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ostbender··on Waze will now warn drivers about crash dangers using historical data
How would Google or Waze 'fix the issue'? Do you want them to start a road construction company?
ostbender··on The Academic Great Gatsby Curve
Violence in itself is not morally wrong or right, what a bizarre statement.
ostbender··on The Academic Great Gatsby Curve
Everywhere you look, in nature and in society, you will find inequality, and some people always present it as a moral wrong.
ostbender··on The human body has 1.8T cells dedicated to defending it
It's proportionally large because the other liberal democratic states conveniently depend on the US for protection.
ostbender··on Ural Airlines is preparing to fly a stranded Airbus A320 out of a field
Getting on a flight Russian flight seems like a hilariously bad idea nowadays.
ostbender··on Ural Airlines is preparing to fly a stranded Airbus A320 out of a field
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
ostbender··on China May Have Unmatched Supercomputer Abilities, Third Exascale Machine Online
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.
ostbender··on A brief glimpse at recent events in Egypt
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!
ostbender··on The Coming Enshittification of Public Libraries
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.
ostbender··on Against theory-motivated experimentation in science
Why would I follow their theory?