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- Comment on When DinoCon is doing more than the US Gov 5 days ago:
In case you missed it, these are people who knew Epstein was an unrepentant child molester. Epstein was proven guilty in court, made no statements of remorse, and these scientists continued to validate and support his behavior for years after, up until his death. If he had accepted responsibility for his crimes, I would feel differently about people who decide to associate with him while he spent the rest of his life in prison. But I doubt these scientists would have. The reason they liked Jeffrey was because he got away with everything. They admired his ability to rape on an industrial scale without consequences.
Nobody should ever be guilty by association. However, nobody is entitled to be a respected dino scientist. That is something you earn, and I see no reason not to include their feelings about child rape when discussing whether most attendees would feel comfortable with them at a conference.
- Comment on Tune a fish 1 week ago:
That’s not true, the eggs in mayonnaise are usually pealed first.
- Comment on the moon is hollow and rings like a bell 1 week ago:
Things do not ‘become’ true. The truth is always unchanging. We get clearer pictures of it, or it becomes more commonly accepted, but mainstream media attention did nothing to affect or create the truths of these matters.
- Comment on Seems like Trump waited for winter to escalate his ICE agenda but why did he go after Minnesota? People who are completely acclimated to frigid weather. 5 weeks ago:
I don’t think he waited. The entire ICE hiring spree and deployment strategy seems to be designed to cause conflict with civilians. The officer involved was violent in the past already and rewarded for it instead of punished. The idea is to put unprepared people in unfamiliar territory with loaded weapons and tell them that everyone else is out to kill them. This has been an ongoing attempt to cause violence, since Jan 20th, that is only now becoming impossible to ignore. I don’t think there has been any sharp escalation, there have been plenty of ICE murders all throughout last year. It has been getting more violent over time, and will continue throughout the next year at the very least.
- Comment on Not impressed 3 months ago:
Aristotle thought bugs and fish and birds are all animals. I literally don’t know any classification system, or definition, that doesn’t.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
One could say I gave you what you Watt-ed.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Splitting a heavy U-235 atom, given perfect conversion to electricity, could power a 1 Watt nightlight for around 7.5x10^-13 seconds
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 3 months ago:
Yeah exactly, even if a word or two is unclassifiable, an entire sentence might contain enough info to still be useable.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 3 months ago:
This is actually beyond the capabilities of AI classification systems currently. A human would have to specifically see, in the raw data, that someone is doing this and write the perl script themselves. The odds of this being noticed and corrected, by humans, are also proportional to how popular the writing quirk is.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 3 months ago:
I have no idea if it’s effective, but they mean anti-AI as in fighting against classification of their data. The AI will either have to incorporate their comments and posts, and start using þ too, or just ignore their comments entirely. Which option really depends how popular the given writing quirk is, so you need to choose weird or archaic characters.
- Comment on This is real 4 months ago:
Compared to rent, maintenance is basically free, typically about 1-2%. If we think that cost would double, for some reason, by adding another person, it still wouldn’t be that much. But it’s ridiculous to think that would even be the case, given that a sizeable portion of maintenance is not related to tenants at all.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
I can’t help but wonder if your son is shy about his relationship or maybe he has some fear about talking about it with you. It sounds like things are more serious between them than he’s telling you. It’s not impossible to make new friends as a high school junior, but the way it is described it sounds more likely they are romantically involved, and in that case, expensive gifts aren’t very strange for someone in an upper middle class family.
- Comment on Boss Mode 1 year ago:
That’s awesome, and I totally agree. Everyone already intuitively knows that waves carry energy. We’ve all heard of tsunamis and earthquakes. The only difference on the quantum scale is that the amount of energy transferred is discretized.
- Comment on Boss Mode 1 year ago:
Light is generally better modeled by a wave, so I would say the wave doesn’t experience time. Photons are the smallest unit of energy that can be transferred between a light wave and a different particle. They have momentum and direction, but they don’t really travel exactly. They just mediate the force between light waves and matter.
Worded differently, a fermion (massive particle) within an electromagnetic (light) wave with a frequency of f may absorb some multiple of h x f joules of energy, where h is a very small constant. There is no way for the wave to transfer less than hf joules to the particle at a time. There is no need to think of photons as anything other than the smallest possible quantization of the electromagnetic wave rather than a particle of light. There’s no need to think of it existing for any amount of time or space.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
It’s a reference to cocaine use: www.addictioncenter.com/…/drug-alcohol-slang/