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miky_ardiente
Mexico387 Posts
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Najda
United States3765 Posts
On February 17 2015 13:05 miky_ardiente wrote: Do you believe in the law of attraction ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b295OBuDmyM I think it's a stupid catch phrase and it can be a naive viewpoint. You can't just always only look at the positive things, you have to be aware of the negative things as well. Such a viewpoint is very susceptible to crumbling as soon as things start to take a turn for the worse. Chris Hadfield talks about this in his book about becoming an astronaut; he intentionally thinks of all of the worst things that can possibly go wrong, and then comes up with a solution for each and every one. That way, if things ever do start going wrong, you can still be confident in your ability to resolve the issue. | ||
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AbouSV
Germany1278 Posts
On February 17 2015 14:21 Najda wrote: Chris Hadfield talks about this in his book about becoming an astronaut; he intentionally thinks of all of the worst things that can possibly go wrong, and then comes up with a solution for each and every one. That way, if things ever do start going wrong, you can still be confident in your ability to resolve the issue. I use this way of thinking too, but also so that when things do NOT go wrong, I explicitly notice it, and I am happy about it. An other way of putting it is that my 'normality' is not [normal is fairly good and everything worse is bad], but I consider everything fairly bad as 'normal' so that better means good. if you can get my point. Sound quite stupid because too simple, but it is actually quite efficient, and not necessarily easy to apply. The idea is that we are not sensible to "happiness", but to 'gradients of happiness', we need reference points. | ||
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Wolfstan
Canada605 Posts
Is it cool to drive at night with your high beams on if oncoming traffic is 50 yards to the left? 100 yards? How about being behind someone? I just finished driving across the Canadian prairies and never quite knew, I just kinda winged it. | ||
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Simberto
Germany12011 Posts
Or are you saying you are kind of driving offroad with people driving at random spots of the landscape? I really only know how to handle it on roads, and in that case you turn it off as soon as you see someone ahead of you, because otherwise it will blind them. | ||
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ThomasjServo
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Acrofales
Spain18449 Posts
On February 18 2015 02:36 ThomasjServo wrote: I think it is 500 ft in front of you in the opposite lane, if someone is in front of you that may be different though. That being said the only time I really would use high beams is driving country roads at night, looking for deer eyes in the brush off of the road. Not sure where you're from, but the necessity of high beams can differ drastically between countries. Living in NL I hardly ever needed to use highs, but here in Brazil roads are bad, and really DARK at night. Using highs can give you that slightly longer warning time that allows you to brake for an unannounced speed bump, a pothole, or any one of another 100 potential hazards (including people and animals). Don't have to be out far in the countryside on a small road either. That said, most Brazilians drive like utter dicks and leave both their high beams and their mist lights on regardless of who is around, which makes night drives quite miserable :p | ||
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ThomasjServo
15244 Posts
On February 18 2015 19:35 Acrofales wrote: Not sure where you're from, but the necessity of high beams can differ drastically between countries. Living in NL I hardly ever needed to use highs, but here in Brazil roads are bad, and really DARK at night. Using highs can give you that slightly longer warning time that allows you to brake for an unannounced speed bump, a pothole, or any one of another 100 potential hazards (including people and animals). Don't have to be out far in the countryside on a small road either. That said, most Brazilians drive like utter dicks and leave both their high beams and their mist lights on regardless of who is around, which makes night drives quite miserable :p I am from Minnesota, Saint Paul specifically, so no real need for them unless you are on unlit roads which are a bit outside the city. | ||
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Djzapz
Canada10681 Posts
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Acrofales
Spain18449 Posts
On February 18 2015 23:29 Djzapz wrote: I need a simple free software to make a semantic network. I put an example of what it would look like in the spoiler below, though I wouldn't use it that way, and mine would hopefully be a little bit cleaner. I don't need anything complicated, just boxes with words in them, lines linking the boxes to one another and the ability to write on the lines. I could use paint but that'd be annoying. Any suggestions? + Show Spoiler + Well, there's visio or omnigraffle (both paid, but far better than the free versions. powerpoint works okay too) if you don't really care about any kind of checks on the underlying semantics. If you want a more rigorous tool that is made for the job, you should look at Protegé. It doesn't end up with a result as pretty as the one you linked, but it has the advantage of actually generating correct OWL code for you, and comes integrated with reasoners (like Pellet) to check that what you're doing makes sense. There are some other tools out there, but protege is, imho, by far the best. Download here: http://protege.stanford.edu/ | ||
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Yoav
United States1874 Posts
On February 18 2015 01:23 Wolfstan wrote: What is proper high beam etiquette while driving? Is it cool to drive at night with your high beams on if oncoming traffic is 50 yards to the left? 100 yards? How about being behind someone? I just finished driving across the Canadian prairies and never quite knew, I just kinda winged it. Generally, a highway with significant division it's ok to keep highbeams on. I'd be less willing on a prairie than on hills though (since the different sides are usually on different levels in the hills). If someone is ahead of you generally keep high beams off at most distances. At very long distance on flat terrain could be ok if the illuminated bit of road stops before the other car. The principle is always being able to see all the way ahead of you, except briefly when another car is passing in opposing lane on non-divided highways. Of course, you have to slow down doing that so you can still see your full stopping distance. Had a friend driving in a rural, hilly place at night, he turned off the highbeams for an incoming car and didn't slow enough to see fully and hit a black cow just chilling on the highway. Totaled the car. Cow apparently got back up and ate some grass for at least a bit. Got full payment for value of car from insurance company b/c it's the fault of the livestock owner for letting it get loose. | ||
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Djzapz
Canada10681 Posts
On February 19 2015 00:40 Acrofales wrote: Well, there's visio or omnigraffle (both paid, but far better than the free versions. powerpoint works okay too) if you don't really care about any kind of checks on the underlying semantics. If you want a more rigorous tool that is made for the job, you should look at Protegé. It doesn't end up with a result as pretty as the one you linked, but it has the advantage of actually generating correct OWL code for you, and comes integrated with reasoners (like Pellet) to check that what you're doing makes sense. There are some other tools out there, but protege is, imho, by far the best. Download here: http://protege.stanford.edu/ Thanks, quite confusing at first glance. I'll see if I can figure it out. | ||
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Cascade
Australia5405 Posts
On February 18 2015 23:29 Djzapz wrote: I need a simple free software to make a semantic network. I put an example of what it would look like in the spoiler below, though I wouldn't use it that way, and mine would hopefully be a little bit cleaner. I don't need anything complicated, just boxes with words in them, lines linking the boxes to one another and the ability to write on the lines. I could use paint but that'd be annoying. Any suggestions? + Show Spoiler + PowerPoint is actually doing decent flowcharts. Not sure I'd they have support for words on lines, but if you have it installed anyway it'd be worth a try IMO. | ||
[Phantom]
Mexico2170 Posts
We know there are viruses that change so fast that it is imposible to make a vaccine for them right now, like aids. This mutations, can change how the virus works. So my question is: Is it posible for virus like the HIV to mutate sso they be able to transmit themselve trough air like the flu? Because we would be fucked if that happened. | ||
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ThomasjServo
15244 Posts
On February 19 2015 11:07 [SXG]Phantom wrote: Ths is maybe a stupid question, i wonder if anyone here is studying medicine or biology, this question is directed to them: We know there are viruses that change so fast that it is imposible to make a vaccine for them right now, like aids. This mutations, can change how the virus works. So my question is: Is it posible for virus like the HIV to mutate sso they be able to transmit themselve trough air like the flu? Because we would be fucked if that happened. Fun fact pursuant to your question, if you can trace your lineage to Europe during the plague, you may lack the CD4 receptor, which the aids virus needs to become active in your system. | ||
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Cascade
Australia5405 Posts
On February 19 2015 11:07 [SXG]Phantom wrote: Ths is maybe a stupid question, i wonder if anyone here is studying medicine or biology, this question is directed to them: We know there are viruses that change so fast that it is imposible to make a vaccine for them right now, like aids. This mutations, can change how the virus works. So my question is: Is it posible for virus like the HIV to mutate sso they be able to transmit themselve trough air like the flu? Because we would be fucked if that happened. Not really my area, but as I understand, we don't have to worry much about that. Reason is that to spread airborne, the virus kindof have to live in the lungs or somewhere that can be shoot out in the air (like a cold that makes you sneeze etc). HIV lives mainly in the immune system, which is not normally being shot out in the air (well, unless if you... you know... out in the air...). So the HIV would have to change itself quite substantially to start living in other cells of the human body, and at that point they wouldn't be living in the immune cells any longer, and I guess they'd be little more than a cold. But I'm pretty much talking out of my ass here, so please someone more knowledgeable let us know if I got it right or not. | ||
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Cascade
Australia5405 Posts
On February 19 2015 11:23 ThomasjServo wrote: Fun fact pursuant to your question, if you can trace your lineage to Europe during the plague, you may lack the CD4 receptor, which the aids virus needs to become active in your system. Another fun fact: there are airborne cancers. Only for genetically identical mice though, so us non-identical humans probably don't need to worry. But if we start cloning ourselves too much...!  | ||
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Ghostcom
Denmark4783 Posts
On February 19 2015 11:23 ThomasjServo wrote: Fun fact pursuant to your question, if you can trace your lineage to Europe during the plague, you may lack the CD4 receptor, which the aids virus needs to become active in your system. I'm pretty sure you are thinking of CCR5, a co-receptor to CD4 and that it is only homozygotes of the defective CCR5 who are so lucky as to be immune to the HIV-1 strain (they can still contract the HIV-2 strain). The explanation for why HIV hasn't gone airborne was largely correct. | ||
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DepressedOne
United States190 Posts
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Parametric
Canada1261 Posts
On February 20 2015 13:13 DepressedOne wrote: A Canadian person I met online said he puts slabs of meat on his floor randomly all over the place. He says this is Canadian tradition and when guests come over they can pick a slab of meat they like. It's also handy if you want a snack. Just pick a slab of meat sitting by your chair and yum yum. I'm not sure if he's trolling or not. I'm not to judge another culture's traditions. It doesn't seem hygienic to me. Is this guy telling the truth? Is this actually Canadian tradition? He lives in an igloo. Water runs it. He has a computer. What. He says he pays a guy to shoot electricity into the water that runs the electronics in his house. Igloos. He lives in an igloo. His family built it. It takes a very long time to build these igloos. Completely not true, Canadians don't have running water in their igloos. | ||
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