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Re:Waze will now warn drivers about crash dangers using historical data
on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @10:13AM (#38177687)
How would Google or Waze 'fix the issue'? Do you want them to start a road construction company?
Re:Reading in the Conglomerate Era
on Thursday October 26, 2023 @10:35AM (#38026168)
Real indie literature nowadays is posted on obscure blogs and schizo twitter accounts, not by boutique publishers with political agendas.
Re:The Academic Great Gatsby Curve
on Thursday October 26, 2023 @10:20AM (#38025946)
Violence in itself is not morally wrong or right, what a bizarre statement.
Re:The Academic Great Gatsby Curve
on Thursday October 26, 2023 @09:17AM (#38025114)
Everywhere you look, in nature and in society, you will find inequality, and some people always present it as a moral wrong.
Re:The human body has 1.8T cells dedicated to defending it
on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @12:36PM (#38014662)
It's proportionally large because the other liberal democratic states conveniently depend on the US for protection.
Re:Why single-submission policies need to die (and what to do in the m...
on Thursday October 12, 2023 @09:29AM (#37856861)
This already happens. You can find all US NIH funded research for free on pubmed.
Re:Ural Airlines Is Preparing to Fly an Airbus A320 Out of a Field
on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @10:46PM (#37774373)
Getting on a flight Russian flight seems like a hilariously bad idea nowadays.
Re:Ural Airlines Is Preparing to Fly an Airbus A320 Out of a Field
on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @10:45PM (#37774361)
You forget that Russia is under heavy sanctions (which likely lead to the accident in the first place), and they have a difficult time maintaining their normal planes, let alone those that crash land or take off from fields
Re:China May Have Unmatched Supercomputer Abilities, Third Exascale Ma...
on Monday September 18, 2023 @12:33PM (#37558461)
What's even the advantage of putting a lot of nodes in a single place? I bet if you add all of Amazon's computing capacity it's going to be much more than what a single localized supercomputer can do.
Re:A brief glimpse at recent events in Egypt
on Monday August 07, 2023 @12:04PM (#37036264)
Which societies did this? Up until ~100 years ago, it was common and expected for the elites to lead the people in times of war, from the frontlines!
Re:The Coming Enshittification of Public Libraries
on Friday August 04, 2023 @10:03AM (#37000226)
You know how "basilica" meant a public building in Roman times, and the word came to mean "Christian building"? This is what's going to happen to libraries. In 50 years people will use it meaning "homeless shelter". Some older guy will explain that a long time ago, people used to go there to read physical books.
Re:Against theory-motivated experimentation in science
on Thursday August 03, 2023 @10:03PM (#36994565)
Why would I follow their theory?