Forum: Computers and the Internet
21st November 2015, 04:59 PM
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Replies: 290
Views: 38,523
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
8th November 2014, 10:16 PM
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Replies: 196
Views: 12,936
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Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal
6th November 2014, 08:53 PM
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Replies: 60
Views: 8,605
It may be the Prof. Farnsworth...
It may be the Prof. Farnsworth (http://futurama.wikia.com/wiki/Good_news,_everyone!) version.
"Good news, everyone. Tomorrow you'll be making a delivery to Ebola 9, the virus planet."
-- Prof....
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Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal
3rd November 2014, 09:00 PM
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Replies: 3,272
Views: 491,048
All those other recently discovered critters...
All those other recently discovered critters basically fall into three specific categories:
1. Lives near similar species, so it's hard to distinguish. Members of this class are usually well-known...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
3rd November 2014, 07:25 PM
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Replies: 206
Views: 20,513
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
3rd November 2014, 01:20 PM
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Replies: 196
Views: 12,936
The real problem is that any entity powerful...
The real problem is that any entity powerful enough to provide convincing evidence of being the creator of the universe is also an entity powerful enough to fake such evidence! As Arthur Clarke...
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Forum: Computers and the Internet
31st October 2014, 08:39 PM
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Replies: 100
Views: 4,823
You may be single; a lot of us aren't. (Four...
You may be single; a lot of us aren't. (Four users on my "personal" computer, plus a "guest" account for friends and such.)
In any case, adding a separate user for "adminstrator" (the equivalent...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
30th October 2014, 07:51 PM
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Replies: 29
Views: 1,955
On the other hand, once you're in orbit, low...
On the other hand, once you're in orbit, low thrust/low acceleration engines are a big win, which is why they're currently the target of a fair amount of research. Fuel efficiency becomes a much...
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Forum: Computers and the Internet
29th October 2014, 10:47 AM
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Replies: 100
Views: 4,823
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Forum: Computers and the Internet
28th October 2014, 12:19 PM
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Replies: 100
Views: 4,823
And many more are selling more generic machines...
And many more are selling more generic machines running Linux, ranging from "boutique" vendors like System 76 to even some of the big-box outfits like Dell.
Here, for example, is a Dell that comes...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
24th October 2014, 05:20 PM
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Replies: 44
Views: 5,417
Homeopathic "remedies", like herbal "remedies"*...
Homeopathic "remedies", like herbal "remedies"* are classified in the US as dietary supplements. As such, they are subject to very few regulations, but they are required to list ingredients. So, if...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
19th October 2014, 09:52 PM
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Replies: 137
Views: 9,578
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
18th October 2014, 12:54 PM
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Replies: 137
Views: 9,578
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Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal
18th October 2014, 12:42 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 9,386
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
17th October 2014, 11:10 AM
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Replies: 3,352
Views: 211,957
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
16th October 2014, 08:49 PM
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Replies: 206
Views: 20,513
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Forum: Computers and the Internet
16th October 2014, 08:31 PM
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Replies: 100
Views: 4,823
Autoraise is orthogonal to the focus mechanism....
Autoraise is orthogonal to the focus mechanism. Win & Mac combine click-to-focus (CTF) with autoraise as the only option. You're probably not even used to thinking of them as separate things. Most...
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Forum: Computers and the Internet
16th October 2014, 02:02 AM
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Replies: 100
Views: 4,823
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
15th October 2014, 12:11 PM
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Replies: 47
Views: 2,706
Estimates of the Goldilocks zone vary wildly....
Estimates of the Goldilocks zone vary wildly. According to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumstellar_habitable_zone), Venus at aphelion touches the inner edge in even conservative...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
15th October 2014, 11:19 AM
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Replies: 47
Views: 2,706
Here's one suggesting the magic distance is 12...
Here's one suggesting the magic distance is 12 feet: https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20130807194653AAprXuE
Hard to tell if it's a Poe or serious, especially given the asker's response...
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Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal
14th October 2014, 10:27 AM
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Replies: 34
Views: 7,317
Ah. That would actually explain a lot! :D
...
Ah. That would actually explain a lot! :D
That may help protect them from charges of fraud, but not from charges of harm if the copper hurts people who don't know they have a reaction like...
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Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal
14th October 2014, 10:10 AM
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Replies: 34
Views: 7,317
Some people, including me, have a very bad...
Some people, including me, have a very bad reaction to copper on their skin. I was given a copper ring when I was in my teens, and after wearing it for less than a month, I had a frighteningly deep...
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
14th October 2014, 09:54 AM
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Replies: 3,352
Views: 211,957
But you haven't shown anything about A's...
But you haven't shown anything about A's probability. Saying that A is improbable because you're improbable is like saying that a die only has a one in six chance of existing because you rolled a 3,...
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
5th October 2014, 12:54 AM
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Replies: 3,352
Views: 211,957
HOLD IT RIGHT THERE! You were fine until that...
HOLD IT RIGHT THERE! You were fine until that last. But that last is not "other words" for the same thing. It's a completely separate concept, and one that doesn't begin to follow.
Yes, you were a...
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Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal
30th September 2014, 01:16 PM
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Replies: 3,231
Views: 427,412
The Grateful Dead never played the same set...
The Grateful Dead never played the same set twice, and had a large enough repertoire that they could play a five night stand without repeating a song. And of course, they were famous and popular...
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
27th September 2014, 11:33 AM
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Replies: 3,352
Views: 211,957
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
25th September 2014, 02:42 AM
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Replies: 3,352
Views: 211,957
No.
2. 1080! = 1080 * (1080 - 1) * (1080 -...
No.
2. 1080! = 1080 * (1080 - 1) * (1080 - 2) ...
Remember, (1080 - 1) is represented by a sequence of eighty 9s. (1080 - 2) is seventy-nine 9s followed by an 8. Both are eighty digit numbers....
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
25th September 2014, 01:06 AM
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Replies: 45
Views: 2,468
And lines and curves.
Base 10 and zero...
And lines and curves.
Base 10 and zero are notational; while they're very useful tools (at least the latter), they're not actually part of the math. Not using them doesn't change the math; it...
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
25th September 2014, 12:47 AM
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Replies: 3,352
Views: 211,957
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
18th September 2014, 10:33 AM
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Replies: 3,352
Views: 211,957
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
17th September 2014, 04:15 PM
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Replies: 3,352
Views: 211,957
Your post ended here. Did some of what you...
Your post ended here. Did some of what you intended to post get lost or eaten by data goblins? Or did you simply misstate yourself (to put it politely)? Or do you have a different definition of "now"...
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
14th September 2014, 11:51 AM
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Replies: 3,352
Views: 211,957
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
11th September 2014, 02:19 PM
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Replies: 1,071
Views: 94,360
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Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal
10th September 2014, 05:49 PM
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Replies: 181
Views: 24,293
But if it's alien, it shouldn't look like a...
But if it's alien, it shouldn't look like a terrestrial bone, so the fact that it doesn't look very much like a terrestrial bone to an expert (or a reasonable approximation of one) proves (proves, I...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
10th September 2014, 05:32 PM
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Replies: 101
Views: 6,012
For the record, I, for specific legal reasons...
For the record, I, for specific legal reasons having to do with my profession, prefer the term "discovered" when referring to mathematics over the term "invented". Mathematical notations can be...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
10th September 2014, 04:24 PM
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Replies: 39
Views: 3,566
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
9th September 2014, 01:00 PM
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Replies: 3,352
Views: 211,957
I already suggested (several times) one over...
I already suggested (several times) one over 10^80 factorial*. What's wrong with that? It may not be precise (there are reasons why it might be larger, but also reasons why it might be smaller), but...
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
4th September 2014, 10:57 AM
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Replies: 3,352
Views: 211,957
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
2nd September 2014, 01:04 PM
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Replies: 3,352
Views: 211,957
Moreover, an infinite universe doesn't help if...
Moreover, an infinite universe doesn't help if the habitable portion (where protons still exist) is finite, which seems to be the case no matter how long the "dark" period after all matter is gone...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
2nd September 2014, 11:15 AM
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Replies: 2,761
Views: 375,636
In my experience, though, the stupid crackpots...
In my experience, though, the stupid crackpots seem more attracted to more mundane conspiracy theories and the like. The ones that take it upon themselves to tackle physics, while obviously not as...
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
2nd September 2014, 10:58 AM
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Replies: 3,352
Views: 211,957
They both are. Choosing one over the other...
They both are. Choosing one over the other (calling them the same or calling them different) is misleading. Unless you can take into account both perspectives, you're going to get off-track and can...
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
1st September 2014, 10:33 AM
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Replies: 3,352
Views: 211,957
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
31st August 2014, 09:03 PM
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Replies: 3,352
Views: 211,957
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Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal
30th August 2014, 10:53 PM
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Replies: 22
Views: 3,738
They left out one of my absolute favorites:...
They left out one of my absolute favorites: Quantum Jumping. See, it's like a quantum leap, except you actually jump, and somehow, if you do it in the right frame of mind, it leads to some sort of...
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
30th August 2014, 10:47 PM
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Replies: 3,352
Views: 211,957
Is that even English? What do you mean "first...
Is that even English? What do you mean "first set"? The denominator I'm allowing (though it's ridiculously larger than it should be if we take causality into effect), includes all possible...
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
29th August 2014, 10:44 AM
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Replies: 3,352
Views: 211,957
And you're wrong, and every single person who...
And you're wrong, and every single person who responded to that post pointed out that you're wrong.
Note, however, that my "every permutation of every particle throughout the habitable section of...
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
27th August 2014, 10:29 AM
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Replies: 3,352
Views: 211,957
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
24th August 2014, 01:33 PM
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Replies: 3,352
Views: 211,957
When making a similar argument to the one...
When making a similar argument to the one Giordano just made, I suggested using 10^80 factorial. This is probably too large, which would seem to unfairly weight things in your favor, but I don't...
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
21st August 2014, 12:55 PM
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Replies: 3,352
Views: 211,957
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
19th August 2014, 03:00 PM
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Replies: 3,352
Views: 211,957
I'm sorry, I don't see how positing time travel...
I'm sorry, I don't see how positing time travel or anything else like that gets you to infinity, since the entire possible number of combinations of particles in the volume of the habitable universe...
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