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- Comment on Anon lives on a budget 2 days ago:
It’s kinda both. The ACA was based on Heritage Foundation work that was done for the benefit of insurance companies. Not much consideration was put into the behaviors it would incentivize in employers.
- Comment on Anon lives on a budget 2 days ago:
It’s Korea that typically gets ignored in the US. In fact, that war does fall under the time-frame we’re looking at and wikipedia says about 1.5 million were drafted for it.
- Comment on Look at this. Or don't. 4 days ago:
Huh. Maybe there is no dragging quantum up to human scale comprehension. Like, we can only really describe this stuff with math equations.
Probably gonnna keep repeating my dumbed down summary though, cus I think for us laymen it helps more than it hinders.
- Comment on Look at this. Or don't. 5 days ago:
“Photon touching” was a somewhat glib way of putting it on my part.
What does your friend think of this statement:
When physicists say “observe”, they actually mean “measure”. And to measure a photon of light, you have to interact with it somehow, there is no passive way to do so.
- Comment on Look at this. Or don't. 6 days ago:
oh boy, here I go banging this drum again:
When physicists say “observe”, they actually mean “measure”. And to measure a photon of light, you have to interact with it somehow, there is no passive way to do so.
The post’s header image implies that the interference pattern goes away just by looking at it. If that were the case, we would never see the interference pattern, never know it was there in the first place! In the actual experiment, they put a sensor at one or both of the slits. But to “sense” a single photon, you have to interact with it in some way. Otherwise you wouldn’t know it was there.
Again, this is where the language trips us up. Rather than “sensor”, would really be more accurate to say they put a photon-touch-er at the slits.
So, what we actually get is “Touching the photon changes the photon’s behavior.” The universe doesn’t magically infer when we happen to be looking at it, there is no spooky action-at-a-distance!
- Comment on Scientific Exposure 2 weeks ago:
Nah, science has always worked like that. This is what peer review is for.
What’s better than finding evidence that proves your own preconceived notions? Finding evidence that contradicts someone else’s. Schadenfreude is the great engine of scientific progress.
- Comment on Anti-masturbation DLC 3 weeks ago:
glowing?
- Comment on Amazing 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on spongebob big guy pants okay 3 weeks ago:
is this the biologist’s equivalent of “assume a flat, frictionless plane”
Assume A Perfectly Homogeneous Liquid Mouse
- Comment on Stupid sexy raft 3 weeks ago:
Except everyone hates on the politician instead.
- Comment on The existence of billionaires is a policy failure 4 weeks ago:
Sorry, do you think a business failing is only possible with government coercion?
And what government coercion gave Google near monopolies on web search and video? Microsoft Windows accounts for 70% of desktop computers, did a government give them that? Whom did the government coerce for Amazon to have such domination of server hosting and online retail?
I don’t think you’ve been paying close attention to whats been happening in your lifetime.
- Comment on Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders 4 weeks ago:
Ok, but R&D on a given product eventually stops. Over the lifetime of a good, it becomes a smaller and smaller proportion of overall costs.
- Comment on The existence of billionaires is a policy failure 4 weeks ago:
In a free market, competition has end results. Buisnes don’t just keep competing with one another ad infinitum. One of them eventually cant keep up and closes shop. It’s competitors expand into the space it previously filled. This process repeats until you have fewer and fewer firms that account for more and more of their sector of the economy. New business do not have resources to eke out space in an already filled niche.
Under a long enough time frame, a free market creates less competition.
- Comment on Anon travels overseas 4 weeks ago:
vowels tend to be spoken with a flatter, wider mouth/tongue shape
- Comment on Scientists of Lemmy, explain: 4 weeks ago:
I heard somewhere that the adult starfish is just the head. Imagine being a face and only a face, scrunching along the seafloor.
- Comment on Our first look at the Steam Machine, Valve’s ambitious new game console 4 weeks ago:
everything else is just sitting there waiting to be obsolete in a couple years
a bit out from the cutting edge, sure, but obsolete? This aint the 90s or the Aughts any more.
A machine put together 10 years ago will still run most things fine. Not at the fanciest settings, but fine. This is essentially the same criticism PC gaming has been lobbing at consoles for years, and now we have essentially a PC masquerading it’s way into the console wing of the market – of course the same criticism still apply! It’s not incredibly beefy because it doesn’t need to be. Different audience, different requirements.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Part of the reason the show works is that we never really see Federation life outside of Starfleet. Mostly this is for practical budget reasons; what does a post-scarcity egalitarian society actually look like? That’s difficult to depict in a show designed to recycle the same set every episode and only very occasionally go outside to film.
So what little we see of the civilian federation looks… a lot like the US. There’s a president. Member
statesplanets. Constant references to US history. A military that operates how Americans like to think their military works, rather than what it actually historically has done.Newer shows take this even further. Section 31, as it was first introduced, was supposed to be a highly illegal, unsanctioned conspiracy acting in the shadow of the proper Federation. Now they’re presented as the ultra official, coolest badasses who are the only reason any of the egalitarian principals are able to survive.
- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 1 month ago:
I feel like if I was gonna put a computer attached to a motor & heater inside a bed, the very first step would be making sure that if the software goes wrong, it always defaults to staying bed shaped and not catching fire.
I know I know hindsight is 20/20, I’m sure I’m just missing something. Venture capitalists would just give their money to any random idiot with a pitch, right?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
lol
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
the Sun does the same thing but also with a profit motive
- Comment on Not a meme, just superpawsition 1 month ago:
Some answers may literally beyond our comprehension.
Sure that may definitely be the case. But in practice, that means we should be exhausting the comprehensible possibilities first. Many Worlds is an explanation of last resort.
- Comment on Not a meme, just superpawsition 1 month ago:
The point of the thought experiment is that a cat that is both alive and dead is absurd and clearly not what actually is happening. Schrödinger intended it to demonstrate that quantum mechanics was not a complete description of the universe, we’re still missing something(s).
- Comment on Jesus hates American "Christians" 1 month ago:
You know Christianity is an offshoot of Judaism, right? How early roman christians viewed and treated Jewish people is reasonable context to include in a conversation about the history.
- Comment on Just in time 2 months ago:
Life has a tendency to spread when new environments are available, yes.
But beyond this planet, there are no other environments. You might say the rest of the universe is antivironment. There is a wide range of possible conditions, of radiation and tempurature, gravity and molecular composition. Life requires a very very narrow and specific set of those conditions to continue.
Going from one continent to another, within the same atmosphere, with the same underlying set of conditions, is not all that much of a change. Actually leaving the planet? Permanently? And without just dying in the attempt? That would require a level of organization, long term planning (like, centuries long term), and resource management that we as a species have yet to demonstrate.
- Comment on Happy 20th anniversary to the Corrupted Blood incident! 2 months ago:
you may or may not recognize the artist
- Comment on Mid Career Marine Biology 2 months ago:
xcancel.com/alharry/status/1450288983745785862
I guess this is a phishing attempt? Would have worked on me because I immediately needed more context and had to track down the post
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Would Oganesson even last long enough to lick? Let me look this up…
…0.7 millisecond half-life. A fraction of a
millionththousandth of a second. So you really only have to worry about all the things it decays into, and not the element itself. - Comment on Shortly After Xbox Game Pass Prices Spiked, the Page to Cancel Game Pass Subscriptions Was Overwhelmed 2 months ago:
…is the difference being publicly traded on the stock exchange? The only company I can think of that doesn’t fall under “corpo” is Valve, and it seems to mostly be because they don’t have to answer to shareholders.
- Comment on hyperbaric oxygen chamber 2 months ago:
I get these stories as a way of pointing out the inherant absurditity in a lot of every day things…
…but also… life requires energy. Something’s gotta keep the metabolism going. Oxygen is both highly reactive and significantly more abundant than any of its heavier counterparts further down the column. If there is life out there with a metabolic rate anywhere approaching our own, it would be weird if it didn’t use oxygen.
- Comment on hyperbaric oxygen chamber 2 months ago:
those actually look pretty tasty