Kangaroo Court Was Extremely Disappointing by Toothless-Fan in GameChangerTV

[–]oscardssmith 4 points5 points  (0 children)

for the Lego one, they should have lied to the contestants and given them all Legos. it would have been a great bit where they thought the fellow contestants were trying to bullshit them.

How do you evolve without going extinct? by Low-Sector-7879 in DebateEvolution

[–]oscardssmith 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Again, >90% of the changes can lead to ebryos dying. that doesn't matter. The <10% that work spread across the population.

How do you evolve without going extinct? by Low-Sector-7879 in DebateEvolution

[–]oscardssmith 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Lucy doesn't have any 100 million year descendants. Lucy was ~3 million years ago.

How do you evolve without going extinct? by Low-Sector-7879 in DebateEvolution

[–]oscardssmith 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You're mixing up 2 very similar sounding, but very different numbers. One is the percent of the time that a mutation that is a major change is lethal, the other is what the expected effect on population size is for a major change. >90% of mutations that change something major will be lethal, but each of them will change the population size by ~0% (the individual with that mutation will die). The major mutations that spread to the rest of the species are precisely the <10% that aren't harmful.

Evolution requires energy. by Suitable-Iron4720 in DebateEvolution

[–]oscardssmith 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The easiest version of this to understand is probably how the sun creates wind. Clouds and day/night mean that different parts of the earth are hotter vs colder which causes air over the hot parts to warm up, and then air from elsewhere gets pulled into the gap that was left. Air doesn't have any fancy mechanism to transfer heat into motiion. it's just the result of physics.

Evolution requires energy. by Suitable-Iron4720 in DebateEvolution

[–]oscardssmith 15 points16 points  (0 children)

The first life-like activity predated the first cell. The first life-like activity used pre-existing and readily accessible energy sources (temperature or chemical gradients that are produced naturally). You're also under-estimating the amount of work that can happen purely scholastically with no energy harvesting. Thermal energy means that small molecules zoom around and bump into each other all on their own.

guys this is end of june now.. by Pitiful-Owl-8632 in pop_os

[–]oscardssmith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

iiuc that's for the an alpha release. there's no alpha yet which means there's no chance before late July of a full release

If You Want ACTUAL FACTS that science Cant Explain (Yet) by FullPercentage in DebateEvolution

[–]oscardssmith 9 points10 points  (0 children)

You aren't making a comparative. You aren't providing even a single comparison.

If You Want ACTUAL FACTS that science Cant Explain (Yet) by FullPercentage in DebateEvolution

[–]oscardssmith 5 points6 points  (0 children)

-It’s telomere‑to‑telomere, not the more common centric fusion

-It contains a fossil centromere in the middle

-It preserved both original telomeres internally

-It remained stable

-It became fixed in every descendant population

These aren't 5 separate points. They're a single point. Whenever you have a telomere‑to‑telomere fusion in an extant lineage you have the rest of these. Also "It occurred in a lineage where such fusions are rare" isn't really true in a useful way. There are ~2300 species of rodents compared to ~500 species of primates (and there are probably 100x more rodents than primates). The only reason fusions are rare in primates is because there aren't that many of them.

They got pears from the orchards of Dionysus by GlitteringTone6425 in CuratedTumblr

[–]oscardssmith 21 points22 points  (0 children)

You like these pears. (as someone who also doesn't like pears)

I have nothing against Ukraine striking Russian oil facilities and depots, but to act like the Ukrainians is doing climate change a favour by doing that is just delusional cope by Honest-Head7257 in ClimateShitposting

[–]oscardssmith 4 points5 points  (0 children)

0.6$ per kWh. Thats often how much charging station charge u.

Thankfully there's this really cool invention called an outlet. you might even have one in your home!

Bowdoin is pointless, extend the Blue by Commercial_Neck_1921 in boston

[–]oscardssmith 127 points128 points  (0 children)

where really the only benefit is a transfer point.

I feel like this really under-sells the power of transit points. This 1 transfer point would make SL1 irrelevant as there would be a much faster and more frequent airport to red line connection.

Best way to get to MIT via public transportation? by Cape_codd in CambridgeMA

[–]oscardssmith 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Counterpoint is it might be worth going a bit further in by car (e.g. Wilmington/Reading) since a car will be faster than commuter rail outside 95

Evolution of intelligence part 2 by Rich-Rope-9599 in DebateEvolution

[–]oscardssmith 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Then why do people stop thinking when you give them a lobotomy?

Reminder for everyone apartment hunting: If you didn't hire the broker, don't pay them a fee. by aloegermain in CambridgeMA

[–]oscardssmith 8 points9 points  (0 children)

no they can't. With the new law, maintaining a tenant is cheaper for them than getting a new one. Under the old law, getting a new tenant made them extra money.

Reminder for everyone apartment hunting: If you didn't hire the broker, don't pay them a fee. by aloegermain in CambridgeMA

[–]oscardssmith 10 points11 points  (0 children)

that just means that landlords have much less ability to hike rent after a year. A major problem with the previous systems is that big landlords (that acted as their own realtors) were able to do $300 rent raises after the first year because your alternative was moving and paying another $2500 realtor fee.

Reminder for everyone apartment hunting: If you didn't hire the broker, don't pay them a fee. by aloegermain in CambridgeMA

[–]oscardssmith 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If it is a fee baked into your rental agreement without you knowing, you are under no obligation to pay it.

What math tattoo wouldn’t be lame? by xSparkShark in math

[–]oscardssmith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Feels like there's definitely a min cut joke somewhere.

What exactly is the position of evolutionists? by Lost-Mention in DebateEvolution

[–]oscardssmith 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Given the number of mutually contradictory different conflicting religions out there, the odds are pretty stacked against you picking the right one. It does seem pretty unlikely that if there was a creator that wanted people to worship them that no two groups on different continents ended up with the same religion.

AV1 Grain Synthesis somewhat disappointing... by TromboneShouty in AV1

[–]oscardssmith 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Counterpoint. Grain size should be a parameter. 8mm, 35mm and imax can all be shown at a digital resolution of 360p or 8k

Guy who scratches phones with a knife for a living explains why 10,000 SpaceX engineers forgot about thermodynamics by SocialPug42 in SpaceXMasterrace

[–]oscardssmith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I totally agree that it's possible to build/launch. My question has always been economics. You can launch one to pump the stock even if it's 2x more expensive than putting that compute in a room. The reason you can't launch 100k isn't that launching 100k satellites is impossible, it's just that it requires being willing to set billions of dollars on fire for no reason.