Yeah. There’ll probably be a long period before plastic can be biodegraded, like it happened for wool/cellulose in pre-historic periods.
At some point, a mushroom will learn how to use it efficiently and then it will all be degraded.
We will be long gone by then.
Hehe, I’ll have a read on that thread.
Yeah, that makes sense. It’s not so much that they are labeled weird, but that they are shocked thinking they were not…
Yup. A lot of feelings are unnecessary yet are there anyway for us to deal with them.
Nice, that makes sense. I’ll keep using weird.
Yup! Also the “natural” socialising age for cats is much younger than for dogs. Get them used to people as soon as possible. (Their critical socialising window is between 2 and 8 weeks, when close positive contact with humains is the most effective. See here: https://www.alleycat.org/resources/cat-socialization-continuum-guide/)
One of the most helpful advise I got about raising a cat is this: Cats are like hypersensitive humans that are shy with communication.
It explains a lot of their behaviour and helps you understand how they may feel in many situations.
It looks like you’re preparing very well, so I’m sure you’ll be an attentive and caring cat parent! Good luck!
And this is why tenure exists!
I don’t know a lot about DNA, but i know about facial recognition.
Facial recognition is highly inaccurate. It would be easy for people from the same country to “match” at facial recognition despite being totally unrelated.
If “face generation from DNA” is only roughly accurate (ex: nose size or skin tone), then anybody from the same ethnic origin could be a match. Basically, the more you look like the “average person”, the more likely you would fit the generated face.
Doesn’t it sound a lot like technology-enabled profiling?
That title sounds like an XKCD password.
MacOS, you mean Unix with a wallpaper? While Unix is not Linux, BSD is open source so it’s nice!
I think it’s set up this way so buyers can’t get back to Sony to ask for a free replacement if the media can’t be used anymore.
Let’s say you buy a disk that contains a movie. You din’t buy the right to watch that movie forever, because if the disk breaks, you need to buy a new copy.
However, we could argue that this is just a symptom of a short industry… If my backpack breaks, even after 10 years, the company will replace it free of charge!
They could try to compensate the imbalance by explicitly asking for the lesser represented classes in the data… It’s an idea, not quite bad but not quite good either because of the problems you mentioned.
Didn’t you know? This cloud provider offers lead-free, gluten-free computing services without antibiotics! Also it’s not tested on animals!
When the completed manuscript exceeded 600,000 words, Cerf asked Rand to make cuts, but backed off when she compared the idea to cutting the Bible.
Wow, I didn’t know this author, and it seems I wasn’t missing much.
It’s been many years since I was invited with particle physics, so it’s a bit muddled in my memory… i could be wrong on the details here. It could be the CP symmetry instead of the CPT symmetry.
It’s not that positrons go back in time, but more like “if an electron went backwards in time, it would look exactly like a position”. The Feynman diagram of an electron and position annihilaton is the same as that of an electron bouncing on photons, expect the angle is rotated such that the electron bounces backwards in time.
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Feynman_EP_Annihilation.svg#mw-jump-to-license
Antimatter is not just matter with an opposite charge. It’s matter with every type of charges (electromagnetic, strong and weak nuclear charges) inverted, as well as the “parity”, that is the relative direction of its spin compared to its propagation direction, are all inverted.
If you look for “CPT symmetry”, you’ll find better explanations than this.
It basically boils down to this: invert the flow of time, and every particle will look like antimatter, while antimatter will look like normal matter.
It would have been very likely that antimatter moved backwards in gravity of it was normal matter moving backwards in time!
It has a positive mass, and in every other way it acts just like normal matter going backwards in time (cpt inversion).
If, despite its positive mass, it was pushed back by gravity, then it would have given even more weight to the theory that antimatter is just matter moving backwards.
Since gravity is such a wonky interaction, I’m not even sure this result disproves the time-reversal theory entirely!
In Futurama it’s an ethical problem since robots have a conciousness.
If real life Amazon used robots instead of humans, it would solve so many (yet not every) ethical problems with my shopping habits!
Countries are defined by land-hoarding class, because the nomadic people define themselves by their group instead of the land on which they live.
Without hoarders (landlords), we wouldn’t need to put as much effort towards regulating land use, instead we could focus on regulating behaviours. Ex: “this land is a national park, you are not allowed to trash it. Go next door, there you are allowed to pour the trash from your industrial process into the ground, because it’s your private land”