In other news today...
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@TimeBandit I wonder if large scale extraction of CO2 from the ocean could have any detrimental effects in the future
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit I wonder if large scale extraction of CO2 from the ocean could have any detrimental effects in the future
Since reportedly a large part of the CO₂ we produce ends up being absorbed by the ocean, it probably compensates for that.
Then again, it's a chaotic system and it's hard to be sure. Safer to kill all humans.
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
Safer to kill all humans.
That's an interesting use of the word safer.
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Mmmmmmm Donuts
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@TimeBandit
:fry_shut_up_and_take_my_keyring.gif:
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As part of the task, Probrand also asked more direct questions such as, 'Which football team do you support?', 'What type of music are you into?' and 'What is your favourite band?' Whether asking questions transparently as part of a survey, or trying to adopt more hacker-type methods, they were alarmed to find how easy it was to obtain personal data -- which many people may be using as the basis of their passwords.
...people post that stuff on their Facebook profile. You don't need a donut.
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@anonymous234 Ironically, I think it would be more suspicious if someone came up and offered a donut than if they just asked about music or sports.
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
Safer to kill all humans.
humans ⊂ mammals
I'm right behind you!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit Today is 6 June 2016...
So the article is only 3 days old, and...?
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
Similarly, I've heard continental Europe generally brews their coffee much stronger than the US, and I'd expect a firm like McD's to adjust for that.
I used to work at Ericsson some time back, and while I never went there, apparently there was a coffee corner in a new York office with several strengths of coffee. Them being: normal, strong, extra strong, swedish. Us Swedes apparently drink some gut searing strong coffee.
They say here that cowboy coffee isn't strong enough unless a spoon can stand up in it.
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@kazitor said in In other news today...:
I'm right behind you!
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@Applied-Mediocrity Surely such a transition goes against the fundamental idea of "quantum" itself?
Not that I particularly trust science journalism, of course…
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@kazitor when it’s about quantum physics, the state of science journalism deterministically collapses to "wrong".
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@kazitor said in In other news today...:
Not that I particularly trust science journalism, of course…
Nor cats. Play dead is a trick cats particularly excel at.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@kazitor
when it’s about quantum physics, the state of science journalism deterministically collapses to "wrong".Fixed that. Science journalism, like military intelligence, is an oxymoron. That is, it's both an ox and a moron.
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@Benjamin-Hall Yeah, but now you ruined my quantum “joke”.
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@topspin It was there until we observed it, then it wasn't.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit Today is 6 June 2016...
So the article is only 3 days old, and...?
dates are hard.....?
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@kazitor when it’s about quantum physics, the state of science journalism deterministically collapses to "wrong".
The case for all science, really. Everything's just a useful model.
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@kazitor said in In other news today...:
@Applied-Mediocrity Surely such a transition goes against the fundamental idea of "quantum" itself?
No. The states are quantized, but their superpositions are continuous. And it seems that the only new result here is an experimental technique to affect the collapse, but that the collapse is smooth has been known already, and the observed behaviour matches the theories, so no interpretation was ruled out.
Not that I particularly trust science journalism, of course…
You shouldn't.
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Moving the goalposts.
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@loopback0 That's not a footbal goal, this is
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 That's not a footbal goal, this is
And then he proceeded to show a photo of a handegg goal.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 That's not a footbal goal, this is
That's a handegg goal.
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
And then he proceeded to show a photo of a handegg goal.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 That's not a footbal goal, this is
The uncenteredness of this steeple is making me uneasy.
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@Zecc Is this better?
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@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@kazitor when it’s about quantum physics, the state of science journalism deterministically collapses to "wrong".
The case for all science, really. Everything's just a useful model.
Yes, but models are usually thought of as "good enough" to describe something or not. Newtonian mechanics is still useful if you don’t need GR. You could think of it (and all the models we have) as wrong, of course, but it’s a different quality of wrong than "in the process of writing, we completely garbled what the scientists told us."
And then there’s crackpot ramblings, which are best described as "not even wrong".
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@TimeBandit Looks like an oversized tuning fork.
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Everyone loves harping on businesses, right?
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Debated putting this in the “fool and his not-really-money” thread instead
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in progress
Keep on newsin'.
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When enabled, the new feature allows Maps to track the user as they embark on a taxi ride and deliver an alert anytime their cab driver veers off course by as little as 500 metres. In addition to keeping users safe, it allows them to monitor if their cab driver is trying to make more money off them.
Sounds like a neat idea, but what can you do with that information? "Hey, driver, Google says you're trying to kidnap me. Is that what you're doing?"
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Yeah, because google maps route is always the shortest and is never wrong, ever.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
"Hey, driver, Google says you're trying to kidnap me. Is that what you're doing?"
"Why, I'll have to admit, yes, my dear sir, it appears to be my present course of action. Kindly do remain seated. At the end of the trip we may ask to rate your kidnapping experience. The survey is anonymous, and all data is used to improve our quality of service. We take your privacy, security, money, personal belongings and possibly your life very seriously."
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Wasn't sure if this belong here, the Nope thread, or the Florida Man thread...
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@mott555 said in In other news today...:
Wasn't sure if this belong here, the Nope thread, or the Florida Man thread...
Or the driving thread... (I saw that article. I'm glad I wasn't the off-duty officer who actually saw it happen.)
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
@mott555 said in In other news today...:
Wasn't sure if this belong here, the Nope thread, or the Florida Man thread...
Or the driving thread... (I saw that article. I'm glad I wasn't the off-duty officer who actually saw it happen.)
Ahhh... Remembering being the newbie on an EMT team responding to my first snowmobile incident: Send the new guy to get that helmet...
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@M_Adams That sounds gruesome.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@M_Adams That sounds gruesome.
Yeah, powerline/telephone pole guidewires are not a nighttime snowmobiler’s friend.
It would have been better had: 1, he not been starring at me; 2, not looked so surprised; and of course 3, not still been still in the helmet.
It was the first and last time I got sick at a scene...
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@M_Adams said in In other news today...:
Send the new guy to get that helmet...
Of course. None of the old hands want to have that bit of horror…
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
None of the old
handshats
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Election year
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@TimeBandit Ah. So people will just get multi-use items and throw them away after one use. They should ban human stupidity instead.
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@TimeBandit Just joining EU.