mcmoor

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by mcmoor 2y ago
We're multiplying a very large number (number of planets) with a very small number (chance of intelligent life). The margin can make the answer go either way.
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by mcmoor 2y ago
Actually my realization comes when seeing that super rich in developing nations don't even compare to super rich in developed nations. Like there's sky above sky. My country's elites bow to world's elites.
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by mcmoor 2y ago
Well then the monopoly still isn't bad, because they can still be brought down solely by merit (just that no one have done it yet). Unlike government-enforced monopolies that'll stay no matter what they don't even have to do
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by mcmoor 2y ago
Me in developing country sure see that billionaire's wealths already trickle down to developed country's citizens.
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by mcmoor 2y ago
Yeah when my national tv is transitioning from analog to digital, in some conditions where the analog channels quality degrade, the digital channel fail completely.
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by mcmoor 2y ago
I treat the field like medicine in 19th century. Nice motive, but unless someone drag me to operating room because I've just been shot, I won't have any surgery.
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by mcmoor 2y ago
Other replies have mentioned the positive reasons why smoking declined, and I'd like to believe that because I want to imitate it in my country. But in my most skeptical heart I suspect it's because of marijuana and vape instead.
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by mcmoor 2y ago
This is what makes me troubled regarding medical science. I've heard tons of things about fraud and unreproducible results but new wonder drugs (that actually worked!) are deployed every year.
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by mcmoor 2y ago
I've heard that it's needed to counter heavy parent opposition. If it's not enshrined higher, the PTA will not hear the end of it.
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by mcmoor 2y ago
It's just trying to assume normal distribution when it's not normal. Modern science rely so much on that distribution that i actually whether they have overestimated its ubiquity just because it's so damn convenient to use.
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by mcmoor 2y ago
I feel like union would be much more symphathetic if they do this, and they can coexist with capitalism instead of being hostile activism. But this way they'll just be another corporation, with its pros and cons. Also programmers seems
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by mcmoor 2y ago
What I thought when the British claimed they can stole things because they preserved it better. This thing have preserved in this land for centuries, and who's to say that British Museum won't get nuked in the next 100 years?
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by mcmoor 2y ago
I actually found this list as an effort to find these limiting dictionaries, and I only found this one. And it's told to me by Will Anderson (a champion who also makes a great YouTube channel) himself.
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Common English Lexicon: Common Words for Word Games(github.com)
15 points by mcmoor 2y ago|4 comments
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by mcmoor 2y ago
Have you been frustrated seeing Scrabble games using words that seem barely English? This list attempts to fix that.
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by mcmoor 2y ago
Also security attack in those engineering fields are not nearly as scalable as attack on computer systems. So you don't have as much need to cover every single hole because the damage won't be as much.
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by mcmoor 2y ago
Nah, I think it's solely due to the former being much older and more well-known. And I always liked the latter much more anyway.
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by mcmoor 2y ago
This article argues that people did believe it, or at least believe that their rituals actually matters https://acoup.blog/2019/10/25/collections-practical-polythei...
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by mcmoor 2y ago
Yeah ranching used to be done on land not suitable for farming. This way it's just using unusable resource. But the modern practice is using something consumable by human so the economic is different?
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by mcmoor 2y ago
Is it actually decades? Also they tried, they find it doesn't work, they stopped. Sounds like a good experiment.
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by mcmoor 2y ago
Military and Industry is the best environment for a scientist. Wild enough to reward creativity but harsh enough to not let frauds fester for too long. The most optimal place to conduct mass experiments for scientific method.
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by mcmoor 2y ago
If it becomes official, there may be at least 3 who trained hard enough to get all the medals. Actually, can able-bodied person compete in paralympic that they have no inherent advantage?
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by mcmoor 2y ago
Are we sure? I think if you put able-bodied people on wheelchairs they'd win even harder.
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by mcmoor 2y ago
Isn't SUSY one of them? That's the first thing I can remember
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by mcmoor 2y ago
I thought lots of variants of string theory do predict things inside human means. But they've all failed, leaving only variants that predict things outside of it.
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by mcmoor 2y ago
If you believe hard enough that the government is trying to screw you, you could think that our taught satellite physics is a parallel construction https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction and the real thi
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by mcmoor 2y ago
I've seen someone do the most populated circle in the world, with varying radius, and it's very interesting https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/y51w28/a_n... . Lots of comments sa
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by mcmoor 2y ago
"Enemy is strong and weak" seems like a universal trait for any propaganda, I really have no idea why some want to say that it's a special fascism trait.
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by mcmoor 2y ago
On the other hand we've butchered standardized testing so hard that people report high school graduates as useless. While testing may result in test-focused learning, not testing seems to result in... not learning at all. In the end it
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by mcmoor 2y ago
Yeah we eat less meat solely because of economical reasons. If we have the means we absolutely add lots of meat on top of those delicious vegetable dishes. We even cook some animal organs because it's cheap and delicious.

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