer easily tell when the AI is wrong. Following its advice may become mandatory in certain aspects of life. But it will be quite not good enough, and give catast
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by accidentallfact 9mo ago
I think it was because old TVs already had wide gamut, so sRGB meant a significant reduction. It never was "contrast" as such. Anything made today is vastly better than any CRT.
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by accidentallfact 9mo ago
I think it would be pretty uncontroversial from the technological point of view, but then, the first "real" TV broadcast would be the 1936 Olympic games...
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by accidentallfact 9mo ago
'Steampunk' means no electricity. You need to come up with another term. Analogpunk, maybe?
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by accidentallfact 9mo ago
Here you can see that cones only extend to 2° from the center. I think it's illegal to drive with less than 20°FoV. https://www.google.com/search?client=ms-android-samsung-rvo1...
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by accidentallfact 9mo ago
>The eye behaves differently in high or low light conditions: in daylight, for brightness levels above 3 cd/m2 the vision is mainly done by the centre of the retina, we can see colors and the maximum sensitivity is at 555 nm (in the
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by accidentallfact 9mo ago
I don't think that this is the reason. Yes, there is something obviously wrong with most LED lights, but it isn't too much of short wavelength light, but on the contrary. It's the near absence of cyan light in most LEDs. Ou
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by accidentallfact 9mo ago
It seems that a large majority of conflicts did: The revolutionary war: CS America vs AT british empire. The french revolution: CS revolutionaries vs AT aristocracy. American Civil war: CS North, vs AT South WWII: AT Nazis, vs CS jews. Prob
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by accidentallfact 9mo ago
It's the same kind of schizm that has lead to a lot of hate and mass murder over the last century or so: Abstraction/dimensionality reduction vs. concrete logic and statistics Concrete statistician: I can learn the problem in its
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by accidentallfact 9mo ago
Mood and evidentuality are two somewhat distinct concepts. Mood denotes the informations factuality, if something is, could be, would be, certainly is so, or there may be moods for direct or indirect commands ( tell him to come ) and so on.
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by accidentallfact 9mo ago
It's only a bit milder, because only one amino acid is missing, while google shows you extra severe cases, often mixed with general malnutrition. There is evidence that methylmercurycysteine 1. occurs in sea life 2. occurs incorporated
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by accidentallfact 9mo ago
Methylmercury cysteine is an extra amino acid, and obesity is indistinguishable from mild kwashiorkor. You are simply wrong about how everything involved works. It's a diseased, swollen tissue, not "energy storage".
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by accidentallfact 9mo ago
I have a much darker hypothesis about it - when people are left to compete, they often resort to badmouthing those who they think could outcompete them. Thus, the reputation of the most competent gets destroyed, while the village idiot rema
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by accidentallfact 9mo ago
That isn't how I understood Dilbert. Dilbert is a normal guy and PHB is actually mentally retarded. It's essentially gallows humor for a world where, for no apparent reason, blithering idiots often seem to be the only people who
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by accidentallfact 9mo ago
You admitted to me a few days ago that you are so fat that it makes you miserable. If direct, personal experience with it not working doesn't convince you, nothing will.
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by accidentallfact 9mo ago
All right. I guess you're right then, and the entire world is lying and everybody wants nothing else than to eat more.
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by accidentallfact 9mo ago
Let's say there is a new discovery tomorrow - there is a virus that lives in your mitochondria, and makes them unable to produce energy. We can make a vaccine against it, and nobody will ever get fat. Would you be against the vaccine?
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by accidentallfact 9mo ago
It also cites a study which says that the average loss is 5%. That isn't what most people imagine as "highly effective". Weight also doesn't tell the whole story. The people don't get any better, they get (more) sta
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by accidentallfact 9mo ago
Definitely. Alcohol just makes me confused and sick, with no upsides to it. I'be been told that I must be drinking incorrectly, and given advice how to drink correctly, but no, no positive experience with it for me. The funny thing is,

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