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by xorbax 3y ago
> What causes it? Consistency of a model cannot be the ultimate reason, right? Well, you'd need to ask a question that can be answered with science rather than philosophy, generally.
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by xorbax 3y ago
What a strange response. You think he quickly devised a way - which would work - for a webboard comment? It sounds more like cynicism and denial of others' internal lives
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by xorbax 3y ago
Check out the paper
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by xorbax 3y ago
Yep. I loaded the app, looked at the name, and screwed it up.
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by xorbax 3y ago
Yeah, I donked it. I think there was some serious drama around Reply-All - they both float in the same shallow pool
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by xorbax 3y ago
Yes, the story is essentially linked to a podcast called Radiolab* that has used the story as a story pitch about submitting the name for the the asteroid. The link isn't the thing-itself, it's part of a media campaign. The naming
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by xorbax 3y ago
> we don't use that as an excuse for not having laws preventing children from buying alcohol. Listen, social media is just disrupting society like Uber disrupted taxis and Door dash disrupted food delivery. The downsides are always
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by xorbax 3y ago
I like how it's called "Midilibrary" so it's obvious what it is "Midjlibrary" would have been so gauche and unclear
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by xorbax 3y ago
Why do you think it would do that, if the import poses no risk to the inhabitants of the country?
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by xorbax 3y ago
I don't think that's Jeremy England's idea. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_and_life Henry Adams first put it to print in the 1910s, and Schrödinger did a fine turn on it and wrote a whole book i
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by xorbax 3y ago
If you're accepting a dim star only visible through space instruments I imagine it happens near-constantly Having it happen to a star you're actually aware of and can see tonight is pretty cool
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by xorbax 3y ago
It's mildly distressing that only 5 AU is 42 light minutes The speed of light is pokey, astronomically-speaking. It's like existence functions via telegraph in 2038, and everybody has to Google Morse tables
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by xorbax 3y ago
Is anything intrinsically useful? Or intrinsically anything, for that matter?
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by xorbax 3y ago
It's so intuitive he does it naturally Not like that arrogant metric, for which he can find no useful representation...for some reason A reason that is clearly about the utility of metric itself rather than one's constant use of i
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by xorbax 3y ago
My friends who took up vaping (esp in pandemic) ended up vaping near-constantly It's not the 80s, so vaping allows one to sit around the house and duff it in a way that most people wouldn't do with cigarettes. I feel like nicotine
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by xorbax 3y ago
So did you mention it to him?
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by xorbax 3y ago
You can contrast it with the sciences There's a joke that grad school and med school are polar opposites - med school is hard to get into and easy to get out of, while a PhD is easy to start and hard to finish Being a postdoc sucks, an
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by xorbax 3y ago
Important point - it was doing integrations! Which seems both intuitive and incredibly impressive for the 1930's
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by xorbax 3y ago
It's also an interesting anecdote for that thread about paper that popped up the other day I'd guess he doesn't have the disk or files (although I wouldn't be surprised if they did - I was not so neat or organized at 10)
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by xorbax 3y ago
The vast majority of people dont really "get" functions or plots or line fitting They took 7th grade math, but assert that y=mx is meaningless in real life and doesn't help them understand anything they have to deal with
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by xorbax 3y ago
I'm surprised they haven't memoryholed Paint and attempted to pretend paint3D is useful and sufficient
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by xorbax 3y ago
You have to build the thing and test every possible problem before you build it again and do it for real We all know everyone is perfectly willing to pay and wait for thorough testing so it works perfectly Nobody would ever underfund someth
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by xorbax 3y ago
I think if you start consider what it does to enthalpy and entropy at the microscale and then consider how to use that to modify dynamics (i.e. reactions in progress) you can start to do some pretty fun things.
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by xorbax 3y ago
"John Keats, John Keats Please put your scarf on."
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by xorbax 3y ago
I think a better formula would be economic rather than philosophical: find a job that pays a lot of money whether you like it or not, then establish your career in something you're passionate about regardless of how lucrative it is It&
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by xorbax 3y ago
I always wonder if/why pressure aging hasn't become more common Seems pretty solvable to replace t through P or A in a barrel-aged liquor
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by xorbax 3y ago
The best part is that OP edited his comment to make it seem like he didn't argue that an exhausted battery consumed lithium Fun!
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by xorbax 3y ago
It depends on what range of the x-axis you select, and what units you use for y
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by xorbax 3y ago
I wasn't aware that using a battery destroyed the lithium
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by xorbax 3y ago
Their leaders may be dumb But their voters are an order of magnitude dumber

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