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by thsksbd 3y ago
A more sensible proposal than changing the calendar. But consider base 12 has few advantages over base 6 but base6 greatly simplifies math since you only need to remember 24 entries for the commutative pair tables (multiplication)
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by thsksbd 3y ago
Ya, those pesky Christians. If only Robespierre wasn't so reluctant to use the guillotine. Too few Vendees I tell you!
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by thsksbd 3y ago
You appreciate that no calendar can get around the mod 365 and leap year adjustments? That's baked into the Earth orbit around the Sun
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by thsksbd 3y ago
Actually there are trivially easy ways to calculate DOW off the top of your head. No one bothers because it was never a real problem. People used to carry their calendar books on them to keep track of their engagements. Now we carry a smart
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by thsksbd 3y ago
All the problems listed aren't real world problems. No one has a problem understanding the calendar and there are no engineering problems with it either unlike the inch. For the few folks in astronomy we have computers. Why would th
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by thsksbd 3y ago
Put it in the over and run the clean cycle. It'll get ashed.
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by thsksbd 3y ago
The 346 people who died in Boeing 737 Max aren't in the US' tally because of sampling error, not because those accidents could not have happened in the US. Safety calculations are hard.
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by thsksbd 3y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_safety It has a chart normalizing by trip. Someone posted this on HM a few days ago. Also, the statistical difficulties of this, and therefore large error, are significant. I se
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by thsksbd 3y ago
So you normalize car deaths by plane deaths and not by mile (plane wins) or journey (car wins). I appreciate your dedication to dimensionless numbers, but that's kinda weird. There are orders of magnitude more driving than flying by m
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by thsksbd 3y ago
It was rhetorical device to make light that flying is not risk free, particularly landings and takeoffs after V1.
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by thsksbd 3y ago
So is driving. You're exceedingly unlikely to be in a mortal accident driving. Those rates plummet further if you don't drink.
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by thsksbd 3y ago
Yea, but a quick prayer on take off/landing is not unwarranted. Normalized by journey instead of mile, flying is more dangerous than driving (according to Wikipedia anyway).
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by thsksbd 3y ago
Well at least one large telecommunications company's marketing department and one viewer got the joke.
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by thsksbd 3y ago
I'm not a bot.
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by thsksbd 3y ago
Computers don't have 1A rights, so why should S230 protections extend to hosts?
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by thsksbd 3y ago
"I can't think of a completely innocent prompt " Over 20 years ago there was a Canadian ISP commercial touting their child safety features with the joke/example: "My son likes X-men" With "X-men" in p
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by thsksbd 3y ago
Rc planes are a few orders of magnitude smaller than commercial aircraft. They have practically no flex and therefore fatigue. A gyro large enough to counter turbulence in an airliner would be too heavy to fly and too the fuselage apart
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by thsksbd 3y ago
This is terrible. Turbulence is the only time on a flight where adults behave like adults [1]. Even their sphincters pucker preventing them from degassing. "Nobody likes to fly through turbulence" Thats not true! There are dozens
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by thsksbd 3y ago
You think most people have a VPN subscription? If most people did, VPNs would either be illegal or extremely heavily regulated. Just like they are in countries where VPNs are almost mainstream.
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by thsksbd 3y ago
Burn it in a high temperature oven
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by thsksbd 3y ago
No, you cant disprove a study by the source of funding;Truth doesnt care who funds it. But its also not obnoxious not to be helplessly naive that you don't scrutinize sources using effective heuristics.
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by thsksbd 3y ago
Also teetotalers, as a group, includes people who don't drink because an undiagnosed underlying health issue makes them feel ill when they imbibe. Maybe a latent hepatitis-b infection.
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by thsksbd 3y ago
Sorry, to avoid embarrassment I didn't include the conclusion: Since, as stated, non-carbon chemistry is limited, non-carbon life (very broadly defined as replication of information) is either impossible or incredibly boring.
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by thsksbd 3y ago
But we know what happens at temperatures and pressures -> things break down and become less interesting. SiO2 is quartz. At a T high enough to melt it (never mind a vaporize it to have a cycle analogous to the C-CO2 cycle), Si chemistry
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by thsksbd 3y ago
Sure, as a matter of logic in the absence of chemical knowledge. Once you study the various elements and realize that carbons' chemistry is uniquely rich with a set of capabilities other elements lack non carbon replication becomes m
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by thsksbd 3y ago
My Israeli brother-in-law is afraid to join a pro-Palestine rally because he looks too Jewish. Life's ironies I guess.
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by thsksbd 3y ago
"what is so special about the Israeli/Palestine conflict that leads to these outsized protests?" Good question. 75 years of history those other two conflicts lack
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by thsksbd 3y ago
I agree, as a prosecutor I wouldn't offer a plea. But the defense? They should jump on any plea they can get.
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by thsksbd 3y ago
ya, but not enough to overcome PD's limitations. You're better off buying a little steam turbine and generating electricity directly off of the stove. On top of the electricity, you get to keep the heat. Or, better yet, buy a prop
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by thsksbd 3y ago
Yea, and it is super cool to think that, but either 1. the kinetic barrier is impossibly large that even novas cant cross it, or 2. the "stable" elements are not very long lived in astronomical time scales. Probably both are true,

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