True overall the price is probably not that significant. I appear to have bought about 250 ebooks for my Kindle over several years. So even if I had saved 2€ for every one of them (which would be a lot), it probably…
I've decided to get rid of Amazon, and ebooks are one of the difficult issues. Are there no independent sites like goodreads or LibraryThing left? I don't really need the tracking, but the discovery. Also I have found…
Extracting gold is very wasteful, I'm not sure it is better than Bitcoin in terms of environmental impact. And Bitcoin is much more useful than gold. You can easily send Bitcoin to your family at the other end of the…
In many cases it doesn't.
So you propose shutting down the internet to end Bitcoin?
Interesting idea, but how exactly would you validate the CO2 emissions? If somebody mines a block and claims it only consumed x of CO2, how do you know it is true? What seems possible is to check what miners mined a…
Why not simply provide data to counter their "lies"? What makes you so sure to be in possession of the truth? Have you verified yourself, or have you simply chosen to trust the authorities?
So individual labs can set their own standards for detecting an infection? Isn't that rather support for the skeptic's viewpoint? So there actually is no standard, just labs claiming things?
I don't know about the UK, but for example in Germany there are official statistics about ICU use. ICU use was at normal levels the whole time. But of course that is also being managed by scheduling risky surgery, for…
That article is hate speech. How can I be sure that it is not "bylinetimes" that is part of a "disinformation network"?
It doesn't matter, the German government hardly ever finishes their big projects. They just want to look good on paper and spend some tax payer money.
That doesn't make sense. You claim Trump rejected the offer that Amazon secretly made to him?
Who was responsible for the decision to not offer help with vaccinations under Trump? I had always defended Amazon, until that moment, when they declared they would let people die for their ideology. Now I am trying to…
You mean Brexit was kind of UK truck drivers smashing the trucks (because of cheap competition, and AI would be even cheaper, so more truck smashing)?
Maybe they will? I think somebody will still ship stuff to the UK. Or are the predictions coming true and the British people will now starve to death because of the EU trade embargo?
Nobody can prove existence or non-existence of a god (except a god if a god would exist). It is usually just a statement about likelihoods. Absence of evidence for existence of god(s) makes it seem very unlikely god(s)…
Do you personally feel like smashing such a truck? Or would only ex truck drivers feel that way? Because if they are simply being faded out of existence (replacing retiring drivers with AI), there won't be any ex…
Fair enough, but I would still maintain that even for "internet culture", don't let journalists shape your views of it.
Why you shouldn't read the news. They always want to create narratives and drama. And reshape how people see the world. Don't let journalists shape your view of the world.
And I actually really wonder if other people see such things, because I really don't. Not saying they don't exist, but they don't seem to get pushed into my "timelines". What you could find if you were looking for it I…
Yes, please do! I think there is an inflated perception of risk because of the relentless media coverage. Risks are probably still higher than the meteor example, but the point of the example is to call for actual…
A lot of things COULD happen. For example, a meteor could hit the earth and wipe out all life. Therefore we should pour ALL resources into space exploration, not medicine.
No that is not obvious at all. It doesn't depend on the transmission rate, just on how many people get infected. Higher transmission rate just means it spreads faster, not that it infects more people in the end.
"He notes that a more infectious virus is more dangerous than a more lethal one, “because every new case will infect more people, and each of them will infect more people, such that the number of cases will grow…
Not really, no.
True overall the price is probably not that significant. I appear to have bought about 250 ebooks for my Kindle over several years. So even if I had saved 2€ for every one of them (which would be a lot), it probably…
I've decided to get rid of Amazon, and ebooks are one of the difficult issues. Are there no independent sites like goodreads or LibraryThing left? I don't really need the tracking, but the discovery. Also I have found…
Extracting gold is very wasteful, I'm not sure it is better than Bitcoin in terms of environmental impact. And Bitcoin is much more useful than gold. You can easily send Bitcoin to your family at the other end of the…
In many cases it doesn't.
So you propose shutting down the internet to end Bitcoin?
Interesting idea, but how exactly would you validate the CO2 emissions? If somebody mines a block and claims it only consumed x of CO2, how do you know it is true? What seems possible is to check what miners mined a…
Why not simply provide data to counter their "lies"? What makes you so sure to be in possession of the truth? Have you verified yourself, or have you simply chosen to trust the authorities?
So individual labs can set their own standards for detecting an infection? Isn't that rather support for the skeptic's viewpoint? So there actually is no standard, just labs claiming things?
I don't know about the UK, but for example in Germany there are official statistics about ICU use. ICU use was at normal levels the whole time. But of course that is also being managed by scheduling risky surgery, for…
That article is hate speech. How can I be sure that it is not "bylinetimes" that is part of a "disinformation network"?
It doesn't matter, the German government hardly ever finishes their big projects. They just want to look good on paper and spend some tax payer money.
That doesn't make sense. You claim Trump rejected the offer that Amazon secretly made to him?
Who was responsible for the decision to not offer help with vaccinations under Trump? I had always defended Amazon, until that moment, when they declared they would let people die for their ideology. Now I am trying to…
You mean Brexit was kind of UK truck drivers smashing the trucks (because of cheap competition, and AI would be even cheaper, so more truck smashing)?
Maybe they will? I think somebody will still ship stuff to the UK. Or are the predictions coming true and the British people will now starve to death because of the EU trade embargo?
Nobody can prove existence or non-existence of a god (except a god if a god would exist). It is usually just a statement about likelihoods. Absence of evidence for existence of god(s) makes it seem very unlikely god(s)…
Do you personally feel like smashing such a truck? Or would only ex truck drivers feel that way? Because if they are simply being faded out of existence (replacing retiring drivers with AI), there won't be any ex…
Fair enough, but I would still maintain that even for "internet culture", don't let journalists shape your views of it.
Why you shouldn't read the news. They always want to create narratives and drama. And reshape how people see the world. Don't let journalists shape your view of the world.
And I actually really wonder if other people see such things, because I really don't. Not saying they don't exist, but they don't seem to get pushed into my "timelines". What you could find if you were looking for it I…
Yes, please do! I think there is an inflated perception of risk because of the relentless media coverage. Risks are probably still higher than the meteor example, but the point of the example is to call for actual…
A lot of things COULD happen. For example, a meteor could hit the earth and wipe out all life. Therefore we should pour ALL resources into space exploration, not medicine.
No that is not obvious at all. It doesn't depend on the transmission rate, just on how many people get infected. Higher transmission rate just means it spreads faster, not that it infects more people in the end.
"He notes that a more infectious virus is more dangerous than a more lethal one, “because every new case will infect more people, and each of them will infect more people, such that the number of cases will grow…
Not really, no.