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seri4l··on This Program is Illegally Packaged in 14 Distributions
This makes me wonder: has any judge ruled in favor of a plaintiff seeking compensation from people that used or redistributed software that he published on the internet for free without any copyright notice or disclaimer?
seri4l··on Tesla Virtual Power Plant
Since it takes at minimum 4 hours to drain each battery (3.3KW discharge rate), a better question would be what percentage of peak demand power they can provide.

Max power: 3.3 * 50000 = 165MW. Peak demand for 2020: 47121MW (18th August 15:57). Percentage of power: 165 / 47121 = 0.35%

Using the yearly average instead (31713KW): 165 / 31713 = 0.52%

seri4l··on Mozart Effect
Music is a language, or rather a type of language. Depending on the culture, it has 5 or 12 symbols (tones), and each musical culture has its grammatical structure: in Western music most sequential 8 symbol arrangements are gibberish, others convey different emotions, most of those sequences don't go well together, some do and so on.

It's a development of the ancient language we use to communicate mood and intent by varying the pitch and rhythm of voice while speaking. Useless to transmit concepts, but excellent to transmit emotions.

seri4l··on Archaeologists rebury ‘first-of-its-kind’ Roman villa
Assuming you're referring to the Buddhas of Bamiyan, those were blown up by the Taliban, not ISIS.
seri4l··on You want to know something about how bullshit insane our brains are? (2018)
If I get really close to the mirror, so close I can barely focus, look at my dominant eye, then look at the general direction of my non dominant eye, but trying to focus some distant object, I can see it moving.
seri4l··on You want to know something about how bullshit insane our brains are? (2018)
You can replicate the analog clock illusion without having to move your eyes. Open https://www.online-stopwatch.com/large-online-clock/ in a new tab and Ctrl+Tab, then Ctrl+Shift+Tab. It may take a few tries, but if you switch at the right time it will look as if the seconds hand freezes for more than a second.
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