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> his claim was that the trolley problem isn't about real humans Is it though? Let's look at the comment [0] written 8h before your reply: > the trolley problem isn’t really about real humans in that situation As in "
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The “quadrillion days of happiness” offered to a rational person gives away that such allegories are anthropomorphized just for the sake of presentation. For the sake of what the philosophers mean, you should probably imagine this as an alg
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My usual "smasung" typo worked fine when I registered with them. I use a service for disposable addresses redirected to my main mailbox for potentially spammy registrations which I don't really care about, instead of just cre
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The orbits of planets in our solar system are quasi-circular, with only Mercury (e=0.20) and Mars (e=0.09) being more elliptical. Every other planetary orbit in our solar system has e<0.05, even 0.00x for Venus or Neptune. They're n
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> as Google rightly predicted I agree with everything you said but this part is "broken clock will be right twice a day". It is what Google would have said regardless. A moat is never impossible to cross, it's just a passi
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I agree. But even as recently as last year almost half of Americans still believed dropping the nuclear bombs was justified, with half of these people being convinced that using them on cities was the best thing to do [0]. [0] https:/
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> consider that you're somehow doing it for their own good I was surprised to read about Fritz Haber, the man who catalyzed nitrogen fertilizers and other "nice" things like mustard gas, that he was convinced that mustard
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> This is why Garry Winogrand’s street photography looks so much more powerful You're just on a different, more professional rail. Talking about professionals doing professional stuff. You don't warm your tires before you go fo
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This applies to everything, a mechanic, a lawyer, a dentist. You can't have all the prerequisite knowledge on every field where you may need to make big choices so eventually you'll need to talk to someone . If it's not the
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Because a lot of people don't understand how the products work or what they need. Trying to understand a complex product, with multiple options that come with advantages and disadvantages, and having adding on top that it's a very
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Many companies use consultants as easier-to-fire employees. I've occasionally worked with the same consultants for years, with them acting as team mates doing the same work as every other internal. And we were team mates in everything
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> In Germany now there are laws in place for this, you get ridiculous stuff like as consultant you are not allowed to eat together with team mates from the employer because that is seen as bounding activities AFAIK in Germany the model o
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> I think we’ve lived without these diseases for so long that some people (stupid, selfish people) simply think they don’t exist or pose a threat any more. This is true beyond just vaccines. All too often hardships are forgotten, history
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> and take candid photos This is probably the best way to get a good photo regarding the people in it. Composition, lighting are important as far as they make the picture "readable" if what you're looking for is the memo
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The entire deletion exercise was probably to thwart AI training related scraping but the fallout was greater than expected. "Old forum posts on some storage" are an insignificant expense for a company of that size in terms of stor
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Unfortunately I can't compare between 2 modern cars equipped with similar lights save for the color temperature. I haven't seen modern LED headlights with warm color, so when I think of warm color headlights my brain immediately g
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Not OP but I think it can be either. Great for the safety of one driver who can see the road perfectly can be awful for the safety of another who is blinded. LED bulbs exacerbate an already existing problem caused by vehicle noses being too
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> etc. That's handwaving the answer just as you were getting to the crux of the matter. "Are mathematicians really visualising spheres with physical space between them" in higher dimensions than 3 (or maybe 4)? From the ex
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A large floor area in a tall building means windows can only exist on the perimeter and almost definitely can't open for ventilation. Also the larger the floor, the more natural light the windows have to allow in and the more heat from
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> who never asked Greenland whether it wanted to a colony in the first place If that was the criterion for legitimacy in such a claim for land then I have to ask, who asked the native Americans anything? Or Mexicans? This kind of "w
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> isn't that why the American is watching this Italian movie anyways I don't know. I always though people would prefer to hear the original voice of the actor, since speech is a big part of the acting. But movies are dubbed in
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I think I've encountered cases like this watching Netflix movies originally in my native language but subtitled in English. But in every case I can remember the substitution made perfect sense. Without adapting the translation the nati
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> Spanish food names to be replaced by "kind of the same" British names The purpose of a translation is after all to convey the meaning of what was said. So for example you'd want the English "so so" to be transl
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First consumer 4K monitors came out more than a decade ago. I think the Asus PQ321 in 2013. That’s close to where we are now with 8K. How many of the cards of that time would you call “4K cards”? Even the Titan X that came a couple of years
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True, there’s a lot of room to optimize costs. For example the congestion tax costs can be reduced to 0 by avoiding areas it targets. And that’s not even tongue in cheek, one could commute to the edge of the city and take public transport f
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Wouldn't the price of the car, fuel, insurance, maintenance, etc. dwarf the congestion tax? So the car itself is the worst part about the driving experience?
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> optimally there should be no force (regulation) necessary Ideally. But realistically most of the reason we have some right today is regulation. Warranty isn't something most manufacturers would offer once they are too big to fai
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Not sure if we can go that far but I'd be happy is the manufacturers would be forced to put on the label how many years they'll support the product and at what level. And perhaps when the product is fully out of support, all the r
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The EU is neither willing nor capable of challenging US supremacy economically or politically any time soon (not even mentioning the military). And as it stands with the current war in Ukraine the EU was further shot in the foot. Today the
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Perhaps more importantly, given enough years and as the technology commoditizes, the "need" to take sides about whatever tech lessens. "Sides" are usually for the hot big thing in tech. But OSes are long past that phase

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