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قبل 13 ساعةdiscuss

It's not reductionist - planes and their vapor trails are a constant presence in the sky there and in many places. Far more obvious than even these 5-10x as many satellites will be. I'm sure there are cloud photographers who are bothered by plane but, as with Starlink, there are people getting good value from them. There are even photographers embracing them. I think you see the world how you're familiar with as good or at least acceptable but anything different as bad.

قبل 15 ساعةdiscuss

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قبل 16 ساعةdiscuss

Yes, but real writing is also unbounded in complexity. Unicode can't do everything or it would just be a general purpose vector graphics language. Traditionally, writing systems had to adapt to the limitations of the technology (eg. runes with only straight lines for carving) or not using cursive for printing, but now computers can do so much, we just let everything go and try to recapture every arbitrary detail of the past we can squeeze in and people pay for that with human labor maintaining such a mountain of low-value capabilities.

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10x worse than the best time in all of history to be a human doesn't sound so bad. Even just 200 years ago, a gigantic chain of internal wars killed 25% of the entire population of my country.

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Has seeing the horrors of the Ukraine war made you want the west to stop it and force a surrender? More horrors don't make people want less war. If anything, it may be the opposite. People pretend to be anti-war right up until there's a war and then suddenly it turns out they're actually anti-losing-the-war.

قبل 6 أيامdiscuss

There are side effects and you may have to try different drugs to minimize them and maximize the effect. Medicine makes sense when the side effects are less bad than the problem that the main effect is solving, not only when there are no side effects.

Some people choose what, if any pill to take each day according to what they intend to do that day.

قبل 6 أيامdiscuss

According to cygv... the more intensely you use the battery, the more miles you get out of it, so kind of yea, the faster you use it, the "longer" it lasts in miles. And this example supports that idea because it was used more intensely than usual and lasted more miles than usual.

قبل 6 أيامdiscuss

Do you mean 11 years is a "long" time? I'd say it doesn't matter how long it was - it ended up better the expected based on the miles, and since it was a high-mileage-per-year car, that supports the claim that degradation is determined (at least more than expected) by calendar years, as cgyv.. claimed. I don't see how it doesn't support his claim.

قبل 7 أيامdiscuss

That's 25000 miles per year, which is high. So the opposite of false.

قبل 7 أيامdiscuss

If the author was honestly trying to communicate, he would believe that the reader is already expecting it to be X, but it tends to get used for things where you didn't even consider it to be X in the first place. So it's not clarifying a potential misunderstanding, just making it sound surprising even if it isn't. You're left with the feeling that something's importantly different from expectations even when it's not.

In this case, I think it's fine. It points out that the victim only has to trust YouTube itself, not a stranger posting on it (eg, if it was listed as an example of a user comment). But I'm desensitized to everybody else abusing that construct so it didn't communicate that to me.

قبل 13 يومًاdiscuss

>What's the population of the suburb you live in? About that?

This comment shows you're being disingenuous. If a war killed 4 people, you'd be asking how big my family was. You can obviously understand the significance of that figure and it's nothing to do with suburbs.

قبل 13 يومًاdiscuss

Of course not. Education is free on the internet. University provides motivation and credentials. The motivation part is important because most people can't stick to such rigorous education for so long without some external force. Universities need to enforce rules against cheating as part of the motivation service they're providing.

قبل 15 يومًاdiscuss

It depends how you define philanthropy - obviously corporations don't just donate such valuable products to the world to make it a better place, but in effect that's what they end up doing in their effort to gain market share or brand recognition. Actual human philanthropists are sometimes doing it for the similar reasons of self-promotion.

قبل 15 يومًاdiscuss

Racial identity is a good proxy for ethnicity which studies do show affects IQ.

قبل 15 يومًاdiscuss

> conclude that to be a bloody stupid idea.

You say that as if all the other presidents' wars in the middle east were shown to be good ideas and they were smart to follow that advice and kill all those people their generals wanted to kill. Iran seems to have not been nearly as terrible as Iraq, Afghanistan, or Libya, or Syria. The death toll is only around 10000. What's the problem? Don't say oil prices increased because that's a good thing.

قبل 16 يومًاdiscuss

We're talking about before his election. What made it predictable that Trump would bomb Iran but Harris wouldn't? Whoever the president is, the forces that make America fight wars seem to keep on successfully pushing them to do it. Both their parties started a lot of wars in the middle east with their previous presidents (Obama and Bush II).

قبل 17 يومًاdiscuss

I'd insert another important level of knowing which I feel deserves the name "understanding" and that's knowing its relationships to other thing you also know. Perhaps even that's almost all there is in knowing something. The more relationships to it that you know, the deeper your understanding of it.

قبل 21 يومًاdiscuss

See what I mean? America keeps starting wars in the middle east. Go back further in time and it was Obama, then Bush, then a little bit of Clinton, then the other Bush. It doesn't matter who or what party they're in, they mostly end up doing it anyway. No reason to think Harris would be anything different, especially considering her statements of promising military support to Israel.

قبل 21 يومًاdiscuss

You'd have trouble finding a candidate who wouldn't predictably start a major war in the middle East. Biden and Trump 1 were kind of exceptions. Kamala certainly seemed pro-war-in-the-middle-East with her support for Israel, so she's out. Who did you vote for instead?

قبل 24 يومًاdiscuss

No matter how noble your intentions are, if you reject science then you're anti-science. Leftists need to learn to admit that about themselves instead of trying to have their cake and eat it too.