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Anotheroneagainon Things I Won't Work With: Dimethylcadmium (2013)

CC Patterson in fact likely found out that the balance of lead isotopes was impossible, and the "heavy metals" were removed to hide the evidence.

Food will always taste bland to foul without them, we will suffer from "lifestyle" disorders, and nature will keep dying, until they are returned.

Anotheroneagainon Is the nervous system a democracy? (2016)

And most people in eastern Europe seem to be 100% convinced that it does actually come from Russia, and any attempt to argue otherwise gets you labelled a "Russian"...

Anotheroneagainon Small neural network enables realistic rendering of woven fabrics in real-time

I believe that results like these show that our algorithms are woefully inadequate, and something much faster has to exist, if a NN can do so much better with all the overhead.

Anotheroneagainon How do jewellers capture every last particle of gold dust? (2017)

They called Polonium cobalt.

Think about it, cobalt is too slow. Polonium is ideal - you need a much smaller amount, and in five years it's gone, ten years, it's undetectable. Except that it decays into a specific isotope of lead, which could raise some questions, but you call it a toxin, and hope that the evidence gets destroyed in the process...

Anotheroneagainon A chemist explains the chemistry behind decaf coffee

It can't ever taste the same as caffeine has flavor.

Anotheroneagainon Lost by Schoolgirls: A display of 17th century papercuts

You can find many on youtube,https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZctVLoNMXQ for example

Anotheroneagainon Lost by Schoolgirls: A display of 17th century papercuts

It seems the star may have been flattened, at least the version that I know is supposed to be 3D.

Anotheroneagainon Unconditional Cash Study: first findings available

UBI wouldn't be needed if we got rid of loans. Loans block the increase in prosperity, as they become hard to pay if the economy improves, and misallocate resources on the bank's whim. The great depression likely wouldn't happen at all (or to a much limited extent, as some people would have to find new jobs) and instead the prices would drop until most people could live off their savings.

Anotheroneagainon Wide angle lens distortion correction from lines

This isn't about correcting for minor imperfections, but converting the image from the wrong kind of lens.

See https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6toiNmZ_e4I for the difference.

Anotheroneagainon Wide angle lens distortion correction from lines

I mean you have to pick between fisheye and rectilinear lenses when you buy a wide angle lens. This is completely unnecessary, you only need to pick the lens that you actually want.

Why does everybody doing as if I propose something outrageous or impossible?

Anotheroneagainon Wide angle lens distortion correction from lines

They're commonly available, not something exotic.

Anotheroneagainon Wide angle lens distortion correction from lines

You can get a rectilinear lens instead, you know.

Anotheroneagainon Lots of people in education disagree with the premise of maximizing learning

On the contrary, his whole point is that such an approach doesn't lead anywhere any more than memorizing the circle of fifths makes you a musician.

Anotheroneagainon Lots of people in education disagree with the premise of maximizing learning

Completely misses the point. Rote learning teaches you to do circus performances. So you can do math now, so what? You don't know what it is, how it works, or how or where to use it.

Anotheroneagainon A New Age of Materials Is Dawning, for Everything from Smartphones to Missiles

Both iron and titanium are ubiquitous in the crust. I think they are the 4th and 9th most common elements, and definitely far more common than carbon.

Anotheroneagainon A New Age of Materials Is Dawning, for Everything from Smartphones to Missiles

Were the soviets that far ahead? Because the T3 trams from the 60s were already made of composites.

Anotheroneagainon 25 years of video clips gone as Paramount axes Comedy Central wesbite

500mm isn't low by any means, it's moderate. Almost all Europe has around 500mm annual rainfall. It may seem low compared to let's say Mississippi, but that is because Mississippi is as wet as it gets outside the tropics.

The fields were abandoned because the prices were so low that cultivating them wasn't profitable. This in fact could have caused the drought as well, as much of the rain in such climates is recycled - the water that evaporated rains back down. And, it can't evaporate well without plants to bring it up from the soil, but only the surface dries out. This might have lead to the dried out top layes getting repeatedly blown away, until the fields got successfully overgrown, and the rains returned.

Anotheroneagainon 25 years of video clips gone as Paramount axes Comedy Central wesbite

You can't have an excess of food and famine at the same time. There are no records of famine, in fact food prices were dropping. (https://www65.statcan.gc.ca/acyb02/1937/acyb02_19370800009a-...)

All first hand accounts of the dust bowl talk about sandstorms bringing sand, everything getting burried in sand. No first hand accounts seem to talk about fields getting stripped of soil, that was documented after the fact. This suggests that the source of the dust were fields that had been abandoned.

It doesn't even make sense, Oklahoma isn't dry, the American south is very humid.

Anotheroneagainon Aromatic compounds: A ring made up solely of metal atoms

Is this an AI post? I couldn't find any source that would disagree with bismuth being a metal.

Anotheroneagainon 25 years of video clips gone as Paramount axes Comedy Central wesbite

So, farmers destroyed their crops and starved. Is that how you understand it?

I'm not obligated to find a proof against fiction, when all real accounts show food prices almost halving in a decade, in fact I would be willing to speculate that the dust storms that came were in fact caused by the abandonment and large areas being left unsown, with no cover to hold the soil together.

Anotheroneagainon 25 years of video clips gone as Paramount axes Comedy Central wesbite

That piece was written literally by the same person.

Farmers were going bankrupt because there was so much food that they couldn't sell. It was the time when people developed the habit of eating meat daily, as people were buying out the food, and fed it to animals. There wasn't at any point a famine.

It's a tall tale.

Anotheroneagainon 25 years of video clips gone as Paramount axes Comedy Central wesbite

There was a (massive) excess of food during the depression, so that is likely made up.

Anotheroneagainon 25 years of video clips gone as Paramount axes Comedy Central wesbite

It basically destroyed western industry, as designing anything is a lottery with very poor odds.

Anotheroneagainon Liquid Layers

When you set all materials to the same density, you get a cold surface, with hot matter below it.

Anotheroneagainon Waymo One is now open to everyone in San Francisco

I guess that's why no hotel lets you pay cash.

Anotheroneagainon Bringing Roman Light to Life

You won't break a leg just from slipping and falling.

Anotheroneagainon Nobody knows what's going on

Yes, I have. It's not the same thing.

Money isn't a resource that is objectively needed, its role is to regulate economy. You could do anything that you do just as well without it, if people could agree on it. It isn't like a tractor that is needed, and there is no problem with renting tractors. The problem is that you do use money in your example: you use it to store your savings. By lending it,it gets used twice - once to buy the tractor, the second time it's still used to store your savings.

It does take away somebody's ability to buy a tractor, as you buy one, so there is one less, or one extra needs to be manufactured. That can also be a problem - too many tractors can be created, so that food gets so cheap that it's basically free,and the farmers now can't make money. Which is what literally happened in the great deoression.

Anotheroneagainon Nobody knows what's going on

They buy something for the money. That is the misallocation. They couldn't afford it, and your loan allowed it. Let's say they buy a tractor. The tractor would be bought by somebody else. Or perhaps different machinery would be manufactured, or perhaps something completely different would be done, or nothing at all would be done because people would prefer to have more free time. This is how you get massive market imbalances that lead to the great depression, or Evergrande.

No money is known that was used before classical antiquity, it must be a mistranslation.

Anotheroneagainon Allan McDonald refused to approve Challenger launch, exposed cover-up (2021)

Jailing people means you'll have a hard time finding people willing to make hard decisions,

Why do you think you want it? You don't want it.