palebluethought
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- Comment on In the event you believe a contract killer is in breach of contract, who adjudicates? 1 week ago:
Contract killers don’t really exist, and even if they did, it’s obviously not covered by the legal system, so, you do.
- Comment on How do decide what language you speak living on a countries border. 1 month ago:
I mean… Babies and small children don’t “choose” what language to learn, they just pick up whatever’s spoken regularly around them. So whatever their families and community speak, same as everyone else?
- Comment on How is "son of a gun" an insult? 2 months ago:
I’m sure some parents use it as a substitute to avoid saying “son of a bitch” in front of their kids, if that helps
- Comment on If the obscenely wealthy benefit most from having Republicans in power; and collectively they have disproportionate control over the economy; wouldn't they use that power to sabotage Democrats? 2 months ago:
Sure, I mean pretty much by definition. What does that have to do with your question?
- Comment on If the obscenely wealthy benefit most from having Republicans in power; and collectively they have disproportionate control over the economy; wouldn't they use that power to sabotage Democrats? 2 months ago:
Are you under the impression that they don’t?
- Comment on How is Open Source developed paid? 2 months ago:
Like others have mentioned, there are various options (donations/sponsorships/grants) that larger projects will generally have some of, but for smaller projects (99% of what’s out there, by project count if not usage), the answer is simply “they don’t.” It’s done as a hobby, as a resume booster, or with the hope of eventually becoming big enough to hit one of those revenue streams.
- Comment on Anon texts her very normal boyfriend 3 months ago:
In 4chan parlance that just means she’s calling herself autistic. Which in 4chan would may or may not be literal
- Comment on US regional accents: Saul Goodman and Michael Scott 3 months ago:
I don’t think of either of them as having any specific regional accent at all. I think they just have somewhat similar voices and mannerisms
- Comment on Use your brain 🧠? 3 months ago:
You are so gullible
- Comment on If global warming is a biproduct of humans, wouldn't the logical answer be to kill 2/3rds of the humans? 4 months ago:
I almost hesitate to bring up the other problems with your plan since, obviously the total monstrosity of it. But that’s anyway pretty well covered so I’ll just throw in that blowing enough nukes to kill that many people would create considerably worse environmental disaster
- Comment on If we get two sets of chromosomes, how does our body decide which genes to use? 5 months ago:
Everyone is talking about dominant and recessive genes, so I just want to clarify a couple things.
The way your body directly uses genes is as a blueprint to construct proteins. Your cells are always producing proteins from the genes in all your chromosomes. It has complex ways of regulating how much of each it produces, but your body doesn’t care what chromosome it’s coming from. Once an embryo is fertilized, there’s really no distinction between “mom” chromosomes or “dad” chromosomes, as far as the embryo and its protein machinery are concerned.
“Dominant” and “recessive” characterization is about how those genes affect your body at the macro scale, not whether your body actually uses the gene and produces its proteins – it always does that. For example, brown hair is a dominant trait, and blonde is recessive. But this is because producing any amount of brown pigment will make your hair brown, regardless of what other pigments you’re making, simply because it’s darker. Literally the same as combining blonde and brown paint. It has nothing to do with whether the genes are actually being expressed.
- Comment on iphone 15 pro has something called "always on display" . what exactly is "always on display" i tried to google search it and it didn't really tell me 5 months ago:
Perhaps “always-on display” is clearer? Keeps it from turning off when idle
- Comment on modern gamer 5 months ago:
I just don’t understand how people can get so sucked into gacha games. All the art design, the game world, all the other stuff they try to use to camouflage the slot machine, none of that stuff works more than a few hours. Once you see the “seams” of the skinner box, once it becomes blindingly obvious there’s nothing to find at the “end” of chasing higher DPS or whatever, why do people continue? It loses any sense of fun the moment it happens.
- Comment on Straight to Quantum 5 months ago:
Chemists learn it without being taught linear algebra ¯_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on Why can't people make ai's by making a neuron sim and then scaling it up with a supercomputer to the point where it has a humans number of neurons and then raise it like a human? 6 months ago:
Sure, but now you’re talking about running a physical simulation of neurons. Real neurons aren’t just electrical circuits. Not only do they evolve rapidly over time, they’re powerfully influenced by their chemical environment, which is controlled by your body’s other systems, and so on. These aren’t just minor factors, they’re central parts of how your brain works.
Yes, in principle, we can (and have, to some extent) run physical simulations of neurons down to the molecular resolution necessary to accomplish this. But the computational power required to do that is massively, like millions of times, more expensive than the “neural networks” we have today, which is really just us anthropomorphizing a bunch of matrix multiplication.
It’s simply not feasible to do this at a scale large enough to be useful, even with all the computation on Earth.
- Comment on Anon can’t have a factual argument 6 months ago:
Oh, yeah, I’ve heard that before now that you mention it
- Comment on Anon can’t have a factual argument 6 months ago:
Not sure where you’d get that idea…
Black population is not that far off from Hispanic (18 vs 12%) and white is barely a majority.
Canada is much more dominantly white (70% vs 56%) with lower representation of every other group compared to US. Everywhere in Europe is much higher than that (80+%).
Of course all this is based on coarse Western racial categories, if you look at individual ethnicities then it’s gotta be India or somewhere in Africa.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
“allowed” by who?
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
I mean if we go wide enough, Descartes was talking about it in 1641
- Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups? 7 months ago:
“uncommon” is an overstatement, you can get them pretty much anywhere that has pots. It’s uncommon in that most people don’t bother owning one, not that they’re hard to get
- Comment on why did the eclipse not darken proportionally? 7 months ago:
In addition to what others said, the way you perceive light intensity is not linear. Between your eye adjusting to changing light levels and just the way your brains visual centers work, it’s closer to logarithmic. Indoor lighting at night probably feels like, what, 10% of the brightness of daylight? In reality it’s less than 1%, sometimes closer to 0.1%.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
It’s still lemmy, but the mander.xyz instance is exactly this for science
- Comment on When somebody tells you something, sometimes it's something they personally experienced and sometimes it's something they heard from somebody else. How do you tell the difference? 9 months ago:
Uh… Ask, I guess?
- Comment on Why there are no "secondary" sports league that allow performance enhancement drugs? 10 months ago:
Because allowing them would be functionally the same as requiring them. Especially when there’s already a “primary” no-PED league.
- Comment on What was the original use of the ‘☠️’ emoji 10 months ago:
I don’t really know what “original use” would mean – most emojis aren’t really made with some specific usage in mind, they’re just programs. The use is to be able to show a skull when you wanna
- Comment on Is there a number limit on the blocked items in lemmy? 1 year ago:
I’ve blocked multiple hundreds of communities, so if there is it’s high enough to not matter much