userulluipeste

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by userulluipeste 2mo ago
I understood why it's called "Carbogen" only after reading (on your provided Wikipedia page) about it being a mixture of "Carbo(n)" + "(Oxy)gen". This is an unfortunate naming habit, because logically &quo
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by userulluipeste 2mo ago
"Under normal circumstances, property law in England and Wales dictates the original owner cannot claim their property back even if the title change was made fraudulently." That's... a curious thing to have in the body of l
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by userulluipeste 2mo ago
"we passed the baton of civilization to the Romans" As a tongue-in-the-cheek retort, if the Greeks were really doing that (i.e. only playing ball in the grand building up of civilization), then the Roman Empire wouldn't end
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by userulluipeste 3mo ago
That is a good question. Excepting the sexual ones, all the cells in an organism are diploid¹, including the ones found in blood (excluding erythrocytes, since those do not have a nucleus, therefore -- do not have chromosomes). Yet in natur
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by userulluipeste 3mo ago
The current model, of a cell that cannot live on its own and cannot evolve (being too far from "edge of chaos") is what will be most useful for bio-engineering. Yes, we need the mechanism for creating cells, and the newfound divis
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by userulluipeste 3mo ago
Too common, unfortunately. Publishing and getting public credit like this are considered high stakes (which justify, or at least make some sense of occurring despicableness). There is much too much infighting over nothing (compared to the m
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by userulluipeste 3mo ago
Every domain you've enumerated is but a niche. Computing domain is a behemoth next to other domains, since computing itself is at the center of it all when the software is eating the world. Yes, they have their importance, but they are
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by userulluipeste 3mo ago
Dacia (Felix) was the Roman Empire's richest region in gold, and this was a very advertised fact. Emperor Trajan's triumphal entry in Rome had in full display the spoils of war, and it was the richest in gold and silver in the ent
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by userulluipeste 3mo ago
Now, after you quoted me, I see that "affection" in the medical sense is considered archaic: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/affection#English I'll keep this in mind, thank you. As for your question, I ha
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by userulluipeste 3mo ago
We are lucky that mass epidemics that plagued humans so far didn't affect the brain. Affections like rabies, that require individuals biting each other, and which are the inspirational source of all those zombie fantasies, do not count
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by userulluipeste 3mo ago
"You’ll bring work home with you more often than not." This happens regardless of managerial position. The only difference in management role is the lack of direct control, which when not yet internalized, keeps the mind in deni
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by userulluipeste 3mo ago
"how is that a moral hazard if the consequence is that we avoid shops staying empty" The shops staying empty is one problem. The call for bailing out or helping in any way the creditors that took loans in bad faith by relying on
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by userulluipeste 3mo ago
This seems an ingenious rule to address conflicting interests indeed. However, I don't see it applicable to many taxable goods, unfortunately. Some goods, although of high value, require operating costs even and (more importantly) expe
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by userulluipeste 3mo ago
Then you'll most likely get moral hazard. That is, rather of people acting in their own limits, as responsible business parties, they would instead be encouraged this way to make deals which they know won't be able to carry throug
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by userulluipeste 3mo ago
"remember it sometimes really is the case that the economy is down and in two years things will recover and everything will rent out again" Where do we draw the line between reality and fantasy then? If the terms of a deal are n
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by userulluipeste 3mo ago
"I'm not sure what would be a more apt parable, something about being a leaf in the wind, or trying to swim upstream, aka powerless that no matter what you decide, how you act, bigger phenomena than you is the only thing that mat
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by userulluipeste 3mo ago
"The major rupture is the Protestant Reformation, where the split between Protestant and Catholic Christianity proves irreconcilable, and results in the end of the notional idea of a unified Christendom." The Christendom ceased
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by userulluipeste 3mo ago
The Marshall Plan merely accelerated the recovery, serving as seed money for a lot of investment (among other goals). Even without such help, the conditions for recovery were there. (I also like to think that the same conditions are still p
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by userulluipeste 3mo ago
Well, yes -- some amount of water must have been in there from very beginning, plus what may have fallen in as icy bodies from outer space afterwards, this much is mentioned in the article itself. The question was not if there was water, bu
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by userulluipeste 3mo ago
"Other scientists agree that some amount of water could have formed on Earth — but perhaps not nearly enough to produce its oceans." "Earth might have been a water factory for only a moment, but that moment may have been eno
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by userulluipeste 4mo ago
It amuses me to see so much fuss about US $100 bill, considering that it's today's buying power is merely that of US $50 in 1970.
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by userulluipeste 4mo ago
"I don't understand why the EU loves VAT so much." Because it's easy money as taxation goes. Facing growing fiscal deficit and worsening credit score, the first thing the government in Romania did last summer was to ri
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by userulluipeste 4mo ago
To me, the rules stated by Phineas Taylor Barnum help one navigate in life while nonetheless contributing positively to society, whereas these "private rules for the Robber Barons" are just a pamphlet aimed to (politically) cast a
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by userulluipeste 4mo ago
That induced hydrogen, which you're looking for, can very well be the material particles in the solar wind. They don't reach much the Earth because are mostly charged protons and thus collide with Earth's magnetosphere. Howev
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by userulluipeste 7mo ago
"The signal shifts from «I can afford this» to «I was invited to spend my money here.»" "the signal isn't wealth but access" The most shocking aspect here is the mindset of these people that come to value this acc
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by userulluipeste 7mo ago
"They have a pretty straightforward business, make GPU cards and sell them." They do, but that's not the (full) story here. Companies tend to easily migrate upwards, to a higher volume and/or higher profit margin marke
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by userulluipeste 7mo ago
The only reason for a source code to be is for humans to read it, bun when the source code gets churned (by AI agents) in too large of a quantity for any human to realistically read and analyze, then what's the point of having a source
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by userulluipeste 7mo ago
>I cannot conceive of a way that any form of healthy life, does not want to expand it's resources to improve future outcomes, especially one that is maximally optimized for thinking. "Then you have a very limited imagination
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by userulluipeste 8mo ago
If the current RAM heavy buyers, the AI powerhouses investors, don't get the into a profitable state of business, then sustaining this rhythm "for a long time" becomes impossible. It won't matter much that "fab allo
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by userulluipeste 8mo ago
"UI wise there is the same issue. Someone used to Windows 10 or 11 would find a transition to Windows 2000 more jarring than to say Linux Mint. ReactOS is no longer a «get the UI you know» proposition, it's now «get the UI of a s

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