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Contramuffin

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  • 32 + 4 = 36

    34 + 2 = 36

    Am I missing something? Barring some extremely stupid math error, I don't see how I'm incorrect

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  • Most of the bras that my girlfriend gets fits on her first try, although she does tend to prefer sister sizes over her real size. If your girlfriend is having issues with bras fitting, it might be worthwhile to read up on how bra sizes are actually calculated and do a measurement yourself. Funny enough, most girls don't seem to know how the bra size system works either and they just get their sizes through trial and error, which seems like what has happened here.

    The letter by itself is fundamentally meaningless. A 32D is equivalent to a 34B! And most girls severely underestimate their actual size. What would colloquially be called a B or C is actually an E

  • Native German speakers: Are Hitler's speeches particularly compelling?

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  • I agree with you generally, but I strongly disagree that we today cannot understand the perspective of the time. We (Americans) just elected Imperial Supreme God Emperor Trump based on the same fascist ideas that drove people to Hitler back then

  • How do you actually read?

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  • I practically don't read for fun. Not that I dislike reading, but it's generally rare to find books that interest me, and I simply don't have time to look for interesting books. Last I found an interesting book, I breezed through it in a couple days.

    Anyways, most of my reading happens through academia, reading scientific papers and such. There's a lot of interesting scientific research going on that flies under the radar because it's not clickbaity enough for popsci websites to pick up on it. I have a feed set up on Pubmed to send me emails every day on new papers from different topics. Every day or two I glance through them and it there's something that catches my eye, I'll read it more thoroughly.

    I wouldn't generally encourage people to read scientific papers, since they're really quite dense and requires a lot of practice to get good at reading, but it's an easy way to read something while being productive. And I've become increasingly convinced over time that the general population needs at least some experience with scientific literature, given how much of the science gets twisted in the game of Science Communication Telephone

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  • So will bacteriophages and viruses be snapped as well? Does it mean that scientists can utilize the Thanos snap to determine for good whether viruses are alive?

  • Who do you know that took a path you didn't expect?

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  • That's a misinterpretation of the poem. The point was that both paths were equally valid but no matter what he picked, he would always think that the other was better. It was a poem about "the grass is always greener on the other side"

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  • Just yesterday I had a CO2 valve close on me during an experiment while I was away for a moment. It takes effort to turn the valve so it couldn't have just shaken closed or something. The valve was in the corner of the room and was blocked off by boxes, so nobody could have accidentally bumped it. And, besides, nobody was in the room anyways. Before the experiment I made damn sure that the CO2 valve was open, and even looking through the computer records (which records the CO2) says that the CO2 valve was open until I walked away.

    I still have no idea how the valve could have closed on its own. Now, I'm not saying it's a ghost, but I am saying that I cannot think of a single non-paranormal explanation. I've clearly angered the science gods and I would do well to sacrifice some more cells to the science gods to appease them

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  • Science is like going down a Wikipedia rabbit hole. There's always more things to do and more things to check out. At some point you just have to draw the line and say that enough is enough. Other scientists are likely to ask why you stopped where you stopped, and so saying that "it's outside the scope of the paper" is basically the nice way of saying that you stopped because you felt like it

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  • I get very suspicious if a paper samples multiple groups and still uses p. You would use q in that case, and the fact that they didn't suggests that nothing came up positive.

    Still, in my opinion it's generally OK if they only use the screen as a starting point and do follow-up experiments afterwards

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  • Well, we are pretty big for insects

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    What dessert or junkfood do you always keep in stock at home?

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  • The two types of mentalities on display:

    1. I'll eat too much so I shouldn't buy any
    2. I'll eat too much so I should buy more

  • Why do screen night lights that shift the color red work? Why red instead of some other color?

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  • So you react to both red light and blue light, but you react to blue light way better than to red. So blue light filters still checks out, but they're more of a mitigation than a fix

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  • "is" is correct here, due to the implied nouns. "Data" in this case is an appositive and serves to describe the implied noun, "word." And "plural" is an implied noun for "plural word"

    You can see it most clearly if you fill in the implied nouns:

    (the word) data is a plural (word)

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  • The biggest difficulty with answering this question I think is that I don't know how broad the categories should be. Do you have an estimate of how many categories you're looking for?

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  • It's very simple - the sun isn't burning. The sun is actually a very large healing crystal. As you may know, healing crystals capture the harmonic vibrations of the universe and turn them into things that are good for our health, like warmth, vitamins, essential oils, and positive ions.

    The sun is made out of a healing crystal that converts the vibrations into warmth, witch is what we see as sunlight. The sun is so big that it's able to capture a lot of harmonic vibrations and so it makes a lot of warmth.

    The real question is who polished the healing crystal that forms the sun, and who put it up into space. The natural answer is that it's clearly done by my good friend Moonlight Namaste, and she will teach you how to do the same thing if you visit her blog and sign up for her meditation classes. With enough guided meditation, you too will start to see the universal vibrations and learn how to change your oscillations to match the universal vibrations. The first 200 people who sign up will get a free dream catcher, so sign up today!

  • TIL American linguist Morris Swadesh compiled a list of words he deduced would be in a Proto-Indo-European language, the language that is the root of languages across Europe and Asia.

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  • Thanks for the details! I forgot some of the details since I last took a course in linguistics like almost 10 years ago

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  • Definitely not the same, at least in my experience. It differs by field, but in my field, grad programs basically have zero classes, and whatever classes there are are generally automatic A's. In turn, the difficulty comes from the fact that you are basically in indentured servitude to your advisor, and there is no actual recourse for trivial things like "overwork" and "burnout."

    I know of people who did 70 hour work weeks, and for a period of time, I had to do that as well. Also, you get paid less than you would if you had just gotten a 40 hour per week job at a company.

    Anyways, the advisor that you pick really makes or breaks your experience.

  • TIL American linguist Morris Swadesh compiled a list of words he deduced would be in a Proto-Indo-European language, the language that is the root of languages across Europe and Asia.

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  • Asterisk means that the word has been reverse engineered without any direct evidence backing it up. All proto languages will have asterisks in front of all their words because proto languages are, by definition, languages that were used before anything was written down.

    The reverse engineered word is likely to be correct (or at least, as correct as we can be), but in the absence of direct evidence, it's still just guesswork

    The numbers you're talking about are because we know that there are different consonants used, but we don't entirely know what sounds those consonants are. So we just write all of the consonants that likely sounded somewhat like the letter h as h1, h2, h3, etc., and repeat for the other uncertain consonants.

    So basically h1 definitely sounds different than h2, but as for exactly what they sound like, all we know is that both of them are kinda like h

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  • It's something that people, in least in my field of microbiology, have been recently aware of and are trying to correct. The problem is not just an in-group signifier, since everyone, even experts, finds the author insufferable and difficult to understand