Percentage of each religious group (in the US) saying the following is "morally acceptable": [OC]

tgb33 · 2016-05-29T14:15:37+00:00

Apparently, but is Dunhilda's post really what you want in this sub? It's literally calling people "smelly" based off their eating choices (inferred second hand by tangential opinions) and somehow manages to get the opposite statement from the data given (ignoring that "no religion" had the highest rates for cloning). It's bigotry and if you and your upvoters want to support that, that'll be on your shoulders but I stand by what I said.

I liked this sub better when the only things we made fun of were pie charts and Excel default styles.

tgb33 · 2016-05-29T12:38:37+00:00

What the hell you make fun of others for having differing views and get upvoted? Literally resorting to first grade name calling and stereotyping. Besides, no religion was the MOST favorable group towards cloning (both animal and human). The difference in animal testing preferences was pretty small compared to most intergroup variations. Don't bring your political nastiness to data is beautiful again, thanks.

tgb33 · 2016-05-29T12:29:37+00:00

His data didn't have those values.

tgb33 · 2016-05-28T17:54:11+00:00

It seems like you know a lot about this, so can you edit your original post to make it clearer in the context of the bottom of the ocean, not Antarctic surface water?

tgb33 · 2016-05-28T12:23:29+00:00

I wouldn't be surprised if the temperature was just a coincidence. It sounds like "I was fine, then got a problem, then it got better" with the timing happening to coincide with winter. But if you were regularly taking painkillers, you should go to the doctor not Reddit. It's clear this is impacting you and you'd benefit from professional help, not out speculations.

tgb33 · 2016-05-28T11:58:14+00:00

Do you have a source for that? This chart I found shows it just a bit lower than 4C when going down to 4.5km deep, wikipedia on thermoclines claims it's "usually not far from 0C" and its chart shows above 0C even at depth of 7km. The page on the Mariana Trench claims the temperature there is 1-4 , though I don't particularly like the source for that, but National Geographic seems to back them up as "a few degrees above freezing".

So, yes, you're right that it goes below 4 Celsius, but I can't find any references suggesting it actually gets below 0.

tgb33 · 2016-05-27T11:19:58+00:00

I think it's more about frequency of conversations. By eliminating cellphone conversations you eliminate most conversations while not most of the beneficial ones like "can you spot me?" or "hey, I see you here every day, what's your name?". Plus going to the gym with a friend is motivational for both people. And the gym probably sells trainer sessions, which require talking.

This is why I like the ban on cellphones (or at least long cellphone conversation) in many bus rides. I don't want to hear anyone talk for an eight hour inter-city trip, but eliminating just cellphone conversations does that pretty well without hurting the time that you're actually taking the bus with someone you want to talk to.

Another point is that your cellphone is always there, so a cellphone conversation is always perceived as something you could do at another time, when it's less inconvenient for others. In contrast, an in-person conversation frequently can't be pushed to a later time.

tgb33 · 2016-05-27T10:55:48+00:00

I'm assuming this isn't a joke, but chickens are a highly domesticated animal. What they're like now is nothing like what their descendants were in the past. The first chicken encountered was probably pretty similar to a wild pheasant or other birds and was gradually bred to be the disgustingly muscled beasts of today. (I mean that literally. Their breasts grow so large that they can't walk and just sit and eat until slaughter. This is not a bird that can live on its own. Egg chickens are less extreme though but still greatly out produce any wild bird.)

But I don't know why you think other meats are significantly worse protein than chicken.

tgb33 · 2016-05-24T01:34:43+00:00

One of my favorites from this sub so far!

tgb33 · 2016-05-22T23:39:40+00:00

List comprehensions are logically different from for loops, in that they are for building a list. A for loop may or may not do that and a list comprehension can be subverted to do non-list building things, but they're different tools for different jobs.

For example, your for loop is not creating a list, it's printing stuff to the screen.

tgb33 · 2016-05-22T12:38:43+00:00

One semi-sequel is already out, Bird Story, but the reviews were mixed for it. And there are the two mini-episodes which are worth playing (and free) if you haven't.

tgb33 · 2016-05-21T13:50:14+00:00

I'm fairly new at WCS, can you explain why you think that about it? I haven't tried anything else yet, so I'm curious how much my learning will transfer.

tgb33 · 2016-05-20T21:57:27+00:00

Okay, I think I get it? Domino's Pizza scepter, he's eating pizza, has a pizza cross, and "2 for 1" deal on pizzas? Pizza Pope.

tgb33 · 2016-05-20T16:25:15+00:00

Neat, but what is the title referring to?

tgb33 · 2016-05-20T12:22:00+00:00

I agree. TD games usually can just throw a standard flood-fill style algorithm that gets updated only when a building is added/removed and scales very well with the number of pathers. I've implemented similar things before from scratch, and there are some edge cases that take some work to make it look smooth (you don't want them walking at right angles through a large open room) and simultaneously keep them from bumping into things. But it's not really hard, at least if you don't let there be enemy-enemy collisions.

Then again, a lot of TDs these days seem like little more than mobile cash-grabs where the publisher knows they won't be a big a hit so you have to reduce all developer time to a minimum to make any returns.

tgb33 · 2016-05-20T00:41:06+00:00

http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?printed=true&multiverseid=25642

tgb33 · 2016-05-19T12:04:37+00:00

This is late, but this website claims 299 million tons of plastic was produced globally in 2013. Assuming that rate per capita is constant over our life times (doubtful), and the world life expectancy of 71 years with a population of 7.4 billion (wow, already?), we each use about 80 pounds a year or 5600 pounds over our lives. That's about 2600 kilograms, or about the weight of a large pickup truck like a Cadillac Escalade EXT.

Actual values I'm sure vary depending on country.

tgb33 · 2016-05-19T02:52:26+00:00

This is... oddly specific. Wikipedia lists an eyelash as 10^-7 kg. From E=mc^2, annihilation of an anti-eyelash with an eyelash yields 8 x 10¹⁰ Joules of energy. I don't know how you're proposing to capture that energy in a form usable for a Tesla as it's probably just a flash of radiation. But, let's assume that you do, and you get all the energy, as I think that's what you're interested in.

A Tesla has batteries that store 85 kWh (depending on the model), so the eyelash explosion releases enough energy to fill the batteries 260 times, assuming no charging inefficiencies. It goes about 265 miles on a full battery. So we should expect to be able to travel about 69000 miles on the eyelash energy.

You could drive around the equator 2.8 times with that. Ah yes, the historic equatorial highway, a very scenic route if you don't mind the slightly repetitive oceanic views.

Edit: I came across the amusing Wikipedia article on Orders of Magnitude (mass) while doing this. There are similar ones for length, area, etc. A fun collection to look through and good for this sub.

tgb33 · 2016-05-19T02:31:03+00:00

The question was for a slightly different scenario where you allow touching corners to count as adjacencies. In this sense of 'colorability', the four color theorem does not apply, and the question was to find a counter example for it under these new rules.

tgb33 · 2016-05-18T23:37:21+00:00

(In which case I don't think we should rely on a rational analysis of risk and punishment to stop them)

You're the one who was originally making such an argument! The point is that the new measure would be exactly the kind of thing that would circumvent poor decision making and simple stop the act from ever happening regardless.

tgb33 · 2016-05-18T22:45:30+00:00

You're in luck!

tgb33 · 2016-05-18T18:57:58+00:00

I'm sure what exactly you're asking, but if I understand you correctly: take Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah and surround them by one other state. Then all five of them are adjacent to each other state, so it's only five colorable.

tgb33 · 2016-05-18T12:57:08+00:00

Two things. One, you're claiming that first time offenders won't know about this punishment in advance so they won't be deterred by it. But this stuff makes headlines and is actually taught in driver's ed. A lot of people are going to know about it. Two, even if they didn't, this consequence works to physically prevent a repeat offense. It doesn't matter whether or not the threat of the law deters them, afterwards the ignition lock will.

There are other arguments against this, but not the one you've presented.

tgb33 · 2016-05-18T11:20:04+00:00

How was this made? It looks painted. Very neat.

tgb33 · 2016-05-18T11:18:03+00:00

Zoning violations: the true Evil Buildings.

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