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 Discussion on answer by phoog: Bringi…

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Chronocidal
May 14 17:04
@JobHunter69 Burden of Proof falls to the person making the claim. In this situation you are the person (falsely, but that is irrelevant here) making a claim, specifically a claim that these items are gifts for friends. That means that you need to be the one providing proof. They only need to demonstrate that you haven't provided proof. (Note that I am aware of at least one occurrence in my country, where two people were stopped bringing back 100 bottles of wine. But, as Monks, they pointed out these were for their monastery which, as a Religious Brotherhood, counts as 'family'…)
 

 Discussion on question by bdsl: Do an…

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Chronocidal
May 7 12:35
Another thing to take into account is that Minimum Speed Limits also exist, not just Maximum Speed Limits: driving too slowly can (under certain circumstances) be just as much "reckless driving" as driving too fast. This question as-written seems to assume that only the upper bound exists, and ignores the lower.
 

 Discussion on answer by o.m.: Can you…

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Chronocidal
Mar 29 18:18
@JohnBollinger The White House also initially claimed that it was entirely down to a Member of Staff making a mistake, but Mike Waltz has since contradicted that and admitted that he did it himself. So, I'd recommend taking that other claim with an equally large pinch of salt…
 

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Chronocidal
Mar 18 19:40
@Peter-ReinstateMonica No, it doesn't. It proves only the first of your three statements: that they were present. It does not prove that they read it, nor that they made a deliberate decision to approve of it. Beyond merely the question of awareness or mental competence, it's also possible to give someone one document to read, and then swap it out for a different copy without their noticing before it is signed: They read and approved of the (unsigned) original, but have provided no informed consent to the (signed) substitution, despite personally signing it with a pen.
 

 Discussion on answer by tchrist: Why …

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Chronocidal
Nov 25, 2024 14:18
@tchrist And use of a different/incorrect word is a grammatical error. Thus, you prove my point and disprove your own. Your obsession with an apparent stance that grammar is something that you seem only to recognise as existing in spoken language is highly discriminatory. Are you suggesting that mute and/or deaf people are incapable of either grammar or errors in it?
Chronocidal
Nov 25, 2024 14:18
“If it’s the same words in the same order, it has the same grammar” — the classic (if somewhat puerile) counter-example to this erroneous statement being "I helped my Uncle Jack off his horse" Putting the sentence entirely in lower case changes the grammatical class of one of the nouns into a verb, and completely changes the meaning of the sentence along with its grammar.
 

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Chronocidal
Nov 20, 2024 23:06
… 5. Bob realises that if Alice has done this once, she might do it again (or other people might be encouraged to follow suit) — so losing $1.4m for other engineers to fix it over 2 week is cheaper than paying $1m to Alice now, and another $1m as a "bonus" next time there is a critical bug.
 

 Discussion on answer by JRN: How long…

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Chronocidal
Oct 9, 2024 10:28
@vsz That may be the question in your head, but the question you actually wrote was "how can you tell if someone is quoting something or not, if it is sufficiently short?" Which is completely different from "how can I, as an individual, know whether I am deliberately intending to quote something?" The answer to the former is that, if they intended to quote it, then they should have put it in quote marks. The answer to the latter is… a tautology. If you intend to quote it, it's a quote.
Chronocidal
Oct 8, 2024 19:32
@vsz "how can you tell if someone is quoting something or not"? That's what the Quotation Marks are for ¬_¬ Please stop begging the question.
Chronocidal
Oct 8, 2024 19:32
@vsz Except, your example veered sharply away from that topic — because you tried to use the example of words you are not quoting, in a context that is not directly referring to someone else's use of the word. That's not "the extremes of the spectrum", in the same way that Sound Waves are not "extremes" of the Electromagnetic Spectrum.
Chronocidal
Oct 8, 2024 19:32
@vsz Are you using it for its own context, or are you directly repeating someone else's use of the word (i.e. quoting them)? As such, your argument appears to be a bad-faith strawman.
 

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Chronocidal
Sep 19, 2024 17:59
So, the answers you're trying to claim don't answer your question do answer your question: they only leave out "establishing the sign convention". Which means you are making one argument re 2D-to-3D discussions, but then the opposite argument re 3D-to-4D discussions. Pick one position or the other — stop flip-flopping between them.
Chronocidal
Sep 19, 2024 17:57
However, as you have seen in the Cobalt experiment, it relies on the fact that a pseudovector is independent of chirality. Meaning that a 4D being can use them to establish consistent relative directions: its exactly the maths that you're pretending doesn't exist.
Chronocidal
Sep 19, 2024 17:53
You have no way to confirm that they've established the same direction vis-a-vis clockwise and counter-clockwise that you did. They might end up running the experiment with the opposite spin, and thus getting "left" and "right" swapped over.
Chronocidal
Sep 19, 2024 17:53
@LoganR.Kearsley Actually, the difficulty of setting up the experiment does matter. The point of the experiment is that it demonstrated that the preferential emission direction matches the spin direction — however, spin can be in either direction. It was ensuring that the sample all span in the same direction that caused the difficulty.
Chronocidal
Sep 19, 2024 17:15
@LoganR.Kearsley You're using examples that rely on having already established mathematical conventions; using your Cross Product example, it relies on the fact that we've determined that one particular set of axis directions are "positive", and the other are "negative". Your Cobalt beta-decay example ignores that the very first step (and the hardest step) of the Wu Experiment was ensuring that the majority of the Cobalt atoms had the same direction of spin — and the alien doesn't know which direction of spin you're calling "clockwise" / "counter-clockwise". Some things require demonstration
Chronocidal
Sep 19, 2024 17:15
@Logan R. Kearsley And the 2-dimensional being will have just as much trouble trying to understand how your fellow 3-dimensional beings are able to understand what you mean when you tell them "on my left". You appear to be inventing issues where they need not exist.
Chronocidal
Sep 19, 2024 17:15
@LoganR.Kearsley Okay, quick question: how would you explain — over radio, to an alien whose location you do not know — what "left" and "right" are? If you can answer that, you'll be one step closer to figuring out your answer. Besides, you appear to be labouring under quite a worrying misapprehension: the idea that "left" and "right" are determined by limbs, rather than the names for the limbs being determined by directions. They may just use gauge directions rather than chiral directions, with are independent of their current chirality.
Chronocidal
Sep 19, 2024 17:15
@LoganR.Kearsley A 2-dimensional being might believe that you have trouble distinguishing your own limbs, because "clockwise" and "counter-clockwise" seem to swap depending on whether you are face-down or face-up. But, how much difficulty to you actually have with that?
Chronocidal
Sep 19, 2024 17:15
@MontyWild Since around the 17th Century, a measurement in the w direction has been referred to as "spissitude" (to go with "longitude" in the x direction, "latitude* in the y direction, and "altitude" in the z direction); and since 1904 the terms for "+w" and "-w" have been "ana" and "kata" (to go with "left"/"right"; "forwards"/"backwards"; and "up"/"down")
 

 Discussion on answer by Greybeard: Wh…

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Chronocidal
Aug 25, 2024 12:59
"Black Belt" is not a rank. In military terms, it's possibly slightly closer to saying "He is an officer" (as opposed to saying "He is enlisted"). The actual rank would be the degree/dan grade — again, like in the military, it's the number of stripes on their belt/cuffs/epaulets. "He is a sergeant" would then equate to "He is a third-dan."
 

 Discussion on answer by AlexP: Does t…

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Chronocidal
Feb 4, 2023 05:14
@MarkMorganLloyd It doesn't matter how many dimensions it exists in, so long as it is more than one — you can cut a 2D plane out of any of them You can even do it diagonally, which would just emphasise/magnify the problem. And the same principle I showed holds true for triangles, hexagons, etc; squares were just the simplest to demonstrate/visualise
Chronocidal
Feb 4, 2023 05:14
An animated illustration of what I mean, with the light travelling 15 squares (top-right is "no diagonal movement", and bottom-left is "diagonal movement permitted") i.imgur.com/YOLKH2t.gif
Chronocidal
Feb 4, 2023 05:14
@aepryus Assume aexels form a rectangular grid for a moment. The time for light to travel 5 squares horizontally or vertically, and then return, is 8 ticks (4 out, 4 back). Next, consider the "Egyptian Triangle" — a right-angle triangle of side-lengths 3/4/5. If diagonal movement is permitted, then that 5-unit hypotenuse takes 6 ticks (3 out, 3 back). If diagonal movement is not permitted, then it takes 10 ticks. The speed of light suddenly depends on angle to the grid
 

 Discussion on answer by Mark: Can cri…

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Chronocidal
Feb 1, 2023 01:37
@rtaft “complicates taxes more than they need to be” Which is pretty much half the point of the US tax system, due to lobbying by accounting firms who will charge you to do your taxes for you. Otherwise, you could easily switch most people to an automatic Pay-As-You-Earn/"Tax Withholding" system, like almost every other developed/civilised country in the world. Must be almost as complicated a system to implement as Universal Healthcare is.
 

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Chronocidal
Jan 26, 2023 08:08
@KevinWells As a simple example: stacking and unstacking the dishwasher. Parent puts the dishwasher on overnight, to be finished by the morning. If the child leaves unstacking until 10pm, then they have to stack in all the dishes and cups used by the rest of the family all day. If they unstack it early in the morning, they only have to worry about any breakfast dishes, and people can stack their own crockery in the emptied dishwasher throughout the day. "Do it in the morning" then means it's easier, and they have to do less.
 

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Chronocidal
Nov 9, 2022 03:45
@user253751 In Stargate, the Wormholes are 2-way, but they can only transmit energy, and not matter. The Stargates create an additional interface just in front of the Wormhole, which will either convert matter to energy (at the "outgoing" Stargate), or convert energy to matter (at the "incoming" Stargate), but not both. However, you do not get properly stored/converted (and transmitted) until you fully enter the interface, and you can back out (2-way) at any point before then. It is this Matter/Energy Conversion Interface that makes the Stargates one-way for matter transfer.
 

 Discussion on answer by bdb484: How c…

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Chronocidal
Aug 27, 2022 15:56
@HiddenWindshield Especially in a scenario where the State is also the plaintiff. That's a time when you really don't want the defence lawyer taking orders from them!
 

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Chronocidal
Jan 11, 2022 15:09
@Ohan No, the Consumer Rights Act (2015) is UK-wide, not Scotland-specific. The Goods Title remains with the original, legal, owner, and you are a victim of fraud by false representation.
 

 Discussion on answer by fez: In Loki,…

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Chronocidal
Sep 17, 2021 18:53
@tobyink Grab a stone that comes from a branch in 2050, travel back to 1950. Should still work, since the "split" hasn't (not) happened yet. More importantly, the TVA employees are well trained, and already have enough power to disregard the infinity stones, and the non-TVA-employees are mostly getting erased from existence. Who's going to grab them and go of back to the universe?
 

 Discussion on answer by Kevin: Why is…

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Chronocidal
Nov 5, 2020 20:24
Against Point 2: Consider the European Parliamentary Elections, where twice the population of the USA is voting, and still manages a faster/more efficient system than the USA uses...
 

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Chronocidal
Nov 3, 2020 15:26
To back up @JBH's "the Earth can heal when humanity stops harming it" hypothesis, consider the hole in the ozone layer: having been discovered, we had a huge push to cut out CFCs and other chemicals that were disrupting the ozone layer and, now that we've stopped doing damage, it has started to heal Of course, few companies were quite so dependent on CFCs for their income as with, for example, fossil fuels - making it much easier to achieve.
 

 Discussion on question by Ubi hatt: W…

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Chronocidal
Sep 13, 2020 09:22
@RobertColumbia I'd say that the likelihood is about a two
 

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Chronocidal
Sep 1, 2020 17:07
If the slapper dies, do the slappees still reappear at the normal time, reappear instantly, or are they "unanchored" and lost forever? (Especially if the slapper is chopped into pieces and spread out, or cremated and scattered...)
 

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Chronocidal
Aug 21, 2020 13:27
Feed Sandwich To Dog
 

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Chronocidal
Aug 21, 2020 00:29
@EdwinAshworth Actually, it should have been "telescope", but that was already in use...
 

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Chronocidal
Jul 30, 2020 10:13
@JaredSmith True, but the correct answer to "How do I lift more weight" isn't "Just slap a twice as many plates on the bar, and get back to bench-pressing, wimp", is it? There are ways to manage these things sensibly, methods to increase your dietary intake, and this answer doesn't have any of that. In fact, calling it an "answer" is overly generous. It's a comment, at best, and not a particularly helpfully worded one at that.
Chronocidal
Jul 30, 2020 10:13
"There's no reason not to eat six eggs, double the chicken, and an extra serving of fish" Personally, if I were to spontaneously more-than-double the amount of food I eat overnight, I would probably throw up from a lack of stomach capacity. That sounds like reason enough either not to, or to ramp it up slowly. In its current state, this answer appears to be short-sighted, and potentially dangerous.
 

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Chronocidal
Jul 24, 2020 21:34
What if the victim doesn't want to come back, or their soul has been trapped/appropriated/otherwise detained in the meantime (meaning that Resurrection will fail)? Do they plan to wait 4 days for the "ordeal" to fade before casting "modify memory", or cast it straight away? What other crimes were the party committing when they murdered the Government Official? (Since then "modify memory" may be wiping vital testimony from a key witness)
 

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Chronocidal
Jul 17, 2020 13:47
@RiversMcForge Specifically trans people? So, using "dude" to misgender a naturally butch-appearing cis woman would be absolutely okay by you?
Chronocidal
Jul 15, 2020 20:00
@RiversMcForge But, being offended by something IS being insulted by it (per dictionary definitons), so — by your own admission — you agree that insult was taken?
 

 Discussion on answer by bdb484: Can a…

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Chronocidal
Jul 14, 2020 15:54
@Sean Well, for one thing, they would probably want more than a day's notice. Walmart were not a regulatory body, they were a customer. They do not get to declare short-notice inspections. They are allowed to request to tour/inspect the factory, within reasonable circumstances (such as date/time, security accompaniment, certain areas being off-limits for confidential or safety purposes, et cetera) to be defined by the supplier. Basically: saying "we would like to inspect your factory" is fine, but just saying "we will inspect the factory tomorrow" is an arrogant power play, and backfired.
 

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Chronocidal
Jul 14, 2020 07:02
A "top end artist", in high demand, might find meeting that demand to be "drudgery or boredom", while a middling-to-average artist gadding about with no expectations upon them can simply craft whatever they want, whenever they want, if they want to. Seems to me that it's the 1% who have to risk the problems you claim, not the 99% who can idly decide to try underwater cheese-carving or zero-gravity golf today, because no one has given them other obligations to meet instead.
 

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Chronocidal
Jul 13, 2020 12:07
@AmruthA Aspects of one OS that some people love and rave about are the same aspects that other people absolutely loathe, and the reason that they use a different OS. You can't create a single OS that everyone loves, without either making it so bloated and hard to configure that it's horrific to use, or running into Arrow's Impossibility Theorem.
Chronocidal
Jul 13, 2020 12:07
How does this work with offline devices which can't sync your user profile from the cloud? Do they just have several kilquads of data storage for every user in the world? Or, does every device need an internet connection the first time you log on?
 

 Discussion on answer by Eddie Kal: Is…

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Chronocidal
Jun 26, 2020 08:16
"Officer" is neither strictly, nor originally, Military - for example, you have still have "Officers of Arms" (Arms here being a Coat of Arms, or Heraldry, not weaponry) and the UK Great Officers of State - it is (or, at least was) comparable to an "Official" or a "Constable" (in its 11th-century meaning as a specific member of a Noble Court, alongside Stewards and Chamberlains)
 

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Chronocidal
Jun 24, 2020 06:34
@Vincent I think OP means the Antikythera mechanism - it's an analogue computer, a bit like a mechanical calculators
 

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Chronocidal
Jun 22, 2020 12:46
@DerekFulton If you are currently Self-Employed, then you are effectively not working remotely for a US-based job. You are working as a UK-based offshore contractor for a US-based company, while lying about it to both governments.
 

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Chronocidal
Jun 14, 2020 19:10
@Lambie Ah, interesting: According to OED, this is a difference between British and American English. British ("deportment" being how you carry yourself physically) uses the meanings taken from 16th Century French, while American ("deportment" also meaning how you behave) uses the switched meanings taken from 17th Century French. As to why the French changed it - well, that's not a question for this site.
Chronocidal
Jun 14, 2020 19:10
@Lambie No. Deportment is the purely physical aspect of Comportment, which is the general term. You appear to have your definition of those two words mixed up.