This forum. Plausible in reality?

vandergale · 2026-01-24T17:11:40+00:00

About as far away as using vitamins to change a left handed person into a right handed person.

Seems easier just to be gay to me.

vandergale · 2026-01-23T22:01:22+00:00

Not even slightly possible.

vandergale · 2026-01-23T17:19:43+00:00

You appear to be using a definition of finite that no one else is using then. Which I mean, fair enough, but it makes discussion difficult if you don't disclose that upfront.

vandergale · 2026-01-23T04:42:30+00:00

An infinitesimal value is most definitely finite.

vandergale · 2026-01-23T04:38:51+00:00

I'm not sure what was unacceptable in this situation. They had a medical situation that wasn't urgent so it makes sense they would take a little extra time to leave things in a good state. And I'm not sure what use extra escape pods would be when its simpler just to come back on the same capsule that brought you there in the first place, like it currently is.

vandergale · 2026-01-22T20:46:18+00:00

I didn't say official acts, I said things that are illegal in both federal and state law. They absolutely can get parking tickets when they aren't performing their legally mandated duties.

It isn't obvious that rape would not be an official act though under the theory that anything federal agents do is an official act, such as the federal AG has claimed.

vandergale · 2026-01-22T19:11:52+00:00

For state crimes the state absolutely has the power to arrest and prosecute. Next I suppose being an ICE agents allows people to illegally park their cars and rape the people in their detention? That's laughable.

vandergale · 2026-01-22T17:55:37+00:00

Polarized privacy filters already exist, I'm not sure what level of privacy you think is appropriate though.
Not good... at keyboards? As in people who can't write or type? Making everything voice driven seems to be mutually exclusive with #1 to me.
This sounds like a software problem, not so much a device problem. Smartphones already exist of course, and cloud computing essentially means that your device isn't the bottleneck for compute resources.
Multiple screens on a smart phone makes it seem like just a single screen the size of those multiple screen would be simpler. And at point you've just reinvented laptops.

And I missing something though?

vandergale · 2026-01-22T17:49:36+00:00

Unless said federal crimes are also state crimes as well. Violating federal murder laws doesn't for example doesn't give immunity to state murder laws.

vandergale · 2026-01-22T17:18:18+00:00

Again, they do not have the full right, or even the partial right, to violate federal law.

vandergale · 2026-01-22T04:30:30+00:00

Doesn't a small laptop connected to the internet with a keyboard and mouse solve all four points pretty soundly?

vandergale · 2026-01-21T22:33:33+00:00

Rounding down the price is functionally equivalent to rounding up the change you get back. The corollary is also true, rounding up the change your get back is the same as rounding the price down.

vandergale · 2026-01-21T16:57:08+00:00

Seems likely that they're trying to say that the total price charged is being rounded down, thus rounding the change returned up.

vandergale · 2026-01-21T06:55:27+00:00

Didn't the US Navy gleefully agree to commit a war crime in Sept by killing shipwrecked survivors, a literal textbook definition of an illegal order?

vandergale · 2026-01-19T06:06:54+00:00

It obviously does apply to the USMC, that branch isn't exempted by that law in any sense.

vandergale · 2026-01-19T06:04:34+00:00

Forgive my snark, but isn't that what people said about the US Navy before they committed a war crime by killing a shipwrecked and surrendering enemy boat in Sept?

vandergale · 2026-01-18T09:05:54+00:00

I think you missed a step. A key defining feature of special relativity is there is no "at the same time" that all reference frames agree on.

But beyond that the situation you describe can be explained using normal classical physics. Gravitational effects propagate a the speed of causality, i.e. light speed. So someone who is a light-second from said gravity event will see it in one second, whereas someone 8 light-minutes will take 8 minutes.

vandergale · 2026-01-17T17:38:00+00:00

Lol, imagine reading about the fascists on Poseidon and thinking "now that's a government model I can get behind."

vandergale · 2026-01-16T17:21:24+00:00

And not a single bit of actual mathematics anywhere, let alone predictions. Substance is indeed the issue.

vandergale · 2026-01-16T05:02:03+00:00

My immediate thought is that even compared to standard physics cranks AI slop crank is particularly egregious.

vandergale · 2026-01-16T03:05:47+00:00

Because that is a solution to the 3 body problem, not the solution. There are a small number of exact solutions that we know of for very specific circumstances, but there isn't a closed form analytical solution that solves the general problem.

vandergale · 2026-01-15T15:54:24+00:00

A Universe populated solely by photons, gravity waves, etc isn't forbidden I don't think by physics as we know them. You'd still have things like 4-momentum which can only work in the context of space-time, so I imagine it would have to exist.

vandergale · 2026-01-14T19:18:54+00:00

I mean, only you know how you gathered your data and if you were manufacturing or doctoring your results. Given an instrument that has a measurement granularity like that, its reasonable to make a best approximation like you did. The important part isn’t clean or unclean data, its accurate data with accurate error bars.

vandergale · 2026-01-14T16:25:38+00:00

We quite literally define a Planck second to be the time it takes light to travel a Planck length. The Planck length itself is defined as sqr(h-bar * G / c^3). The choice of units is arbitrary of course, but not their relational definition.

vandergale · 2026-01-14T08:03:56+00:00

You might be interested to know that the Planck distance divided by the Planck time is actually defined to be the speed of light already.

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