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swansont

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  1. There are also stories about the person who eventually thwarted the shooter. The reports are that the fake stories cropped up, fueled by AI/bots and spread on dodgy news sites and places that amplify such disinformation via their algorithms (X/Twitter and Facebook, to name two). Such bots do appear on Bluesky, but there’s no algorithm to amplify the slop. One of the effects here is to make all information untrustworthy. Stick with sources that actually do fact-checking and take the other stuff with a huge grain of salt.
  2. That’s the filing deadline, but if you owe them too much you have to pay a penalty. In the US, to be some extent, taxes have to be paid as you go. It’s why there’s withholding on each paycheck, with the goal of owing nothing when the year ends. If you owe more than $1k (and some other caveats apply) then you owe a penalty. I doubt it. There are loopholes, and more for the rich, but I suspect this isn’t one. Unless the LLC already existed when you won I suspect it would not save you. Switching citizenship won’t work, either; taxes are paid according to residence. When I did my postdoc in Canada, I paid Canadian taxes. (and if I made enough the US would have taken a bite, too). Plus doing the switch after the fact wouldn’t save you, and being citizen part of the year would probably make you have dual tax liabilities. How do you get 10 months from winning in June? The tax year for most people is the normal calendar year.
  3. The science is in the details. What qualifies as an “unusual” gamma emission? How do you detect Hawking radiation and what constitutes “unusual” for it? What are the predicted anomalies in the CMB or gravitational waves? Without an actual model, what you have is a narrative.
  4. Poe’s law applies. IOW, with the state of AI slop, you can’t be sure anymore. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
  5. They’re mapping my house or apartment and sending the data somewhere? Evidence? That was addressed a few posts back. You're missing the point. It’s sending private information, that isn’t necessary for the operation of the device. People aren’t upset that you’re syncing data that you told it to. Or that Alexa is listening, it’s that someone else is.
  6. Moderator NoteScience News implies an article somewhere, which should be linked to. Such a link would show us where this quote came from.
  7. How long until robot vacuum companies get sued for collecting data, and phoning home without consent? https://www.zmescience.com/science/smart-vacuum-companies-are-monetizing-maps-of-your-house/ “Those cute little robot vacuums buzzing through your home may be doing a lot more than dusting the floor. They could be learning details about your house and making money off of that.”
  8. Moderator NoteThen it seems clear that this does not qualify for discussion here. As you were told:
  9. Even when you know the sources of error and quantify them, you don’t know if it’s + or -, so it can’t be subtracted out.
  10. You should see/talk to someone who knows what they are doing; there are professionals who deal with this and “tips about being happy” is a rather simplistic (and wrong) summary of what mental health professionals do. By phrasing it this way you are soliciting medical advice, and nobody here is qualified to dispense it.
  11. Recombination/ionization is not a thermal effect; the photons emitted would have a thermal variation reflecting the temperature of the (primarily) hydrogen at that time. But the energy levels do not have a thermal distribution. The nominal ionization energy is still 13.6 eV. That would “reset” any thermal distribution you might have beforehand.
  12. Ratios involve quantities that have units, which is where the uncertainty arises.
  13. This is a science discussion site, though, not a platform for discussing the merits of patentability. We require the mathematical model you claim exists, and evidence that supports the idea.
  14. How does time differ from the measurement of any other quantity in science that has SI units?
  15. Which you should be able to show mathematically. The next question is the limits on the integral. You imply it starts at t=0 (or it could be something quite small, like 10^-43 s) but the CMB didn’t exist until later. How do you reconcile this?
  16. I will rephrase. You don’t show it in your integral. Will you do so? This is a discussion forum. Being coy seems to be the opposite of discussion.
  17. I don’t see it in your integral
  18. Random processes exhibit these distributions, not just decay The measurement would, or could, show systematic errors. I don’t think the process itself would Radioactivity involves nuclear processes; the nucleus spontaneously goes to a lower energy state and closer to stability, usually by releasing a particle or particles (the exception is electron capture, where it absorbs an atomic electron) Heat is energy transferred by an object owing to a temperature difference. It can be electromagnetic radiation but there’s also conduction and convection. Yes. Even though the trend of number of decays per unit time follows an exponential, the actual data will show deviations from that curve.
  19. Since this wavelength has changed over time, which one are you choosing? In what way is this age conformal?
  20. A lot of measurements have a normal, or Gaussian distribution, aka a “bell curve” that represent the random errors/uncertainties https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_distribution The errors and error bars that are expressed are often the standard deviation of the measurement (but not always; this depends on the specific field), and not all errors follow this distribution (there are also systematic errors)
  21. No, not in a scientific sense “Measurement is defined as the process of comparison of an unknown quantity with a known or standard quantity.” Also there’s got to be units, that can be expressed in SI terms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measurement see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrology
  22. It’s why IMO it’s not a measurement.
  23. I believe so. But it’s not the government doing it, and if the techbros were accessing the data there would be backlash. Like Amazon being sued over Alexa violating users’ privacy (recording and storing without knowledge or consent) https://topclassactions.com/lawsuit-settlements/privacy/amazon-alexa-class-action-alleging-privacy-violations-moves-forward/

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