falcrist

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by falcrist 5y ago
I'm specifically talking about showing up when crimes were reported, not whether they were deterring crimes.
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by falcrist 5y ago
I could have such an experience with nature, but nature isn't the same thing as art. I just think art is poorly defined.
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by falcrist 5y ago
I'm not saying short lenses are necessarily bad, btw. I just think it's interesting that smartphones have had this effect.
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by falcrist 5y ago
I'm a bit confused... Everyone is assuming that the police wouldn't respond to calls during this period, but the article doesn't suggest that this was the case. Even looking through articles in 2014 and 2015 doesn't prov
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by falcrist 5y ago
The only really interesting thing here that cameraphones have sort of pushed photography to use shorter focal lengths more often. Some photographers feel the shorter focal lengths feel "more authentic" somehow. Other than that, th
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by falcrist 5y ago
I get nothing from them. Does that make them not art?
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by falcrist 5y ago
Adding context does little to change that, unfortunately. I could understand if they evoked some kind of emotions or served as a deconstruction of photography technique, but most of them just look like deliberately bad photographs to me. Th
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by falcrist 5y ago
Francium is the one I always think about. My understanding is the only source is as a decay product (probably from uranium) and that there's somewhere on the order of one ounce of it in the entire planet at any given time. Not only tha
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by falcrist 5y ago
I had to look this up. It seems he has a periodic table with lots of little cubbyholes with pictures and items representing the element, but not every element is actually there. It's hard to find a good source for details about this di
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by falcrist 5y ago
I honestly wouldn't have noticed that the Midwest Tungsten Service products weren't pure tungsten, but when I went back to the amazon page, I found a note from the seller: >The tungsten sphere is 90% tungsten with nickel/i
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by falcrist 5y ago
> If your opinions are anywhere right of woke, you get banned straight up. This is what I was disputing. That's the goalpost. The conversation is exhausting because everyone wants to dance around this claim rather than simply addres
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by falcrist 5y ago
> I do think people right of woke get ostracized with fairly regular tempo, sometimes that's bans, sometimes that's through other means. Again. I'm talking about one specific claim. You guys keep trying to move the goalpos
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by falcrist 5y ago
So are you saying "If your opinions are anywhere right of woke, you get banned straight up." is an incorrect statement? The last comment tried to shift the goalposts from being "banned straight up" to being suppressed th
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by falcrist 5y ago
> You make my case for me right here You were specifically talking about bans and "hard-censorship". Now you've shifted to talking about downvotes. I'm not going to try to hit a moving target. You asserted that &quot
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by falcrist 5y ago
There are plenty of "right of woke" comments in there, but as far as proof, what would you like to see? There are plenty of folks who haven't been banned, so clearly it's not everyone. Do you have records of all of the
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by falcrist 5y ago
I mean... it just looks like that whole branch of the conversation was nuked, including everyone disagreeing with you and the whole discussion about whether Modi should be called a Nazi.
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by falcrist 5y ago
> If your opinions are anywhere right of woke, you get banned straight up. I hear this from people on the right, but there are plenty of right-wingers in there every time I visit. Go into a thread about Afghanistan, and there will be peo
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by falcrist 5y ago
> All regular media consumption is down, ratings for all news is down, I think we're all suffering from social media consumption fatigue A quick google search seems to contradict this. Can you point me towards a source that backs t
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by falcrist 5y ago
I had no idea John Carmack had gone on the podcast.
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by falcrist 5y ago
I guess it's the same group (lead by Professor Tajmar), but this is definitely a new paper.
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by falcrist 5y ago
That was a bogus claim made by Biden. Looks like hourly employees don't sign non-competes. See: https://www.factcheck.org/2020/07/bidens-false-claim-about-m... https://www.politifact.com/factc
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by falcrist 5y ago
Ah yes. I had forgotten about this. I believe there are also extra pixels at the edge of some sensors that are unexposed, and just used for calibration purposes.
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by falcrist 5y ago
I'm saying that each photosite definitely is included in more than one output pixel, and I'm also saying that the number of output pixels should be about the same as the number of photosites. This is obviously capturing less inf
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by falcrist 5y ago
Since the "pixels" are either formed at every intersection of 4 photosites (overlapping each other) or by interpolating data for each color to include the "missing" photosites (which is effectively the same), the megapix
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by falcrist 5y ago
It looks like the whole Greek alphabet is accessible in the pop up window αΔδηκβεΘθΛλΓγζΙιμνπΠΤτΧΞξΡρΥυΨΣςσΦφΩχἁω
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by falcrist 5y ago
> as the name implies can only be used to select emojis It has a tab for emojis, a tab for "kamoji" (emoticons), and a tab for what looks like a decent chunk of the non-asian symbols in the unicode basic multilingual plane. ©™⇈
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by falcrist 5y ago
NYC and DC are some of the most expensive places in the world to live. Moving to an apartment with an extra room to accommodate another family member is a big investment especially in NYC. In rural areas, housing prices are quite affordable
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by falcrist 5y ago
Fertility rate and population growth aren't the same thing. Population growth is also influenced by life expectancy and immigration/emmigration. I can also assure you that population growth trends are NOT the same everywhere. The
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by falcrist 5y ago
The other fundamental issue is that despite increases in productivity, real wages have been largely stagnant for 30 years. Our paychecks seem to grow much more slowly than our healthcare costs, housing prices, university tuition, etc. Finan
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by falcrist 5y ago
This is just population growth in the US. It continues to grow elsewhere. As Hans Rosling pointed out, children are sort of migrating to poorer areas of the world where fertility rates are still high.

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