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There's also no real reason for there to be more matter than antimatter in the universe. Any sufficiently high energy action will produce equal amounts of matter and antimatter, but there's overwhelmingly more matter than antimatter floating around. It's one of the big questions.

Half the user-facing internet broke for a few hours when one guy withdrew a shitty one-liner piece of JavaScript (the whole leftpad thing) because someone somewhere added it as a dependency to a dependency to a dependency until it was pulled into an enormous frontend library. The internet relies more on random open source contributions than a lot of people are aware of.

That's just how anime is shot I think

Musk is an idiot who bought Twitter stock, tried to pump and dump, waived due diligence as part of the pump, and found himself contractually obligated to buy the company. Everything since then is what Musk thinks are good ideas.

We can and do. GPS satellites need to be regularly calibrated to Earth clock signals or they'll start to drift their calibration by meters per day.

It's kind of an old concept. The idea is that truly new discoveries, like new theories and inventions rather than expansions or extensions, mostly happen by serendipity. So if you have more people churning ideas you get a higher probability of winning serendipity.

Look man everything else is spinning so why not the tiny bits too

FO3 was kind of a disaster in terms of narrative and roleplay. And the established world building.

It's mostly to sell to the Japanese market iirc. Not many in Iceland actually have a taste for whale. Huge waste of time and resources.

Gose beers finally arrived in my area after years of waiting. Still fifty IPAs to every gose but it's something

During WW2, the Allies wanted to armor their planes better so more would survive missions. But armor is expensive and heavy so you'd have to prioritize where to put it.

So they go out and collect data on the returning planes to see where they'd been hit. That picture is basically the data collected: where returning planes had sustained the most damage.

So most of the engineers looked at that and went "Aha, the points with the most damage should be armored, since they get shredded up pretty good."

And one engineer went "Um actually, if they got shot there and came back, armor doesn't matter. We need to armor the spots with no bullet holes, since a plane shot there wasn't able to return."

And so it was, and they called it Survivor Bias.

In this case, it's survivor bias about becoming more conservative as you age

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Let me be clear, uh, you wanna know how I, uh, ruined Reddit?

It did though? I don't know what point you think you're making but the internet did in fact grow from a technology limited to universities and the armed forces to a publicly accessible network, mostly off the back of publicly funded researchers and various techies that started their own neighborhood ISPs.

Just close your eyes. Illusions don't work if you can't see them

Ehhh, not really. If showing 10,000 people an ad costs you $10 and even one person made a purchase off that, you've paid for the ad buy. Internet ad conversions are considered unbelievably excellent if 1% of viewers click on the ad and 1% of those people make a purchase.

Also, if you don't advertise, then your competition that do advertise are going to eat your lunch.

Actually? I thought it was because Marxist-Leninist. Domains are like ten bucks a year

Hexbear tends to appear to other instances as overtly political because the bears will come out of the woodwork to dunk on libs. It's a culture that goes back to /r/chapotraphouse, when posters would share screenshots of some moronic reactionary take and drag the offender into the thread to bully them for being racists or transphobic.

Internally, hexbear mostly consists of trans positivity and pictures of owls

I've got a Windows desktop and a MacBook. For the life of me I cannot figure out why coding on the desktop feels like ass.

Does a more recent stack translate to any real benefits?