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AeonFelis ,

“electron”?

AeonFelis ,

You wanna be careful sharing that GIF.

AeonFelis ,

Travel is never a matter of money but of bidet.

AeonFelis ,

The chances are exactly the same as getting any other random number

Which are also pretty small.

AeonFelis ,

What? I can’t believe it’s not butter!

AeonFelis ,

The kind you put in from the other side.

AeonFelis ,

slatestarcodex.com/…/the-case-of-the-famous-physi…

AeonFelis ,

No. They’ll integrate with Threads.

AeonFelis ,

Do we… want to be in the know?

AeonFelis ,

I’ll start using it after I migrate to Wayland.

AeonFelis ,

What if Windows decided to update after you finished checking the equipment? I mean, they do use AI to determine the worst time for an update…

AeonFelis ,

AI will be used to conduct three meetings at the same time. Employees will still be expected to personally attend all of them.

AeonFelis ,

For extra irony, sell him an NFT to the source code.

AeonFelis ,

Do you have a cropped tattoo? Can we see it?

AeonFelis ,

They’re anteaters.

AeonFelis ,

Take me home

AeonFelis ,

There will always be a difference between the two-things-in-a-basement mentality and the oh-god-won’t-somebody-think-of-the-shareholders mentality.

AeonFelis ,

I only use homeopathic placebos.

AeonFelis ,

I initially read that as medieval management and now I cannot read it any other way.

AeonFelis ,

There is no need to actually bribe researchers. IT is much more effective to find some that happen to already be in your favor and boost their signal.

Say that out of 100 scientists of the relevant field, 90 think your product is toxic, two think your product is perfectly safe, and the remaining eight think that the evidence is not strong and/or significant enough to determine the product’s danger. Because as much as we’ve wished science to be clear-cut and deterministic, and as much as the scientific method tries to root it out, human’s opinions and prejudices will always have some effect. Maybe after many decades science will reach a (near) 100% consensus - but your product is still new, so disagreement can still be found.

You can try to bribe these 98 scientists to say that your product is safe, but that’s a risky move because even if a handful of them has some conscious they can go public with it and you’ll have to deal with bad PR. So instead, you reach out to the two scientists that already think that it is safe. You fund their research, so that they can publish more papers. You send them to conferences all around the world, so that they can talk to other scientists and to journalists and spread their opinion on your product. You get your marketing/PR/social media teams to increase the reach of their publications.

These two scientists are not being “pressured” - they can still honestly claim that their belief in your product is not a result of the money you spend on them, and that will be true. The thing that is a result of the money you spend on them is their impact. These 90 scientists that warn against your product can’t conduct as many researches, because they need to find funding for these researches themselves. They can’t go to as many conferences, because they don’t have anyone working their connections to get them invited (and to pay for their flight tickets). They don’t have professional promoters advertising their findings.

So even though only two scientists support you while 90 oppose you, these two scientists have - thanks to your money - more impact on the public opinion than these 90.

All without any scientist having to utter a single lie.

AeonFelis ,

Pretty sure that was a joke…

AeonFelis ,

The dog was clearly resisting arrest!

AeonFelis ,

I had one in my mind for quite a while now. Time to write it down:

A famous-but-secretive order of women pulls the strings of all known civilization. They possess special powers, that allows them to do so, but even more than their powers they rely on their reputation and their vast network of connections. There is an important in-lore reason why the order accepts only women - the powers they use are defined by their gender, and the male version has some terrible aspects to it such that letting a man connect to it will be disastrous.

And yet - the order has a prophecy about a chosen one - a man that will use the power to unify humanity and lead it. For generations, the order’s secret agenda was to track the bloodlines that will lead to his birth, all in order to ensure he is born under their control and guidance.

But as stories go - that doesn’t work out. In the last generation, just before the chosen one is born, a member of the order betrays that goal. The chosen one is born outside the order’s control (though not entirely outside its influence), and grows up training under a master swordsman.

We reach the first book. Boy leaves happily with his big happy community - which, of course, gets attacked and destroyed. Accompanied by a member of the order he manages to escape the massacre , and eventually reach the desert. There they meet up with the Bedouin themed desert nomads. These nomad are very isolated and xenophobic, but of course they eventually accept our protagonist. We learn a few things about them:

  1. While they are known through the world as fearsome warriors, in their past they were pacifists.
  2. Their women can also use the same power the order uses. They just… use it for their own tribe’s businesses instead of interfering with governments.
  3. They also have a prophecy about a chosen one that would lead them. And surprise surprise - it’s the same chosen one the order was going for. What are the odds?

Well, chosen one or not - there is a tradition to be held. So our protagonist goes through their tests, becomes their great chieftain, takes a chieftain’s daughter as his lover (which won’t stop him from marrying a more conventional princess), and goes on to use them to do his chosen one business and take over the entire civilization.

AeonFelis ,

“XL bully dogs”? Have we stopped saying “pit bull” because of and I never got the memo?

AeonFelis ,

duplicate anything I own once

Does “once” here means this power can only be used once, or that any given item can only be duplicated one time?

Also - what can be duplicated?

  • Does it work on conceptual things? Can I duplicate my salary?
  • Does it work on organic things? Can I duplicate my own body?
AeonFelis ,

control body temperature

My own body, or any body I want? And how liberally can I use the word “body” here? Do bodies of water count? How about celestial bodies?

AeonFelis ,

“Change your skin color instantly any time” and “teleport to the closest beach at any time”. I’ll use them to rob banks. Before robbing the bank I’ll change my skin color, and once I get the money I’ll escape by teleporting to the beach - while changing my skin color at the same time (not to my original skin color though - that one I’ll only use once I’m completely safe)

AeonFelis ,

So I should only use that power when I’m near a nudist beach?

AeonFelis ,

You got it backwards. It’s not about the people - it’s about the principles! What do you think the US cherishes more - medicine or guns?

AeonFelis ,

Hey, at least it’s not ads?

Chinese police were allowed into Australia to speak with a woman. They breached protocol and escorted her back to China (www.abc.net.au)

Chinese police hunting international corruption targets were allowed into Australia by the federal police and subsequently escorted a woman back to China for trial, in a major breach of Chinese-Australian police protocols....

AeonFelis ,

If they talk about the USA - then yes. Not because the government loves its citizens and respects their rights - simply because it hates China.

AeonFelis ,

Definitely wolf. If I get trapped with a gorilla and some shots it to save me, humanity get will get so much negative karma on top of what we are still paying from 2016 and I won’t be able to live with the guilt.

AeonFelis ,

What kind of wolf doesn’t want snuggles?

AeonFelis ,

You don’t have to go all the way to renovating before you see the advantages of homeownership. It shows up even in much smaller home improvements.

A small example: a few years ago my refrigerator broke, and the technician said it’s behind repair. My landlord had to buy a new one, and of course he picked a cheap model.

If I was an homeowning instead of renting, I would have bought a much better refrigerator at trice the cost. But I won’t pay that much for an appliance I’m not going to own, and my landlord won’t pay it for one he wouldn’t use, so I’m stuck with a cheap and noisy refrigerator.

And this is the situation with everything that’s considered a part of the house. Even if I have the money to buy nice things - I can’t have them.

AeonFelis ,

Not sure I’d chose to use the word “sweet” here…

AeonFelis ,

When they reach the aspects of the game that they didn’t like they can just say “let’s skip this next part about CTF mode, because I signed a contract” and let the viewers deduce what they deduce.

AeonFelis ,

Of course I know AI? Who do you think wrote this resume?

AeonFelis ,

But I had some success with low poly 3D models which I found are pretty easy to make.

Same. I find that for non-artists 3D is easier than 2D because:

  1. You get things like depth and shadowing for free.
  2. Animations are easier. Or, at least, it’s easier to keep them consistent and to control their pace.
  3. 3D software has much more tools that non-artists can somewhat grasp.

Of course, my 3D models still look like crap - but it’s better looking crap than my 2D sprites…

AeonFelis , 

<span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">if </span><span style="color:#323232;">date.today() </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">- </span><span style="color:#0086b3;">RELEASE_DATE </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">> </span><span style="color:#323232;">timedelta(days</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">=</span><span style="color:#0086b3;">90</span><span style="color:#323232;">):
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">try</span><span style="color:#323232;">:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        game.prompt_user_to_connect_3rd_party_account()
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">except </span><span style="color:#323232;">PlayerRefusal:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        sys.exit(</span><span style="color:#0086b3;">0</span><span style="color:#323232;">)
</span>
AeonFelis ,

I’m confused. I thought lemmy.ml was like lemmy.world and lemm.ee - one of these big “general purpose” instances that new users would pick if they don’t have a specific reason to pick a “specialized” instance? Since when they did become warring factions?

AeonFelis ,

Wasn’t that lemmygrad?

AeonFelis ,
  1. FDA regulations. Specifically - the insane amounts of tests and trials required to approve a drug.
AeonFelis , (edited )

I mean the part where we make sure the medicine that can potentially save your otherwise doomed life doesn’t give you a mild rash.

AeonFelis ,

This is not about the cost of withdrawing or barring drugs as much as it is about the cost of running all these tests and trials. And yes, drugs can potentially have terrible side effects, but not being able to afford the drug can also have terrible results.

If the FDA requirements were much less strict, the drug company would have had to spend much less on R&D. That, of course, would not be enough to lower the price - but the other effect of cheaper R&D is that it’s easier for other companies to compete, and competition does drive prices down. The the point either the mother could either afford it herself, or the insurance wouldn’t be so stingy about paying it.

Now, of course, less strict requirements also mean we know less about the drug’s safety and efficiency. Let’s say that, because of the lack of knowledge, we assign a 50% probability for the drug to kill the patient and even if it doesn’t we only assign 50% probability for it to work (that does not mean it killed half the test subjects and failed for half of the remaining ones - just that we didn’t test enough to get significant results that say otherwise, and these are the worst case estimates under our lack of data). That means, that there is only 25% chance for each one of these twin babies to survive if they take the drug.

Which is better than the 0% they get now, being unable to afford it.

AeonFelis ,

At least he didn’t try with a cylinder.

AeonFelis ,

I think said “most people” will care once the game forces them to register for a PSN account.

AeonFelis ,

Why even use bank notes at all? What is wrong with precious metals?

AeonFelis ,

No, this was written by NS.

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