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- Comment on 3 days ago:
There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.
Upton Sinclair
- Comment on In this essay... 1 week ago:
you cannot prove a system using the system.
Doesn’t that only apply for sufficiently complicated systems? Very simple systems could be provably self-consistent.
- Comment on PUT THE TRAINS IN THE BAG 1 week ago:
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If you build infrastructure people will come
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A 15-hour journey sounds perfect for an overnight service.
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- Comment on PUT THE TRAINS IN THE BAG 1 week ago:
Why is there no connection between Niigata and Onezawa?
- Comment on oh cool 1 week ago:
Adding more hydrogen will make the sun burn faster, so I guess spraying water will extinguish the sun a little earlier than it otherwise would.
- Comment on We keep the entomologists in the basement. 3 weeks ago:
Many insects get infected by bacteria of the genus Wolbachia, which modify their behaviour to make them go towards their predators. The Wolbachia complete their life-cycle in the guts of the predator.
Nature being nature, some insects have also evolved symbiotic relationships with Wolbachia.
- Comment on Funerary Engineering 3 weeks ago:
“I’m not dead yet.”
- Comment on Meme. 3 weeks ago:
Always has been.
- Comment on "ok, imagine a gun." 1 month ago:
Bonus fun fact: part of the reason for their success might be that one of the local police informants was … Stalin.
- Comment on Water Snek 2 months ago:
Okay but why are the oscillations bigger on the English side than on the French?
- Comment on I 🖤 LaTeX 2 months ago:
standard English pronunciation rules
Lol. Lmao even.
- Comment on be gay, do computers 2 months ago:
Isn’t the abacus a mechanical computer?
- Comment on the living dead 2 months ago:
Never meet your heroes, huh?
- Comment on the living dead 2 months ago:
Postulated that humans are eusocial creatures similar to ants, termites, seahorses, and naked mole rats because we follow a hierarchical pecking order.
Source? Eusociality does not involve any sort of ‘hierarchical pecking order’. The requirements are co-operative childcare, overlapping generations and division of labour.
- Comment on Panama Proxima 2 months ago:
Yuan
- Comment on CRISPR-Cas9 2 months ago:
Whatever we did to pugs is definitely not cute. Or okay.
- Comment on Peasants 3 months ago:
Meanwhile, the russian website uses firstauthorYEAR.pdf
Common publishing industry L.
- Submitted 3 months ago to science_memes@mander.xyz | 2 comments
- Comment on They control the black box. 3 months ago:
Is your cat an orange?
- Comment on Bait or r*ta*d*ti*n. Call it. 3 months ago:
It is possible that there exist a few Indians with the name Pajeet, but it is definitely not a common name here. I’ve never met a Pajeet.
- Comment on Considering the old model is made with shrink-wrapping this is viable option 4 months ago:
That’s a bison, not a buffalo. Buffalo don’t have those humps.
- Comment on Liquid Trees 5 months ago:
There are algae in the ocean. The problem with ocean algae is not that they aren’t there, but that their requirements (sunlight, oxygen, acidity, temperature, etc.) prevent them from expanding any further.
- Comment on Liquid Trees 5 months ago:
There are places with no native trees. A majority of the earth’s land area is naturally treeless.
- Comment on meow >:) 5 months ago:
Legendary mad scientist. Does stuff that’s obviously unethical but not illegal (yet), gets caught, the authorities patch the law, and then he moves on to new mad science. Once went to jail for editing a baby’s genome.
- Comment on Anti-acknowlegements 6 months ago:
a physical chemistry experiment will have 1000 data points per trend line; I organic chemistry will have 10 data points, and biochem will have 2 data points.
There is an element of truth in this, but that one biochem datapoint probably took more money and (wo)manpower than a hundred phys chem datapoints. Which is sad, because biological systems are usually more complex, and therefore more ‘noisy’, needing more datapoints for a definitive result. Medical studies get a lot of datapoints for obvious reasons, and because they can afford to do it thanks to Merck et al.
- Comment on WWYD 6 months ago:
Can I do multi-slit drifting?
- Comment on alpha 9 months ago:
Different social animals have different social structures. Wolves generally live in family units, led by the parents. Wasps and gorillas have complicated group politics, with alliances, betrayals and backroom deals. Some primitive ants have a ‘might is right’ system, with the strongest becoming the queen and fighting off challengers. Most ants have a highly democratic system, with decisions made using chemical ‘votes’ (cast by the workers; drones and queens don’t have a say).
- Comment on Turkey Temptation 10 months ago:
Why they putting ideas in people’s heads?
- Comment on whales are the mightiest of fish 10 months ago:
So witches are fish?
- Comment on I'm not sorry. 1 year ago:
Hydrogen.
You can’t generate helium unless you have a fusion reactor.
Actually, nuclear powered flying T. rex sounds cool, so let’s go with it.
