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- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Demons on one side, microorganisms on the other.
- Comment on USA officially bankrupt (insolvent) 2 weeks ago:
They only can’t file for bankruptcy to get out of their debts
Countries do that all the time… well, not really all the time, but most decades at least one does it.
- Comment on USA officially bankrupt (insolvent) 2 weeks ago:
Bankruptcy is a legal term, whatever the law says that can be bankrupt can in practice be bankrupt.
- Comment on The world on Van der Grinten projection (2011) 2 weeks ago:
A conformal projection makes straight lines appear on the map with the same relative direction they appear on the surface.
An equal-area projection makes the areas of parts of the map proportional to the area of the surface they represent.
That map on the post is neither. The most useful maps are normally neither.
- Comment on Me emitting 20KG of CO2 by using Google search to spellcheck individual words 2 weeks ago:
It’s the slop-tunnel for all communications. The added bonus of high odds of it completely changing the meaning makes everything worthwhile.
- Comment on workplace enrichment activities 2 weeks ago:
What do you think the timer does?
- Comment on oh ok 2 weeks ago:
Hum… I don’t think LLMs are trained by evolutive algorithms.
- Comment on Why China still doesn't risk attacking Taiwan 2 weeks ago:
Country didn’t start an insane war for 3 weeks… US intelligence expert:
- That means they are AFRAID!!!
- Comment on Terraforming mars 2 weeks ago:
Alexander the Great when asked: Hey, look, that Grindr thing is really interesting.
- Comment on That's how the world works. 2 weeks ago:
we could divert natural gas from other uses and have plenty for making ammonia. We also have other ways of producing hydrogen
We can’t do any of those in a scale large enough to replace the destruction and have it online for the next planting season on the North Hemisphere. Or the next one on the South Hemisphere either, btw. Or the following ones for each.
- Comment on 'Punish Iran': Saudi Arabia and UAE inch closer to supporting US-Israeli war 3 weeks ago:
The press has been reporting they inching towards it for 3 weeks now. I don’t doubt it’s true, but I wonder how many inches are still in there.
- Comment on I rember! 3 weeks ago:
Eh… You mean that a license plate is not personally identifying in Europe or that the post violates privacy laws in Europe?
- Comment on I rember! 3 weeks ago:
They absolutely do apply to license plates. It’s just that the post doesn’t break any.
- Comment on The Gang Solves Climate Change 3 weeks ago:
You can’t just scale it that quickly. Some of it will be replaced by coal, not all.
- Comment on 4th dimensional jokes 3 weeks ago:
It doesn’t matter what time you think it’s the right one, the black hole will get it anyway.
- Comment on Keep it off please! 3 weeks ago:
Generative AI is a name for some ways you can use AI, not for its architecture.
There’s space to discuss if DLSS is it or not. But your argument is baseless.
- Comment on great grandaddy bur oak 3 weeks ago:
Wow. So I went looking if people actually knew when our codon system appeared.
Turns out that there are 26 slightly different systems on Earth right now, and there are good reasons to expect random alien life to have a system that looks like ours, but is different enough to not be compatible.
- Comment on great grandaddy bur oak 3 weeks ago:
It’s extremely unlikely that their DNA has the same translation semantics into proteins.
- Comment on how do you only sleep 3 hours a day? (inspiration) 3 weeks ago:
You may want to watch the video.
- Comment on Hrmmm... 3 weeks ago:
There are 6 of them, and the yellow jackets are only relevant there. Before you pointed I didn’t notice they are protesters.
I just assumed they were people working around moving and assembling the thing.
- Comment on Antiwoke Straight of Hormwin 3 weeks ago:
Oh man… I hate to blow your bubble, but that guy is just repeating something that was under serious consideration about 50 years ago.
He probably just remembers the proposals, and not the problems people found in it.
- Comment on Antiwoke Straight of Hormwin 3 weeks ago:
Nah, both carbon and hydrogen can absorb neutrons just fine,
- Comment on Brazil revokes visa of US diplomat who sought to visit Bolsonaro in prison 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, lying on your visa application form will cause that.
- Comment on Talk about hat hair... 4 weeks ago:
Hum… I’ve watched many movies based on his book, but I wouldn’t recognize anyone that took part in any, or even the movie names. So, IDK.
- Comment on Talk about hat hair... 4 weeks ago:
Eh… I have no idea who that is and how popular that person has become. So, I don’t know about people being convinced to look like this.
- Comment on Talk about hat hair... 4 weeks ago:
As far as I know, they haircut was always there.
- Comment on Exclusive: U.S. dismissed Ukraine deal for anti-Iran drone tech last year 4 weeks ago:
Maybe the Lebanon should start a paper balloon launching tradition.
- Comment on yippie 4 weeks ago:
That’s what a chemist looks like nowadays. Including the physics undergrad course.
- Comment on owo 4 weeks ago:
You can push electrons into a capacitor if you don’t connect the other side. A few of them, but you do.
There are electrostatic generators that work by pushing electrons on one side and pulling from the other of some insulator that moves between those two. But you can’t sustain a steady state of only one of those actions.
- Comment on Retvrn To Tradition 4 weeks ago:
Just to point to the people that weren’t there yet, the US made a lot of noise on the press every time they “found” some of the chemical weapons they sold to Iraq in the 80s that were stored in UN-approved deposits because Iraq had no means of destroying them.