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 Discussion on answer by DJClayworth: …

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Criticize SE actions means ban
Jan 17 11:25
@DJClayworth That country appears to be Canada. Do you follow the New York Times, for example?
Criticize SE actions means ban
Jan 17 11:25
@KateGregory That may have been the case in 2004, but in 2024 we saw a whole lot of supposedly "reputable" news organizations make up a whole lot of stories. It's partly driven by declining readership not being enough to fund actual quality journalism.
 

 Discussion on question by Evan Carrol…

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Dec 25, 2024 01:43
@Jeremy Note that Stack Exchange has already tried to revoke all of the Creative Commons licenses granted to it by adding that checkbox in front of the data dump download. It obviously doesn't care about the license.
 

 Discussion on question by Amit Tomar:…

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Oct 14, 2024 07:24
Linear algebra will definitely help with computer graphics but is not strictly a prerequisite - you can probably get by just knowing how to implement translations and rotations, but a lot of stuff will be confusing. I don't see what probability has to do with it though. (Unless you wanted to estimate how far you could get without knowing linear algebra? :P)
 

 Discussion on answer by Pato Galmarin…

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Aug 30, 2024 21:17
@Hearth Yes, because you the reactor took some of the mass away. That is not surprising. What is surprising is that energy has mass. But this doesn't mean that energy and mass weren't both conserved. If I take the water out of a water balloon it weighs less because the water has mass, but the mass and the water were both conserved.
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Aug 30, 2024 21:17
@JimmyJames It captures the excess energy that is given off as atoms rearrange themselves into different states with lower (more negative) binding energy than before.
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Aug 30, 2024 21:17
@JimmyJames They are both still conserved separately, btw.
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Aug 30, 2024 21:17
Note that reality trumps theory, always. If someone did build a working perpetual motion machine, it would disprove conservation of energy. We know it's impossible to create energy because everything we've ever tried has always failed, and there are good theoretical reasons too, and it makes a lot of math work nice, but there's an extremely tiny chance we're wrong. Conservation of energy is an observed effect, not a cause.
 

 Discussion on answer by JBH: How many…

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Aug 23, 2024 18:15
The Golgadexians can just use the orbital destruction laser they stashed on Mars in case the Earthlings turned hostile, and aim it at the asteroid instead.
 

 Discussion on answer by ohwilleke: Do…

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Jul 22, 2024 21:47
There are rumours CrowdStrike pushed the update to millions of people, on a Friday, without testing it on a single computer first. If true, is that gross negligence?
 

 Discussion on answer by gerrit: In a …

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user253751
Mar 28, 2024 14:31
What if the waiters are paid well without tips?
 

 Discussion on answer by o.m.: Is it r…

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user253751
Mar 3, 2024 17:31
@Hi0401 then you reinvented COVID-19, and as history shows, everyone is fucked. Only question is whether it happens in 2 weeks.
 

 Discussion on answer by Allure: Why i…

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user253751
Mar 3, 2024 17:13
@Allure But we do have that information. Is it not a common sense assumption that before the universe began, there was somehow "nothing", and it was the same "nothing" "everywhere" (if such a concept even makes sense)? Do we think it was a different "nothing" in different "places"? Surely if there were different "nothings" in different "places", then that different nothing is in fact a something and this was not the beginning of the universe? Or do we think different parts of the universe began at different "times"?
user253751
Mar 3, 2024 17:13
@DanielWagner Suppose that I invite a hundred different people to bring buckets of ice to my party. I measure the temperature of each bucket and they are all precisely 0 degrees. Is this weird? No! It is not! Does it mean the people communicated with each other? No!
 

 Discussion on answer by sawdust: What…

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Feb 18, 2024 07:56
unrelated to modems: imagine you are transmitting a digital signal by turning a flashlight on and off (someone else is looking at the flashlight to receive the signal). What prevents you from sending a trillion bits in half a nanosecond? What prevents you from turning the flashlight on and off a trillion times in half a nanosecond?
user253751
Feb 18, 2024 07:54
@ConventionalProgrammer Good old modems modulate the simple high-voltage/low-voltage digital signal into something more complicated. For example, one ancient type of modem emits a 1270 Hz sine wave when it gets a low voltage from the computer, and a 1070 Hz sine wave when it gets a high voltage from the computer.
 

 Discussion on question by AbysmalMath…

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Feb 11, 2024 21:46
There's something even more general than a proof: a sequence of words. And something even more general than a sequence of words is an array of pixels. Instead of studying proofs, why don't we study pixel arrays?
 

 Discussion on answer by JimmyJames: H…

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Jan 31, 2024 20:06
Even if exchanges didn't mark it down, traders would. Exchanges mark it down as well to keep things simpler.
 

 Discussion on answer by Grade 'Eh' Ba…

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user253751
Jan 26, 2024 19:42
@Grade'Eh'Bacon that isn't how currency backing works
user253751
Jan 26, 2024 19:42
All crypto is a scam in the sense that all currencies are a scam: true, but not really helpful.
 

 Discussion on question by Someone: Is…

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user253751
Jan 20, 2024 21:45
@MichaelHall Presumably, they object to the moral panic you expressed in your comment, because they hate moral panics too.
user253751
Jan 20, 2024 21:45
@AzorAhai-him- Yup, that's how moral panics work.
user253751
Jan 20, 2024 21:45
... I hate moral panics.
 

 Discussion on answer by Eric Lippert:…

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Jan 12, 2024 19:45
@Barmar it's a tax deferral strategy, since you still have to eventually come up with hard cash one way or another. The goal is often to defer it until you die, when it gets waived.
user253751
Jan 12, 2024 19:45
@Barmar You don't have to sell it - you can also take a dividend. The point is that a company with a pile of cash is (in the extreme case) a literal pile of cash, and a stock certificate in that company is a certificate saying you own part of a pile of cash. Why would you waste time trading the certificates around (requiring you to find someone with enough actual cash and motivation to use their cash to buy a certificate in a pile of cash instead of just keeping the cash) instead of just swapping the certificates for the actual cash?
user253751
Jan 12, 2024 19:45
@Barmar, ah, the unsecured loans and then using the money borrowed with unsecured loans to get secured loans. You can seemingly become rich enough to become US President with this strategy.
user253751
Jan 12, 2024 19:45
@Barmar That's like having a large pile of cash and borrowing money using the large pile of cash as collateral. Why in the everloving God's name would you do that? Why not just spend the cash? One reason is that you think the cash pile will get bigger, but Bill and Steve apparently didn't think that. It can get smaller, too.
 

 Discussion on answer by Growing_stron…

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Jan 12, 2024 10:09
@ApexPolenta If the options are that half of people die or all of people die, the correct choice is very obvious. BTW, we are currently in that scenario.
 

 Discussion on question by user253751:…

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Jan 11, 2024 18:27
@TheMaster that subreddit has been shut down since the moderator purge and bot purge, and now just tells you to check for yourself
 

 Discussion on answer by Krist van Bes…

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Dec 19, 2023 17:45
@njzk2 Actually I think all the booking information is stored in the QR-ish code on the ticket, which is why it has so many pixels. So no, they can't just revoke it.
 

 Discussion on question by Meanach: Is…

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user253751
Dec 2, 2023 12:49
No, you are advancing a claim that there is no problem.
user253751
Dec 2, 2023 07:51
@MooingDuck do you have evidence showing it DOES accurately reflect the voices of women or minorities and there is no underlying discrimination-based reason their voices want different things?
user253751
Dec 2, 2023 07:51
@JustSomeOldMan You seem to have absolute certainty there is NOT a problem. So write that answer, instead of closing everything that makes you feel uncomfortable. The fact that so many people (mostly, apparently, white men!) want to close or otherwise disparage this question clearly shows the need for this question to be asked!!!
 

 Discussion on answer by Marco Ocram: …

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Dec 2, 2023 07:51
Is Jordan Peterson highly respected here?
 

 Discussion on answer by Ioannis Paizi…

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user253751
Dec 2, 2023 00:25
And both are just as unsupported, but it's crazy how it can suddenly flip like that when flipping is convenient!
user253751
Dec 2, 2023 00:24
> Most women seem - to me - more interested in practical(*), "down to earth" things
Are you serious? This is the exact opposite of the usual stereotype, which is that men prefer practical things and women prefer social things.
 

 Discussion between TylerH and Flater

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Nov 22, 2023 12:24
The question states that "toilet" refers to "the actual thing that you sit on". You do not sit on walking toilets that shoot fireballs at you, so TylerH is simply wrong.
 

 Discussion on question by Anthony: Ho…

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user253751
Sep 20, 2023 20:20
@Anthony It didn't play, probably because I'm not using a browser that sends all my personal data to Google.
user253751
Sep 20, 2023 20:20
@Anthony that's quite normal and does not feel big-brothery by itself. Can you provide some examples of this "real-time coaching"? Not just how it's triggered, but what it does?
user253751
Sep 20, 2023 20:20
@Anthony Why doesn't it redirect the blocked site access to a page saying it was blocked? Why is it separate?
user253751
Sep 20, 2023 20:20
It feels big-brother-like because the system that delivers the notification is not the one that you did the action in. It feels like the notification system is watching you like a hawk. Compare: you're 15 and need spray paint for a school project. The clerk says sorry, we only sell that to over-18s. Fine, you get your parents to buy it later. Now imagine, instead of that, a cop enters the store, walks up to you and tells you they only sell spray paint to over-18s. Feels a lot more uneasy, right? Even though the message was the same?
 

 Discussion on question by Steve V.: I…

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Aug 29, 2023 20:07
The best for everyone is to prevent everyone from driving, so the city builds a train.
 

 Discussion between user253751 and raoof

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user253751
Aug 10, 2023 21:28
i am not going to read them. What is the relevance to your previous idea?
user253751
Aug 4, 2023 15:24
@raoof so you just need to make sure that when it returns something it returns something that starts with 1. Then you only need to check if the first cell is blank or not. You know that if it doesn't start with 1, then it doesn't terminate and the whole thing is blank
user253751
Jul 31, 2023 21:20
so the output tape of U(m) is filled with b if m doesn't halt?
user253751
Jul 31, 2023 15:18
@raoof so what symbol is there?
user253751
Jul 31, 2023 13:29
what do YOU mean when you say the tape is blank?
user253751
Jul 31, 2023 01:18
@raoof return "1" if U(self) returns a blank tape or a blank tape if U(self) doesn't return a blank tape?
user253751
Jul 28, 2023 18:12
@raoof I think we already went over this and you claimed the simulator was impossible.
user253751
Jul 25, 2023 12:50
if the values are not identical, it is always possible to run the decider in the simulator which can tell them apart