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It's an aside, but these sorts of timelines are very American centric. I don't know when your autumn ("fall") or summer are in relation to September. Don't mix

It's an aside, but these sorts of timelines are very American centric. I don't know when your autumn ("fall") or summer are in relation to September. Don't mix keys here, either use months or quarters, not a mix of things including some relative to a specific hemisphere.

ronsor 2y ago
OpenAI is an American company
- averageRoyalty 2y ago
  And they intend to "determine the fate of the world". As such, communication shouldn't be American centric.
  - yazzku 2y ago
    You're several decades late for that. Almost a century now.
    - ben_w 2y ago
      I'd give at least even odds the next century won't be american-centric, despite all this effort. China has a good chance of replacing the USA as the global hegemony, with the EU as a lesser alternative but one with enough strengths to be at least plausible if not the most likely.
samatman 2y ago
Since you knew it was American centric, and you knew when autumn or "fall" or summer are in the Northern Hemisphere, where all† of the United States of America‡ is located, You did, in fact, know when was referred to. It's even possible to realize that "over the summer" can include Christmas in Sydney or Buenos Aires! Mostly people realize we live on a sphere, and what the consequences of that are. † With apologies to American Samoa. ‡ Country name spelled in full to avoid the predictable bellyaching about the existence of a continent of the same name, or two, depending on where you hail from. Another thing you are not in fact confused about.
jjulius 2y ago
Following HN's guidelines, I'm going to assume that you're a pretty smart person who knows that our northern/southern hemispheres mean that there are only two options for when summer occurs, and when winter occurs, and that they're essentially just opposites of one another. If you're reading it from a southern hemisphere viewpoint and find that it doesn't make sense, isn't it quite simple to just go, "Oh, perhaps it's the opposite?" and apply that? This is hardly the first time I've ever encountered this sort of thing. In fact, as an American, I've had to employ this sort of thinking myself when interacting with people on forums from places like South America and Australia. It's an easy fix, and it's not that big of a deal, honestly - an innocent little side effect of the fact that we're able to communicate at such a global level[1]. :) [1] https://youtu.be/PdFB7q89_3U?si=-amoG7EtEpS0xkEW https://youtu.be/PdFB7q89_3U?si=-amoG7EtEpS0xkEW

ronsor 2y ago

OpenAI is an American company

averageRoyalty 2y ago
And they intend to "determine the fate of the world". As such, communication shouldn't be American centric.
- yazzku 2y ago
  You're several decades late for that. Almost a century now.
  - ben_w 2y ago
    I'd give at least even odds the next century won't be american-centric, despite all this effort. China has a good chance of replacing the USA as the global hegemony, with the EU as a lesser alternative but one with enough strengths to be at least plausible if not the most likely.

samatman 2y ago

Since you knew it was American centric, and you knew when autumn or "fall" or summer are in the Northern Hemisphere, where all† of the United States of America‡ is located, You did, in fact, know when was referred to. It's even possible to realize that "over the summer" can include Christmas in Sydney or Buenos Aires! Mostly people realize we live on a sphere, and what the consequences of that are. † With apologies to American Samoa. ‡ Country name spelled in full to avoid the predictable bellyaching about the existence of a continent of the same name, or two, depending on where you hail from. Another thing you are not in fact confused about.

jjulius 2y ago

Following HN's guidelines, I'm going to assume that you're a pretty smart person who knows that our northern/southern hemispheres mean that there are only two options for when summer occurs, and when winter occurs, and that they're essentially just opposites of one another. If you're reading it from a southern hemisphere viewpoint and find that it doesn't make sense, isn't it quite simple to just go, "Oh, perhaps it's the opposite?" and apply that? This is hardly the first time I've ever encountered this sort of thing. In fact, as an American, I've had to employ this sort of thinking myself when interacting with people on forums from places like South America and Australia. It's an easy fix, and it's not that big of a deal, honestly - an innocent little side effect of the fact that we're able to communicate at such a global level[1]. :) [1] https://youtu.be/PdFB7q89_3U?si=-amoG7EtEpS0xkEW https://youtu.be/PdFB7q89_3U?si=-amoG7EtEpS0xkEW