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How do we know it wasn't already an antique when the ship sank?

It needs very unreasonable amount of scrolling.

Skin is vital, as you need to deage veins.

And that is why nobody wants to find the truth, that the effects are human caused, and not natural.

Yeah, it would make more sense to send several telescopes, each a bit better than the one before, but I guess it was easier to get funding for "this revolutionary telescope" than f…

It's about what kind of competence is favored by the market - it favors people who can get funding, which is not necessarily related to the ability to get the job done.

No I'm not doing that, there seems to be some problem specifically there. Either the values are converted incorrectly, or not at all, effectivelly stretching about 8 fstops into th…

No that can't be what's happening. You would expect contrast to be lost, not increased, if that was the issue. 8bit sRGB can contain 11.6 f-stops of dynamic range, and it is no lon…

No. It isn't there so that you can use it when you choose to. All devices expect it to be used. When you skip it the colors will be wrong.

No, the problem is VERY OBVIOUSLY more severe than that. It's really as if the images were treated as linear, which they are not. (they use gamma correction)

The one I was replying to talked about brain processing. Whatever it is doesn't need to and shouldn't be reproduced in photography as the protograph gets processed just like everyt…

No it doesn't make sense. You should not be able to capture anything darker than 40, or brighter than 60 if you are limited to 40-60. (actually by the file format, not the sensor, …

No, that does not make any sense. That should result in 40, and everything darker resulting in 40, while 60 and everything brighter resulting in 60. But what you can see is that 40…

It is different because it is obvious that shadows are darker than in reality while highlights are much brighter than in reality. Any brain filtering would have to affect the photo…

It seems to me there must be some kind of error in color calibration of most cameras. They make shadows much darker than they are, and bright areas much brighter than they are. It'…

Different accents use different vowels, but they remain comprehensible. It's specifically those accents that also change consonants that are taken as hard to understand, such as Sc…

I get that, but it matters very little in a typical sentence. I bet you could understand almost everything with all vowels replaced with schwas.

I'm not a native speaker, but, I think it's rather the opposite. It's very inauthentic. English is a rather unusual language that the meaning is mostly carried only by consonants, …

>it would have to follow from certain first-principles, and could reason his way back to the highest level of abstraction, with immense ease. The thinking of geniuses seem to be ma…

Yes it is cherry picking. You picked the starting date to make it seem like there was a dramatic rise, while looking further shows a post war dip, and return to "normal". I argued …

But why do you need to cherry pick the data, if it's so clear cut? https://www.econlib.org/archives/2011/06/crime_statistic.htm...

I'm arguing here that your views are fuelled by wishful thinking, if not nonsense. You can't turn the world into utopia by sticking to a moral panic triggered by the civil rights m…

The problem is there is no evidence for any crime boom unless you pick the right location and the right beginning year (typically the post war years) or some such contrieved scenar…

But there is no decline.