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_maelstrom commented on A reality bending mistake in Apple's computational photography   appleinsider.com/articles... · Posted by u/indrora
_maelstrom · 2 years ago
It's buried in the article, but: "Coates was moving when the photo was taken, so when the shutter was pressed, many differing images were captured in that instant as the camera swept over the scene, since it was a panoramic photo capture."

So it's a pano doing normal pano things, but it's just surprising in context. If you have not yet tried it, you can have friends jump in and out of the frame as you slowly move across a scene and have silly photos where they appear more than once!

Edit: typo

_maelstrom commented on A reality bending mistake in Apple's computational photography   appleinsider.com/articles... · Posted by u/indrora
doctoboggan · 2 years ago
I don't think this is true, Apple hasn't openly said they do this level of manipulation (although that doesn't mean they don't necessarily), and I don't think the range of motions she would have to go through would be possible within a single capture. Even with "Live Photos" this wouldn't happen.
_maelstrom · 2 years ago
The article says it was a panorama photo, which makes it much less interesting than live/hdr creating the same effect.
_maelstrom commented on The elderly are becoming homeless at a rate not seen since the Great Depression   moneywise.com/news/econom... · Posted by u/myshpa
_maelstrom · 2 years ago
An interesting contrast in this whole debate is Japan, where homes actually depreciate slowly over 20-30 years while the underlying land much more moderately appreciates vs homes in the West [0]. This makes apartments quite cheap, even in popular cities, and the rate of homelessness is quite low [1].

There are small towns trying to sell empty houses for super cheap, though possibly you have to pay to bring them up to code, I am not sure on the details. More recently, renovation has started to become popular [2]. I guess that helps with costs and is more eco-friendly.

I'm not sure if this way of doing it is better but it makes sense to me that the house itself, like a car, should lose value as it ages and its parts will require more servicing and replacement.

[0] https://www.rethinktokyo.com/2018/06/06/depreciate-limited-l...

[1] https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/homelessn...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/nov/16/japan-reusabl...

_maelstrom commented on Don’t mess with a genius (2010)   shreevatsa.wordpress.com/... · Posted by u/wglb
sejtnjir · 2 years ago
A small inaccuracy: the South Sea Bubble was not the first speculation bubble. Tulip Mania took place almost a century earlier.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania

_maelstrom · 2 years ago
It's buried in the wikipedia article, but these stories of tulips being a giant society collapsing bubble "come from propaganda pamphlets published by Dutch Calvinists worried that the tulip-propelled consumerism boom would lead to societal decay."[1]

“There weren’t that many people involved and the economic repercussions were pretty minor,” Goldgar [author of "Tulipmania" and a professor of early modern history at King’s College London] says. “I couldn’t find anybody that went bankrupt. If there had been really a wholesale destruction of the economy as the myth suggests, that would’ve been a much harder thing to face.”[1]

[1] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/there-never-was-real-...

_maelstrom commented on Evidence that the shingles vaccine prevents a good chunk of dementia cases   twitter.com/PGeldsetzer1/... · Posted by u/guiambros
Filligree · 3 years ago
Women get Alzheimer at a much higher rate, and it's not clear why. Perhaps this could be related.
_maelstrom · 3 years ago
This would make sense if Alzheimer's turns out to be an autoimmune disorder. Women have higher rates of these types of diseases because the largest number of immune related genes are found on the X-chromosome, giving them a broader variety to their immune arsenal. So women are better able to fight off infections but more likely to suffer from overactive immune responses.

A summary with some links: https://www.healthline.com/health-news/women-have-stronger-i...

_maelstrom commented on Simple exercise to eliminate gastroesophageal reflux (2022)   ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... · Posted by u/drones
kevinmchugh · 3 years ago
GERD is multicausal, which is why there's so many responses already. Personally I went from occasional heartburn to GERD during a period where I was eating spicier food more often, eating more overall, and consuming more alcohol. The latter two are modern problems, spiciness might be as well.
_maelstrom · 3 years ago
When I was seeing doctors for stomach issues years ago, I remember being told to avoid spicy food among other things. However, population studies don't show a higher rate of GERD/stomach ulcers for groups who report eating spicier food. I think it just irritates damage that is already there that you might not have noticed.

For me, it turned out I was reacting to something in my well water and a bit after switching to bottled water, I could go back to chocolate/coffee/alcohol/spicy food with no problems.

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