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by wtcactus 1y ago
The supernovas type Ia luminosity depends on their composition and that takes into account both the age of the supernova and of the donator star. And that can be inferred by the luminosity curve of the supernova. https://en.wikip
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by wtcactus 1y ago
Right, but everywhere we look the universe is roughly the same at same distances, so it’s acceptable to extrapolate.
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It doesn’t. Either the 2nd law is incomplete or the idea of bouncing universes starting from scratch with a clear state in entropy is impossible: https://arxiv.org/abs/1010.5513
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Well, this part you mention, for instance "though this fact has received little attention so far". A change on the standard candles calibration would be a huge deal for cosmology and galactic astronomy (and other fields) and would
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by wtcactus 1y ago
Standard candles (all these measurements of redshift according to distance, need us to actually get the distance of what we are measuring right) are the gift that keeps on giving. This study (and many others, depending on the cosmic scales
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Indulging for a moment that fantasy of yours about the purpose of dowries: If the present “owner” paid “good money” to take her away, doesn’t that mean she was a liability instead of an asset?
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There’s also no notion of basic civil liberties all the time, and the notion of food half of the time.
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by wtcactus 1y ago
Thanks for your details. Yes, I must mention that I briefly had a Steam Deck, and it all worked very well. But the issue is with NVIDIA. And my system is not mainly for gaming, so I’m stuck with NVIDIA and I’m Linux is lagging - a lot - whe
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by wtcactus 1y ago
It wasn't for free. It was their work. Which, on average and until very recently, was much, much safer, and easier to do than the work of the other half of the population that had to leave the house and seek work to get a pay and allow
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by wtcactus 1y ago
I'm guessing that his 1st person description of the human sacrifices carried out by the Mayan and establishing a connection between those and the need to erase the culture that enabled them and that he - wrongly or not, we can't k
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by wtcactus 1y ago
I just don't have time for that. I use Ubuntu (headless for work), I don't have the time to spend configuring yet another system. I'm willing to try stuff like Bazzite since it - supposedly - comes all pre-configured. But I&#
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by wtcactus 1y ago
Right now, Clair Obscur and Crusader Kings mostly. I also try other games when I install the system to check the current status of things. For instance, the Monster Hunter World Demo (I don't like that game, I only use it for testing)
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by wtcactus 1y ago
Well, before the 5060 Ti I have now, about 6 months ago I had an 1080 Ti and games absolutely didn't just work. In fact, the all thing was a very big mess because there isn't/wasn't proper support for 1000 series NVIDIA
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Because a previous commenter wrongly said, "the Spanish made a point of seeking out all the Maya books". It wasn't "The Spanish" it were some individual actors clearly acting against "The Spanish" crown wi
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by wtcactus 1y ago
About every 3 months or so, I install some gaming Linux distro (or, if I'm in the mood, install Linux Mint from scratch and try to configure it for gaming) and get solely disappointed and return to windows. Most of the Linux hurdles in
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by wtcactus 1y ago
My work is much more valuable than moving a broom around and washing some dishes. Anyone has the basic skills to clean a house, very few people have the skills to do advanced maths or physics, or engineering or even some forms of Mechanical
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by wtcactus 1y ago
Normally it’s the terrorists that are so bright that they fire rockets into their own territory. So, “rocket flew” is actually being nice to them.
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I'm really sensitive to this (I used to be even more, but, I'm guessing, after years of going to disco's and rock concerts, my earning lost some of its sharpness - on a side note, I used to be able to recognize basically anyo
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by wtcactus 1y ago
An eye for an eye makes the all world go blind. But, one eye for both eyes quickly renders the all bad actors of society blind and incapable of harming the law abiding citizens. It’s not fancy around these parts to give the example of El Sa
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by wtcactus 1y ago
So, Milei is an “authoritarian “ now. That Overton window keeps getting narrower and narrower on that side. I’m wondering if it even lets any light in anymore.
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Correction. They benefit everyone else at the expense of the middle class. They might benefit the rich, but they also benefit the lower classes very much as those are the ones they need to vote for them. And they take all that from the midd
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Hum. The countertop will prevent that. No need to be screwed.
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This all measure is about making sure that private faculties can obey continue censoring whatever they want, as long as they don’t get public money. If they want to be free and private, they can do so with their own money.
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by wtcactus 1y ago
The PS3 was the only console I had in my life. I bought it specifically to play the original Demon Souls. I see a lot of comments here saying how underwhelming it was. And that’s probably true. But one thing always surprised me. The quality
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Putin was doing just fine under Biden. In fact, if you take into account these last weeks, Trump is taking a much tougher stance on Putin than Biden did.
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Britain is ruled by a far left government.
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Well, that's an interesting point you raise. I see it as critics using to have some "skin in the game". They used to be either recognized artists themselves or later the patrons, or someone that was paid by the patrons to cri
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by wtcactus 1y ago
Nothing against patronage, but this is none of it. Patronage chooses the best artists available to produce art for the patron. This measures grant money to self-proclaimed artists and are not based on merit.
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Art and culture have always existed - and one may very well argue, it existed in much richer forms than most of the dubious "art" produced today. Society never needed to hand out money to every self-proclaimed artist for art to th
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by wtcactus 1y ago
This will become to poster child for left wing elitism in the future. What an utter, totally disconnected from reality measure. Tax payers need to go to work everyday to support more and more unproductive members of society and have the sta

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