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by lurquer 6y ago
What do you mean by “we”?
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by lurquer 6y ago
Sheesh. You have to ruin everything... Ok... How about this... Let’s do it backwards: arrange the data on a DVD so that the one’s correspond to the stars in their relative position. Then, see what the resulting image looks like. Or, better
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by lurquer 6y ago
Would it be possible to create a bitmap of the night sky such that the data — as stored on the storage medium — corresponded to the stars’ relative locations? Like a DVD or CD... Anyway, I think if we created such an image and left the burn
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by lurquer 6y ago
On the multistate bar exam there is a invariably a version of this question: “Susie raised a pet squirrel from birth. It was very well-trained, calm, and seemed to think it was a dog. It would come when called, could do tricks, etc.” There
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by lurquer 6y ago
Not to mention the fact that the nurses and doctors are exhausted from treating Covid cases. Even if he hadn’t caught the virus, there’s a good chance the diminished quality of care he received from the overburdened medical professionals co
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by lurquer 6y ago
During the initial boredom of Covid, I got very interested in Levin’s lab’s work and morphogenesis in general. I made a program to implement some of my theories. You’re welcome to try it. cycell2d.com My pet theory — morphogenic fields — is
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by lurquer 6y ago
I read Principia. I could follow the proofs through about 3/4ths of it. It really is tricky. I had an easier time of it as I had read (several times) Euclids elements. So, the geometric proofs weren’t off-putting. Nevertheless, Princip
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by lurquer 6y ago
This is the funniest thing I’ve read in a long time. It’s like a Monty Python skit. ‘a trip down mammary lane’ Lol
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by lurquer 6y ago
Hmmm... that post was a little bit HackerNews-ish, and a little bit Reddit-ish. I’m going to simultaneously upvote and downvote you.
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by lurquer 6y ago
The concern is future generations stumbling upon radioactive stuff and spreading it everywhere... months, maybe years down the road, those exposed would get cancers, etc. And, by the time they figure out the cause, the material may have spr
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by lurquer 6y ago
Those who claim they understand the Dunning-Kruger effect are typically less competent than those who don’t.
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by lurquer 6y ago
Traveling Avon Lady?
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by lurquer 6y ago
That’s not true. Your are confusing lying under oath with the crime of perjury. The false statement, standing alone, is not actionable... it is merely one of several elements that make up the crime of perjury.
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by lurquer 6y ago
A statement standing alone is not fraud. Fraud is a tort that involves several elements, with the ‘speech’ being merely one element. Ditto with harassment. To analogize, your comment is akin to the following: Poster: We should have a right
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by lurquer 6y ago
Clearly brain plasticity in a youthful brain helps immensely. My point was just that it’s not that straightforward to compare kids with adults in regard to language acquisition. An adult always has an ‘inner voice’ in their original languag
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by lurquer 6y ago
A child spends all their time immersed in their native language... they hear nothing else. There is no other ‘competing’ language. Thus, they learn it quickly. An adult, on the other hand, can never be immersed into a new language like a ch
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by lurquer 6y ago
A quick fix to many of the problems you point out would be to coat it on both sides with a thin shell of transparent silica and... uh... oh, never mind.
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by lurquer 6y ago
No State can enter into any compact with another State without consent of Congress.
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by lurquer 6y ago
The ‘Laws of War’ serve different purposes than the law of policing. Feigning outrage that soldiers are prohibited from something police are not, or vice versa, is silly. Some — but not all — of the differences arise from a general princip
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by lurquer 6y ago
Quite right. Don’t know why the downvotes. Ammo is a good example... as absurd as it sounds, the intent in warfare is not to kill the enemy; merely to wound them. Consequently, full metal jackets are used as these increase the likelihood of
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by lurquer 6y ago
How likely would it be that terrestrial immune systems evolved to fight Venusian microbes?
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by lurquer 6y ago
Extinction-level pandemic caused by the Venusian microbes they will soon bring to Earth.
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by lurquer 6y ago
Holy crap! I thought my phone had messed up!
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by lurquer 6y ago
> The ethics of killing will never be left to AI, Ha. I know of a device with a very simple AI program that can tell if an enemy is standing on it. If so, the enemy is killed. It’s called a mine. They have been used in every land (and na
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by lurquer 6y ago
Brilliant demonstration! As you undoubtedly know, there is nothing essential about using sin waves with Fourier stuff... it can work with any shaped curve. A cool modification would be use a combination of the users input to generate a circ
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by lurquer 6y ago
We don’t want nocturnal chickens keeping us all up. I’m doing my part to guide chicken evolution away from such an outcome.
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by lurquer 6y ago
I don’t know much about “tracing the provenance” of this or that... but, you should know that what you’re describing is pretty common for those of us in flyover country. Every semester or so, my roommates and I would go pick a cow out (we h
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by lurquer 6y ago
All you professional programmer-types seem to have forgotten that solving problems (even if they’ve been solved a thousand times before) is FUN. I wrote a custom-made script parser... knowing full-well there were many libraries available. (
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by lurquer 6y ago
There'is no person to whom he is replying.
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by lurquer 6y ago
English wasn’t the default due to a head start with the internet. It was dominant due to a British Empire that stretched across the world for CENTURIES. English is still the predominant language for all international shipping, aviation, and

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