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by krisoft 2y ago
I’m curious if they would use the same logic for russian roulette. If you spin the barrel with one bullet, pull the trigger against your head and survive does that mean that the danger wasn’t that serious? NASA wasn’t saying that they know
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by krisoft 2y ago
> It had a minor issue that turned out not to be so serious. How do you know how serious the issue was?
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by krisoft 2y ago
No it is not. It is merely an inaccuracy pointed out by an expert. For it to be an example of the "Gell-Mann Amnesia" effect sseagull would have to show some sign that they forgot that the wpri can make mistakes when they are read
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by krisoft 2y ago
> my point is the article doesn't make it clear what kind of oil we're talking about, The article clearly explains that it is oil form the bone marrow of the animal. Quoting the relevant part: "Rocha explained that KOBO’s
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by krisoft 2y ago
> it wouldn't be easy because these scans are highly detailed and so would require too many polygons to be loaded at once In practice a a 3d artist could very easily create low poly models for these objects. For that low poly replic
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by krisoft 2y ago
Could you tell us please who has “I’m the main character” mindset in this discussion?
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by krisoft 2y ago
> potentially life changing (i.e. incarceration) risks Not talking about the even more life changing risk of involuntarily smuggling a bomb on the very aircraft you yourself are flying on.
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by krisoft 2y ago
> You can't even allow yourself a look down or a raised eyebrow without rudely signaling your boredom to everyone else on the call. Oh, one must. It is an important signalling mechanism. How else will people know that the horse they
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by krisoft 2y ago
The article is clearly about why standing birds don't fall while they sleep. An interesting and somewhat related fact is that flying birds also sometimes sleep: https://www.audubon.org/news/scientists-finally-have-
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by krisoft 2y ago
In hungary trash bins are called "kuka" after the brand name of Keller und Knappich Augsburg (the makers of those nice orange robot arms) become genericized.
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by krisoft 2y ago
> if someone contributes, they accept the terms That assumes that everyone has full information of course. Discussing the terms publicly is helping everyone reach that state. > Nobody is asking for an uninvolved third-party to police
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by krisoft 2y ago
> Why do discussions about source-available models often turn into accusations of soliciting free labor? Simple. Because the company literally wrote this in their press release[1] at the time they were releasing it. Direct quote “This i
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by krisoft 2y ago
> but I expect I will be/look/appear older and older the older I get. I have a suspicion that something is being miscommunicated between you and many others here. (I admit that I might be wrong. But hear me out.) It sounds lik
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by krisoft 2y ago
It's all just a pale blue dot, if you squint enough.
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by krisoft 2y ago
> Don’t the Geneva Conventions only cover official combatants or the like? You are free to quote where you think it says that. The prohibition is not conditional on the status of anyone. It is just a prohibition. > Hezbollah, Hamas, I
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by krisoft 2y ago
> spying would make more sense to me.. Probably they did. The problem with pager like communication is that it is very easy to employ codewords. Something like "if we send orange, bring your weapon and meet us at the market, if we s
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by krisoft 2y ago
> If one variable is so insignificant that it is ignored whats the point of including it all together? The variable is not ignored. The effect of that 3rd light mass on the other two is ignored. The effect of the two massive bodies on th
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by krisoft 2y ago
A very well known stable case is the restricted 3-body problem. It is where one of the objects out of the 3 are so light that you can ignore it when calculating the orbits of the other two. It is of practical use often with spacecrafts, whe
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by krisoft 2y ago
But then how would you smash theirs? That sounds a bit like cheating by staying at home and not playing.
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by krisoft 2y ago
> Is there any good way to plot multiple asteroids while maintaining their relative size ie. handling scaling correctly? Sure thing! Just look up the sky. They are all there :) Perfectly to scale even! Or if you want it scaled down look
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by krisoft 2y ago
Why?
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by krisoft 2y ago
Because the pins can be much shorter. Take a look at the falcon 9 legs. They are enermous both in absolute terms and relative to the whole rocket. They need to be that long to provide a stable platform and enough clearance for the nozzles a
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by krisoft 2y ago
I think the reason these kind of simulations are fast enough is because they are very coarse and approximate. Don't think of asking how exactly the foam swirls around the individual longerons, more like a very rough estimation of which
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by krisoft 2y ago
> But if you need to send the whole organ to the test lab Why would you need to do that? Realistically the sample needed here is a small vial of blood from the organ donor’s body. > You can still do this kind of audit, but you need to
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by krisoft 2y ago
> Training isn’t a medical intervention. You didn’t say medical intervention in your previous post. You said “Medical inducement” which is a term i’m not familiar with. Let me think now about it again. Sounds like you just declared anyon
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by krisoft 2y ago
I didn’t even notice the spelling. What i was asking is what is “medical inducement” or “medical intervention” in your opinion.
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by krisoft 2y ago
What is "medical inducment"? It is not a term I'm familiar with.
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by krisoft 2y ago
> How are you gonna check the organs? You don’t check the organs. You check the process by intermingling known HIV+ samples and check if they are being detected. > Checking means re-testing, so might as well get rid of outsourcing. Th
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by krisoft 2y ago
How about Apple and Foxconn? If your reaction is that Apple’s core competency is in marketing and design and not manufacturing then i will ask if the same pattern couldn’t be applied to Boeing.
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by krisoft 2y ago
> eg. having some samples (not all) checked by another lab, I don't think that is useful at all in case of rare diseases. You would just get two reports saying that the random sample is free of HIV. Much better would be to send som

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