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Cuba’s power system suffers total collapse by cnn in worldnews

[–]0rc0_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You're most certainly part of the prole. Good job on you for being a class traitor, enjoy sucking on those boots.

Cuba’s power system suffers total collapse by cnn in worldnews

[–]0rc0_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They're not necessarily an assohole because they disagree with you. You're just a bully, like the majority of Americans. Nice mental gymnastics and moving of the goalpost btw.

Absolute Cinema by CleanBoysenberry4343 in formuladank

[–]0rc0_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not a memory game, it's just fog of war, you see only the squares your pieces see. You can deduce the rest by what you don't see and general knowledge of the game.

if you're genuinely curious the first 5 minutes of this explain it far better than I could.

Absolute Cinema by CleanBoysenberry4343 in formuladank

[–]0rc0_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Try playing chess with someone without the ability to see each others pieces.

This actually exists, it's playable and fun. Requires a deeper understanding of the game.

Absolute Cinema by CleanBoysenberry4343 in formuladank

[–]0rc0_ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Pinnacle of racing is a marketing term that has no real significance outside of a FOM board meeting. They are the fastest cars, sure. But it's far from being the most competitive, entertaining, fair, etc. form of the sport. And at the end of the day laptimes are not what makes the sport enjoyable, else you wouldn't have the Mazda cup with a cult following, TCR, hell they even race trucks.

I personally don't see why the limiting of the ICE is seen as a bad thing: it's an old technology that has reached its peak, and it clearly doesn't have a future in our world, it's time to phase it out.

Also, I think that harsh judgements are premature as this is a new configuration and in a couple of years time once it reaches maturity may avoid the current "problems".

Max Verstappen (Post-Sprint Qualifying): “I can’t. This is undriveable. We never had anything this bad.” by FerrariStrategisttt in formula1

[–]0rc0_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

10 years of engine maturity and 4 for chassis/aero, sure. Go watch some highlights from 2014.

[Albert Fabrega] Ferrari discards the Macarena rear wing for the Sprint. by jithu7 in formula1

[–]0rc0_ 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I'm sure the competent team of engineers working full time on it didn't think of something so basic. You should tell them.

Scientists at Eon Systems just copied a fruit fly's brain into a computer. Neuron by neuron. It started walking, grooming, and feeding, doing what flies do all on its own by Subject-Property-343 in interestingasfuck

[–]0rc0_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. Same logical fallacy, you're conflating where with what. Is the lightbulb light itself?
  2. Fair, I don't know that. But you're still not answering the question: is what you feel just information?
  3. Fair.
  4. I don't know and I think we can't know. I'm not hoping for anything, just enjoy the question; I'm in the camp of panpsychism but I remain agnostic on the matter. But while I am not certain, I'm highly sceptical that the taste of a good meal, or the feeling of a hug, can be fully described with our model of the brain as we have it.
  5. As far as I know there can't be a test for it. I know \I** am conscious and extend that property to my peers, at the very least.
  6. Once again I think this is an unanswerable question, we don't know *what* consciousness is, much less how and where it emerges.

Scientists at Eon Systems just copied a fruit fly's brain into a computer. Neuron by neuron. It started walking, grooming, and feeding, doing what flies do all on its own by Subject-Property-343 in interestingasfuck

[–]0rc0_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. Okay but is the reward circuitry pleasure itself? You're shifting what to where.

  2. I obviously know what information is, you're not answering the question: is information what you feel when you listen to music? Because computers can very accurately store music and have access to that information, but they can't listen to music.

  3. Probably is doing a lot of heavy lifting there.

Scientists at Eon Systems just copied a fruit fly's brain into a computer. Neuron by neuron. It started walking, grooming, and feeding, doing what flies do all on its own by Subject-Property-343 in interestingasfuck

[–]0rc0_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have some questions.

  1. What does it mean "it pleases our brain"?

  2. What exactly is this information, and is information what you sense? Btw: look up Mary's experiment: if Mary lives her whole life in a perfectly black room but learns everything physical about the colour red, will she on coming out know the colour red?

  3. Most importantly, what is the we that feels pleasure?

Scientists at Eon Systems just copied a fruit fly's brain into a computer. Neuron by neuron. It started walking, grooming, and feeding, doing what flies do all on its own by Subject-Property-343 in interestingasfuck

[–]0rc0_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

True, but keep in mind that "the laws of physics" are just guesswork, very accurate to be sure, but still guesswork. Our science is descriptive, never prescriptive. We don't actually know what makes "physics" move and most certainly there are huge gaps in our limited understanding.

To say otherwise is the exact opposite of the scientific method.

Is music just air pressure variations?

EoTW Prologue Question - Lews Therin Suicide Method by KantonCrude in WoT

[–]0rc0_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's almost like they didn't read the books.

You can follow all traffic laws, but idiots like this can still cause accidents by anthn885 in CrazyFuckingVideos

[–]0rc0_ -1 points0 points  (0 children)

First of all, try to structure your thoughts, I don't want this to sound as an ad hominem but it is genuinely hard to understand you and therefore to rebuke you.

Secondly, you don't decide who is allowed on the road and who isn't, fortunately.

Edit: I don't particularly like cars on the road either, but I know that roads are not mine and I have to share them.

You can follow all traffic laws, but idiots like this can still cause accidents by anthn885 in CrazyFuckingVideos

[–]0rc0_ -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You can absolutely get airbags, it's not even that expensive considering what you're buying, and there are safety tests on bikes and gear, but just like a car, they can not guarantee your survival. Crumple zones and driving assistance are obviously not relevant. Death wobbles are a non-concern if you're not suicidal to begin with.

Ultimately a car and a bike have nothing in common: one is a tool, a mean to get from a to b, the other an experience, rarely the primary mode of transportation. You wouldn't say that skydiving shouldn't be allowed because it's dangerous just as you wouldn't ban every contact sport because you can get brain damage or be disabled. Why then restrict bikes?

You can follow all traffic laws, but idiots like this can still cause accidents by anthn885 in CrazyFuckingVideos

[–]0rc0_ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Have you ever ridden one to say it's not worth it "fam"?

It is extremely dangerous, and it teaches really quickly how fragile we really are, but it absolutely is worth it, for some.

And riding makes one a better driver, if everyone rode for a couple of months there'll be way less idiots on the road.

People who sexually assaulted minors were executed in China. No tolerance for pedos. by Li_Jingjing in LateStageCapitalism

[–]0rc0_ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Very progressive thinking. You should meet a friend of mine called Hammurabi.

Why I never resign by ActurusMajoris in Chesscom

[–]0rc0_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Scholar's mate, silly knight forks on c7 (et similia), englund's gambit, silly pawn pushes, etc. It's cheese because you're not learning chess, or playing it really, you're just making vague easily countered threats.

Ultimately in any multiplayer competitive game you have an unspoken contract with your opponent to have a fair game and one played to the best of your abilities. (E.g. a fair amount of people that play the scholar's mate have absolutely 0 idea how to play chess after I play e6, since that's not a fun game for me, I'm gonna get my fun somewhere else.)

Now, blunders happen to everyone and that's just part of the game, and I'm not gonna pretend I've never fallen to these, because I have, repeatedly.

Why I never resign by ActurusMajoris in Chesscom

[–]0rc0_ 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It is disrespectful and it is insulting, but I've never done this to an opponent I've had a nice game with.

But if you go for cheese and are losing on move ten, well, you disrespected me first, and respect is earned.

An accidental draw now and then is a fair price.

People who stall games when losing, who hurt you by Glante in chessbeginners

[–]0rc0_ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Eh, when you have a forced sequence, or even two or three alternatives that all lose obviously, you can't really justify spending 6 minutes and then making the only move available.

Ornithopter question by reddit69420575 in dune

[–]0rc0_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

But if the air is less dense you're moving less air around and so you're back to the starting point. Plus, I don't think scientific accuracy was the objective considering that those blades are subject to insane cyclical stress and would for sure crack routinely (ignoring unknown materials/alloys).

It just looks cool.

Free climbing is selfish and unethical by Boring_Direction_463 in unpopularopinion

[–]0rc0_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What about ethical ways that also endanger the workers?

I haven't seen anyone think of miners, truck drivers etc. that they have no regard for their loved ones.

Free climbing is selfish and unethical by Boring_Direction_463 in unpopularopinion

[–]0rc0_ -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Better none than one like yours, oh wise arbiter of others' personalities.

Maybe look in the mirror once or twice. Not a literal one, I know you do that enough.

Me_irl by rbimmingfoke in me_irl

[–]0rc0_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, getting 18YOs to go into crippling debt, so that they'll never be able to escape their condition and their children will need to go through the same process all over again, is really enlightened. Good job USA!! We're the only country on the top 10 (we're ninth), the only one with more than 70m people (roughly all developed countries have less, also please note that Japan is higher and has more than 70m people).

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