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by danbruc 2y ago
Wikipedia says there are more than a hundred billion wild mammals. [1] They obviously do not all consume as much food as humans do and there are certainly a lot of small mammals like mice, but from the order of magnitude it seems at least n
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Do the rich people really matter, are there enough of them to do so? A thousand billionaires with a one thousand times larger footprint are still only equivalent to a million people, i.e. not even one percent of the US population. I do not
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You are not going to convince people to go back to the 1960s. But I think that is also the wrong way of looking at it, just going back in time would be stupid. We have made advancements, for example houses and cars consuming less energy, it
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But on the other hand, our society is designed in a way that: if it's not growing; it's disasterous. Why? We could all just forever keep doing what we are doing today, nothing bad would happen. With a few caveats. We are depleti
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Could we solve climate change if we just accepted being dramatically poorer, forever? As I’ve written before, the answer is 1) no, not really [...] You can almost certainly solve climate change with degrowth, the plantet can probably hand
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I am all for that, if they do hostile things and you can break them, go for it. I just think that you can not just demand that a company builds their software the way you want it. For this we have markets, find or build a better alternative
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It is your machine and it is their software. Why do you think what you want is more important than what they want? You can decide not to run their software if you do not like what it does, if you decide to run it, it will do what they want
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But even if people unintentionally activate this, should this be a reason to prohibit Google from offering this? Can you not tell the app developers and they can decide to deactivate it if they want and care to so? I think I would really ha
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I am not an [Android] app developer, so I know nothing about the details, but the subheading does not make it sound like this is something you can activate by accident, quite to the contrary, it sounds like a privilege if you are able to ma
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The author of an app wants their app only distribute through Play Store so they only offer it there. In addition they add a check that verifies that the app was indeed acquired through Play Store or else refuses to run. Am I missing somethi
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This might of course introduce quite a bit of overhead, but the clean solution would arguably be to not mix requests to begin with, the external requests you are processing are the payload of the requests you are sending around internally.
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That needs training, took me quite some time to learn this in the early 90s when the Magic Eye books [1] came out and autostereograms could be found in many newspapers. I personally also never learned to cross my eyes, I instead make them l
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Two big buttons to choose one of the folios and a small radio button below for no folio. And the Type Folio is + 249 € but also Save up to 49 € with bundle , so it actually "only" costs 200 €. Why would you even do this, make i
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What does no screens mean? Like - ideally - not a single second in front of any screen under any circumstances? What if you are working from home and your baby watches you work on your computer? Does it only include intentional screen time
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Then you are looking for star lifting. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_lifting
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EEVblog 1637: Solar Freakin' Space Mirrors! - Reflect Orbital DEBUNKED [1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkjyeI0ykGM
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The title somewhat sounds like the image was taken in some random night but that is probably many years of data contributing to that image. They have a similar image [1] from more than 20 years of data. The article is from 2010, they starte
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I expected this to be about the question whether your perception of blue might be like my perception of red. [1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evQsOFQju08
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My favorite unexplained mass phenomenon, the dancing plague of 1518. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_plague_of_1518
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I am not complaining about how the game works, I am just saying that there are no instructions, so the only thing I have to work with is the name and the inspiration. And if you know how defragmentation works, this all just makes no sense,
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This is not like defragmenting a disk at all. There are no sectors or clusters, I can and have to move entire files at once. I have to move them in some fixed order and I can only move each once. Files can bump into each other?!? This is ex
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Maybe NSFW. [1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zu4XlM_89s
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The Leftovers [1], season 3 episode 7. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Leftovers_(TV_series)
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If the particle interacts, that collapses the superposition. Not at all, the superposition spreads to the interacting particles. What destroys superpositions are measurements and we do not know what measurements really are.
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Not sure if that is true, but assuming it is, does this really count as destruction instead of moving it around and spreading it? After all unitary evolution is reversible and I could therefore reconcentrate the superposition into the small
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There is a thing we call the universe and it does what universes do. What physics does is searching for models - mostly described in the language of mathematics - that describe the universe or parts of it. Some parts of the universe are wel
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One common view is that there is THE wave function of the universe. If it collapses, it collapses, there is no way it can collapse for some observers and not others. You might not know that it has collapsed but that does not make it not col
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Maybe I am wrong, but that is exactly what I always assumed the many world interpretation to be. Especially I think many worlds also requires an outside of the cosmos observer to look at all the worlds, I do not think I ever heard someone c
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Quantum mechanics, i.e. the Schrödinger equation, and wave function collapse are incompatible. While not measured a quantum system evolves unitarily, when measured the quantum system ends up in the measured Eigenstate which is a non-unitary
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This does not help at all, quantum systems - even messy complex ones, boxes containing cats and air - evolve unitarily and do not destroy a superposition. The box and the air and the cat can interact all they want, you will still have a sup

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