catmistake

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by catmistake 6y ago
I think it is far simpler than that. He is macho, and that is popular due to evolution. The meanest monkey has the most offspring, but the meanest monkey has turned into the one no one wants to fight, so he can risk being cuddly, but it is
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by catmistake 6y ago
Not quite right. Rather, either it is adopted by the adult entertainment industry first, then spreads to other spaces like medical applications, or it goes no where.
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by catmistake 6y ago
Fair enough. May I suggest that it is the depreciation of the family unit that may be causing this. Generally, in my experience, jerks had crummy parents. I don't know the solution, but maybe instead of treating young pregnant couples
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by catmistake 6y ago
First of all, the complainers do not speak for me, yet they seem to be speaking for everyone, that everyone has this problem because of 24-hour notice of the release of iOS14. Anyone that has a work flow, even a personal workflow having not
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by catmistake 6y ago
> about the deaths of millions of people when it comes to environmental destruction You're not getting it. With global environmental catastrophe the concern is not about the deaths of millions of people. It is about the deaths of a
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by catmistake 6y ago
While Homebrew defaults to binary, it can build from source, though it tends to leave behind a bloody mess when it does. MacPorts has excellent housekeeping, which is controlled through port command arguments. One can choose to leave everyt
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by catmistake 6y ago
I recommend macports package management system, similar in function to BSD ports collection. Superior to Homebrew, the johnny-come-lately PMS with all the penguinista-style hype that seems to lean towards binary installs, unlike roll your o
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by catmistake 6y ago
Those special f/x are really slick. Always nice to see new Terminal development.
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by catmistake 6y ago
Ad hominem is not simply an attack; it's disparaging someone to undermine their argument. Which is why it is also fallacy. Attacking the man does not undermine the argument, so the argument stands unassailed. Anytime we say "you
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by catmistake 6y ago
So in one breath you're saying GR would have appeared quickly if Einstein had not described it, and in the other you're saying he was the legend of his myth and productive his entire career. It is simply my opinion that GR was so
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by catmistake 6y ago
No, I was correct. Ad hominem is an attack. I have not attacked you, and I do not see how you could find ad hominem in my replies. Unfounded paranoia is probably not something you should ignore. My point was very simply was that Einstein di
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by catmistake 6y ago
The specific fallacies you have chosen to employ to attempt support your frail argument are interesting. I have read Special Relativity in translation, it is short enough and there is little math. My German is not even pedestrian, so no,
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by catmistake 6y ago
I disagree as to your opinions, which seem to just disagree for the sake of disagreement. The elements of Special Relativity were around. I stand by the assertion that someone else would have developed that theory within a few short years h
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by catmistake 6y ago
I'd also like to point out that Einstein was humble, and the myth of Einstein that developed was not his doing. It was the common man, the everyday people and the press of the time that said, incorrectly, "wow! He is so smart, no
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by catmistake 6y ago
It is in the ballpark. The point is that Einstein did not pull a rabbit out of his hat, others had thought similar weirdness, and Einstein was aware of it.
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by catmistake 6y ago
Shamefully, everything is from Wikipedia, so the citations are there.
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by catmistake 6y ago
Fair enough, though I was comparing him to his peers and friends.
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by catmistake 6y ago
time dialation (something completely alien to all before him No, not so much. You missed this in my GP comment: "Hendrik Lorentz proposed that the motion of the apparatus through the aether may cause the apparatus to contract along i
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by catmistake 6y ago
Keeping Dally on the payroll doesn't negate that he initially showed no regard for Dally's nor his own safety, which is a sociopathic trait. It does not make up for Edison's ruthless practices, nor his unbridled ambition and
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by catmistake 6y ago
except for killing an elephant Let that stand as a symbol for all the other horrible things Edison did, like electrocuting a number of dogs and cats, and killing his assistant. Tesla is not exactly overrated, but at least he never stole c
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by catmistake 6y ago
If there is one brilliant insight Einstein derived, it is that light travels at the same speed from all frames of reference. But everything else, great work was done before him, and Einstein was likely aware of it, but we forget what came b
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by catmistake 6y ago
What about Black Holes? Not so much, no. Einstein himself was pleasantly surprised to learn that the field equations, developed by Grossmann, admitted exact solutions, because of their prima facie complexity, and because he himself had only
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by catmistake 6y ago
It is well-known that Einstein was notoriously bad at mathematics. The sole reason for the decade of delay between his 1905 Special Theory of Relativity and his 1915 General Theory of Relativity is that Einstein did not have the mathematics
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by catmistake 6y ago
Empedocles (c. 490–430 BC) was the first to propose a theory of light, and claimed that light has a finite speed. In 1021, Alhazen (Ibn al-Haytham) published his Book of Optics, in which he presented a series of arguments dismissing Empedoc
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by catmistake 6y ago
Personally, I think his work on the Photo-Electric Effect deserved the recognition that it received. But Albert Einstein is far more myth than man. Everyone idolizes Einstein, he was the quintessential mad scientist. And it is difficult to
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by catmistake 6y ago
I mean no harm. But I should have just let it hang. No one cares, and this was a technical discussion, not a touchy feely one, and no one wanted the explanation. I embrace the absurd, but I should do it quietly when the adults are talking.
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by catmistake 6y ago
> imagine Linus has control over it and has no clue was ZFS even is I keep getting down voted, maybe I am too annoying for HN. But I'll risk it in the hopes this is helpful, in the social and psychological space. First of all, I hav
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by catmistake 6y ago
The US and NATO has inexpensive anti-drone technology. https://www.npr.org/2020/08/17/903152237/bald-eagle-in-michi... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAYVyj6vf3Y
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by catmistake 6y ago
Why would an F22 need to do that if the drones can't know that it is even there? Why would an f22 need to get closer than 25 miles to engage these drones? Why would an F22 ever get in a dogfight?
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by catmistake 6y ago
And I and the video creators are only claiming dark matter is not needed to explain galaxy rotation curves. Whatever other spaghetti lumped into the need for dark matter, have at it... but galaxy rotation curves are explained quite neatly l

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