xkcd

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Y-shaped tube (3 openings) is equivalent to a donut with two holes. I assume the pattern of n openings = (n-1)-holed torus continues, but that could be wrong.

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You incorrectly called this “puzzle“. We are not talking about faulty logic - we are talking about faulty conditions of the puzzle, which is a jumble of absurd statements: “if you dent in the four corners of the square, the perimeter is still four...“ - nonsense . “if you dent in the 8 new corners,...

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Ah. Whoops.

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I propose using the term "reducible", as a fraction containing the two numbers would be a reducible fraction.

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33 dead after arsonist attacks Kyoto Animation studio.
https://www.apnews.com/b10907eaf37945889d9ee4339df92aaa

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Not sure what you're looking for, but here's a generic definition using accepted symbols: (a,b) | b=Na | N ∈ ℵ 0 Which, if I got it right, should say: any ordered pair (a,b) where "b" is a multiple of "a" and where N (the multiplicand) is a member of the set of natural numbers. ...

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Think there's a bit of Poe's Law going on here.

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Have you tried setting up a video camera pointed at the 3DS, which is streaming to the screen? I feel like that would be a simpler and more feasible solution for what you want to achieve.

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Would not the two end of the first device be pulled apart from one another even if they were simply sitting unattached on the surface of the balloon? No extradimension tethering required, just inertia plus expanding space gets you two things moving apart from each other, and you can use that to per...

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Tangentially related question (tangential to the current topic of conversation): Suppose there were a civilization of hyperintelligent microorganisms living on the surface of a slowly inflating balloon. I presume they could in principle build something to extract energy from the expansion of the ba...

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My best example is "posterity". What I thought it meant is some kind of upstanding, respectful, virtuous quality, similar to integrity. A sentence like "We should preserve the statue for posterity" sounds like the reason for preservation is because it's the right thing to do, or ...

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"leveraging" likewise. I can't even tell what people mean when they use leverage as a verb. I don't believe it has an actual meaning related to leverage at all. "To leverage" means "to use as leverage in a negotiation." If I am negotiating with the oil lobby and am on ...

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Perhaps we should distinguish between “artificial intelligence” and “ artificial sapience”. An artificial sapient would have the whole “free will, capable of contemplating disobedience, acting as its own agent” thing, whereas an artificial intelligence would not. As such, an AI would be capable of ...

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["Goal" includes] (1) "Purpose" (e.g. because-survival, pointing at for-survival, looping back to because-survival), which a species-under-evolution does have, [...] Here's where we begin to differ. If you look at what it is that is doing the acting towards this result , it is n...

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It seems like Genie can manipulate things physically, but he can't (or doesn't) really mess with people's minds very much. So, his wish granting regarding positions of power just puts the idea in people's mind that "this guy is a prince" or "that guy is the sultan", but that does...

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THE PROBLEM: Cuzco's scenic beauty currently attracts more tourists than the infrastructure can accommodate; however, building more stuff for the tourists will damage the scenic beauty that tourists come to see. THE SOLUTION: Cuzco should destroy its scenic beauty even more. Building more stuff (e....

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I came out to my mom as trans! It went pretty well.

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Tim Conway

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Is it just me, or is it not obvious that how you get these things to happen is to get enough people interested that you can pool your resources and go try to make it happen? So basically let the free market handle it? I mean ok sure that's an option. It seems like a poor one since the change that i...

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But YOU proposed the “solution” on how to solve journalism. People are criticizing your solution because we cannot see how to enact not. No one is arguing the solution you proposed isn’t good in and of itself. No one is debating that non-profit news organizations are bad or ineffective or that inde...

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I think fundamentally, what distinguishes between "thought" and "evolution" as processes is that the former involves simulating the environment and predicting the consequences of actions, and the latter involves no simulation, just stochastic trial and error. There are circumstan...

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Pfhorrest wrote:Is there a Sagittarius A without the *? Is that just a star? Is Sagittarius A* near the Sagittarius A star in our night sky, and that's why the black hole gets that designation?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagittarius_A

Doesn't seem to be a link to it from the Sgr A* page.

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elasto wrote:It's the right these days that are sceptical of scientists and other 'experts' whereas not so long ago it was the left.

What's this referring to?

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Have a control group of climate sites in rural areas that shouldn't be affected by the effect you're testing for?

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They will collide at almost c. Relativity ensures they can't be approaching each other at greater than c. How does that work when a stationary observer watches to objects hit when both are travelling at near-C? Can I not observe a single object travelling left to right at near-C? Observer in the ce...

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Could you draw a picture?

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You also might want to check out Altra shoes too. https://www.altrarunning.com/why-altra.html The wide toe-box is one of Altra's trademark features* across all their shoes. Altra shoe toes look more like a paddle than a point. I am a casual runner and I have a wide foot... I discovered Altra a few ...

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Soupspoon wrote:Not-news-but-apropos-to-the-suggestion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_tax

If it's one continuous glass wall, shouldn't it count as only one window?

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Twitch Stream of the Union

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Eebster the Great wrote:They would die.

How quickly? Would they gradually lose energy over a longer period of time, or just suddenly pass out dead?

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What would happen to a person if all of the mitochondria in their body magically disappeared?

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Most animals touch the mark to try and remove it/ figure out what it is. I think it should be noted that this isn't true. Very few species have passed the [mirror self-recognition] test. As of 2016, only great apes (including humans), a single Asiatic elephant, dolphins, orcas, Giant oceanic manta ...

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Looks like wood glue is polyvinyl acetate. I can't find any mention of it being used as a structural material, so I feel like it would just be a poor-quality plastic chair.

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If Trump goes down for election shenanigans then Pence will probably go the way of Spiro Agnew—he will get replaced and then the replacement will likely finish out the term. If they both get impeached/removed from office at the same time, would Pelosi become president (assuming she wins the Speaker...

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I was looking for houses, and found a street where the high-income residents had platforms built on the sides of the house along the roof for snowblowers. The platforms were attached to the slanted edges of the roof, so that someone could push the snowblower across the roof and remove the snow from ...

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That seems to invoke a circular definition—any current is also going to have a specific voltage, and the volt is defined in terms of amperes and Newtons—the Newton itself being defined in terms of kilograms. They're using the current* definition of the kilogram to accurately measure Planck's consta...

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Stan Lee

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This gives "juvenile court" a whole new meaning.

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The real solution is to let go of the assumption that HTML should be stored and manipulated as plain strings, and only convert it to a string at the very end when the page is complete.

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Patriotism is chanting "U-S-A!" when the USA team walks onto the field.
Nationalism is chanting "U-S-A!" when the other country's team walks onto the field.

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