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 Discussion on answer by rumtscho: Wha…

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Klaws
Mar 9, 2023 21:23
@Mołot Yes, you'll probably have a hard time trying to find unsorted rice in your local supermarket. But that won't keep marketing from mentioning that it's "sortexed" to gain a sales advantage over rice brands where marketing forgot to mention that it's "sortexed". Like bottled water which is marked as "vegan". Bet we'll see that on packaged rice real soon now as well.
 

 Discussion on answer by Dan Pichelman…

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Klaws
Oct 23, 2020 13:27
Socially, you are closer to me than your dog, as your dog doesn't communicate to me. Um...well...after reading some other questions here, maybe your dog is communicating on stackoverflow...
 

 Discussion on question by Kenny LJ: D…

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Klaws
May 17, 2020 11:48
Not true. They killed "former people" (Бывшие люди). And, as Gerrit mentioned, figure likely includes legitimate death penalties ("murder" is a legal term for unlawful killing only, and usually excludes manslaughter). Wikipedia: "The death penalty was generally applied if the crime involved sums exceeding about 10,000 rubles, though there was no fixed threshold.". Natural deaths in a Gulag dropped to 1-3% per year after the war. Well..."natural death"...but "Archival researchers have found 'no plan of destruction' of the gulag population and no statement of official intent to kill them.".
 

 Discussion on question by Snah: Poten…

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Klaws
Jan 20, 2019 19:24
… Their inability to provide the flights came quite a bit surprisingly - they actually were the airline servicing this route. Ah, yes, and the "other direction" they were going to was bankruptancy. I guess I was pretty lucky not to have been hired by them.
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Klaws
Jan 20, 2019 19:24
Quite some time ago, I had a job interview with some company - which could also not cover flights, as it turned out during the interview (which they had insisted to be on-site and not via telephone). They had also decied to "go into another direction" (as it turned out, that had happened just a few hours before the interview. ...
 

 Discussion on question by Pavel Janic…

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Klaws
Oct 31, 2018 09:57
Update: Pavel Janicek attempted to implement the accepted solution. Unfortunately, due to a conversion error (the time machine uses metric time), he went 7.5 petaseconds too far, where the time machine was accidentally trampled into a piece of scrap metal by a dinosaur. Part of it have been recovered as the "Antikythera mechanism". We deeply regret the loss of the visionary time traveler Pavel Janicek.
 

 Discussion on answer by Amadeus: Writ…

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Klaws
Apr 8, 2018 04:43
@Amadeus Sorry, my connect was not directed to you (or your post), but to some of the other comments. I had the impression that some people missed your point about Data being a "silly example".
Klaws
Apr 8, 2018 04:43
Data was not meant to resemble a "Super AI", but an imperfect puppet which wants to become a real human. This story has been proven to be very popular before. Here's the link to the Wikipedia article about the original story: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Pinocchio
 

 Discussion on question by Lambda: Doe…

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Klaws
Nov 15, 2017 11:19
The simple theories are useful in simple scenarios. They do, however, fail to explain things like the Casimir effect.
Klaws
Nov 6, 2017 16:50
There is also one theory which says that photons do not spend their entire life time as photons, but may temporarily turn into virtual particles, which then re-combine a very short time later to re-create the original photon or something very similar to the original photon. Thus photons may not get old, but could (more or less) constantly be reborn. It would also mean that light could interact with light. This is actually not a too implausible theory. However, AFAIK, we do not yet have lasers powerful enough to detect measurable light/light interaction.
 

 Discussion on question by Joe Bloggs:…

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Klaws
Oct 23, 2017 11:28
These look less messy with all the blood, for example. And they tend to improve the survival rate of non-red-shirt people by reminding them not to stand too close to a redshirt.
Klaws
Oct 23, 2017 11:28
As usual with statistics, people tend to confuse cause and effect. Red uniforms could be the cause for a higher death rate - for example, when the red pigment contains a pheromone which forces the wearer to take higher risks, or because the color is more perceptible to enemies. However, it usually that a certain (above-average) number of deaths will happen in a specific group of the population, and these population members are given red shirt for convenience.
 

 Discussion on answer by Stella Biderm…

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Klaws
Oct 17, 2017 14:36
And, come on, the next thing we will hear is that all US citizens are "100% nazi" because Trump is the elected president and he considers a muslim running a car into a crown a terrorist, while a nazi doing the same is a victim?
Klaws
Oct 17, 2017 14:35
Yes, indeed. There are neo-nazis in the AfD - and there are a lot of people in the AfD who would like to get rid of "their" nazis. Of course, there is more propaganda potential (both positive and negative) when you focus on the nazis in the AfD than on the moderate members/voters.
 

 Discussion on answer by Amadeus: Shou…

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Klaws
Sep 11, 2017 22:45
Dogs usually (almost always) consider a hand above their head as an attack or at least at an attempt of forceful domination. For friendly social interaction with a dog, approach it from the front with your hand below his head (typically, you may need to bend down, which can be awkward in some situations, but that's the price you will have to pay to be polite and friendly and socially competent). The dog will, possibly carefully, sniff your hand and show some sign whether he is interested on continuing the social contact or not.
 

 Discussion on question by Jivei: Is i…

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Klaws
Aug 7, 2017 13:33
If a god is omnipotent, he can cast +Infinite Wisdom on himself. Apparently, your gods don't. Are they contained by social conventions? Do they think that infinite wisdom would spoil the fun? Do these constraints imply non-omnipotence? This is getting philosophical...does each god have a free will?
 

 Discussion on answer by AngelPray: Wh…

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Klaws
Mar 1, 2017 08:59
Well, assuming that mer people are evolutionary developed from fishes, we could assume some sort of optical vision. Of course, one might also assert that they are descendants of lungfish...in which case limited air breathing abilities would be present.
Klaws
Mar 1, 2017 08:59
Or they have optical vision, which is rather short-ranged to what we land-dwellers are used to, even though it's sufficient for close-range combat. While a long-range sniper gun would be technically possible under water (the projectile would have a tip which causes supercavitation and therefore be able to "fly" through the gas bubble/channel it is creating, see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercavitation - they even mention that supersonic submarines are reportedly in development...).
Klaws
Mar 1, 2017 08:59
Which also raised my question "How do the mermen see?" They might use some sort of biological sonar, which would not work in air.
Klaws
Mar 1, 2017 08:47
Because the water is not as transparent as air. Windows are of little use at the ranges at which submarine combat happens.