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by ummwhat 5y ago
So what language were they working in?
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by ummwhat 5y ago
Given the history of quilts and infectious disease in the Americas (re: smallpox blankets), I always felt aids quilts were accidentally tasteless and, due to the sincerity of the good intentions behind them, kind of hilarious in a subtle da
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by ummwhat 5y ago
You were electroshocked. It's only electrocution if you die.
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by ummwhat 5y ago
Asia can be held if you can also take (or start from) Australia and take Ukraine iirc. It works out to 3 territories defending the entire space. That's literally the same as defending the whole of the Americas. Europe+Africa can also m
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by ummwhat 6y ago
What does it mean to "understand something"? Why don't we consider "big lump of axons and dendrons" to be an understanding? To me at least, understanding is quantified by the difference between the number of bits in
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by ummwhat 6y ago
I feel like that's true to how the average person thinks. My aunt told me she got octagonal tiles for her bathroom. I said you can't tile octagons in two dimensions. After a short argument she showed me a picture. They were hexago
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by ummwhat 6y ago
Women are also highly unlikely to be serial killers. I don't know which is more unlikely.
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by ummwhat 6y ago
If there is sun why not skip the middle man and use an array of mirrors for direct heating?
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by ummwhat 6y ago
I think I get what is happening with the earth/sun question. If you imagine the earth going around the sun but also not rotating on its axis, then a single trip around the sun would cause a single "day" on Earth. It's st
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by ummwhat 6y ago
There are no child prodigy realtors because very few people are willing to take a child seriously enough to buy a house off them. The learnable part of realty (as measured on the realtors exam) is far outweighed by the bullshit part of look
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by ummwhat 6y ago
Here's an easy way to figure out where earnestness matters vs where it's just bullshitting all the way down. Are there any prodigies? Mathematics: yes. Music: yes. Real estate: no.
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by ummwhat 6y ago
I used a picture of Mark Zuckerberg. Sadly it didn't work.
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by ummwhat 6y ago
That + we will all go together are on my "in case of nuclear war" playlist
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by ummwhat 6y ago
Ellipse, parabola, hyperbola and circles are all the same thing (called a comic). The only difference is if it includes or goes through the point at infinity. The relevant branch of mathematics is called projective geometry.
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by ummwhat 6y ago
I guess I'll say the quiet part loud. It is unusual for an investigation to have such an obvious partisan split, so much so that it is impossible not to conclude that the "anti-trust" case is a thin pretext for something else
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by ummwhat 6y ago
You don't have to "jailbreak" your Android because it wasnt in jail to begin with. Sideloading works straight out of the box.
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by ummwhat 6y ago
This reminds me a lot of Chinese. Many of the words are 2-3 character descriptions. Eg the word for machine is used as a suffix for flying machine (airplane), thinking machine (computer), washing machine etc. For historical reasons related
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by ummwhat 6y ago
I don't know where else to tell this story, but I got the most amazing piece of spam the other day. According to the sender, an unnamed person had told them to contact me. They allege that over the past 50 years the CIA has been invest
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by ummwhat 6y ago
The CCP doesn't need to catch them all. A 90% filter with a terrible false positive rate still accomplishes their societal engineering objectives.
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by ummwhat 6y ago
Generally, for every crime x, the act of planning x is a crime known as "conspiracy to commit x"
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by ummwhat 6y ago
I have a name for this. Contrarian theory. Contrarians are superficially similar to skeptics.
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by ummwhat 6y ago
You've convinced me that finding a wife would be a great move for my productivity right now.
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by ummwhat 6y ago
You ask a very good fundemental question. For things like planets in orbit (under constant acceleration) there really is radiating gravitational waves which carry energy and in principle the orbits must decay over time. Even in particle acc
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by ummwhat 6y ago
Either that or there's two people who worked at mcdonalds and had the exact same experience.
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by ummwhat 6y ago
Its a well known dirty secret that consulates of all countries serve double duty as offices for foreign intelligence services. The two possibilities I see are either the US had intelligence of some particularly egregious use of this not-so-
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by ummwhat 6y ago
Social networks were never supposed to be important or serious in the same way as phone networks. I would argue they still aren't. At the bottom, they are just time waster websites. You wouldn't demand that level of security of a
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by ummwhat 6y ago
No it doesn't. It started by saying how to be a coder in Japan, then doesn't mention Japan ever again. All coding problems are exactly the same until a few slides later when actually they are complex. The paraphrase of the feynman
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by ummwhat 6y ago
An obvious confounding factor is the urban rural divide. There are numerically more conservative parcels of land in the first place. Of course there will be more conservative local papers.
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by ummwhat 6y ago
Imagine missing the rapture to do sysadmin and PR. Maybe they are in hell.
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by ummwhat 6y ago
The extent to which these groups are legitimate vs. a front for Russia is always uncertain. The ambiguity is by design.

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