piecat
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- Comment on Handy temperature conversion scale. 1 month ago:
Apparently there is, called the Planck temperature
- Comment on Whoops 1 month ago:
Say you were a spy, and you think there’s a laser guarding the largest diamond in the world.
There’s no way to detect if the laser is there without putting some form of matter in the way of the laser. Be it a hand, or spray bottle.
Now at the museum, a mist won’t set off the alarm, but you’re still reflecting some of the photons out of the beam and into your eyes. Otherwise you wouldn’t see the beam…
But for a quantum experiment, where we care about each individual photon, spraying a fine mist will affect the experiment. Sticking anything in that laser beam path will affect the measurement.
So how do you make a measurement without interacting?
- Comment on Not buying a shaver from Philips again.. 1 month ago:
Yeah that’s a regulatory requirement in some regions
- Comment on Why do people wear shoes inside the house? 2 months ago:
Because in public, the ground is probably more gross than your feet (dogshit, car oil), but in your home, your shoes are probably more gross than your own feet.
Similarly, in public, seeing other people’s feet is gross. But not as much at home.
- Comment on Would Nuclear Weapons be as destructive in ship to ship space combat, as they are on the ground in an atmosphere? 3 months ago:
If we’re talking about a direct hit, the radiation is going to be substantial
- Comment on Would Nuclear Weapons be as destructive in ship to ship space combat, as they are on the ground in an atmosphere? 3 months ago:
That would have to be a big ship to feel a shock wave without being consumed by the ball of plasma
- Comment on The more you know 4 months ago:
When is the pizza ready? When has it approached zero?!
We gotta get these pies moving cousin. 10 minutes or less or it’s free, that’s what big Tony says. We never should have let you take over operations, cousin, not with your fancy math degree. I felt bad because you couldn’t find job anywhere else. But what gabagool. What will mother say? You’re going to make her cry.
- Comment on The more you know 4 months ago:
Bro this is a pizza hut
- Comment on I got this popup ad on my TV **while watching a DVD** 4 months ago:
That’s exactly how air tags work currently.
- Comment on I got this popup ad on my TV **while watching a DVD** 4 months ago:
There’s a pretty good chance they’ll get around it- if they aren’t already.
Samsung TV? You have a Samsung phone? There’s an easy way to jump the air gap.
Neighbor has a TV connected to the Internet? Send data to that TV and pretend you’re not connected to anything so the user doesn’t catch on.
- Comment on Does anyone else feel like 90% of the population is stupid? 4 months ago:
I mean I’m sure someone honestly believes that. But to be fair, people believe the earth is flat.
- Comment on Does anyone else feel like 90% of the population is stupid? 4 months ago:
100% agree, society is so radically different today from even 200 years ago. Most discernable minor changes are from 10+ thousand years ago. Major changes are more on the order of 100k-millions of years.
We’re 100% not “made for” the world we’ve created.
- Comment on Does anyone else feel like 90% of the population is stupid? 4 months ago:
Just linking to an article about collective decision making isn’t really that helpful without quoting the article for your points.
So that article you posted talks about animal behavior, and that an economic view on collective decision making is a good approach for animal behavior.
As motivated in the Introduction, our review has focused primarily on an economic view on collective decision-making. The economic view is a staple of behavioural ecology, and motivates the tools of optimal decision theory for the study of animal behaviour.
Nowhere did they make the conclusion that collecting decision making is superior, especially in the context of humans.
- Comment on You can't win the lottery 5 months ago:
Oh no, I spent $3 to dream of being rich. Anyways
- Comment on StarCraft could return, according to Blizzard president, but not necessarily as an RTS 6 months ago:
World of StarCraft? /s
- Comment on Why are batteries in phones always measured in mAh instead of Wh like for example notebooks? 8 months ago:
Lets use coulomb hours or electron-per-second-hours.
- Comment on How do I tame my frustration toward my aging parents? 8 months ago:
STDs or UTIs can cause dementia symptoms. Could explain why they both have symptoms
- Comment on The fact that people this stupid exist 8 months ago:
Oh gotcha
- Comment on The fact that people this stupid exist 8 months ago:
Well, some vaccines are therapeutic in nature, where it’s beneficial to take it while you have symptoms. Some vaccines are only helpful before you get a symptom, for example rabies.
- Comment on The fact that people this stupid exist 8 months ago:
Once destroyed definitely… But couldn’t a vaccine prevent it from getting to that point?