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+1. I have been asked by someone in late 40s why uploading a video takes a lot longer than uploading a photo. They are not dumb people. They just do not know

• shooly 4mo ago
  "Does it take longer to upload 10,000 photos than to upload 1 photo?" If a 40-year-old can not answer that question, then they are in fact - dumb.
  • alok-g 4mo ago
    This is a matter of perspectives here. Some of my friends are absolutely brilliant lawyers and they trump me in their reasoning abilities (while I am a typ. HN member, high-tech engineer). Yet, they would not know some tech basics. I see lawyers struggle with formatting in Microsoft Word all the time :-), for one. A brilliant physicist friend likewise once told me he is clueless how real numbers are handled in computers (not talking about floating point encoding specifics but conceptually itself). Yes, I can say that feels dumb, but I cannot deny that he is a brilliant physicist.
    • shooly 4mo ago
      It's not about perspectives, basically every human has the same baseline reasoning capabilities. Understanding that "more work = more time needed" is part of that baseline. The only "excuse" would be if someone didn't know what a film is at all, because they can't be expected to reason about something they don't have any knowledge about.