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Carbon dioxide posted:Maybe not, but I still want an answer to my question, why do they put photos of people everywhere in places where other cultures don't? Dude it’s a propaganda piece. Political ads usually include a depiction of the candidate or party leader.
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Yeah I'll wager it's rarely "random people" but more often political figures, CEOs, cultural icons, etc that lend authority to whatever the image/graph is about. "I'm [NAME], and I approve this message!" (whether they're aware of it or not)
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I like the idea that Narendra Modi is just some random guy and not one of the most important people in the world. I mean checks out it's jsut an Indian thing though as I personally have never seen a picture of Donald Trump and wouldn't know him if I saw him.
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I thought it was just good Modi cosplay.
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Sep 21, 2018 12:38
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To be fair, that photo is like "old-indian-man-stock.jpg".
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How so? Why is it more stock-like than a photo of Trump or May or Merkel?
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It should be pretty easy to find a picture from the US, the UK, or other countries showing a leader or some political figure beside a random chart if it's not an Indian thing.
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I can’t manage to successfully search for Indian graphs with people, so not being able to find them for other countries isn’t proving much to me.
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Let me rephrase: OP can surely find many other Indian graphs fitting this criterion if this is an Indian thing, and others can surely then find many other non-Indian graphs of this type if this is not just an Indian thing. Otherwise this discussion is really abstract and lacking in graphs and charts, funny or otherwise.
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https://twitter.com/JRReed/status/1043125797249331200
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What is it with Britain and putting photos of random people in images that are otherwise supposed to look official?
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What's a "session low" in this context? Is it the daily low of the exchange rate?
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Hippie Hedgehog posted:What's a "session low" in this context? Is it the daily low of the exchange rate? I think there may be some significance to this in that it's a significant drop over a very short period of time, possibly she sharpest drop in under a day, but it's not particularly high or low for the year.
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Hippie Hedgehog posted:What's a "session low" in this context? Is it the daily low of the exchange rate? I think that means the "European Session" or "London Session" - the markets are open 24 hours a day but tend to sort into 3 sessions geographically.  https://www.investopedia.com/articles/forex/08/3-market-system.asp
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:What is it with Britain and putting photos of random people in images that are otherwise supposed to look official? 
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It's not a particularly notable drop, just looks bad because it shows the last 24h. Last Friday it was 1.307.
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In terms of currency, $.02 in a day is a big deal. Like most currencies aren’t bitcoin, they tend to have stable values. As someone going to Europe soon though gently caress yeah more blood for the blood god bleed that chart red.
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Also pre-Brexit the pound was worth something like $1.60.
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I remember times when pound was more expensive than LVL, which historically traded 2:1 with USD (in broad strokes).
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This is good news for britcoin. Buy the dip and hodl
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 Finally someone’s asking the real questions!
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System Metternich posted:
I feel like at the very least, Thanksgiving would probably be very different.
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The Cheshire Cat posted:I feel like at the very least, Thanksgiving would probably be very different. especially if the transformation can happen post-mortem
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Does that graph assume that humans who’ve turned into turkeys won’t turn back into humans ever again?
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Jay Rust posted:Does that graph assume that humans who’ve turned into turkeys won’t turn back into humans ever again? I think it does, actually. There are probably a bunch of poor sods who already have switched species multiple times by day 10.
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Jay Rust posted:Does that graph assume that humans who’ve turned into turkeys won’t turn back into humans ever again? I don't think it does. That's some standard rear end equilibrium kinetics. If they assumed a no backsies provision, the two populations would just slowly flip instead of converge.
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On the pictures of people in Indian politics thing: It's about cult of personality politics. She's dead now, but when Jayalalitha was Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu you could not escape the picture of her big fat stupid face. On billboards, on the sides of stables, everywhere there was a flat surface big enough to paint on, there she was. It's all about the iconography and beating into the public psyche that "You love this person! You really really love this person! They are your leader and they are good! You love them. (Ignore the fact she is skimming thousands of rupees and keeping you in poverty)" The BJP, and Modi in particular, are also big on this. So the point of putting Modi next to that graph is simply to say "Modi-ji is great! See this graph proves it. But remember how much you love Modi, and by association the BJP."
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Goon Danton posted:I don't think it does. That's some standard rear end equilibrium kinetics. We have to account for the fact that the children of turkey-humans can probably flip too, so I feel like we'd almost end up with sine and cosine curves as each generation changes around.
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Equilibria are a solved problem in chemistry, and it's the same principle here. eventually you'll hit a point where the turkey->human transformations are roughly equal to the human->turkey transformations, at which point the populations will be roughly equal. If the odds of changing in each direction were different, the populations would be proportional to that (ie: if 1% of humans became turkeys and 3% of turkeys became humans, you'd see an equilibrium with three times as many humans as turkeys). Getting the oscillation thing going is possible, but super rare.
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If the humans are eating turkeys, we might get one of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotka%E2%80%93Volterra_equations
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:If the humans are eating turkeys, we might get one of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotka%E2%80%93Volterra_equations I think I once ran across a paper where someone did a rigorous mathematical analysis of the predator-prey dynamics among vampires and humans as shown in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. If I recall correctly, the town was a pretty feasible ecosystem, mathematically speaking.
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Powered Descent posted:I think I once ran across a paper where someone did a rigorous mathematical analysis of the predator-prey dynamics among vampires and humans as shown in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. If I recall correctly, the town was a pretty feasible ecosystem, mathematically speaking. I remember seeing another that I think used Bram Stoker’s Dracula (or maybe it was Underworld) and concluding humanity was basically doomed unless vampires were exterminated very, very early on
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Powered Descent posted:I think I once ran across a paper where someone did a rigorous mathematical analysis of the predator-prey dynamics among vampires and humans as shown in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. If I recall correctly, the town was a pretty feasible ecosystem, mathematically speaking. Vampire Ecology in the Jossverse
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How could you post that without posting the graph. 
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DarkHorse posted:I remember seeing another that I think used Bram Stoker’s Dracula (or maybe it was Underworld) and concluding humanity was basically doomed unless vampires were exterminated very, very early on This is about Dracula. Van Helsing says that anyone attacked by a vampire will become one. If you assume each vampire kills one human a month, it's about 20 months from the creation of the first vampire to everyone being a vampire.
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Randomly encountered while on a Wikipedia binge of Cold War espionage stories: Source.
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Safety Biscuits posted:This is about Dracula. Van Helsing says that anyone attacked by a vampire will become one. If you assume each vampire kills one human a month, it's about 20 months from the creation of the first vampire to everyone being a vampire. Peter Watt's Blindsight solves this by positing that vampires developed long periods of hibernation (centuries or more) in order to allow the human population to regrow to an appropriate level. Also the "crucifix glitch" is caused by extensive cross-wiring in their visual cortex, causing an epilepsy-style feedback loop when they're exposed to strong vertical and horizontal visual stimuli. And it's not even really about vampires! Book owns, read Blindsight goons.
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Jay Rust posted:Does that graph assume that humans who’ve turned into turkeys won’t turn back into humans ever again? To achieve that kind of equilibrium you'd have to assume changing back is possible. Think about it this way; let's say you have 7 billion humans and 700 turkeys. 1% of humans is 7 million while 1% of turkeys is 7. So after that you have 6.993 billion humans + 7 but 7,000,693 turkeys. 1% of that is ~6.993 million humans and ~7,000 turkeys. A 1% chance obviously wouldn't guarantee exactly 7 or 7,000 turkeys but the humans would be pretty close. Even if all 700 turkeys hit the 99% chance and none of them flip you'd have about 7,000,000 humans flipping so on day two you'd have 7,000,700 turkeys which makes it way more likely some will flip but you'd again have about 7,000,000 humans flipping. So if you have more humans than turkeys you're guaranteed to have fewer humans and more turkeys the next day. So if you have more of one than another the numbers will, over time, pressure them into approximate equality. It will never be exact but it'll be close.
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Strom Cuzewon posted:Peter Watt's Blindsight solves this by positing that vampires developed long periods of hibernation (centuries or more) in order to allow the human population to regrow to an appropriate level. I hate this post so much
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