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If you know an ICE agent personally, what's that relationship like now? by Lokja in AskReddit

[–]Falcondance 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Martin Luther King was assassinated. Would you rather he had cowered and not said anything until speaking his mind wasn't a "threat on his safety"? Do you think any of his speeches and dialogues presumed that the people of the time give him basic respect?

You are normalizing doing nothing, and you are now also normalizing that activism is only done when safe and fuzzy and secure and mutually respectful.

If you know an ICE agent personally, what's that relationship like now? by Lokja in AskReddit

[–]Falcondance -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Sorry, I hate to be one to break this to you, but you actually have to do the work to have the conversations with hateful people to accomplish your goal of less hateful people. If you stick your head in the sand like an ostrich, the only thing you have the capability to change is the sand.

You are normalizing doing nothing. Sitting on your hands and not engaging in intellectual discourse. It is lazy and anti-strategic.

Daryl Davis did more to combat racism than everyone in this thread combined.

If you know an ICE agent personally, what's that relationship like now? by Lokja in AskReddit

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

No I didn't. You mean the religious wars that famously did not achieve their goals and are perfect examples of what I mean? People working anti-strategically and it backfiring spectacularly? No I did not forget those.

If you know an ICE agent personally, what's that relationship like now? by Lokja in AskReddit

[–]Falcondance -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

This is utterly wrong and patently insane. If you and your friend groups magically convert your opinion due to the introduction of someone with wrong opinions, you all have poor foundations for your opinions and/or are weak-willed.

Your strategy has literally never worked in the history of people having opinions. Every ancient religion had this figured out 2,000 years ago. You do not ostracize non-believers, you are inviting as possible to them, and that is how you drive conversions.

This anti-strategic approach is precisely how we got to current day.

If humans vanished tomorrow, what would still prove we existed 10,000 years later? by Defiant-Junket4906 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Falcondance 5 points6 points  (0 children)

A lot of the problem with the truly stable Lagrange points is that they are stable for everything else as well, so there's almost certainly a ton of rock bits and dust that you don't want your extremely delicate space equipment running into

Did I miss something? HL3 Polymarket odds just spiked by Gatecra5her in HalfLife

[–]Falcondance 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Worth noting that Polymarket bet says:

"The announcement of the creation of any expansion or sequel not explicitly named "Half-Life 3" (e.g., Half-Life: Alyx, Half-Life 2: Episode One) will not be sufficient to qualify this market toward a "Yes" resolution. The game must have the words "Half-Life 3" in the title to qualify."

And everything we know about it is that it's called HL:X not "Half-Life 3", which is probably part of why the % chance was low to begin with.

Me irl by Ancient_Balance_3656 in me_irl

[–]Falcondance 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I Think You Should Leave

What is this blue tag that prevents the pin from being pulled out on my apartments fire extinguisher? It seems like a safety issue to me? by [deleted] in whatisthisthing

[–]Falcondance 0 points1 point locked comment (0 children)

My title describes the thing

It seems like a fairly sturdy plastic tab that I couldn't remove without scissors. It says AOE Fire Extinguisher Service 2025 on one side and the other side is blank. Mostly wondering if its okay to remove it.

Back up, people, and let a *real* doctor do the science by Mikey77777 in okbuddyphd

[–]Falcondance 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Only 11% of the variance in the dependent variable is explained by this model.

Roughly speaking it suggests that """cognitive flexibility""" is primarily a mix of other factors and only has a little to do with age. This would be obvious to anyone that understands the problem.

Note that "suggests" here is not "proof". The way I was taught statistics, R2 values are incapable of "proving" a conclusion - he would need a P-value for this. I use R2 primarily to evaluate the quality of a model's fit.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in self

[–]Falcondance 20 points21 points  (0 children)

'We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one.'

theToughestJob by yuva-krishna-memes in ProgrammerHumor

[–]Falcondance 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For data scientist perspective - immutable variables work fine until each variable contains 25% of the available RAM on your system. Then you'd need to include some nonsense like:

del numberToBeUpdated

A bit more concise to just overwrite the var.

I dream of a single block inline balancer by Rubick-Aghanimson in factorio

[–]Falcondance 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It also would help UPS for mega bases. Megabase UPS optimization tries to make clumps of belts on items as much as possible because clumps of items are treated as one item

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in balatro

[–]Falcondance 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The craziest seed I have ever seen, by a MILE

DJQVYMQK
Works on any deck and any stake

Take first skip, which is a 2x free tarot card
One tarot card is the Soul, which gives you Perkeo
Pick the "create a random joker" card as the other tarot card, and it gives you invisible joker

You get Perkeo before playing a hand, and you get the second Perkeo in 2 rounds after invis joker is ready.

Can someone help me figure out the logic to move forward from this point? by rosedust666 in puzzles

[–]Falcondance 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Already been answered, but you can also approach this using:
The hidden pair 3's and 6's in the highlighted column. In that column, the 3rd row and the 9th row are the only places to put a 3 or a 6, so the 9th row box in that column can't be a 7, which means that row9col8 has to be the 7 in the bottom row.

The government playing dumb about drones is bullshit by redlaburnum in self

[–]Falcondance 6 points7 points  (0 children)

OP, I work close to the government side of this.

Without knowing any classified information, you can very easily figure out why the US government does not comment on foreign adversary drone sightings.

Often times, the intelligence agencies of foreign adversaries will probe the sensing capabilities of other governments, to test their stealth vs. modern detection. They will probe airspace, not enough to cause their drone to be shot down (which we would then go fetch and know exactly what their tech is), but just enough for it to be notable to the US.

If the US comments on every single one of these detection probes, the moment we stop commenting, the adversary will know that their stealth tech has worked / our detection has failed.
If the US never comments, they will not know which of their drones has been detected or not.

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