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- Wed Mar 14, 2018 8:32 pm UTC
- Forum: Science
- Topic: Physics and Photography
- Replies: 4
- Views: 427
Re: Physics and Photography
It's presumably entirely knowable by the camera, but I don't believe it's typically stored in image metadata.
- Wed Mar 14, 2018 8:16 pm UTC
- Forum: Science
- Topic: Physics and Photography
- Replies: 4
- Views: 427
Re: Physics and Photography
In particular, the problem is that the focal length is related to the actual distances by the equation 1/s 1 + 1/s 2 = 1/f, where s 1 is the distance (from the front nodal point) to the in-focus object and s 2 is the distance (from the rear nodal point) to the film or sensor. If f = 50mm and s 2 = 5...
- Tue Mar 13, 2018 5:52 pm UTC
- Forum: News & Articles
- Topic: The Darker Side of the News
- Replies: 3648
- Views: 440654
Re: The Darker Side of the News
↶ Of course, this ain't exactly a hill I intend to die on, so if you have any suggestions as to how I should alter the numbers I plug in... You're counting from all (non-drug-related) murders, but how many of those 6k murders every year are done with bombs? How many terrorism-related murders are do...
- Tue Mar 13, 2018 4:03 am UTC
- Forum: News & Articles
- Topic: The Darker Side of the News
- Replies: 3648
- Views: 440654
Re: The Darker Side of the News
↶ I'm not sure a couple of bombings is enough to draw conclusions about motives from. Being black isn't particularly uncommon; if 3 men were killed most wouldn't assume it was the work of a mysandrist. Being black is more uncommon than being male, and unlike misandrist terrorism, anti-minority terr...
- Mon Mar 12, 2018 4:35 pm UTC
- Forum: Site/Forum issues
- Topic: FAO ExplainXKCD wiki
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1667
Re: FAO ExplainXKCD wiki
If there is overlap that you wanted to inform, do it in General, as it's not an xkcd site/forum issue.
- Fri Mar 09, 2018 6:45 pm UTC
- Forum: Movies and TV Shows
- Topic: ITT: rmsgrey is wrong about slavery (from Black Panther)
- Replies: 103
- Views: 2961
Re: ITT: rmsgrey is wrong about slavery (from Black Panther)
According to that same Wikipedia article, the US and Canada, and the territories that became the US and Canada, accounted for some 20% of the slave trade over its lifetime, while other English/British holdings accounted for a further 20%, and Portuguese colonies for 38.5% (The Danish West Indies ac...
- Fri Mar 09, 2018 6:42 pm UTC
- Forum: Science
- Topic: Science-based what-if questions
- Replies: 569
- Views: 59319
Re: Science-based what-if questions
And if it is infinitely dense, then what you have is an actual black hole, not a "completely solid object", and it would behave the ways black holes behave.
- Thu Mar 08, 2018 2:40 pm UTC
- Forum: Movies and TV Shows
- Topic: ITT: rmsgrey is wrong about slavery (from Black Panther)
- Replies: 103
- Views: 2961
Re: ITT: rmsgrey is wrong about slavery (from Black Panther)
According to that same Wikipedia article, the US and Canada, and the territories that became the US and Canada, accounted for some 20% of the slave trade over its lifetime, while other English/British holdings accounted for a further 20%, and Portuguese colonies for 38.5% (The Danish West Indies ac...
- Thu Mar 08, 2018 4:14 am UTC
- Forum: News & Articles
- Topic: Police misbehavior thread
- Replies: 5912
- Views: 818684
- Thu Mar 08, 2018 4:11 am UTC
- Forum: Movies and TV Shows
- Topic: ITT: rmsgrey is wrong about slavery (from Black Panther)
- Replies: 103
- Views: 2961
Re: ITT: rmsgrey is wrong about slavery (from Black Panther)
↶ And people didn't seem too interested when I mentioned child labour in the coal mines... What people weren't interested in was your justifying the lack of acknowledgement of the British slaving industry with "but we learned about child labor and that's much more significant so it's fine we j...
- Thu Mar 08, 2018 3:02 am UTC
- Forum: Movies and TV Shows
- Topic: Black Panther
- Replies: 186
- Views: 8915
Re: Black Panther
Also just a general protip: If you don't want to have discussions about race that may include feeling uncomfortable because people call on you to face the fact that you are as capable as anyone else of being racist even without intending to, then don't pick Black Panther of all things to be whitely ...
- Wed Mar 07, 2018 11:17 pm UTC
- Forum: Movies and TV Shows
- Topic: Black Panther
- Replies: 186
- Views: 8915
Re: Black Panther
You're just reinforcing the point that people give Stark slack on this. Shuri is the manager of perhaps the most technologically advanced R&D lab in the world, why would people think she's not as good at her job? Yeah like I said before, she is apparently canonically the smartest person in the ...
- Wed Mar 07, 2018 11:12 pm UTC
- Forum: Movies and TV Shows
- Topic: Black Panther
- Replies: 186
- Views: 8915
Re: Black Panther
I saw a lot of comments about that to the effect of, What can I break that MBJ will then personally offer to replace?
- Wed Mar 07, 2018 6:35 pm UTC
- Forum: Movies and TV Shows
- Topic: Black Panther
- Replies: 186
- Views: 8915
Re: Black Panther
Welp, nevermind, guess we can't have that conversation. Yeah, if you publicly state a racist/sexist double standard and you shut down when attention is called to that, it's true that you've made the conversation impossible. Indeed, that's not what I stated at all. Hence my point. You didn't explici...
- Wed Mar 07, 2018 5:45 pm UTC
- Forum: Movies and TV Shows
- Topic: ITT: rmsgrey is wrong about slavery (from Black Panther)
- Replies: 103
- Views: 2961
Re: ITT: rmsgrey is wrong about slavery (from Black Panther)
But yeah, most teachers teach history that's correct...from a certain point of view. Lots of very interesting bits might get left out because they're inconvenient to a particular worldview. Not necessarily lied about or what not, just...not given space. I happened to get a home schooled education w...
- Wed Mar 07, 2018 5:36 pm UTC
- Forum: Movies and TV Shows
- Topic: Black Panther
- Replies: 186
- Views: 8915
Re: Black Panther
If you've never heard Steve Jobs described as the person who created each iPhone until his death, you've been living so deeply under a rock that it's hard to understand how you can even breathe. Welp, nevermind, guess we can't have that conversation. Yeah, if you publicly state a racist/sexist doubl...
- Tue Mar 06, 2018 9:05 pm UTC
- Forum: Movies and TV Shows
- Topic: Black Panther
- Replies: 186
- Views: 8915
Re: Black Panther
Shuri is canonically the smartest (human) character in the MCU, plus she's making stuff in a state-of-the art lab in the most technologically advanced country in the world, rather than a cave in the desert. If they succumbed to the usual trope that new tech often fails spectacularly and comically, t...
- Tue Mar 06, 2018 6:05 pm UTC
- Forum: Movies and TV Shows
- Topic: Black Panther
- Replies: 186
- Views: 8915
Re: Black Panther
I was recently there. Those rides had wait times up to four hours, nothing else broke 90 minutes that I saw. It was also one of the busier areas of the park aside from that, but not by as much of a margin.
- Mon Mar 05, 2018 6:34 pm UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 1963: "Namespace Land Rush"
- Replies: 36
- Views: 2657
Re: 1963: "Namespace Land Rush"
HES wrote:I've never successfully grabbed this name anywhere else, but there's usually a character minimum greater than three.heuristically_alone wrote:How long until we start seeing people on the fora with these usernames?
Given what we already have?
Oh yeah, I'd forgotten that Meaux had changed her name to (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
- Mon Mar 05, 2018 5:56 pm UTC
- Forum: Forum Games
- Topic: The "Thread Necromancy" Game
- Replies: 17131
- Views: 1393535
Re: The "Thread Necromancy" Game
I guess I could move up a few places in this one.
- Mon Mar 05, 2018 5:49 pm UTC
- Forum: Forum Games
- Topic: Thread Necromancy: Longest Time Edition
- Replies: 25
- Views: 4045
Re: Thread Necromancy: Longest Time Edition
Back into second.
- Mon Mar 05, 2018 4:20 pm UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 1962: “Generations”
- Replies: 31
- Views: 2486
Re: 1962: “Generations”
I mean, what name are they going to give the generation after Z, now that they've reached the end of the alphabet? Generation &. The Sue Grafton Dilemma. Resolution found. She died before getting to Z, so not much of a dilemma really. Since I know Randall is a fan of House of Leaves, I was wond...
- Mon Mar 05, 2018 4:15 pm UTC
- Forum: Movies and TV Shows
- Topic: Black Panther
- Replies: 186
- Views: 8915
Re: Black Panther
It's Dances with Wolves but with aliens, yeah. The main thing it had going for it even at the time was being pretty.
- Mon Mar 05, 2018 4:08 pm UTC
- Forum: Movies and TV Shows
- Topic: Black Panther
- Replies: 186
- Views: 8915
Re: Black Panther
Yeah, and that section of the park that Disney eventually "got around to putting up" has the most popular rides in the park by a significant margin.
- Mon Mar 05, 2018 3:08 pm UTC
- Forum: Science
- Topic: Science-based what-if questions
- Replies: 569
- Views: 59319
Re: Science-based what-if questions
The point is that you're already breaking reality, so physics won't really tell you what happens as a result.
You're talking about magic, which is a fine thing to talk about but not a reasonable thing to expect reality-based science to tell you much about.
You're talking about magic, which is a fine thing to talk about but not a reasonable thing to expect reality-based science to tell you much about.
- Mon Mar 05, 2018 2:58 pm UTC
- Forum: Movies and TV Shows
- Topic: Black Panther
- Replies: 186
- Views: 8915
Re: Black Panther
Apparently the first cut was like 4 hours. Hopefully we'll be able to see some of that when it comes out to buy. Or maybe you're so used to having movies targeted directly to your demographic that you can't understand what a relief this movie is to the millions of people who aren't. Perhaps I am mis...
- Mon Mar 05, 2018 12:36 pm UTC
- Forum: Movies and TV Shows
- Topic: Black Panther
- Replies: 186
- Views: 8915
Re: Black Panther
Like, if you're drawing your conclusion from something besides the fact that you, personally, didn't enjoy the movie, please let us know what that other evidence is.
- Mon Mar 05, 2018 5:28 am UTC
- Forum: Movies and TV Shows
- Topic: Black Panther
- Replies: 186
- Views: 8915
Re: Black Panther
Jorpho wrote:I don't understand how paraphrasing works.
- Mon Mar 05, 2018 4:43 am UTC
- Forum: Movies and TV Shows
- Topic: Black Panther
- Replies: 186
- Views: 8915
Re: Black Panther
Didn't Avatar make heaps of money before being largely forgotten (except for being a movie that made heaps of money) ? "I didn't like this movie and I refuse to try to understand why it's unique and important to other people. Therefore I conclude that everyone will forget about it in a few yea...
- Mon Mar 05, 2018 1:44 am UTC
- Forum: Movies and TV Shows
- Topic: Black Panther
- Replies: 186
- Views: 8915
Re: Black Panther
↶ It was only two years ago that people were talking about Ghostbusters as the Most! Important! Movie! because it featured women in prominent roles – or maybe no one was actually talking about it that way, and that's just what the marketers wanted people to believe. I expect two years from now that...
- Sun Mar 04, 2018 10:43 pm UTC
- Forum: Movies and TV Shows
- Topic: ITT: rmsgrey is wrong about slavery (from Black Panther)
- Replies: 103
- Views: 2961
Re: ITT: rmsgrey is wrong about slavery (from Black Panther)
Plus, we're not actually talking about stolen goods, we're talking about stolen people.
The difference is kind of the entire fucking point, here.
The difference is kind of the entire fucking point, here.
They what now?rmsgrey wrote:↶
unilaterally shutting down the slave trade
- Sun Mar 04, 2018 2:46 pm UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 1958: "Self-Driving Issues"
- Replies: 114
- Views: 5447
Re: 1958: "Self-Driving Issues"
Personally I think putting yourself in a self-driving car is insane. You're putting yourself in a death-box that can kill you at the whim of its software. Would you be comfortable sitting in front of a loaded gun controlled by an application running on your Internet-connected desktop computer? I wo...
- Sun Mar 04, 2018 2:37 pm UTC
- Forum: Movies and TV Shows
- Topic: Black Panther
- Replies: 186
- Views: 8915
Re: Black Panther
Or maybe you're so used to having movies targeted directly to your demographic that you can't understand what a relief this movie is to the millions of people who aren't.
- Sun Mar 04, 2018 2:32 pm UTC
- Forum: Movies and TV Shows
- Topic: ITT: rmsgrey is wrong about slavery (from Black Panther)
- Replies: 103
- Views: 2961
Re: ITT: rmsgrey is wrong about slavery (from Black Panther)
↶ And less than 5% of the British economy from the slave trade and the slave-holding colonies combined Cotton alone was 20% of British imports and cotton products were 50% of exports in the 1830s. The cotton industry was 8% of British GNP in 1812. [ source ] But cotton from what sources? Your docum...
- Sat Mar 03, 2018 11:30 pm UTC
- Forum: Movies and TV Shows
- Topic: Black Panther
- Replies: 186
- Views: 8915
Re: Black Panther
Nope, that's the only medical center in all of Wakanda. Just like Q is the only person in the (Bond-verse) United Kingdom who makes gadgets and according to DC comics the only bats in the United States live in Bruce Wayne's cave, because we never see any other bats anywhere else.
- Sat Mar 03, 2018 10:51 pm UTC
- Forum: Movies and TV Shows
- Topic: ITT: rmsgrey is wrong about slavery (from Black Panther)
- Replies: 103
- Views: 2961
Re: ITT: rmsgrey is wrong about slavery (from Black Panther)
↶ And less than 5% of the British economy from the slave trade and the slave-holding colonies combined Cotton alone was 20% of British imports and cotton products were 50% of exports in the 1830s. The cotton industry was 8% of British GNP in 1812. [ source ] Obviously all these numbers changed at d...
- Sat Mar 03, 2018 10:22 pm UTC
- Forum: Mathematics
- Topic: My take on Godel's incompleteness theorems
- Replies: 42
- Views: 3194
Re: My take on Godel's incompleteness theorems
A (sufficiently strong) system of logic can't prove itself consistent and in fact, if it is consistent, there must be many true statements that are not provable within the system. But another level of mathematical reasoning may be able to prove those lower level statements. You don't need to leave m...
- Fri Mar 02, 2018 4:44 pm UTC
- Forum: Movies and TV Shows
- Topic: ITT: rmsgrey is wrong about slavery (from Black Panther)
- Replies: 103
- Views: 2961
Re: rmsgrey continues to dig himself a hole about slavery
Ignorance of the atrocities us British have committed is entirely understandable but, well, this weirdly specific doubling down is just dealing with the cognitive dissonance by piling even more on top of it and hoping the weight holds it down. Yeah, that's the thing. Acknowledging that you were poo...
- Fri Mar 02, 2018 4:31 pm UTC
- Forum: Fictional Science
- Topic: Magitech society needs a heat engine
- Replies: 41
- Views: 2495
Re: Magitech society needs a heat engine
But what I don't understand is that in the ideal gas law, PV = nRT, heat capacity (the part that controls the thermal energy for a given T) does not appear. Why would you expect it to appear directly? Energy isn't one of the terms of that equation, though both sides are in the same units as energy....
- Fri Mar 02, 2018 1:47 pm UTC
- Forum: Language/Linguistics
- Topic: Regional Dialect and Idiolect Oddities (pronunciation)
- Replies: 909
- Views: 210116
Re: Regional Dialect and Idiolect Oddities (pronunciation)
Angua wrote:Mairy (rhyme with hairy, fairy) (Mary) Long a
Ma (as in mama) ry. Marry. Short a
Typically I see "short a" to describe sound in mat/bad/pack, which is not the sound I'd think of for "Mama", but is for "marry".