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- Comment on What's the best way to answer someone who accuses you of being a bot because they don't like what you have to say? 11 hours ago:
And BTW I totes am a Russian propaganda bot here to destroy the currently thriving American democracy.
Me in a recent reply to one of these.
- Comment on How will the Military be after this mess with Trump? 11 hours ago:
but you have to respect them for that reason alone, above all else.
No, baby killers should burn in hell.
How will they be after it is all said and done?
Nothing will happen to them, except maybe purging the most obnoxious Trump loyalists. People "volunteer" for the military for the money, so they'll just keep doing that.
- Comment on Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault? 4 days ago:
America's actions are relatively fresh,
At the risk of being annoying as shit, that is not true. The only fresh part is that Europeans and/or white people are feeling a small part of the heat too.
- Comment on Breaking functions down to their constituent parts is nice and all, but this is a step too far. 4 days ago:
It is, but conceptually it's a lot weirder than the Fourier transform, whose idea at least is very straightforward. I mean, when doing Laplace transforms you do have to assume that int(e^tdt){0}{∞}=-1. I'd definitely rather use the Laplace transform, but you couldn't pay me to explain how that shit actually works to an undergrad student.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Why is Scandinavia's ball sack demilitarized?
- Comment on Breaking functions down to their constituent parts is nice and all, but this is a step too far. 5 days ago:
Added an explanation comment. Should've probably done that sooner.
- Comment on Breaking functions down to their constituent parts is nice and all, but this is a step too far. 5 days ago:
Explanation: Top left is a Taylor series, which expresses an infinitely differentiable function as an infinite polynomial. Center left is a Fourier transform, which extracts from periodic function into the frequencies of the sines and cosines composing it. Bottom left is the Laplace transform, which does the same but for all exponentials (sines and cosines are actually exponentials, long story). It seems simpler than the Fourier transform, until you realize that the s is a complex number. In all of these the idea is to break down a function into its component parts, whether as powers of x, sines and cosines or complex exponentials.
- Breaking functions down to their constituent parts is nice and all, but this is a step too far.fedia.io ↗Submitted 5 days ago to science_memes@mander.xyz | 14 comments
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 6 days ago:
Just checked and I've got 24 tabs open right now. Basically in my case I have a list of things I'd want to do at any given moment (chat on Whatsapp, watch anime, learn Chinese, etc), so each one gets its own tab group with things I'd usually want for the thing in question easily accessible. For example in my anime tab group I have My Anime List, two tabs with different anime and Reddit discussion threads. Also in my defense I'm looking for an oven right now so that's inflating my tab numbers a little.
- Comment on Insulin 6 days ago:
If there is any chance of reform it would have to still appeal to all parties.
There's nothing such as change that appeals to all parties; that is not how that works. Change, good or bad, is forced by one segment of society over another, doubly so when it's against the interests of the ultra-rich. Don't compromise in advance.
- Comment on Insulin 6 days ago:
Okay here's the thing: Calling policies that contribute to monopolies anti-capitalist makes no sense, because by this standard capitalism is anti-capitalist. It's not like monopolies appear out of thin air; concentration of wealth into monopolies or oligopolies is the only possible equilibrium state under capitalism, so deflecting the effects of these monopolies as "anti-capitalist" is an appeal to fiction.
- Comment on Insulin 6 days ago:
Wow, lots of 📏 around here.
- Comment on Insulin 6 days ago:
Not really. Poverty rates are higher, yes, but many middle income third world countries do have sizeable and growing middle classes. They're called developing countries for a reason. The image of war-torn African countries where everyone works in mines isn't really representative.
- Comment on Insulin 6 days ago:
Lots of missing data in there, but gotta love Turkey's $2.56.
- Comment on Insulin 6 days ago:
In that case "real capitalism" doesn't exist, because patents have been a thing since checks notes 1474.
- Comment on Assuming humanity last another few hundred years; How many human languages do you think are gonna be left in 100 years? In 200 years? 1 week ago:
I mean, how many of the languages in 1925 exist today? What about 1825? That's your answer for the most part, that is to say: most of them save for endangered languages and successful genocides.
- Comment on My Car Is Becoming a Brick: EVs are poised to age like smartphones. 1 week ago:
Maybe it's not enough for them to buy a new car? I mean it's 6 years old; I'm pretty sure Tesla was the only player in the EV scene back then.
- Comment on My Car Is Becoming a Brick: EVs are poised to age like smartphones. 1 week ago:
Why, though?
- Comment on If Marx was alive during the Cold War and beyond, how would he react to the communist states that rose to power? Would he approve or disapprove of them? 1 week ago:
You're citing my text but cutting off just before the point I was trying to make.
Yes, because my point is that your point doesn't make sense.
I think be would still side with the people who claim to follow his ideology
Why...? That's not how leftwing politics worked, ever, and it's not like there has ever been a shortage of leftwing criticism of Leninism and Stalinism.
r in Marx's case admitting that his ideas didn't work or the fact that they didn't work as intended cost the lives of millions.
Yeah that's my point: They're not his ideas; they're their ideas. Lenin for example, aside from being an authoritarian dickhead, was an intellectual juggernaut and a lot of his ideas would be baked into the foundation of the Soviet Union. There's simply nothing to support what you're saying.
- Comment on If Marx was alive during the Cold War and beyond, how would he react to the communist states that rose to power? Would he approve or disapprove of them? 1 week ago:
It's important to understand that 20th century communist states weren't just "communist" (there's no such ideology as communism); they were Marxist-Leninist, which despite the name is a rebranding of Bolshevism by Stalin. "Socialist" and "communist" are incredibly broad terms, and the idea that communist = implementing Marx's ideas. Now Marx's opinion would likely vary depending on time and place, but at least he'd probably condemn Stalin's USSR as an authoritarian hellhole. Beyond that I have no idea, but many Marxists who were contemporary to the things you describe condemned them and many others supported them, so we can't make a realistic guess without projecting our own values on him.
PS: I suspect you don't know much about Marx's ideas, so you should start from there. First, the dictatorship of the proletariat isn't necessarily an actual dictatorship (that's not how the term is used by Marx).
- Comment on If Marx was alive during the Cold War and beyond, how would he react to the communist states that rose to power? Would he approve or disapprove of them? 1 week ago:
I think if he were honest with himself he would see that what he got wasn't what he had envisioned in any of the countries that claimed to be communist/socialist.
I mean... obviously? Bolshevik theory (which is what all future socialist/"socialist" states would adopt) was their own take on Marxism with a lot of original thought. That's where the authoritarianism comes from, and it's not like the Bolsheviks were trying to hide it. Odds are Marx would denounce the Bolsheviks as heretics.
- Comment on Not to get all religous but was not Jesus pissed for people making money in churches? Didn't he flip tables and everything? Then how do churches nowadays explain the collection plate? 1 week ago:
No no you see it's only Science TM if they can use it to shit on Christians.
- Comment on How do you objectively tell if a parents "I love you" is actually sincere, if they actually care about you? Or if the words are lies and they don't actually care? 1 week ago:
Yeah that's the thing: They (usually) do. It's weird and irrational, but people are weird and irrational.
- Comment on How do you objectively tell if a parents "I love you" is actually sincere, if they actually care about you? Or if the words are lies and they don't actually care? 1 week ago:
Outside romantic relationships, the vast majority of people don't have to deal with false declarations of love, so there's no general method here. If you want to ask about your specific case you'll need to provide more information.
- Comment on The existence of billionaires is a policy failure 2 weeks ago:
Yeah... no. First other, no less greedy people will inherit their wealth, second capitalism guarantees the concentration of wealth to absurd degrees. "Kill all billionaires" is surprisingly not a good solution to the problem of billionaires.
- Comment on The existence of billionaires is a policy failure 2 weeks ago:
Pretty much any engineering problem will, if solved, create some amount of transferrable advancement that will help humanity in other areas. It's why technological progress is so connected to war. It's not like they're taking money from their feeding children fund and spending it on dick measuring contests in space; the problem is that they had no intention of feeding starving children in the first place.
- Comment on The existence of billionaires is a policy failure 2 weeks ago:
Power of all forms corrupts, but that doesn't mean tyrants have a point when they disappear dissenters. Fuck the rich's perspective, not because I'm above being a rich asshole (maybe I am, maybe I'm not, who knows) but because even if I was it wouldn't justify hoarding my wealth at the expense of 99.9% of the population.
- Comment on Are physical mail generally not under surveillance? If everyone suddently ditched electronic communications and start writing letters, would governments be able to practically surveil everyone? 3 weeks ago:
I mean, GDR is one tiny country but that goes for both sides of the equation. China would be able to surveil mail with the full resources of the Chinese government.
- Comment on One Of The Best Games Ever Turns 25, And You Still Can't Buy It 3 weeks ago:
Eh, just pirate it.
- Comment on Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA? 4 weeks ago:
In war, if it's not an ally it's an enemy.
Uh... no?
