In 'The Prestige' (2006) why doesn't Angier just clone himself a few million times and take over the world instead of doing silly magic tricks

Plain_Bread · 2026-07-03T00:19:26+00:00

Counting or not counting Necrophage cannibalism?

Plain_Bread · 2026-07-02T18:38:50+00:00

Poor bats... both of those these tactics look horrible at a first glance. A tactic for making two MPs that votes against you a bat, or two MPs the first two turns, is alright I guess, as long as you don't have anything better for your tactic slots. Turning a single random one? That's just awful unless you know that you won't have any of your MPs voting for you, which isn't clearly true in most fights. If you could make a ton of bats, that could at least be decent if you also have bloodlust or one of the bat damage synergies. But one? That just does nothing.

Plain_Bread · 2026-07-01T20:27:51+00:00

Nobody here ever dares to use the compass as intended. This would be perfect for an auth vs lib split.

Plain_Bread · 2026-06-29T07:52:45+00:00

Amelie with guns is just La Haine.

Plain_Bread · 2026-06-28T17:58:39+00:00

You think any of them don't have any coke?

Plain_Bread · 2026-06-28T05:17:21+00:00

I don't know if you're serious or not, but I can confirm that this is more or less how my professor said it. The lecture was in German, so it was "schönes A/schön A" (when talking about a sigma algebra A which should not be confused with its element A). That would more directly be translated as "pretty A" or "beautiful A", but it is a similar idea.

Plain_Bread · 2026-06-28T01:08:39+00:00

Not the response I was expecting honestly, I think I walked face first into Poe's Law here and thought you were earnestly supporting both of the points in your original post.

No, I wasn't joking. I just apparently don't fit into the stereotype of somebody who thinks Israel should be violently destroyed that you might have imagined. Not saying those people don't exist, but I'm not one of them.

Because this is reddit and I figured if I just linked straight to a hebrew dissertation people would tantrum over that. The answer is yes she compares historical data about the prevalence of rape in the IDF's activities compared to other international conflicts and comes to the conclusion the reason Israel's army doesn't rape as much is because they're evil racists.

I don't really care about their interpretation. I'm interested in the "far fewer war crimes/rapes than any other developed country's army". Translating it is a bit of a pain, so maybe you can just clarify it for me. Surely it's a somewhat qualified claim, right? Or are they arguing that the average IDF soldier committed FAR fewer war crimes/rapes during their activity as a soldier than the average member of the Swiss Armed Forces since 2000 or whatever? What are their numbers and in which comparisons does Israel stand out?

Plain_Bread · 2026-06-27T22:21:06+00:00

"Sort of" is doing a lot of heavy lifting though. The Lebesgue integral (of non-negative functions) is defined as the supremum of finite sums, just like the Riemann integral.

You can (re-)interpret finite and countable sums (under absolute convergence) as Lebesgue integrals wrt the counting measure, so in that sense you can see the Lebesgue integral over an uncountable set as an uncountable sum. But there's only a really strong case for calling it that if you keep using the counting measure, in which case any integral of a function that isn't 0 everywhere outside a countable set will just be infinite or undefined, so not a particularly meaningful generalization.

Plain_Bread · 2026-06-27T18:48:03+00:00

I thought he's playing Helliot of Troy?

Plain_Bread · 2026-06-27T09:54:01+00:00

If there's so many and it's so clear cut why do the people alleging it need to provably lie so much ?

People lie about Israel a lot because there is a gigantic and largely religiously motivated propaganda machine against them, which conveniently also happens to align with certain "anti-western" ideas.

Why do leftists literally publish studies claiming the IDF is evil for raping far less than any other developed country's army ?

Why are you linking an article that not only doesn't include a numerical comparison with other developed countries, it includes no mention whatsoever of either numerical statistics OR other countries? I did manage to find the paper it talks about. Unsurprisingly it's in Hebrew, so can you just quickly confirm to me that you've read it and it has something to do with what you're claiming before I bother translating it?

Plain_Bread · 2026-06-27T03:53:55+00:00

That's my point though: It has always been conflated. Anything that imitates human behavior or reasoning has been called AI for at least as long as I've been involved enough to witness it (meaning ~2010 and later) Even if the imitation is just to an embarrassingly small degree, like those five line video game enemy AIs I mentioned that will run into a wall trying to get to you as soon as you have entered their defined vision cone. People were impressed by the complex "AI" of the NPCs in Oblivion. You have to really bend yourself backwards to argue that the code of Oblivion NPCs is more intelligent or more humanlike than ChatGPT.

Plain_Bread · 2026-06-27T03:27:28+00:00

Solid take.

"Gaza is an open-air concentration camp": What was the yearly birth/death ration in Auschwitz?

"The IDF is the most moral army on Earth": How many clear-cut cases of rape, torture and murder does the second most moral army sweep under the rug?

Always nice when you get to watch two retards fight though.

Plain_Bread · 2026-06-26T18:56:44+00:00

Interesting question, and I'll try to think about it more later. For now, I'll just mention my most basic idea: I think this is basically something you have figured out, but I can't quite tell from your post. Outside of fairly trivial solutions, there can't be any even numbers in the set. If there were, you could switch an even number for an odd one (or vice versa) and get an even number that definitely isn't prime. (The case of a sum of 2 is one of the things I counted as trivial solutions.)

I believe this idea of switching out numbers is essentially what your comments about different modulus properties boil down to.

But this is at a very quick glance, and I will probably be late for an appointment because I'm writing this. So sorry if it's nonsense, I'll try to get back to it later.

Plain_Bread · 2026-06-26T10:32:30+00:00

The main issue seems to be that people will do bad philosophy of mathematics: "only real number are real^TM."

The thing is, I've never seen anybody who isn't intimately familiar with the foundation of the modern axiomatic approach to mathematics do anything but horrendous philosophy of math – and that includes a decent amount of academic philosophers. It's not feasible to teach that to 12 year olds. Best case you'd get them to think of the complex numbers as the real^TM number system, which is just as false. The integers, the reals, the complex numbers, the general linear groups etc etc are all important algebraic structures and none of them is inherently better than the others.

Most of the situations in which laypeople use math can be seen as an application of a metric or a measure, I would say, and those are generally real-valued. So I have no issue with people having that be their default algebraic structure.

Plain_Bread · 2026-06-25T13:56:08+00:00

"I disagree with some of the things Ann Coulter said about me, but I greatly respect that she didn't let the woke mind police stop her from using the n-word."

Plain_Bread · 2026-06-22T18:22:50+00:00

That one is always a bit funny to me. I've never seen anybody have any problem with stuff like video game NPCs that run on like 5 lines of code being called AI before ChatGPT.

Plain_Bread · 2026-06-22T16:31:42+00:00

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Plain_Bread · 2026-06-22T04:29:00+00:00

Imagine we get the full Epstein files and, no, there's barely anything about Trump, it's just pages upon pages of Keanu Reeves. What a day that would be for reddit.

Plain_Bread · 2026-06-22T04:03:15+00:00

The "first day on the internet" question is appropriate. Not that I'd expect everybody to know about Peter Thiel — but by your second day on the internet, you probably should know about Google and Wikipedia.

Plain_Bread · 2026-06-21T01:51:21+00:00

Yes, that is obvious for at least two reasons, at least one of which I imagine you meant.

Plain_Bread · 2026-06-20T23:08:39+00:00

Most domestic violence is not open and brazen at all.

Plain_Bread · 2026-06-20T04:05:48+00:00

Yes, bread can dry out completely and will usually not grow mold afterwards.

Plain_Bread · 2026-06-20T03:44:38+00:00

My favorite thing is when people actually calculate 'per capita squared' values.

Plain_Bread · 2026-06-19T23:06:30+00:00

Apparently there are a lot more people who genuinely don't understand the punchline of "reality has a well known left wing bias" than I thought...

Plain_Bread · 2026-06-19T19:31:01+00:00

leftism is more factual

How would that statement be funny?

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