If you look in a microscope, everything is moving around even when everything is still. The warmer it gets, and the smaller the particles get, the more they move.
This is called Brownian motion, and it is explained by matter being made of particles that push against everything and when the matter is small enough the energy of individual particles is enough to jostle things around. It isn't the only proof, but it's good evidence that matter is made of molecules, and that heat is related to the movement of those particles.
It was Albert Einstein who described Brownian motion mathematically which was one of the major things which helped tip the consensus of scientists towards atomic theory rather than something else.
(I know, you weren't asking but I thought Brownian motion is pretty cool so I decided to share anyway)
This is called Brownian motion, and it is explained by matter being made of particles that push against everything and when the matter is small enough the energy of individual particles is enough to jostle things around. It isn't the only proof, but it's good evidence that matter is made of molecules, and that heat is related to the movement of those particles.
It was Albert Einstein who described Brownian motion mathematically which was one of the major things which helped tip the consensus of scientists towards atomic theory rather than something else.
(I know, you weren't asking but I thought Brownian motion is pretty cool so I decided to share anyway)
AI performed, I wrote the lyrics. Just having fun with some tools lol
Pretty neat it can make crappy rhymes sound ok.
Pretty neat it can make crappy rhymes sound ok.
It makes people feel good until they find someone who is just objectively better than them by every measure.
I've met people who are better than me on every measure that I think I'm pretty good in, and if people are all equal then that means I'm just a failure who didn't work hard enough. Some people are just better. Sucks, but it's better to think some people are just more naturally gifted than to think you suffer from some personal failing that makes you fail that hard against someone who is by all measures your equal.
But kids don't realize that yet, or at least they pretend they don't.
I've met people who are better than me on every measure that I think I'm pretty good in, and if people are all equal then that means I'm just a failure who didn't work hard enough. Some people are just better. Sucks, but it's better to think some people are just more naturally gifted than to think you suffer from some personal failing that makes you fail that hard against someone who is by all measures your equal.
But kids don't realize that yet, or at least they pretend they don't.
@amerika
One thing I think you're mistaken on (and you might be surprised of all the things but I don't really want to change your mind on big things we don't agree on since I want to see your point of view on the big stuff) is that not every adaptive outcome is genetic or even epigenetic. Our bodies are adaptive. If you take identical twins, and have one work out with weights every day, and have the other one sit on a chair watching TV every day, the one who lifts weights will be significantly stronger than the one who did not.
This is relevant to your example of eyesight. In China, people who live in the cities and are thus impacted by the strict exam requirements (and therefore spend all day every day in their childhood looking at something 2 feet from their face studying) are overwhelmingly nearsighted (If I recall it's like 80%), but people who are the same genetic stock in the countryside who don't sit in class all day staring at something right in front of them aren't nearsighted, and also importantly, Chinese families who move to the west don't end up with the overwhelming nearsightedness for kids born in the west. Essentially, you have people with adaptable eyes and those eyes adapt to studying. It happens a lot sooner than genetic evolution, essentially one childhood and you've got nearsightedness.
Over dozens of generations you could still have a peacock effect and genetic disposition towards that adaption may end up resulting in damage to the genepool if poorly designed meritocracy walks people towards a certain thing, but a lot of really bad things happen on a shorter timeframes than the fundamental make-up of our cells.
One of the problems with meritocracy is when the merit being judged for isn't good. If you select for passing a certain test then yes, the meritocracy will damage people over time. On the other hand, if you select for a bunch of different kinds of merit what you have is real life and you'll have the best people succeeding naturally.
The ultimate question ought to be "Are you meritorious as in are you useful? Are you able to support yourself, then your family, then your community, then your nation?" If so, then you are of merit and will reach the highest levels of power and responsibility. Otherwise you get less power and responsibility.
One thing I think you're mistaken on (and you might be surprised of all the things but I don't really want to change your mind on big things we don't agree on since I want to see your point of view on the big stuff) is that not every adaptive outcome is genetic or even epigenetic. Our bodies are adaptive. If you take identical twins, and have one work out with weights every day, and have the other one sit on a chair watching TV every day, the one who lifts weights will be significantly stronger than the one who did not.
This is relevant to your example of eyesight. In China, people who live in the cities and are thus impacted by the strict exam requirements (and therefore spend all day every day in their childhood looking at something 2 feet from their face studying) are overwhelmingly nearsighted (If I recall it's like 80%), but people who are the same genetic stock in the countryside who don't sit in class all day staring at something right in front of them aren't nearsighted, and also importantly, Chinese families who move to the west don't end up with the overwhelming nearsightedness for kids born in the west. Essentially, you have people with adaptable eyes and those eyes adapt to studying. It happens a lot sooner than genetic evolution, essentially one childhood and you've got nearsightedness.
Over dozens of generations you could still have a peacock effect and genetic disposition towards that adaption may end up resulting in damage to the genepool if poorly designed meritocracy walks people towards a certain thing, but a lot of really bad things happen on a shorter timeframes than the fundamental make-up of our cells.
One of the problems with meritocracy is when the merit being judged for isn't good. If you select for passing a certain test then yes, the meritocracy will damage people over time. On the other hand, if you select for a bunch of different kinds of merit what you have is real life and you'll have the best people succeeding naturally.
The ultimate question ought to be "Are you meritorious as in are you useful? Are you able to support yourself, then your family, then your community, then your nation?" If so, then you are of merit and will reach the highest levels of power and responsibility. Otherwise you get less power and responsibility.
"Source port" refers to an open source replacement for a proprietary engine. For example, you can download replacements for the doom engine, the quake engine, and the duke nukem 3d have many open source engine replacements that let you run the games on different operating systems and often add new features.
For Doom and Duke 3d for example, it adds 3d accelerator support and all the features that come from that. There's raytracing versions of doom, quake, and quake 2 that never would have been imagined back when these games came out, and versions compiled for hardware that never existed while these games were under active development. I've got some Chinese handhelds that have a whole library of games compiled from source ports, so you can have a native port of a bunch of games.
For Doom and Duke 3d for example, it adds 3d accelerator support and all the features that come from that. There's raytracing versions of doom, quake, and quake 2 that never would have been imagined back when these games came out, and versions compiled for hardware that never existed while these games were under active development. I've got some Chinese handhelds that have a whole library of games compiled from source ports, so you can have a native port of a bunch of games.
To be fair, they aren't asking for anything extreme like being allowed to choose whether to take an untested experimental vaccine so it's basically fine.
Choose 20 games that have had a big impact on you. One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no ratings, no particular order. #GameChallenge (5/20)
Shadow of Power
Shadow of Power
In this case it's really about the consequences of debt.
Feels great while you're spending it, but you can't spend other people's money forever.
That's not just for nations, it's for individuals too -- racking up your credit card feels great, you look like a hero because you can buy anything you want, you can pay for others stuff, you don't even need to earn much income.
Japan also did this strategy of spending tons of debt. America for the past 25 years as well. Japan is a tiny little island that looked like the new superpower while they racked up incredible debt, America was able to pretend it was still a global superpower, but the bill comes due eventually. Japan has been dealing with the consequences for a decade, the US has been beginning that phase, and China isn't too far behind.
Feels great while you're spending it, but you can't spend other people's money forever.
That's not just for nations, it's for individuals too -- racking up your credit card feels great, you look like a hero because you can buy anything you want, you can pay for others stuff, you don't even need to earn much income.
Japan also did this strategy of spending tons of debt. America for the past 25 years as well. Japan is a tiny little island that looked like the new superpower while they racked up incredible debt, America was able to pretend it was still a global superpower, but the bill comes due eventually. Japan has been dealing with the consequences for a decade, the US has been beginning that phase, and China isn't too far behind.
"they work really hard for not a lot of money" has always struck me as a weird stereotype.
Tbf precedent doesn't really happen at the trial court level. Typically that's set at appeals courts and higher.
https://osgameclones.com/
Fantastic list of many OSS clones or implementations. A lot of games you'd be stuck using dosbox for or just not playing are totally decent games on a new OSS game engine, and a lot of new projects are popping up based on AI decompilation tools that guess what the old code did.
Fantastic list of many OSS clones or implementations. A lot of games you'd be stuck using dosbox for or just not playing are totally decent games on a new OSS game engine, and a lot of new projects are popping up based on AI decompilation tools that guess what the old code did.
It's successor, openshell, is required on every Windows PC I use.
But the last good Windows was probably Windows 10 ltsc Enterprise edition, maybe 11 ltsc Enterprise with openshell.
It's like "let me get this straight. You guys have this the whole time, and had it, and you're just refusing to sell it to us..."
But the last good Windows was probably Windows 10 ltsc Enterprise edition, maybe 11 ltsc Enterprise with openshell.
It's like "let me get this straight. You guys have this the whole time, and had it, and you're just refusing to sell it to us..."
You never know what the future is going to hold, but it would be really funny if Trump wins the popular vote.
You're aware of good work being done by these guys? I want to help but I want the help to actually have a chance of helping.