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by beecafe 5y ago
You are constructed through society. Social pressure is enforced by you on yourself, society just being the source of the templates your own mind uses to shape you. It applies everywhere.
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by beecafe 5y ago
Gravitational lensing could give us a few more chances if they were in just the right place, but the event would have to be really massive (supernova level) for light echoes from interstellar material
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by beecafe 5y ago
I thought I would be too, but I ended up going to a Art with CS minor. I felt like I had to compromise actually making good artwork (vs tech demos/one dimensional projects) to sit in CS theory classes when I already had all the technic
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by beecafe 5y ago
CMU has an entire degree for this (Bachelor of CS & Art), although it ends up being 150% of the work to learn both art and CS. Much more effective are intro programming classes focusing on generative art as a way to motivate creative p
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by beecafe 5y ago
You're making the same point - liveness, dynamism, unprediability is at odds with scale. Scaling is a tradeoff against agility.
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by beecafe 5y ago
Only if your sober friends are also boring homebodies
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by beecafe 5y ago
Bosonic qubits are stable but that also means they don't interact very much with each other making it harder to create complex entangled states of them. Also, you can do irreversible operations by adding on some ancillary qubits that y
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by beecafe 5y ago
> Following further investigations, including tests in an archaeometry laboratory, it was discovered that layers of binding agent and a layer of dirt existed between the image of Cupid and the overpainting. The conservators concluded tha
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by beecafe 5y ago
Should have posted it on https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/
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by beecafe 5y ago
One single iron atom's electrons - 26 of them - contain more degrees of freedom than atoms in the solar system.
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by beecafe 5y ago
Doing that is just listening to the priest in your head rather than the one in front of you.
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by beecafe 5y ago
Potatoes are almost nutrionally complete (I think you just need butter and in theory they have it all)
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by beecafe 5y ago
Government actions are legitimate by definition, being them who defines what is legit.
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by beecafe 5y ago
It would be if it was, but its not so it isnt.
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by beecafe 5y ago
Can it really surpass Fitt's law? So far it seems like VR/AR UI designers take it into account
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by beecafe 5y ago
Isn't this the normal meaning of digital signature in computer circles? Where signature normally refers to cryptographic signing with a private key than with a squiggle on paper.
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by beecafe 5y ago
You can't make a perfectly straight beam due to imperfect optics (and diffraction/Huygens principle), so a beam will only reduce the loss by a constant factor, but the area of the beam still increases by n^2 as it propogates.
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by beecafe 5y ago
Absolutely. And it'll keep working on a sandy beach far from any power source.
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by beecafe 5y ago
You could use holography/beamforming to steer a beam from a DLP, although it would be just a small % of the original power.
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by beecafe 5y ago
Given a solution to the decision version of TSP, you can verify whether that solution is valid in polynomial time - just check if it does visit the nodes and is of the claimed length. A normal Turing machine could perform this check in pol
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by beecafe 5y ago
You're right about the classical theory part. But the infinite dimensional is just one representation that is mathematically convenient - for example, you could consider a 2D image of 10x10 as a vector from a 100 dim space, each scalar
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by beecafe 5y ago
You feel this difference as the pull of gravity. It's just that gravity is much, much weaker than electromagnetism which holds your atoms and molecules together.
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by beecafe 5y ago
Ignoring all the issues with decoding any message after 500 years... Semiconductor based devices will stop working by then due to diffusion. Maybe a large conductive structure that creates EM backscatter/interference that encodes your
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by beecafe 5y ago
You don't think that construction workers, farm workers, or even athletes aren't renting out their bodies?
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by beecafe 5y ago
What stops an Orb Operator from just opening up the Orb and publishing random hashes? Assuming that "privacy is preserved" and the hash can't be turned back into an iris, there should be no way to tell.
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by beecafe 5y ago
Also, it works great in portrait mode e.g on a phone.
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by beecafe 5y ago
threading macros
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by beecafe 5y ago
It depends. Tin pest is an autocalaytic reaction that doesn't produce enough energy to destabilize its own progression. One could say the same for rust, as it flakes and is porous allowing further rusting. Or the chain reaction could p
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by beecafe 5y ago
A prion causing other proteins to misfold can only occur if the misfolded state has lower energy than the correctly folded one. It does this by acting as a catalyst, lowering the potential energy barrier that was allowing the protein to pe
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by beecafe 5y ago
Not exactly! This just applies to "local" hidden variables. See Bohmian mechanics for one which uses non-local hidden variables (i.e, not values at each spatial voxel but values per wavefunction, spread out over it) (from that des

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