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- Comment on Why can't someone create a public alternative to health insurance in the USA? 3 weeks ago:
They have co-ops and there are ‘less greedy’ insurers out there but at the end of the day it’s slathering this idea on top of the existing framework when the framework itself is probably the real issue. Doctors/facilities need to defray costs of potential malpractice for example, and that adds to cost as opposed to a more efficient universal fund if they were all employed by a single entity (like a governmental department), small stuff like that, economies of scale for operational expense, having to compete to buy real estate for facilities, all adds up
- Comment on Narrow is the road that leads to Publication 5 weeks ago:
Sets out to explore phenomenon in painstaking detail
Conclusion: “Now we’re even more perplexed”
- Comment on Turkey Temptation 5 weeks ago:
Here’s one more cool turkey tidbit, since we have them all over in my neighborhood. They really do fly up into trees to roost! They’re super loud and clumsy, and spend more time aiming than anything. They’ll eyeball the next branch, take a couple steps back, then make a huge racket and the whole tree shakes when they land. They fool no one lol
- Comment on Turkey Temptation 5 weeks ago:
Depends a lot on the turkey I suppose. Some store-bought ‘basted’ thing is essentially soaked in brine and ‘natural flavor’ and butter, and a wild turkey is quite a bit drier and tougher and has a kind of rough taste to it from whatever it eats
- Comment on Turkey Temptation 5 weeks ago:
I know turkey is kinda bland and gamey, but turkey that tastes like it was marinated in cigarette butts and used matchsticks somehow sounds like it’d be worse
- Comment on BACK IT UP 5 weeks ago:
stem cells
Evangelicals: I think you’re getting ahead of yourself
- Comment on rollin' deep 1 month ago:
It’s not uncommon to wind up with a fracture like that from ankle sprain while running so the added flavor got a chuckle out of me. Something about the forefoot being planted while the hindfoot inverts alongside with the added force of landing kinda makes the 5th metatarsal wrap around the 4th and it’s not bendy enough
- Comment on rollin' deep 1 month ago:
I like how the illustrator threw in a 5th metatarsal fracture for added effect
- Comment on flouride 1 month ago:
Now say something that bros can really understand, like “fluoride affects zinc and magnesium absorption”. Just don’t tell them how it interacts
- Comment on The fact that some humans can shove an entire large pizza inside themselves is both amazing and terrifying 1 month ago:
I’ve been on Adderall since I was 9 and my relationship with food is basically waking up hungry, taking some pills, and then being hungry but having absolutely no impetus to act on it… And 12 hours after waking up everything wears off and it’s suddenly ‘food horny’ for lack of better word. Profoundly, ravenously hungry.
I’ve basically been training my whole life to saunter into a pizza place and order a 16" pizza and eat the whole thing in 15 minutes.
Professional competitive eaters are nuts tho, this pizza place near me has a challenge to eat a 16" specialty pizza, I did it for shits and giggles after work one day in like 20 minutes, but on their wall of finishers, a professional eater stopped in and ate the whole damn thing in 2 minutes and 49 seconds, that’s terrifying
- Comment on Bombs Awat 1 month ago:
No, it’s all the same in that regard - a ladybug will have a far higher surface area to volume/mass, and that affects terminal velocity.
Ladybug might have 10 square millimeters and weigh .05 grams, 200 square millimeters per gram
Elephant might have 15 square meters and weigh 5000 kilograms. 15 million square millimeters and 5 million grams, so 3 square millimeters per gram
But the elephant in the room (slaps knee) is momentum.
Let’s say, hypothetically, we shove a ladybug and an elephant off a 125m cliff and pretend they both have a ridiculously high terminal velocity. That’s enough for them to reach 50 meters per second or 180kph. .05 gram ladybug’s momentum would be an infinitessimally small 0.0025 kg·m/s, meanwhile the elephant is at 250000 kg·m/s, and the elephant explodes.
The thing that makes the ladybug survive the fall (ridiculously low mass relative to surface area) is the same thing that would make a ladybug freeze in minutes if you tossed it in a freezer. Conversely, elephant wouldn’t really be bothered by a couple minutes in a freezer.
It’s that rapid change in internal body temperature that stresses smaller fish out, dumping them in water that is much colder or warmer than them
- Comment on Bombs Awat 1 month ago:
One of the bigger reasons has to do with the square cube law - as the size of something increases, surface area increases by a factor of 2 but mass increases by a factor of 3, so little fishes have a surface area-to-mass ratio that is quite a bit higher than a larger fish, and they’re more susceptible to abrupt changes in temperature.
Kinda like how an ice cube will melt a lot faster than a big slab of ice, the core temperature of some small fish like a goldfish is gonna change more rapidly than the core temperature of a big fish like a trout so they tend to be a lot more finnicky in regard to significant and instantaneous changes to temperature and stuff. A larger fish might shrug off a significant change because it affects them more slowly, but that might be a totally wild an overwhelming experience for a little fish to go through
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 1 month ago:
“Right in the heart of it is basically a teeny tiny windmill and that just don’t sit right with me” - That one cousin at Thanksgiving
- Comment on Do gangs "jump in" new recruits? Or is that just for movies and tv shows? If so why do they do that kinda seems anti productive. 1 month ago:
How do you condition someone to be loyal/obedient and not a liability? You haze them with the implication that a whole lot worse could happen, and then you test them. “You gotta promise not to tell anyone this, I’m trusting you” usually loosely translates to “I just told you something bogus and everyone is listening to see if you’re gonna spill the beans, and if so we’ll beat the everliving shit out of you until you learn”
- Comment on what's stops one from scavenging the best parts of old phones and putting them into a new one? 2 months ago:
Even something like putting a camera from one phone into another turns into about as much work as trying to take the front fender off one car and trying to use it on another. Nothing’s gonna line up at all and you’ll have to do some heavy modifications to make it look like it belongs
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
One of the biggest pitfalls of buybacks is the piss-poor timing of them. You’re doing good, flush with cash, and share prices are probably at a peak as a result. Shareholders would probably want to rake you over coals if you sat on cash and did nothing in order to weather a storm and perhaps do a buyback when the share prices are relatively undervalued, but you have fiduciary responsibility, so what do you do? Buy at the top and then get caught with your pants down when the shit hits the fan. Doing dumb shit to make shortsighted shareholders happy basically
- Comment on U.S. Copyright Office rejects DMCA exemption to support game preservation 2 months ago:
There’s a lot that just vanish into the ether when someone doesn’t renew their little abandonware site they built and forgot about a decade ago. Maybe not the big names like Might & Magic, but the smaller titles most people have never heard of. Shit’s a bummer if the Internet Archive doesn’t get to it because then it’s probably on a dozen 3.5" floppys in desks that haven’t been cleaned out
- Comment on Want to buy jewlery as a gift for the girlfriend, I know nothing about jewlery, where to start? 2 months ago:
When I was dating my wife I got her dangle drop earrings and a necklace, matching, crystal, nothing too spendy but looked super elegant, and told her she was gonna need those, because we’re getting dressed up and going out on the town. And it worked. I could only describe her style as ‘art teacher’, pretty creative and undefined, but I took a gamble and she loved it. Going elegant and using it as a lead up is def an option
- Comment on U.S. Copyright Office rejects DMCA exemption to support game preservation 2 months ago:
I can see why the ESA would want to defend IP but it should sadden everyone that they’re basically taking thousands upon thousands of titles of abandonware hostage in order to protect a couple hundred that might possibly have some value on the Playstation or Nintendo store or as a bundle on PC at some point in the future.
I used to download abandonware from the mid 80s, monochrome CRPG type stuff, back in the late 90s. Kinda bummed that most of them are probably just gone at this point.
Shame on the Entertainment Software Association, not giving a damn about software.
- Comment on New largest prime number discovered by former Nvidia software engineer 2 months ago:
Nobody will use this math in our lifetime.
That’s a presumption. Have you ever considered that there’s a non-zero chance that you’re wrong?
- Comment on New largest prime number discovered by former Nvidia software engineer 2 months ago:
Does it need to? Does anything need to? I’d argue that humans toying with the novelty of ‘seemingly useless’ things has enriched humanity by a whole lot. Archmedes basically dicking around doing fuck all in that shed of his instead of growing crops
- Comment on Baidu CEO warns AI is just an inevitable bubble — 99% of AI companies are at risk of failing when the bubble bursts 2 months ago:
I’m not even understanding what AI is at this point because there’s no delineation between moderately sophisticated algorithms and things that are orders of magnitude more complex.
I mean, if something like multisampling came out today we’d all know how it’d be marketed
- Comment on Don't fret, check your spam folder 2 months ago:
Weird screenplay showerthought: Guy’s dinner plans fall through, decides to have a couple brandys at the bar and drunkenly responds to a spam email which turns out to be legit, responds to even more, every single spam email is legit, and ends up traveling the world in order to help a cabal of disenfranchised Nigerian princes recover 28 billion dollars from a Pakistani street gang full of tech-savvy hackers with samurai swords and really fast street bikes. Obviously starring Nicolas Cage
