bananabiscuit

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by bananabiscuit 4y ago
I’m not really a fan of surveillance, but where I live there is currently a decreasing amount of active persecution of crime and surveillance cameras are picking up the slack and are probably the main reason increasingly brazen criminals ar
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by bananabiscuit 4y ago
I noticed this first hand while playing SimCity 4. I used to make my road network as connected as I could because I thought having more route options would always lead to better traffic. I was surprised one day when I demolished a particula
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by bananabiscuit 4y ago
Most people would assume increasing capacity would always mean greater throughput.
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by bananabiscuit 4y ago
I think “Who Is Fourier? A Mathematical Adventure”, would be an example of the kind of book you are looking for. Its a top-down intro to Fourier transforms that explains the derivation of the transform and why there are complex numbers invo
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by bananabiscuit 4y ago
Why do you think it’s bad to speculate? Wild speculation is a necessary preliminary step from which you can sieve out testable hypotheses.
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by bananabiscuit 4y ago
Unfortunately, it is a mistake to think that just because you are only presented with high quality facts (statements that are very likely to be true), that you are getting an objective view of the story. You would be surprised how unreprese
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by bananabiscuit 4y ago
Corners were indeed cut. Reproductive toxicity was not studied. At vaccine rollouts, reproductive toxicity was only studied on rats, then about a year later there was finally a single very narrow study of a few dozen women, after billions o
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by bananabiscuit 4y ago
100 watt halogen light is the most pleasant to me. Colors look wrong and too dark to me even when I have many, much brighter, high quality LEDs.
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by bananabiscuit 4y ago
This article sounds like a joke. I would bet that this effect is entirely due to various confounding factors and very little to do directly with the presence of dogs.
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by bananabiscuit 4y ago
Is this a variant of “no true neo-nazi supports Ukraine!”?
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by bananabiscuit 4y ago
If we did what you suggest, the only right thing to do would be to not believe any information source, including our own eyes and ears. Why do you think you aren’t already being exposed to constant propaganda that you aren’t aware of (or re
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by bananabiscuit 4y ago
Sorry, fair point. To me, they are basically the same thing: wealth concentration happens because of wealth extraction. And if anybody, billionaire or otherwise, believes a capitalist free market system allocates resources/wealth perfe
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by bananabiscuit 4y ago
I’m not sure what you mean, the concentration of wealth is well documented. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distribution_of_wealth
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by bananabiscuit 4y ago
It’s not easy to point to a single instance of “how” but that is not proof that it does not happen. Empirically, wealth is becoming ever more concentrated in an increasingly smaller amount of the population. This is what un-fettered capital
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by bananabiscuit 4y ago
I think it’s interesting that the article mentions some mathematicians still consider the paradox as unresolved. In my opinion all this paradox is, is an under-specified problem. We don’t, after all, consider a question like “what is the l
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by bananabiscuit 4y ago
Digital easier to read, but I personally think analog is easier to “feel”. I get a much more visceral sense of urgency when the minute hand approaches an anticipated position. And same goes for when the hour hand crawls downward to signal t
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by bananabiscuit 4y ago
Digital easier to read, but I personally think analog is easier to “feel”. I get a much larger sense of urgency when the minute hand approaches an anticipated position. And same goes for when the hour hand crawls downward to signal the end
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by bananabiscuit 4y ago
You should considering enabling it for this site. I don’t see what the downside here would be.
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by bananabiscuit 4y ago
Very true. I’ve seen so many needlessly constricted roads when there’s a group of slow cars hogging al the lanes with clear road in front of them and a huge pack behind.
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by bananabiscuit 4y ago
The control group was lost: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/02/19/9691430... There is also no proof that the mRNA vaccines are safe for pregnancy. Look at what the CDC website has to
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by bananabiscuit 4y ago
Can we hold the rushed and botched safety trials that “prove” that the vaccine is safe and effective to the same standards as this article is being held to?
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by bananabiscuit 4y ago
Same for me. The only mechanical keyboards I like are buckling spring and Topre due to exactly this.
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by bananabiscuit 5y ago
You are probably seeing the effects of chromatic aberration. Bluer colors get refracted more strongly than redder color. The thing that makes it look 3d is that this effect is more pronounced the further from the center of the lens you are
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by bananabiscuit 5y ago
I bet we’d go “liberate” them.
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by bananabiscuit 5y ago
I think it’s interesting how quick everyone is to use 3rd world parasites hypothesis to explain away promising ivermectin results. It’s a valid hypothesis for sure, but should be tested with as much rigor as you demand the hypothesis that i
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by bananabiscuit 5y ago
Just pointing out the world we live in.
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by bananabiscuit 5y ago
I’m honestly hyped for a new golden age of movies and games where Russians are the bad guys. I feel like Russian bad guys always had more character and really made you want to see the hero outmaneuver them. Arabs just didn’t do it for me th
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by bananabiscuit 5y ago
Simply because I did not know why the DoD was funding them. So thank you for that. Also any time the DoD (or any gov entity anywhere in the world) claims “we are doing this only for the seemingly good purpose A” there is generally a much bi
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by bananabiscuit 5y ago
I am a fan of native apps but I do have to admit it is nice that slack is -exactly- the same on any platform you access it from and that will continue to be the case without any effort from their developers. Different ports of native apps i
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by bananabiscuit 5y ago
I did not make any statements about existence of bioweapons. You said “There is nothing in the video saying the biolabs belong to the US, stop spreading conspiracy misinformation.” I pointed out that there is in fact US DoD funded research

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