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 Discussion on answer by Philomath: Ho…

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BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft
Dec 11, 2024 19:29
A slight aside, but 3blue1brown has an excellent video explaining why pi is in the normal distribution
 

 Discussion on answer by causative: Is…

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BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft
Jun 2, 2024 09:36
"It's likely that the many-worlds interpretation of QM is correct" - this is an extremely contentious claim. Most physicists consider it a neat toy theory, like wormholes or the one-electron theory, not something that's likely true.
 

 Discussion on answer by Paul Johnson:…

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BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft
Jan 3, 2024 00:30
@IMSoP: No, the claim that "all electric heaters are 100% efficient" is correct. All wavelengths of EM radiation are eventually absorbed and turned into heat, not just infrared. The reason infrared is so often confused with "heat" is that those are the wavelengths given off by normal everyday objects (including humans).
 

 Discussion on answer by Dikran Marsup…

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BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft
Sep 16, 2023 15:24
"Rational" is debatable here, given the massive (and, I think, obvious) fallacy of assuming one belief system is preferable to any other
 

 Discussion on question by David Gudem…

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BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft
Apr 11, 2023 07:54
I don't know much about philosophy, but the application of the halting problem (and other undecidable problems) seems immediate and significant..
 

 Discussion on answer by Roger Vadim: …

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BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft
Apr 10, 2023 02:16
If electrons are too small to reflect visible light, why would a "dense cloud" of electrons be visible? Why does the number of electrons matter? What's the tipping point between "visible" and "invisible"?
 

 Discussion on question by Allure: Is …

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BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft
Mar 21, 2023 13:35
"Mainstream physics" does not have a widely-accepted explanation for what dark matter even is or how it behaves. How could this observation contradict a theory that doesn't exist?
 

 Discussion on question by Tim: What l…

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BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft
Mar 6, 2023 20:50
Do "the laws of physics" count?
 

 Discussion on answer by Marco Ocram: …

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BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft
Feb 22, 2023 11:51
There is a non-zero chance of a pig being born with functional wings, or for a an abrupt vacuum to suck it arbitrarily high into the air, or for it to quantum-tunnel into the sky.
 

 Discussion on question by Borg Drone:…

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BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft
Nov 22, 2022 08:42
This is a better question for Stackoverflow
 

 Discussion on answer by JBH: How diff…

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BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft
Nov 17, 2022 21:07
" There is no empirical evidence [of Dark Matter]. There are a lot of believers (on the level of religion!), but no proof." - This is straight up false. There's a ton of empirical evidence for Dark Matter, which is why it's the leading theory. The most significant (IMHO) is the Bullet Cluster, but there are a lot more examples. What we're missing is a mathematical description of what Dark Matter actually is.
 

 Discussion on answer by rfl: Can a ba…

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BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft
May 17, 2022 22:09
@Sanchises That is talking about low earth orbit, not the moon (which is significantly farther than LEO)
 

 Discussion on question by Keio203: Gr…

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BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft
May 9, 2022 18:22
How did you get accepted into a CS PhD without knowing how to code? Why would you take a graduate-level course if you didn't take (and don't know) the prerequisites?
 

 Discussion on answer by Hold To The R…

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BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft
Mar 4, 2022 04:39
@SpiritRealmInvestigator It is not a claim though, it's simply a definition. All logical and belief systems must have some starting principles which cannot be reduced to more basic principles, called axioms. A axiom of verificationism is that all claims must be verifiable. An axiom for any religion is "these particular ancient writings are accurate (but those for other religions are not)".
 

 Discussion on answer by Xirema: What …

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BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft
Feb 26, 2022 04:26
-1 if I could. If OP suspected them of cheating based on the dice rolls from this single game, that would be The Prosecutor's Fallacy and this answer would be correct. However, it sounds like OP suspected them of cheating ahead of time, and recorded their dice rolls in the next arbitrary game. This is a completely different situation. In this case, noting that the chances of rolls that good are < 1% is actually very strong evidence of cheating.
 

 Discussion on question by Anders Gust…

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BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft
Oct 5, 2021 13:28
I think different colors for different variables is a great idea, but they also still need different names
 

 Discussion on answer by nvoigt: How s…

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BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft
Sep 11, 2021 00:50
"It doesn't make sense to have two teams" - Typically the backend team services multiple frontend teams. It absolutely makes sense to have separate teams.
 

 Discussion on question by Gellweiler:…

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BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft
Jul 1, 2021 17:27
Both versions are extremely naive. See Heap's Algorithm
 

 Discussion on answer by LangLаngС: Wa…

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BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft
Mar 23, 2021 14:33
I don't understand this answer. The last two big quotes directly contradict the answer, by saying the arrest was because he publicly released identifying info about his family. The first two quotes don't seem to be related to it.
 

 Discussion on answer by Weather Vane:…

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BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft
Nov 9, 2020 00:05
@reirab: Pretending that this is a blanket claim about 90-year-old voters, rather than attempting to show election fraud by democrats, is extremely disingenuous. If it really were just about 90-year-old voters, it wouldn't make sense to split counties into "democrat" and "other".
 

 Discussion on question by TheHansinat…

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BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft
Aug 9, 2020 20:33
16 answers, and almost all of them rely on trusted third parties. Yikes. Maybe you should've asked on the Cryptography Stackexchange instead.
 

 Discussion on question by nopromotion…

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BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft
Jul 6, 2020 11:40
I don't think this question is being asked in good faith. This sounds like an employee making fun of their boss for this behavior by pretending to be them.
 

 Discussion on answer by Brian Towers:…

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BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft
Jun 21, 2020 18:45
But even if you give every engine the same resources, the answer is still "no"..
 

 Discussion on answer by Bob D: Why do…

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BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft
Jun 9, 2020 17:18
The other answer is correct. This answer conflates two issues - slower boil rate due to convection (which is true, but irrelevant); and that the heat comes from all sides rather than only from the bottom, which is what causes the rolling bubbles. If you covered the pot and put a conduction heat-source on top of the pot, you'd see the same boil rate but significantly fewer bubbles.
 

 Discussion on question by Martín-Blas…

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BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft
Jun 5, 2020 10:04
"it is apparently nonsense" - From your quote, it doesn't appear to be nonsense. He's saying that if we lived in a universe with different laws of motion, perpetual motion could be possible. I imagine the paper mathematically outlines the sufficient conditions for such universes.
 

 Discussion on answer by Astralbee: Wh…

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BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft
May 27, 2020 20:35
Note that "I haven't a car" sounds archaic, like something you'd hear in a Shakespeare play. It's not something that native speakers would normally say.
 

 Discussion on question by Haversine: …

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BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft
May 18, 2020 02:24
Yikes, this is one of the most toxic comments sections I've ever seen. The idea that you're born with perfect pitch has been disproven many times over.
 

 Discussion on answer by another-dave:…

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BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft
May 12, 2020 17:06
@davidbak: It's commonly known that i,j,k for loop variables come from mathematics, but u,v probably do too. u and v are the typical names for the output component functions of vector- and complex-valued functions, eg. f(x,y) = [u(x,y), v(x,y)]
 

 Discussion on answer by jcaron: Cashl…

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BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft
Mar 11, 2020 17:37
A lot of ma-and-pa shops, and even some gas stations, don't accept credit cards for small purchases (usually <$5) because of the $0.32 merchant processing fee for credit cards
 

 Discussion on answer by JRE: Does a C…

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BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft
Mar 10, 2020 14:27
I'm in the US, and I've never heard of anyone being able to just "call up their doctor" with under a 1 week waiting period. They will tell you to go to Urgent Care or the ER.
 

 Discussion on answer by PhishMaster: …

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BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft
Feb 17, 2020 14:56
@Michael: I always heard it as "light on the right" which is an easy mnemonic
 

 Discussion on answer by dwizum: My bo…

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BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft
Dec 13, 2019 21:44
So your argument is that the value of the employee is what they're paid? That's circular reasoning. My point is that "value that the employee brings to the company" is only (mildly) correlated with pay, not equal to it.
BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft
Dec 13, 2019 21:44
This answer is incredibly disingenuous. If salary were solely based on "value to the company", McDonalds servers would make more than the CEO, since the company can continue to exist without a CEO, but not without servers.
 

 Discussion on answer by Schmuddi: Do …

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BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft
Nov 26, 2019 09:02
"If you still want to relate the number of entries for the name in Lexbase to the number of people with the name Ali in Sweden, this will give you a value of 10.5%" - isn't that relying on the number 40k, which you showed above is too high?
 

 Discussion on answer by Priska: Is th…

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BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft
Oct 27, 2019 03:46
It's also absurd how many people are agreeing with @RonJohn that he's physically incapable of learning integral calculus. Everyone has a hard time with new concepts, until they learn them.
BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft
Oct 27, 2019 03:46
Lots of people are arguing "no one can learn everything", but that's not what's being discussed. The question is "can everyone learn anything (within reason)", to which the answer is "yes (barring mental/physical disabilities)"
 

 Discussion on question by DaveInCaz: …

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BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft
Aug 31, 2019 18:33
"I'm asking about the origin of other "dimensions" in the context of fiction, not as used in actual real-world human belief systems" - ok, but that is the origin in the context of fiction...
 

 Discussion on question by SinOfficial…

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BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft
Aug 8, 2019 20:44
@dmckee: I'm confused, doesn't higher humidity make the heat worse? Why would you want to increase the humidity in a hot house?
 

 Discussion on answer by Theraot: How …

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BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft
Aug 4, 2019 20:01
"IEEE-754 is deterministic and defines how we should perform these operations, that's only true for +, - *, /, and sqrt" - Actually it's not even true for those operations. The standard allows them to be done at a higher precision than the data-type, and in fact that's exactly what x86 does (it uses 80-bit FP registers). Thus, even without operation reordering, the result of a statement like f*a+b depends on when the compiler decides to round back down to 64-bit.. which (in C and C++) can change arbitrarily between builds.
 

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BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft
Jun 14, 2019 13:18
"if they made 1 core equivalent of 8 core cpu, that one core would have 800% increase in IPC" - that's what they've been doing for decades, but most operations do not scale linearly so you get diminishing returns.
 

 Discussion on answer by Harper: Can I…

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BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft
Jun 12, 2019 05:18
This reads more like a rant than an answer
 

 Discussion on question by ukemi: What…

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BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft
May 3, 2019 14:37
Does it have to be sci-fi specifically? I'm pretty sure there are dozens of fairy tales that fit this description.
 

 Discussion on answer by Attie: Can co…

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BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft
Apr 2, 2019 22:17
"Can we extract a single frame [.. No,] movement in a scene will cause a higher number of artefacts" - The keyframes should contain no movement artifacts, except those present in the original video. It differs by algorithm and settings, but there's generally one keyframe every few seconds.
 

 Discussion on question by Ratbert: Do…

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BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft
Feb 26, 2019 15:45
"Master/slave" used to be ubiquitous in software development, but after Django and Swift changed their terminology (in Swift's case, by merging a troll PR that was created as a joke), lots of other projects followed suit. Now there are dozens of terms used for the same thing. As a pragmatist, this offends me.
 

 Discussion on question by Alexei: Wha…

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BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft
Jan 17, 2019 13:45
@user4012: What do you mean "proven wrong"? Are you seriously claiming you don't believe resources are finite?
 

 Discussion on question by Bryan Ex-Ac…

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BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft
Dec 1, 2018 12:09
How is this even remotely on-topic?
 

 Discussion on answer by Keltari: Can …

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BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft
Oct 11, 2018 19:22
On my gaming PC, the CPU is usually the bottleneck. It's not that "no games come close to using that much CPU", it's that most games aren't multi-threaded (and even when they are, it's usually only 2-3 threads), so they don't make use of the multiple cores.
 

 Discussion on question by Emanuele Vi…

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BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft
Sep 3, 2018 05:56
Why is this question still open? This is not a good list-question, for the reasons stated by @David.
BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft
Sep 3, 2018 05:56
Related: What are the applications of binary trees?
 

 Discussion on question by nz_21: Unpa…

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BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft
Sep 1, 2018 05:12
IANAL but it sounds like what they're doing is illegal. You might be entitled to compensation, if you're willing to burn those bridges in exchange for cash.