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We're talking about "most people". If something applies to 2/3 of the population or 1/4 is kind of an important distinction. But first you asked for a better estimate and now that you have one you're arguing that the difference (of up to 120 million people) is irrelevant and pedantic, so I...

↶ 64% of occupied dwellings are occupied by an owner. That's not the same thing. If you have a better estimate, then I'd be happy to hear it and will start to use that number instead. If you don't have a better estimate then I'd be very interested to hear how you feel this fact contributes in any w...

They are "armed" with all the equipment necessary for euthanasia, though, so you kinda just disproved your own claim.

I think you're off by a couple orders of magnitude there.

I challenge you to find a paramedic who hasn't had (repeated) experience with aggressive, agitated patients who wish to do them harm.

There's also the fact that other professions who similarly see some of the worst of the worst don't go around shooting a thousand people a year.

jewish_scientist wrote:It is completely reasonable to think that a human driver could have done better than the car*, yet they directly state that we should dismiss this as a possibility.

No, they don't. It's just a reframing of the question.

↶ At the same time, I believe it is the responsibility of every citizen in a democracy to become informed on important issues. Democracy only works with an educated electorate, and we should never be complacent with shortcomings in our own knowledge (of which we all have, btw). You mean on issues Y...

Someone might eventually invent a refrigerator, but but it's a lot more complex than simply applying a cold spell to food. Unless you're suggesting a change to the underlying worldbuilding.

As someone who knows a little about economics, I don't like this association of the stock market with "the economy." The stock market is its own thing. If the stock market goes down a lot, that may mean something is macroeconomically very wrong. But if the stock market goes up a lot, that...

(That'd be an acronym.)

jewish_scientist wrote:↶
You should look into the Roche Limit, which is how close a body held together only by gravity can get to a given body without being torn apart by the given body's gravity.

The Roche limit isn't going to play any part in this, if you're talking about something 1 AU from the Sun.

Yeah in 7% of cases the victims were so obviously unarmed that even the cops were forced to admit it.

We all knew what the intent was, because we can all read the first post.

It was a shitty intent and shitty execution of said intent, and your continuing to defend it is pretty shitty too.

So anyway it's sure interesting how mainstream media is mostly trying to humanize that terrorist suicide bomber. I wonder what factor could possibly play a role in how different that coverage is from the coverage of every other suicide bomber...

Considering that the surface of Venus is already far too hot and pressurized for habitation, I don't think habitability questions really depend on whether there's a solid core or not. The habitable zone is going to be up somewhere near the top of the atmosphere regardless.

Whether or not it's true, I guarantee Nazdar doesn't know.

Treating entropy as a measure of disorder is a pretty typical convention in physics. A maximal entropy system is "uniform" only at a macroscopic (anthropic) level. If every particle has a random position and velocity, that's not very ordered at all on a microscopic level.

It's a partition of the real line, including everything above the highest m_i in one interval and everything below the lowest in the other.

The language might have been sloppy, but it seems pretty clear that tomandlu was asking whether the properties of one particle can carry information about the entropy of the whole universe.

I definitely checked when I saw where this thread was going. (It doesn't seem to be.)

Please don't post three times in a row. You can edit your most recent post to add more if you want to.

P.S. Everything is also a wave.

↶ If you take all the ordinals with at most ℵ 0 predecessors, you have ℵ 1 of them (the next larger cardinal). This was the unintuitive part for me. Here's a proof I tried to put together, although I've never worked with ordinal numbers before. Suppose the cardinality of the set X of all ordinals w...

If you take all the ordinals with finitely many predecessors, you end up with ℵ 0 of them. (That is, all integers have finitely many predecessors, but there are infinitely many integers.) If you take all the ordinals with at most ℵ 0 predecessors, you have ℵ 1 of them (the next larger cardinal). If ...

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Yeah the alternative to a universe we can describe with math is a universe that is internally inconsistent and inherently unpredictable. We assume it's not like that for the sake of being able to do anything at all. If it's predictable, then we can use math to figure out how to make predictions abou...

I mean there is a soil composition graph right up there.

Eternal Density wrote:↶
Lately I've been wondering how our view of the Milky Way galaxy in the night sky relates to images showing what the Milky Way would look like from an outside perspective. I'd like to see an animation showing how the points of view relate.

Try Celestia.

I would assume raw materials because if you're bringing stuff just bring salt.

I think sending a message back in time qualifies as spooky in the same sense.

More like the other way around. SR says spacetime behaves a certain way and from that you can derive what happens with space and what happens with time.

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another because that messed up my on-hour ratio

or this one

It's presumably entirely knowable by the camera, but I don't believe it's typically stored in image metadata.

In particular, the problem is that the focal length is related to the actual distances by the equation 1/s 1 + 1/s 2 = 1/f, where s 1 is the distance (from the front nodal point) to the in-focus object and s 2 is the distance (from the rear nodal point) to the film or sensor. If f = 50mm and s 2 = 5...

↶ Of course, this ain't exactly a hill I intend to die on, so if you have any suggestions as to how I should alter the numbers I plug in... You're counting from all (non-drug-related) murders, but how many of those 6k murders every year are done with bombs? How many terrorism-related murders are do...

↶ I'm not sure a couple of bombings is enough to draw conclusions about motives from. Being black isn't particularly uncommon; if 3 men were killed most wouldn't assume it was the work of a mysandrist. Being black is more uncommon than being male, and unlike misandrist terrorism, anti-minority terr...

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