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by zuminator 1y ago
Ah, I see. I saw that but disregarded it because if it's meant be an actual proof and not just a back of the envelope argument, it seems to be missing a few steps. On the face of it, the blanket assertion that at least two faces must b
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by zuminator 1y ago
That article doesn't prove what you say that it does. It just proves because a perpetuum mobile is impossible, it is trivial that a polyhedron must always eventually come to rest on one face. It doesn't assert that the face-down f
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by zuminator 1y ago
The article acknowledges that roly-poly toys have always worked, but in this case they were looking for polyhedra with entirely flat surfaces.
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by zuminator 1y ago
People often forget that PNG images can be compressed in a lossy manner to keep the filesize down, not quite as well as jpegs but still quite substantially. https://pngmini.com/lossypng.html https://pngquant.org&
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by zuminator 1y ago
Thanks for that info. I was wondering if it was some undercover Dave Grusin contract work.
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by zuminator 1y ago
It could be that a particular segment of the population prefers the privacy and is willing to pay accordingly, while other segments of the population don't mind the social interaction, or at least are not willing to pay for its absence
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by zuminator 1y ago
The puzzle cube is colored wrongly https://www.thiings.co/things/puzzle-cube
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by zuminator 1y ago
A whole series would involve writing thousands of prompts, not just a few seconds. But since you bring it up, one thing I think we can eventually expect is an avalanche of fan created continuations of cancelled shows, like an 8th season of
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by zuminator 1y ago
The argument that because a few things have spread, things in general are likely to spread is itself a slippery slope argument.
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by zuminator 1y ago
Fair but also hardly fair since Adams had nothing to do with building NYC transit infrastructure.
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by zuminator 1y ago
That link says PO Boxes are okay-?
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by zuminator 2y ago
I suggest that when you lose, in addition to the incorrect guess being highlighted with a red bar, the correct word should be highlighted with a green bar. Psychologically I find myself wanting to see which word I missed, much in the same w
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by zuminator 2y ago
If the shirt costs $10 in labor, and the pre-tariff wholesale price is also $10, how does the manufacturer make a profit? Surely the wholesale price would at least include some markup for profit? So like $10 labor + $3 markup (per employee-
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by zuminator 2y ago
I dispute that the left ever had any kind of monopoly on chilling speech. Getting people fired from their jobs for exercising speech isn't a specialty of the left. The fact that it consistently made headlines when the SJWs scored a win
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by zuminator 2y ago
On the face of it that sounds reasonable, but then you look at say China with a 35x population over Canada yet Canadians don't just buy as much from China as vice-versa, they buy CAD$65 billion more. So I don't think the argumen
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by zuminator 2y ago
I'm genuinely curious. If that's the case, how is it that I have bought dozens of games on the humblebundle store (for Steam) that were far cheaper than the retail price on Steam itself?
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by zuminator 2y ago
Ironically both Westlaw and Lexis have integrated AI into their offerings so it's magic robots all the way down. https://legal.thomsonreuters.com/en/products/westlaw-edge https://www.lexisnexis.com
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by zuminator 2y ago
> baby being fed this equality all countries are good blergh blergh bs all my life. Nobody in this thread has made anything like those kinds of sentiments. The very fact that we are taking note of Botswana's satellite nearly 70 yea
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by zuminator 2y ago
...of our own creation.
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by zuminator 2y ago
> It's quiet amusingy that up ubtill recently in the usa it was easier to get surgery to turn you to your 'real' gender compared to buying yourself some alcohol. That's not true at all. Kids can't just get surger
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by zuminator 2y ago
Personally, I'm grateful to be corrected on a casual and anonymous forum if it saves me from making the same mistake on a formal document, condescension notwithstanding. My response to grammar cops is either, "Thank you!" if
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by zuminator 2y ago
The Fed's chart is talking about actual wealth, but Bloomberg, despite saying "wealthiest," is really talking about the top 10% income earners. So it's not an equivalent comparison.
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by zuminator 2y ago
Glancing at the code, the rules for whether neighboring cells live or die (see const liveness and the surrounding code) seem to be the same as regular Life. The hue/hueverage vars are used to colorfully display cells in various board t
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by zuminator 2y ago
The qualifications for VP are the same as the qualifications for President, Musk isn't eligible. For now.
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by zuminator 2y ago
Am I correct in assuming this is basically a skin on top of standard Conway Life rules?
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by zuminator 2y ago
We already do that in the electoral process. Campaign contributions are "speech," while at the same time we ban foreign nationals from such speech (although as far as I know the constitutionality of the issue has not been tested b
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by zuminator 2y ago
The fact that Cooler Screens thought sabotaging its own client would be a good business tactic is mind-blowing to me. Who in would ever solicit their business after knowing that? After this boondoggle who'd ever even try a similar prod
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by zuminator 2y ago
I see an article like this in at least three layers. L-1) There's a purely informational layer, where he's talking about the meaning and history of the phrase "cargo cult." L-2) There's an logical layer, where he at
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by zuminator 2y ago
Fair response. But in this case the guy is just rambling on his personal blog. It's not like he's going on Twitter/X and hectoring people. And "wokeism" aside, he gives a good obscure-history lesson as to why the ph
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by zuminator 2y ago
Personally, aside from whether I was persuaded to abandon the metaphor, I found the history fascinating and informative. I actually remember being taught the apparently incorrect version of the origin of cargo cults in an anthropology class

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