Beacon

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[–] Beacon@fedia.io 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He's not doing anything. His model is setup many months before the election, and then it stays completely unchanged until the election is over. He doesn't do any polling, he just runs his pre-set simulation model on the data that the pollsters release

[–] Beacon@fedia.io 12 points 1 week ago (3 children)

50.015% literally means that neither candidate is favored to win. Take out a coin, assign Harris as heads and trump as tails, now flip the coin a bunch of times - and that's exactly how often Harris or trump is likely to win the election

EDIT

Nate Silver just posted his final pre-election blog post and he explains very clearly that this is a dead even race. Either candidate is just as likely to win as the other candidate.

https://www.natesilver.net/p/a-random-number-generator-determined

[–] Beacon@fedia.io 61 points 1 week ago (9 children)

We'll see. Gen Z - show us up in our dumb old faces. Are zoomers just the new boomers?

(What other phrases can i use to goad more zoomers into actually going to the voting booth?)

[–] Beacon@fedia.io 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Drier sheets/fabric softeners do nothing. In fact they actually harm some items

[–] Beacon@fedia.io 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Better is better. Everything else is just silly pointless judgment

[–] Beacon@fedia.io 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Aspirin is an NSAID

[–] Beacon@fedia.io 2 points 2 weeks ago

Known as acetaminophen (Tylenol) in the US

[–] Beacon@fedia.io 2 points 3 weeks ago

Fyi the word for nieces and nephews is niblings. That way you can just say a single word

[–] Beacon@fedia.io 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm somewhat sure that when your pay for a subscription through the play store that it doesn't send your full credit card information to any 3rd party, it's google itself that does the credit card transaction

[–] Beacon@fedia.io 14 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

You're not thinking about replicator/transporter technology as broadly as it's capable of. There could be hundreds of versions of each individual dish. In fact there could be variation algorithms that make it seem like a unique preparation every single time. And people could simply ask for how they want it prepared, like "roasted peppers, spicy" in the same way they ask for "earl gray, hot".

Even further, transporter technology is the most over powered technology in the whole start trek universe. It's a thread you can't start pulling at otherwise the whole fictional universe falls apart.

For example you could kill anyone anywhere without a trace just by transporting a dose of cyanide into their blood. There would be no hallways wasting valuable space inside the ship, people would simply be transported to wherever they wanted to go (aside from a network of small tunnels for emergencies if the transporter is down). And there would be no need for more than a single docking bay at most, just make the entire hull a single sealed surface and transport the entire shuttle and it's contents inside. Possibly most universe-breaking is that you'd be able to replicate anything, even equipment. Instead of just one enterprise you could replicate it and have a thousand enterprises, or a million enterprises!

I would guess that the writers have imposed some weird limitations on the tech that would prevent these types of scenarios, but i can't imagine any that could validly apply to what we've seen transporters do in all the various episodes.

[–] Beacon@fedia.io 13 points 3 weeks ago

There's no technological reason why there couldn't be hundreds of versions of each exact dish. In fact they could've even had a simple variation program so that every time it's made it comes out a bit different

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