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I can't tell if this is satire or not

The satellite photos of Hjolderup look worse than the photos in the article to me... the photos in the article seem like a fair representation of the consequences of installing solar fields like this--your house and town end up surrounded by solar panels.

The only time I find Siri useful, or I should say ~potentially~ useful, is while driving text, call and to ask basic facts. The amount of times I've heard "I can't show you that right now" after basic questions is insane. I just stopped asking it questions. Recently I asked "what engine is in a 2022 f150". Trying it without Carplay now, it literally just displays text. It should be able to TTS those results. What on earth have they been working on if not things like that?

I mean it auto fills/pays from my card. It's just one extra step at setup. I agree it would be nice to just take my card at the rail, but "Shockingly outdated" seems a bit dramatic lol. It's certainly not comparable to "70s USSR" idk where that came from

How did you pay? I made a Clipper account that I fill up with my credit card and tap my phone to pay...

Using "Seedbox" in the name is very misleading then... I would have been excited to see a Stremio style alternative that actually downloads and seeds content for an extended period of time.

Why don't you relay traffic through another node on say AWS or Hetzner using Wireguard?

Poverty vs Misery?

Why not?

Your comment is fading, are jokes not allowed on HN?

How is Discord a key logger?

They were really just making a fun comment about how good the food tastes...

here are my favorites showing up in gameplay footage:

Soul of the Samurai: https://youtu.be/JAyu7o_t_Ys?si=6RvvXtpsLyxXndCu&t=7190

Ace Combat 2: https://youtu.be/_ylkb5td5K0?si=LJw4bf3JsDilDEnf&t=114

Yes, if we had direct contact with the higher being that created our universe, or any proof of their existence, humans would no longer require faith regarding the existence of God...

How would you use this theory if you didn't believe it held any truth? You certainly can't draw any corollaries from it. If it is actually a relevant condition worth considering, then you must believe it to be tenable to some degree.

There's a condition where when I kick a ball, just before I touch it, the ball actually invisibly flies to the moon and back and then moves forward. It would be a condition under which Newton's laws fail... but I would have to actually believe in that condition to some degree to use it. It is also similarly unfalsifiable. With current observations it is scientifically untenable, and believing in that condition would require faith.

Any model can be proven incomplete if you conjure up unfalsifiable conditions that exist outside its domain and believe in them.

b(1): firm belief in something for which there is no proof

For you to use the theory of creation in any meaningful way you must believe it is tenable. For you to believe it is tenable, without being faithful, there must be proof. Proof of this existence comes in many forms, where is your proof? Morality? Reason? Those aren't entirely scientific proofs...

Just to be clear, I'm not trying to censure or disprove creationism and the metaphysical systems built upon it, they are very important and super interesting... but I don't think any of them are without a bit of faith, and they are certainly beyond science's capabilities. This is why I was saying it was interesting that science could invoke faith in some way.

The idea that the universe was created by a higher being applies to every religion, but does not invoke faith? If you were to believe that theory at all it would require faith. How else could you believe it? No matter what you call it, there is a leap of faith.

I suppose there could be a distinction, but that is the idea of God, and that is the rational foundation for God's existence in Abrahamic religions. Funny to think that scientific development could invoke faith in some ways.

it's not they have trouble learning programming. They have trouble learning anything

sheesh

Without the peers all we have is to!

I think to an extent this is essentially just redirecting the preexisting addiction (edit: remove issues) onto a drug that simply produces normative behavior, specifically behavior that conforms with modern society's idea of a highly productive and obedient individual.

For those that aren't already addicted to something, say those with adhd, I wonder to what extent their environment is causing the issues that they seek to solve with a stimulant.

Reading your comments is tiring.

Then don't.

if you think the obesity crisis is fake/blown up

I don't think obesity is fake or overblown. That's what the article was trying to argue.

I do however think BMI has its flaws and that those flaws are pretty significant when it comes to assessing individual health.

Being fat is bad for your health... it is healthier to be thinner than obese

There is a healthy body fat % range but it is all very dependent on someone's activity and consumption.

My issue with it is two fold.

I think due to its generalized nature there are exceptions where it doesn't even apply (like people who are weight training, pregnant women etc).

I also think it is becoming apparent that weight alone is not as useful of a metric as was once believed. It doesn't do a great job of identifying whether or not someone is healthy.

So maybe it is the best that institutions can do to gauge the health of a population with the data given, but I think it could be improved drastically with extra metrics (I've heard of measurements around the body being used).

There is a subset of people who are being misidentified as unhealthy or overweight. Idk how large it is but it seems significant.

BMI is a pretty decent measure of fat percentage for the vast majority of people

It isn't really measuring anything. It is just a very general index to gauge how far you diverge from a predetermined height to weight ratio.

Maybe that's useful to someone but I wouldn't base any of my decisions on it today.

This is a pretty extreme article, but I think the argument is not that it doesn't exist but rather that it is blown out of proportion. The metric that is used to calculate obesity (specifically at the time they reference) was BMI which is a fairly flawed metric and significantly the obesity line was lowered. Idk how it is calculated now.

did anyone else think it odd how Inception enters the deepest level of a rich man’s subconscious and finds not a psychosexual Oedipal nightmare of staggering depravity, but… a ski patrol?

I don't think the author actually watched Inception lol

yes that is what the trend I posted shows.

This is maybe more interesting.

Anti-Asian 2019: 0.2%

Anti-Asian 2020: 10%

Anti-Asian 2021: 25%

EDIT: Regarding an uptick in anti-jewish etc.

Anti-Jewish 2019: 57%

Anti-Jewish 2020: 43%

Anti-Jewish 2021: 37%

How does any of that affect his thesis that the black object in this specific video isn't the aircraft but is rather an artifact of the camera?

He doesn't make any claims about the aircraft because he is saying it isn't visible... and the scope of his analysis is this single piece video evidence.

Here is a good resource https://wiki.theory.org/BitTorrentSpecification

This is a proven fact, do not be fooled. For decades Big Movie have been propagating disks out into the public with giant movie files on them.

Oh, I missed that. My bad.