Comments by "Seegal Galguntijak" (@Seegalgalguntijak) on "Veritasium" channel.

  1. So it will air in Germany, but those fuckers will have dubbed it and there's no chance to see the actual original of the documentary. I hope to get it via Bittorrent though, and without having to pay the content MAFIA (= "Music and Film Industries Association") for it, because it's their fault that I can't see it in its original language, just because I speak it but happen to live in an area where another language is spoken. This really sucks.
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  2. In Bill Gates' position, I would go nuts. Just imagine, you brought Windows Vista over the world, but what people hate you for is your attempts to eradicate a global pandemic ;-P
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  3. I guess, if the water were purified H2O (or "distilled water"), it would not produce any charge, but in normal water, there are always other types of atoms present, which exist in a state of ionization, being partly bonded to the water molecules, like if you put salt into water. If I remember my school chemistry correctly, that becomes Na+ and Cl- molecules which bond to the according side of the water molecules. That can only happen because water is a dipole molecule, it has one end that is positively charged and an other end that is negatively charged. So these ions will cross the charged wire mesh and then lose their charge. Because the water has before flown through the metal rings with the opposite charge of the wire mesh, the effect increases itself.
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  4. Unfortunately, Right to repair doesn't include the genereal repairability of a product. If there is no way to open the product without destroying it, we can have right to repair and still no repairable products. (I'm talking about everything, from kitchen appliances to household electronics to computers and phones)
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  5. "Help with deisgn, join in..." - "But you need Windows on your PC" - "OK, I'll pass"... let's design free and open technologies instead!
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  6. Veritasium Sorry bud, but I don't care who's speaking your voice in the dubbed version. It's not original, while it is originally in a language I understand, therefore I can't watch it. If you watch movies that are normally dubbed in your region in their original language for a time (and of course, if you understand that language), you start to actually hear that there's a guy in a sound booth with his headset on who's speaking the stuff you hear. It just sounds totally unrealistic.
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  7. Veritasium Ryan did not say that! All he said was that it is impossible to say either this or that. This is the true "final frontier" of not being able to know the truth, especially since it defies the scientific definition of truth to be something anyone can reproduce independently, since it can only be lived personally (or, not lived, if you want to see it like that). The act of assuming in itself - either, that consciousness is permanent, or that it isn't - is the irresponsible and/or arrogant thing. That goes for every religion just like for every nihilist. People tend to try to find a universal truth, but this doesn't work for a subject that can't be generalized. Anyways, it's philosophy - not science. So if you want to go there, where science and philosophy meet, then I'll be expecting lots of totally awesome videos from you, about quantum physics, string theory and so on and so forth!
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  8. What is it with the dystopian Sci-Fi setting? I don't like it. Too technocratic, too cold-hearted. Science is fine and all, but we are still human beings, not machines as some would like to be... But that's only my opinion.
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  9. ***** OK, but I know no country where that isn't true about politicians.
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  10. Of whose face?
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  11. So why don't they make heat shields for rockets reentering the atmosphere out of this stuff?
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  12.  @lonewretch  Ever tried one of those modern all glued-shut phones of the latest generations?
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  13. Thank you for this video! Sarcastically, one could say that smartphones and apps like Facebook and YouTube were invented in order to enslave humanity by keeping each individual from reaching their own personal state of greatness through boredom (if that knowledge has already been proven over 10 years ago). But I rather see it as a reminder to be consciously bored more often so that I can find my way to reach my own personal state of greatness :-)
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  14. ***** I don't really understand. Isn't it natural to die some day? I mean, since childhood it was normal that old people die, sometimes even young people die through accident or sickness. But nobody lives forever. So why would one need to realize something that has been clear from the beginning? Or why would someone need to be fearful about that? I can understand if you're fearful of a situation where you might die soon (like in a fire or accident or so), or some might be fearful when getting on a plane or even into a car. But this general fear of the fact that everyone will die in the end is a concept that doesn't make sense to me. This sounds like being fearful of the darkness of the coming night on every morning when the sun rises...?
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  15. ***** I guess you mean that, despite all these facts, German politicians and their parties are always re-elected (instead of people understanding and electing none of the big 3 or 4 parties) ;)
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  16.  @lonewretch  You know, they're copying that from Apple as well ;-P
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  17. So, since the helicopter runs on a Linux-based OS, Mars is now the second planet in our solar system that has more computers running Linux than Windows ;-)
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  18. Derek
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  19. I remember 15-20 years ago when GSM networks were just being built (or improved, they started almost 25 years ago), they wanted to erect a cell tower at the border of the forest towards the village I lived in back then. And there were people forming against that, completely without any knowledge about what it actually does. Someone in that village who has been selling cell phones/car phones since about the late 70s (when they took half the trunk of a full size car and needed to turn off 30 minutes after the engine shut down, or the car battery was empty the next day) made a joke out of it and started telling people that when their hair is wet, and the tower is on line, they must not run towards it, because it could singe their hair tip when they ran too fast. Running away from it were OK though, because they would be running with the waves, not against them. Some people really believed that! Knowledge is power...
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  20. ***** The things you get for 300 bucks are more like craptops, not laptops. Seriously, I don't want a machine that I have to throw away after 2 years, because it doesn't work any more, the case is broken or the fan is clogged up or worn out, and there is no way to get to it other than disassembeling the whole unit, let alone replacement parts. Also, I don't need that much processing power for the stuff I do, so I really see no use in buying a new machine. But 300 bucks can get you a decent used T-series Thinkpad. Why Windows is useless? Well, ask Microsoft why they made it that way. And yes, I could theoretically run a virtual machine with Windows in it, but the goal is to not need Windows software or "compatibility" (which in most cases means incompatibility to sincere computers). So why would I want to? Every computer free from Microsoft software is one machine less contributing to the ever-too-big dying empire. So let's increase the speed of Microsoft's dying process by not use their crap, thus being independent and not vendor-locked-in.
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  21. Agerr Gerra Oh, I see. However, I never found these movies interesting in any way - which might explain my difference in taste.
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  22. Battusai1984 Fleeing into the vague 'beyond', so that you miss your life on earth doesn't work anyways, lol.
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  23. nadjim73 In that case, I highly doubt that we are able to perceive it, yet alone fathom it. So while it may be there (which I don't know), reality for us is still a highly subjective thing. We have a consensus on what it consists of, which we call science. And we strife to broaden this horizon continuously. But to assume that we're already "there" (if there is a point of total understanding at which an arrival would be possible) would be wrong, because science hasn't discovered much yet (in relation to the awesomeness of the whole universe, which, again, is unfathomable to us).
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  24. Also, it depends on how the average life expectancy is being calculated: People were getting very old (like 70, 80) in the past, too. But a high percentage of them died as infants, so this really lowered the average value, which is why there were numbers like 30 - not that most people never exceeded this age. Actually, those who reached 30 and were not killed during war or through hunting accidents etc., did reach the same old age as we do nowadays.
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  25. JaytleBee von Miraus Yeah, I know, so I think that's what I'll do, just because they don't leave me any other choice...damn MAFIA!
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  26. ***** I don't get it either, but I guess all I can offer about it are conspiracy theories ;)
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  27. EACPentrit In the olden times, they had something called "Zweikanalton", two channel audio. One channel had the German dub, the other had the original language, whichever it was. And yes, both channels were Stereo. This was quite enjoyable. With languages other than English and German, I'd turn on subtitles which are translated into a laguage I understand, and it would be fine. Just depriving everyone of the enjoyment to chose the original audio because the majority wouldn't understand it (although, with English and even Turkish, that isn't even clear) is simply wrong, especially nowadays in a time where we have enough bandwidth for digital transport and good compression algorithms. But anyways, I don't have a TV any more since 15 years, and nowadays, watching everything over the internet is even better (plus, I can't be bothered with the 99% BS on 99% of all stations).
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  28. EACPentrit That's them deciding that I have to illegally download it.
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  29. EACPentrit It isn't illegal yet, but they're working on it...darn MAFIA (=Music And Film Industries Association)...
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  30. EACPentrit Well, it seems we're going in circles here, because the same thing happens in Germany as well: Every election, the parties which make the worst decisions get elected. So one could assume that our representative democracies may be compromised somehow, but if that is the case (either through subtle manipulation of the masses through the media, or through direct election fraud, or through any other means possible), then the people are not to blame - with that same logic, it could have been OK if the other guy who posted in this thread called most Germans idiots, because we have the same effect in our democracy. So basically, this thread now ran around in a circle while it went way off topic on a tangent, and now we are having something that should look like one of those old cassette player signs...
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  31. MrB10N1CLE Yeah, but distilled water isn't electrically conductive, or at least it has a way higher resistance than normal water, so there should be less to none ions in it?
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  32. The use of lithium ion batteries in mobile phones started a little more than 20 years ago, not 30 years ago. 30 years ago, many mobile phones even didn't have a NiMh battery, but instead still used a NiCd battery, which was even worse in energy density and also reliability.
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  33. I wish this could happen in my bank's computer with the memory storing the total in my account, flipping the 17th bit or so...
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  34. The main issue about analog computers, for their "power" is their precision, which would need to approach towards infinity to be the most powerful computers. Also, they are usually not very universal, although this could be solved with an adaptive modular internal design approach.
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  35. The world: Global pandemic, we're on lockdown, travel bans apply. Derek from Veritasium: I'll show you the interesting places of the world! ;-)
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  36. @J. Ford Du weißt doch: Wenn Du Dich zuhause einsam fühlst, dann kauf Dir Handcreme. Die zieht sofort ein!
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  37. Yes, our brains need a short period of time to perceive reality, not only "one moment at a time", but with a little buffer of what was 1, 2, 5 seconds in the past (or longer, depending on which memory we use). But still, the passage of time is still only one moment. I mean, how can anything happen "soon" without me thinking that it will happen soon right in this moment? I don't see the speciousness of the present, I think there is no contradiction.
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  38. Nicely done! Continue deconstructing Faecesbook, nobody needs nor wants that website anyways! Thanks for doing so - that's even better than hating on Faecesbook, which is what I do ;)
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  39. The problem with solving the causes of climate change, like CO2 or our general energy problems is that science itself is not willing to acknowledge technologies that would allow us to use as much energy as we want due to (nowadays so-called) "overunity" effects, which are not understood, don't fit into the current scientific models and noone in the science community can be bothered to revise those models based on experiments that clearly prove an overunity effect. Or if they do, like Prof. Konstantin Meyl from Germany, they are quickly outcast the science community. Of course this also has to do with where the scientists get their funding from - if such a technology were made available to the general public, many big industries would seize to exist from one day to the other.
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  40. I wonder how other emotions influence chronoception, for example depression or sadness.
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  41. I would say the reason is that with every information you get online, you have the same issue: You have to trust the source in order to believe it to be a fact. And many people are disappointed by the turns the world has taken in the last couple of decades, so they don't consider their news sources from the past to be credible any more. I mean, there have been obvious "bs stories" before, look how long people like David Icke have been able to publish the information they consider to be a fact. Many people are now disappointed by the world and how it all turns out (i.e. worse jobs, worse payment, less money to live, less security, while the wealth around them seems to grow), so they turn to other sources. It's the same mechanism by which the phenomenon called religion has been working for several millenia.
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  42. My spam filter has mostly false negatives, only very few false positives.
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  43. In German, we have a saying which goes like this: Don't trust any statistic that you haven't falsified yourself. Nuff said.
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  44. The problem with Facebook's responsibility about fake/real news is the fact that you basically outsource censorship to a private third party (Facebook in this case). I know, calling some news fake isn't censorship, but it goes into that same direction. Some very intelligent people (Dr. Frank Rieger from the German Chaos Computer Club, the very intelligent Sci-Fi author Daniel Suarez - whose books Daemon and Freedom I sincerely recommend to everybody - and some psychologist I forgot the name of) recently had a talk and a discussion where they came to the conclusion that marking fake news as "satirical" on Facebook could be a reasonable approach to a possible solution.
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  45. Pure rocket science
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  46. Great explanation of how life and the laws of physics are basically the same thing, and the former wouldn't be able to exist without the latter.
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  47. I've been subscribed to George Hart's channel for a number of years, and I haven't found the bike video. Where is the link to it??
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  48. Who is the beautiful lady next to you at 02:00? She looks really pretty!
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  49. Somehow I feel the urge of making a pun about giving a damn now
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  50. ***** I was speaking hypothetical, at least for me. And, a decent laptop is not a consumer grade machine. Decent laptops are only available in the "business customer" range of any manufacturer, starting around 1300€ or so. I personally am a dedicated user of Lenovo Thinkpads, but I use the older, more affordable models, which serve me quite well (T400, X61 etc). Dual Boot however is preposterous, because while in Windows, I wouldn't be able to use my computer in any decent manner. So why would I want to boot into Windows... And no, WINE Is Not An Emulator.
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