accidentallfact

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by accidentallfact 2mo ago
I said many, not everyone.
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by accidentallfact 2mo ago
I think we are at the same stage as when 3D graphics began taking over. It was used everywhere, while it was clearly inferior to 2D graphics of the time. The same problem is with AI today - it's clearly subpar to a competent human. It&
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by accidentallfact 3mo ago
I don't get why it is believed that trees can't pump water above a certain limit, all it should take is a system of valves, something that plants already have for other purposes. It certainly isn't lumuted by trees literally
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by accidentallfact 3mo ago
What if rickets is actually a variant of polio, and vitamin D is just a hormone, and not a vitamin? Rickets still occurs in Africa with abundant sunlight, but with polio still present. (The strains that come from vaccines are usually not co
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by accidentallfact 3mo ago
>I’m going to try to win the award for the most controversial theory on this thread. Extremely easy to beat that. You can see that global population used to stay at around half a billion until around 1700. The growth is a recent thing. S
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by accidentallfact 4mo ago
Nothing of course. But he reportedly insisted that war with russia would lead to the rise of communism.
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by accidentallfact 4mo ago
Yes, the archduke who got assassinated just before the war started.
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by accidentallfact 4mo ago
From what I've read, Franz Ferdinand was the only one with any say in the matter, who could foresee the result of the war. So there is really nothing new about this.
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by accidentallfact 4mo ago
Cetaceans are also strongly handed, sperm whales extremely so. It's possible it has to do with the brain size itself, perhaps it allows to save nutrients for one hemisphere.
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by accidentallfact 4mo ago
I'm going to get downvoted to hell for this, but you described the exact reason why education is a waste of time.
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by accidentallfact 5mo ago
That, just isn't true. Many animals live in herds, flocks or other groups. There is a kind of fish that eats debris from the teeth of much bigger fishes. Predators get swarmed.
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by accidentallfact 6mo ago
I believe that this goes beyond vocabulary. It's more about who bears the burden in communication - in most cultures, it's the speaker, who is supposed to communicate clearly, and concisely. In western culture, it's the list
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by accidentallfact 7mo ago
He was talking about education. I'm pretty sure about it.
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by accidentallfact 7mo ago
There is no reason to doubt that Jesus lived in the Roman Empire, once you believe that he lived at all. And there is no reason whatsoever to doubt that the church formed in Rome. All known world was Rome at the time. From Britain to Morocc
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by accidentallfact 7mo ago
It fell, (quite violently, in fact) in the third century. The rest was pretense.
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by accidentallfact 7mo ago
The thing that made him question geocentrism was that Venus quite visibly orbits the Sun. It has always been known that the tides are caused by the Moon. The hard part is to predict the tides in detail, as they depend on the geography as we
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by accidentallfact 7mo ago
Napoleonic wars? The Spanish used guns against the Aztecs. >The first use of firearms as primary offensive weapons came in the 1421 Battle of Kutná Hora. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_firearm
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by accidentallfact 7mo ago
People always overestimate how 'phonetic' their language is, because nobody actually uses phonemes in regular speech. In Korean in particular, there doesn't even seem to be any obvious correspondence between what is written,
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by accidentallfact 7mo ago
The amount of red light goes down, (and you can use a camera with white set to sunlight to check how much blue it gets on a clear day, it isn't an illusion at all) so if anything, we should be using red light filters, not blue.
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by accidentallfact 7mo ago
Even the premise of the idea is wrong, as evenings are either blue from the blue sky, or white from the clouds. It takes exceptional circumstances to have a reddish evening, and even then it's just around the sunset. I guess that it ma
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by accidentallfact 7mo ago
I think the reason for it is actually pretty banal. Rationality won. But it didn't win over irrationality, but over superrationality, and we just suffer the horrors of its wrongness.
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by accidentallfact 7mo ago
Too much of sci-fi has become reality, and space alone isn't interesting. So, you can fly to another planet? What are you going to do there? Talk with computers, like you do with your phone?
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by accidentallfact 7mo ago
It applies to the sensor size as well. Such as you need a 3m sensor to get 100px per radian, under ideal circumstances, unless I'm mistaken. (I think I'm not)
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by accidentallfact 7mo ago
It isn't a way around, you still obey. Only now, the authority you obey is a machine.
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by accidentallfact 7mo ago
The point of Dune is that the worst danger are people who obey authority without questioning it.
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by accidentallfact 7mo ago
A better approach is to make AI bullshit people on purpose.
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by accidentallfact 7mo ago
Reality won't give a shit about what people believe.
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by accidentallfact 7mo ago
I'm so sick of this "good guy approach". It didn't give us progress, it gave us those like Watt and Intel, highly celebrated bullshiters who stopped being relevant as soon as their IP deadlock expired. I suppose the only
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by accidentallfact 7mo ago
The mechanisms in the body are not heat engines. The stuff is so tiny that it works basically by reshuffling molecules, so the traditional concept of efficiency doesn't really apply, as the amount of stuff that happens is given by inte
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by accidentallfact 7mo ago
Thermodynamics doesn't apply to the body in any meaningful way. It sounds like a 19th century idea of how the body might work that people repeat with no understanding. And, you not only need to get fuel from the food, but also the mate

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