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by leeeeech 8y ago
The pillow is probably activating a reflex to press the legs together. In other news, it's the Stabile Seitenlage [1] from first aid! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recovery_position
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by leeeeech 8y ago
> literally excuse me, but no. Our best-effort guesses might be the best we could literally do. But there is no need to be that literal, or literal at all. As long as the uncertainty range includes 0.5, it's OK, but merely a test of
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by leeeeech 8y ago
> If you then look at those outcomes together, you find that in over half of them, we are alone in the universe. Since we do not really know, anything but P=0.5 should imply incorrect prior estimates. That might be more insightful than w
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by leeeeech 8y ago
The words "long" and "evidence" are gross overstatements, but the claim is trivially true if including the Asian origin in "contact". While there is no definite proof for extended contact beyond that, there is
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by leeeeech 8y ago
That does sound anxious (and one could read aggression into it, too). But there are so many more emotions below and on top, that maybe they serve at least some coordination effort. Here you exaggerate the emotion for display, but you virtue
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by leeeeech 8y ago
What does that look like? A SAT problem takes a bunch of unknown variables (v_1, v_2 ... V_n) and logic operators (''not, and, or'' for example would be enough) to form a formula that combines these operators and variabl
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by leeeeech 8y ago
> their original biological metaphor say root network
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by leeeeech 8y ago
A picture of a function, its derivative and the notion, that one function shows the other's tangent's slopes, is all that's needed, that should fit in a high-school curriculum especially in physics. But you are going to hear
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by leeeeech 8y ago
It's easier if you consider that you and the whole galaxy are moving around the universe at 10% of light speed and that it's not exactly you who moves, but the space bending around us, just like time. On yet another point, you mig
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by leeeeech 8y ago
calculus fundamentals pretty often lead to extremal problems. Those seem quite useful for optimization at any rate.
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by leeeeech 8y ago
You are right of course. But because a trivial message has many "layers" of "messages", according to semantic theory, it's often a single lie in a whole message packet.
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by leeeeech 8y ago
> It will glow like a galactic beacon There's no reason to believe it would have to accelerate for all its curse. > You pretty much have to talk microbe scale to go unnoticed in space. There are myriads of stars we know nothing a
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by leeeeech 8y ago
Arguably, a single message would only affect a single pathway.
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by leeeeech 8y ago
Have you ever tried it? 90% of the time I tried it didn't work, in mirc or irssi.