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by mikorym 8y ago
> Organic (or "Biologisch", as it's called here) Indeed a similar topic. Many people don't realise that "organic" is a marketing term. You cannot equate it with "ethical" or anything of the like fr
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by mikorym 8y ago
I know it's a sensitive topic, but they are also doing: vegan > not vegan In South Africa, I refuse to buy (vegan) margarine. It contains palm oil, whereas our own butter is locally farmed in the Eastern Cape. TLDR: I've been o
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by mikorym 8y ago
> ...booked advertising space on some of the world's most popular legal pornography websites... > ...visitor to the adult site who clicked on one of Qaiser's fake adverts would trigger the download... So, yes—if you filter o
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by mikorym 8y ago
It is interesting to see some of Gauss's side quests during his life and the scope of his interests. I remember reading that Gauss's (and his contemporaries') foray into statistics was greatly motivated by the central limit t
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by mikorym 8y ago
> fully transparent light source Thanks. So, in the analogy between gravity and light, you have to change all "massive bodies" to "fully transparent light sources" to make the analogy complete. A nontransparent light
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by mikorym 8y ago
Hi prison mates, I'm Bob and I am in prison for stealing a loaf of bread. Do you want to rent out my copy of the Twilight series? Maybe that's slightly more accurate?
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by mikorym 8y ago
My question is whether gravity works like light, or whether you can just ignore the planets in between. When for example you calculate the effect of the sun on the earth but venus or mercury happen to be in a line of sight, does it influenc
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by mikorym 8y ago
A question on 1-: does introduction of intermediary objects stack well? What I mean, for instance: If the moon is between us and the sun, the light gets blocked out but gravity does not. Light intensity then does not stack well (for visible
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by mikorym 8y ago
For those wondering: "Modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) is a theory that proposes a modification of Newton's laws to account for observed properties of galaxies. It is an alternative to the theory of dark matter in terms of expla
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by mikorym 8y ago
OP here, "why on earth" was in context to the talk. At said talk the person assumed the audience generally want r^2 to hold, but did not mention that r^2 should preferably hold (for the reasons posted in other comments). In fact,
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by mikorym 8y ago
Dark matter is introduced to account for discrepancies with the r^2 rule when just accounting for "visible" matter.
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by mikorym 8y ago
Right, so we are looking at area and not volume.
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by mikorym 8y ago
Sorry for a perhaps simple question. Which part of GR requires that GR => r^2? I can try to think of why, but I'd be guessing. I understand that many things in GR follows from when we translate reference frames that there is a light
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by mikorym 8y ago
I have had rudimentary exposure to this and do find this perhaps one of the best intuitive approaches. Why is the rule not r^3 though? And what would the rule be in a 2-dimensional world?
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by mikorym 8y ago
When I went to listen to a dark matter talk at the observatory in Cape Town, my first response was: Why on earth do they keep insisting that the r^2 rule should hold? Maybe a physicist can explain why, but as a mathematician my first ques
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by mikorym 8y ago
Not sure what you are specifically referring to. The UN says [1] that "Africa continues to experience high rates of population growth. Between 2017 and 2050, the populations of 26 African countries are projected to expand to at least d
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by mikorym 8y ago
93% of a sample space of 100 splatter artworks is.
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by mikorym 8y ago
So, getting back to OP's message. Do you think that there are currently forums like Reddit but with more substance? Let's take some of the DIY forums. Reddit can get pretty useful, but how does this relate to 1999? Back then, gett
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by mikorym 8y ago
How can one grab the output? The following (first line) saves nothing to the file as is seen in the second line and with the program in the third line: ~$ ./perltest | tee output.txt ~$ cat output.txt ~$ cat perltest #!/usr/b
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by mikorym 8y ago
Ah, so it is the same symbols as with birds. So that means that the female will have ZW, but it would double its Z_1 and give its offspring Z_1Z_1?
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by mikorym 8y ago
So with a click baitey title, can we get a TLDR?
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by mikorym 8y ago
What are you saying?
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by mikorym 8y ago
I also wanted to point this out, but I guess Reddit does pose a risk that they make some system-wide decision and in the process all those subreddits either vanish or die a slow death. As of March 2019 Reddit seems still quirky and interest
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by mikorym 8y ago
You are making the argument that he makes more money than necessary just for food. It could be that you have—in theory at least—two options: 1) Try to plant corn. 2) Kill a rhino. There is no option here that makes exactly $3 or whatever
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by mikorym 8y ago
This occurs in other snake species as well, the documentation is not always complete, but there is evidence for adders and pythons. > It turns out that the Komodo sex determination system means the offspring are always male. Do you mean
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by mikorym 8y ago
They have outlier models, but look at the probabilities associated with them (should be >90%, i.e., <10% probability for those lines). A better statement on my behalf would have been that their probabilistic distributions have been
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by mikorym 8y ago
The UN's population projections have historically been very accurate. They have also consistently shown that the better educated and developed a country is, the quicker its population stabilises.
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by mikorym 8y ago
TLDR? Link seems to time out.
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by mikorym 8y ago
I remember a while ago reading about how bus arrival times in some South American country were studied and showed to follow psuedorandom distributions. I don't remember the source, but the key differentiator [in that country] is that t
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by mikorym 8y ago
Silly people want silly rolemodels? /s

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