zehaeva

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by zehaeva 5y ago
I was thinking of a black hole that would be large enough to do any sort of science with. I personally wouldn't be concerned with it consuming the world, I would be more concerned with it evaporating! Because the smaller the blackhole
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by zehaeva 5y ago
A huge part of Quantum Mechanics is Conservation of Information, or better maybe to think of it as a conservation of entropy? Your example of a soundwave is too local in scope, sure the wave will die down, but while the soundwave was propag
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by zehaeva 5y ago
Because data comes from experiments. Unless we figure out how to create a black hole in the lab (spoiler, you wouldn't want to) or could get close to a natural black hole (spoiler, you wouldn't want to) you're not going to ge
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by zehaeva 5y ago
I love living in an age where old scifi movies/plots that most people thought would never actually happen, actually start to happen. I'm thinking specifically of 2002's S1M0NE[0]. I can't wait for this future. [0] https:
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by zehaeva 5y ago
Anyone can say they didn't mean it that way/they were joking without any cost to themselves as well. Not to say that there isn't anything wrong with how people have been increasingly incensed in the last few decades, but that
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by zehaeva 5y ago
I take it that you are not aware of Dr. John Snow[1] who in the 1850s demonstrated that Cholera was a water born illness that came from drinking contaminated water. Or of the "Great Stink"[2] in 1858 that was caused by so much sew
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by zehaeva 5y ago
Mostly because no one has found a modified version of gravity that can explain all of the observed data. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rsta.2011...
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by zehaeva 5y ago
This is pretty similar to what Thomas Piketty says in Capital in the 21st Century
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by zehaeva 5y ago
I hate to be the person to quibble about the semantics of words but when one says the word modest one doesn't usually imagine a situation that is more than 70% of all others. I agree, it's a reasonable expectation that two people
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by zehaeva 5y ago
I don't want to poopoo on your point about you and your wife having "pretty modest incomes" at about 100k together. However the median household income is only $68k a year[0]. That is 50% of households in the US earned less t
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by zehaeva 5y ago
> Software can be protected by copyright. You want software to be protected for the lifetime of the author + 70ish years? 95 years in case of corporate authorship? The Beatles catalogue, released 60 years ago, won't pass into the pu
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by zehaeva 6y ago
You do hear about it more in warmer cities, but the city with the largest homeless population is actually NYC by quite a large margin. https://www.usnews.com/news/cities/slideshows/cities-with-th...
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by zehaeva 6y ago
I'm not sure what your experience with the books are but, as someone who's read a _ton_ on fantasy novels GoT is pretty boring and mundane. I can see where people do get excited about it but I can find a good 10 or 20 high fantasy
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by zehaeva 6y ago
Did no one notice that this service was set to shut down 6 months ago? Why is this news now?
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by zehaeva 8y ago
I took the California Zephyr ... uh ... 25 years ago? It was a lot of fun! And a beautiful ride! I hope you enjoy it!