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by mbg721 4y ago
Who has the kind of money to quibble over that fifth decimal place? Oh yeah, national governments.
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by mbg721 4y ago
The survey foot is, from what I could tell in the article, already officially defined in meters. It seems that the real complaint about how the US is backward is that we use fractions of whole numbers. The horror!
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by mbg721 4y ago
My physics teacher used to joke that the standard horsepower was James Watt's horse, forever preserved in a vacuum in France.
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by mbg721 4y ago
The American left is not handling its turn at being the Moral Majority very well.
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by mbg721 4y ago
Cue the GTA rant "Chakra Attack", complete with the side-rant about coconut-water. I'm personally convinced that a lot of wisdom that's considered mystical and fringey is actually wise, and would be taken seriously under
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by mbg721 4y ago
Washing the dishes right after using them is an ideal, not a reality. Most of the time, my kitchen looks like Picasso's Guernica.
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by mbg721 4y ago
Yeah, I've been in games-of-chicken of each person tolerating the mess a little more so that the other will deal with it. It's not pretty.
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by mbg721 4y ago
My experience with a wok is that you have to do this before the crud dries, or you can't keep the seasoning on it.
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by mbg721 4y ago
My strategy is to wash them or get them into the loading dishwasher as soon as possible, even if getting the pots and pans sorted out delays dinner by a minute or two. I get the best result by treating it as a part of the mise en place of
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by mbg721 4y ago
Wherever its input data does. New shiny AI doesn't change the answer to "But, if I give the computer the wrong question, will it figure out the right answer anyway?"
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by mbg721 4y ago
(It's Will Robinson.) This sounds like a Perry Mason episode...either the tarot reading has some kind of observable truth, in which case it is treated as a fact, or it's just made-up nonsense, in which case it is opinion.
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by mbg721 4y ago
Wouldn't a supernatural AI just be a (cleansed) sum of previous human experience? That's just man creating a god in his own image. We've done that a thousand times before, worshipping light or sex or some piece of stone tha
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by mbg721 4y ago
In a temporary crisis, the mandate is to enact policies that calm panic, even if they aren't just or scientific (and they usually aren't). A major complaint about COVID is that the panic came from the top down, as a justification
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by mbg721 4y ago
I don't have anywhere near the background expertise that you do, but surely there's some kind of "reasonable person" standard at some point, right? Or is that just for juries in criminal trials?
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by mbg721 4y ago
There's a stretch of I-75 in Cincinnati that has a sickly-sweet yeasty smell from a distillery near the highway. There must be a ton of places like that.
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by mbg721 4y ago
Growing up in the US, at least before the 94 World Cup, I knew next to nothing about soccer. But Pele was nevertheless a household name; he and Brazil were practically synonymous with the game.
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by mbg721 4y ago
What do you suggest as a substitute insufferable way of referring to pizza?
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by mbg721 4y ago
That reminds me, I have to check on the qat.
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by mbg721 4y ago
SAT-type verbal stuff is very different from being able to write well. It's much closer to math with a different alphabet--I've met more than one math major who did better on the verbal sections of standardized tests.
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by mbg721 4y ago
I can absolutely imagine "CSI: Phrenology", if the timeline had worked out a little differently.
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by mbg721 4y ago
While this is true for regular novels (and the instances near me never seem to have anything interesting), they're really handy for kids' books. You can freely give and take books as the kids get older, without the potential guil
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by mbg721 4y ago
I enjoyed "The Third Policeman" by Flann O'Brien, an author who died in the 60s but who had been completely unknown to me until this year. It's a short and very surreal novel, with an Irish dark tongue-in-cheek sense of
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by mbg721 4y ago
The message I took was more from the last section, the idea that periodically depriving yourself of certain comforts makes sure you're not becoming too reliant on them. People who take cold showers once in a while are more resilient w
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by mbg721 4y ago
I always assumed the previous frequent room cleanings were more for the benefit of the hotel owner checking up on things than because guests demanded them. So if hoteliers think there isn't very much risk of people trashing their room
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by mbg721 4y ago
Having common phones around at predictable public places is good for everyone in the sense that it prevents people from feeling obligated to carry a tracking device everywhere just to be prepared for emergencies.
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by mbg721 4y ago
If so, that's disappointing. Catholicism specifically takes pride in being immune to that.
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by mbg721 4y ago
Those people don't hold an amount that's significant, though.
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by mbg721 4y ago
The difference between Cincinnati and St. Louis was stark to me; I grew up assuming that "north" meant "vaguely northeast until it gets inconvenient". The idea that a road can just go on in the same direction for miles
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by mbg721 4y ago
A way this is pointed out in college logic courses is that in a truth-table, if your "if" statement is false, then all "thens" are true.
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by mbg721 4y ago
And anybody who holds significant shares of their stock.

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