Re:Blitzortung – real time lightning strikes around the world
by lxgr on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @10:12PM
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> it's one of those "avoiding this activity for an hour could prevent you from dying painfully" things
If you do this often enough, for extremely unlikely scenarios that don't sum up to a meaningful aggregate risk of dying, you might very well have a negative return on investment though. (Time spent worrying about an unlikely sudden death is time you don't spend enjoying life, or at least avoiding a slightly earlier but much more likely death.)
Re:Blitzortung – real time lightning strikes around the world
by spdustin on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @12:05AM
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As mentioned before, we don't worry. There's no judgment. It's a simple binary. And we spend the time enjoying the storm that we otherwise would've missed.
If you do this often enough, for extremely unlikely scenarios that don't sum up to a meaningful aggregate risk of dying, you might very well have a negative return on investment though. (Time spent worrying about an unlikely sudden death is time you don't spend enjoying life, or at least avoiding a slightly earlier but much more likely death.)