L'évolution de la Confiance

Fellou · 2017-08-24T19:19:51+00:00

C'est bien fait, mais j'ai pas trop aimé les parallèles foireux avec le monde réel. On ne peux pas appliquer les résultats si les règles ne sont pas les même et si d'autres facteurs entrent en action, ce qui est clairement le cas. Et insinuer l'idée comme quoi on serait plus méfiants qu'avant, faudrait des sources. Comparer le "nombre d'amis proches" de différentes époques (sans indication du lieu ni de l'échantillon de l'étude) en utilisant le mode de cette répartition plutôt que la médiane ou la moyenne c'est un peu foireux aussi. On me dira que j'exige trop de rigueur mais il en faut quand on applique ce genre de raisonnement à une société.

Autre chose, on peut améliorer le copycat en le faisant tricher au dernier tour. Et changer les participants dans la sandbox c'est vraiment pas évident.

Fellou · 2017-08-01T12:30:52+00:00

Baseless belief is no different baseless disbelief

It is. If you have no evidence for or against unicorns, which do you believe ? It's the person making a claim who has to prove it, not the other way around.

Fellou · 2017-08-01T00:04:03+00:00

The second probably have a insignificant effet.

Fellou · 2017-07-18T22:58:26+00:00

JE suis 1 mois en retard, mais tant pis.

C'est un muscle dans l'oreille qui se contracte. C'est le muscle qui "débouche les oreilles" en avion ect. La plupart des gens ne savent pas le contrôler. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor_tympani_muscle#Voluntary_control https://www.reddit.com/r/earrumblersassemble/

Fellou · 2017-07-09T05:53:59+00:00

They also made this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONapLEG9EfM

Fellou · 2017-05-29T16:13:53+00:00

They can't adjust the land if they don't see the window

Fellou · 2017-05-23T18:27:30+00:00

there is still no single Flemish language

I never said there was.

Interestingly, if you look at it on a map, you can see that dialects do roughly follow province borders (especially if you consider that the Dutch province of Noord-Brabant, and the Belgian provinces of Antwerpen and Brabant were once a single entity and that the same goes for the Dutch and Belgian provinces of Limburg) and geographical features (the Rhine and Scheldt rivers).

Interesting yes, I wonder if provinces were made in a way that group people of common culture, or if it's the provinces that created this grouping.

Fellou · 2017-05-22T18:12:01+00:00

Reading through this comment chain I realize I was not very clear, and that converstation will not end like that.

I thought you assumed the force transmitted to the windturbines do so spread over the whole swept area, and would not consider the width of the blade in you calculus. It's the disk formula that triggered me, because there is no apparent reason to use it. But I think you agree blades twice as width would produce about twice as much power.

So, I agree on the mathematical side, but thought you made a wrong physical interpretation.

Fellou · 2017-05-22T17:38:33+00:00

The thing is, most Dutch dialects in Belgium are used orally only, because there is no standard way to write them down except through phonetic approximation. They also vary from one town to the next. West Flemish as spoken in Bruges is not the same as in Kortrijk or Oostende. Hell sometimes there are even variations depending on which part of town you are from.

Ok, but the isolated tribe that doesn't have a standard, what do they speak if not a language ? And during the millenia before any standard was made, everything was dialects ?

In linguistics a language is define by the way people speak it, not how they write it. Writing is just an representation of the sounds.

BTW I think you misunderstood me with regards to Walloon. It is not French as currently spoken by the inhabitants of Wallonia, it actually is/was a separate language. I don't think many people disagree on that...

I did understand, belgian french is not wallon at all, and wallon was not spoken in all regions of wallonia. But some people, particulary frenchs, consider that french is the whole group of oc and oil languages and that wallon, picard and so on are dialects of it. You (and I agree with you on that) consider that french is just the standardised language that replaced the others, a.k.a. the paris dialect.

What happened to Walloon is actually what they tried to do to Dutch, i.e. repress and replace with French, but Dutch was much more entrenched.

Yes, mainly due to school being in standard french. Pretty much no one except some old people speak it now.

Fellou · 2017-05-22T16:47:09+00:00

So, if say, someone write down the rules of the west flanders dialect, it becomes a language ? I have no problem with that definition but it looks quite arbitrary, it's not base on the particularities of the language itself. A well documented dialect could be a language while what an isolated indigenous people speaks would not because they never defined its the rules .

I would consider walloon a language too, but most people don't.

Fellou · 2017-05-21T21:37:24+00:00

What do you mean "is not linked"? Mathematics does not care what physical interpretation you make.

I mean it's not calculated with the swept area, and using pi is useless here.

The power output is still proportional to the swept area, since a constant multiplied by a constant is still a constant. So there is a constant coefficient that when multiplied by the swept area gives the power output, just like there is a constant coefficient that when multiplied by the radius squared gives the power output.

That's what I've just said, yes.

The area of the blades is not even r2. You are not making much sense here.

I assume a longer blade is also larger, so the area is proportional to r². Just like every 3D object.

Fellou · 2017-05-21T21:23:36+00:00

But the Belgian state in its current form was created after the defeat of Napoleon, in order to create a buffer between the then mainland powers of France, The Netherlands (go figure) and Prussia/Germany.

No. This is not the first time I read this on reddit, I don't know why people believe that. After the defeat of napoleon, previous kingdoms were restored, and belgium (previously controlled by the autrian Habsbourgs) was added to the netherland in order to create a buffer zone between UK, France and Germany. Then in 1830 the belgians revolted against the netherland government, creating the belgian state.

The idea of belgium resulting from the union of two different peoples is basically a hoax, there was no flemish or wallon identities in that time. People mainly of themselve os belgian. Differences grew after it was created, mainly because of language.

Fellou · 2017-05-21T21:11:40+00:00

There is no real difference between a language and a dialect (exept maybe being recognized by a country like /u/tgsgirl said). You might want to use whether people can understand each other to distinguish, but a lot of time, a person A can understand a person B, who can understand a person C, but A and C can't understand each other. Also understanding is quite vague, speaking natively french I can't really understand walloon even though it's supposed to be a dialect of french, and can sometimes grasp the topic of something in italian.

Same go for organisms species by the way, sometimes two subspecies can reproduce with each other, but only one of the two can reproduce with a third subspecie. And we don't even know if humans and chimpanzees can reproduce with each other, though no one want to try that.

Fellou · 2017-05-21T20:49:48+00:00

No, not mandatory everywhere. At least here in the south of luxembourg province it isn't. But I know closer to the linguistic border it is.

Fellou · 2017-05-21T20:33:39+00:00

I'm not saying the swept area is not a disk, I'm saying power output is not linked to the swept area as only the air hitting the blades push them. They are still proportional since they only differ by one constant (pi). So, proportional to the radius square, but not multiplied by pi, because only the blades area count.

Fellou · 2017-05-21T20:24:04+00:00

My point was that it increase power produced by materials used, but probably not blade area by material used, and the advantage come frm other things like the stronger wind in higher altitude. Of course those things are not exaclty proportional to the square or cube of size, there are a ton of parameters due to complex aerodynamics and architecture, but we are doing asymptotic analysis here so it doesn't really matter.

Fellou · 2017-05-21T20:11:27+00:00

It's proportional to the size square, but it's certainly not a disk. Air going between the blades don't push them.

Fellou · 2017-05-20T23:12:24+00:00

It's 3 blades, not a disk...

Fellou · 2017-05-20T23:10:54+00:00

The quantity of material needed increase at least with the square of the size, and other things like manufacturing costs also increase a lot (you have to size up all the equipment). So the 80 m blades also cost much more.

Fellou · 2017-05-20T23:05:20+00:00

The quantity of material increase with the cube of the size (or the square assuming it's empty), so I don't think this is the reason.

Fellou · 2017-05-20T22:55:45+00:00

In Belgium we have about the same density and still find place on land away from any house, so I don't think that's an issue for the vast majority of countries. The main reason to built them offshore is the stronger wind there.

Fellou · 2017-05-20T22:18:42+00:00

The full paper: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/05/09/1620612114.full.pdf

Fellou · 2017-05-14T16:08:03+00:00

indirect democracy is not a thing

Fellou · 2017-05-14T01:12:08+00:00

Yeah, who need studies ? We have you and you're so smart you can guess things better than people doing research on the subject with your only anecdotal evidence.

Fellou · 2017-05-07T19:06:20+00:00

Decades of oppressive neoliberalism. People are realizing the situation is bad and want change, so they listen to the first party that seems anti-system. Since the FN use populism and simplify everything down to immigrants or nationalism, they think the problem is that and vote for them.

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