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- Comment on What's the deal with male loneliness? 3 weeks ago:
You would?
I use public transit daily and hardly ever interact with anyone. Maybe there is one interaction every 100 days? I don’t frequently see two strangers interacting either, it’s unheard of except maybe for retirees with effectively infinite time.
- Comment on What's the deal with male loneliness? 3 weeks ago:
I can’t really answer/reply to most of your comment but there is something about the last paragraph that I can respond to:
What about bi-/pansexual men? They exist [1][2] and there will be many that are attracted to people in between gender( expression)s.
[1] en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisexuality
[2] en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pansexuality - Comment on Puberty blockers to be banned indefinitely for under-18s across UK 1 month ago:
There is significant proof of benefits:
Positive outcomes were decreased suicidality in adulthood, improved affect and psychological functioning, and improved social life. Adverse factors associated with use were changes in body composition, slow growth, decreased height velocity, decreased bone turnover, cost of drugs, and lack of insurance coverage.
I can’t vouch for the quality of this literature review (because I don’t care about taking an hour or more to read a paper for a Lemmy comment), but usually literarture reviews show a fuller picture than individual studies.
Also, this sentence is in the conclusion:
Although large long-term studies with diverse and multicultural populations have not been done, the evidence to date supports the finding of few serious adverse outcomes and several potential positive outcomes.
- Comment on Puberty blockers to be banned indefinitely for under-18s across UK 1 month ago:
Vaccines can have devastating permanent side effects. Should parents no longer vaccinate their children?
The answer for both is:
Whichever option does less harm should be taken. A delayed puberty, despite potential long-term risks does less harm than a trans child going through the “wrong” puberty.
Besides, due to the start of puberty having a pretty large range there should in theory be little harm until the age of 14 or so. And at that age children are much more capable of deciding on medical treatments than as preteens.
- Comment on China's Xi warns 'no winners' in trade war with US 1 month ago:
Yes there is a winner: The environment
Less trade => less consumption => less pollution
Although sadly it doesn’t cancel out all of Trump’s other actions that will inevitably increase pollution.
- Comment on Reclaim the internet: Mozilla’s rebrand for the next era of tech 1 month ago:
Finally some international ß representation.
- Comment on Lmao 2 months ago:
You’re such a failure. If you can’t even get depression within 17 hours, how do you ever expect to get anything done? There’s no hope left for you. Just give up.
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/s
- Comment on anyway, i started blastin' 2 months ago:
I’ve found a proper approximation after some time and some searching.
Since the binomial distribution has a very large n, we can use the central limit theorem and treat it as a normal distribution. The mean would be obviously 500 billion, the standard deviation is √(n * p * (1-p)) which results in 500,000.
You still cannot plug that into WA unfortunately so we have to use a workaround.
Since WA would calculate it through:
Φ(b) - Φ(a), with b = (510 billion - mean) / (standard deviation) = 20,000 and a = (490 billion - mean) / (standard deviation) = -20,000 and Φ(x) = 0.5 * (1 + erf(x/√2))
erf(x) is the error function which has one good property: erf(-x) = -erf(x)
Therefore:
Φ(20,000) - Φ(-20,000) = 0.5 * [ erf(20,000/√2) - erf(-20,000/√2) ] = erf(20,000/√2) ≈ erf(14,142)
WolframAlpha will unfortunately not calculate this either.
However, according to Wikipedia an approximation exists which shows that:
1 - erf(x) = [(1 - e^(-Ax))e^(-x²)] / (Bx√π)
And apparently A = 1.98 and B = 1.135 give good approximations for all x≥0.
After failing to get a proper approximation from WA again and having to calculate every part by itself, the result is very roughly around 1 - 10^(-86,857,234).
So it is very safe to assume you will lose between 49% and 51% of your gut bacteria. For a more realistic 10 trillion you should replace a and b above with around ±63,200 but I don’t want to bother calculating the rest and having WolframAlpha tell me my intermediary steps are equal to zero.
- Comment on anyway, i started blastin' 2 months ago:
To expand a little:
For a much smaller sample size of just 1 million, the probability to lose just 1% is basically zero.
WolframAlpha doesn’t even bother to calculate the exact result and just rounds it:
- Comment on She-Ra Lives! 2 months ago:
You’re right in some regard though I still believe taking note of trends is important, don’t you? If most pre-record civilizations we find have behaved and lived in a certain way it could tell us something notable about our past.
- Comment on sometimes it's just easier 3 months ago:
DONT SAY THAT WORD IN MY CHRISTIAN HYPERCAPITALIST LEMMY
- Comment on Drink it, I dare ya 3 months ago:
But wait, from further down:
It is stable enough to observe reactions with NO and NO2
We now have a lower and upper bound for its reactivity at least:
able to observe reactions with NO and NO2 ≤ Reactivity < encountered in everyday life
- Comment on Equinunerous Sets 3 months ago:
Easy. If and only if the integer sequence A053169 contains itself.
- Comment on 7 years ago there were no billionaires worth more than $100 billion - today there are 18! 3 months ago:
That’s for the second one though, for the [verb] [noun] combination. The “[adjective]” [noun] combination implies spacefaring or similar, doesn’t it?
- Comment on 7 years ago there were no billionaires worth more than $100 billion - today there are 18! 3 months ago:
It’s not describing the noun, it’s part of the noun.
Quick analogy in German:
space billionaire = Weltraummilliärdär
spacefaring billionaire = weltraumreisender Milliärdär
In German, adjective + noun cannot be written together to form a new noun. To form one, only noun + noun can be used. And English is close enough to Germanic languages for that rule to remain the same, I think.
- Comment on 7 years ago there were no billionaires worth more than $100 billion - today there are 18! 3 months ago:
How is space an adjective in the first one? Shouldn’t it be a noun?
These Anglo-Saxons again, putting random spaces into compound words.
- Comment on Father horrified by an AI Chatbot that mimicked his murdered daughter 3 months ago:
Have you read this article yet (warning: long and sad)? The AI used was the private GPT-3 Beta in mid-2021, almost 1.5 years before ChatGPT was launched.
- Comment on There you go little guy 3 months ago:
The government would be the accuser?? Just because a camera is used for evidence doesn’t make the camera THE accuser. Civilized nations have a way to fight the camera-issued fine, for example if the photo doesn’t show your face.
- Comment on Had to read it 3 times to make sure 3 months ago:
Forced arbitration doesn’t exist in the EU so that clause doesn’t apply to Austria. Therefore, the section with King County includes:
For All Subscribers Outside the European Union and United Kingdom: […] You and Valve agree that all disputes and claims between you and Valve (including any dispute or claim that arose before the existence of this or any prior agreement) shall be commenced and maintained exclusively in any state or federal court located in King County, Washington, having subject matter jurisdiction.
- Comment on The mark 4 months ago:
But that’s not a freckle??? That’s a mole
- Comment on Why Vacuum Cleaners Are So Loud 4 months ago:
Imagine a shortsighted wolf with dirty glasses. Cleaning its glasses would make it a more effective predator, right? The same applies to the vacuum which is why you shouldn’t clean it.
- Comment on WW2 4 months ago:
did… did you piss on the flag of France
- Comment on Got caught 4 months ago:
Reconstruction of the bottom text:
Oh I see, you’re with the capital-N Nazi furs, I should have expected as much from
If only there was a way to know what follows. Alas, I won’t give that hellhole of a site any traffic
- Comment on YSK: some common medications can make you more susceptible to heat exhaustion and heat stroke 4 months ago:
cancer
- Comment on Bazzite Linux gets keyboard-less installation (good for handhelds) and smaller updates 4 months ago:
Are they just a shitty/overwhelmed/incapable moderator or do they also make bad articles? From what I can tell, the articles are fine but I only read them occasionally.
- Comment on Recommendation engine: Downvote any game you've heard of before 5 months ago:
Piggybacking off of this comment, if you happen to enjoy Minesweeper, I recommend:
No guessing is required to solve any puzzle either, despite some variants seeming completely impossible.
Fun fact: There’s an achievement for stumbling across a level with a conpletely empty starting board, without any spaces being revealed to be mines or non-mines. Yes, that can be solved without guessing.
Fun Fact 2: I’d argue there are more than 14 variants.
- Comment on . . . 5 months ago:
That’s notfunny
- Comment on North Korean charged in ransomware attacks on US hospitals. 5 months ago:
Depending on who compromised you, paying the ransom is the smart move.
As long as the hacker group has a somewhat established name and reputation, they have more to lose from keeping a copy afterwards than to gain. Trust is like half of the business model for these groups - throwing it all away for a one-time gain isn’t the smartest move.
And while you should obviously keep a backup, in the end it might be cheaper to just pay up, especially because of potential future lawsuits should customer data be leaked.
Also, you should absolutely make sure the hackers actually have stolen data instead of merely encrypting it all with a secret key. There’s no point in paying in that case.
- Comment on Zelda 64: Recompiled 6 months ago:
100% accurate emulation is basically impossible for every single console. You can get extremeley close via cycle accuracy, emulating the CPU’s instruction set but even that isn’t perfect.
You can read this for more information:
- Comment on Russia has escalated its information war against Moldova joining the European Union 6 months ago:
Gee I guess Cyprus will never be able to join the EU either then