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The article may not take into account the possible effect of knowing about the Dunning-Kruger effect (or cultural sayings that goes in a similar direction) may bias measurements. B…

That means that they were already getting destroyed somewhat and not being recoverable, even without AIs. If there is just one or very few copies of a book or it ends in a particul…

This year Europe's fires are not the start. Few years ago we had very extended Australia fires, US/Canada fires, and other not so put in the spotlight fires in other countries arou…

What about (extreme) weather? The nice pictures looks like being in open sea, and there big storms may have an expensive impact if not everything is taken into account.

That should be the scary part. We know how El Niño affects world's weather, but it is also a symptom of how much heat the ocean is absorbing. That core problem won't end this year …

Guns, Germs and Steel in cultural terms? Still, the guns (or in general, weapons) part was important, centuries of in practice isolation eventually gives you a different language, …

Why to put front and center that chat app? I mean, is not something that makes it unique, if the app itself can run in android and iOS then it is just a chat app, with far less use…

All visible reactions should be positive. They also removed dislike buttons from YouTube a while ago.

Didn't followed the reasoning. What is "one colony"? some genetically homogeneous expedition? Unless you get a more or less continuous flow of colonizers from the home world, to be…

That 3°C is about the yearly average of global temperatures, from deserts to poles, night and day, all year round, and maintained for several years. That is not weather, but it’s m…

We should be able to draw the rest of the owl to get there. So far what we got is more inequality, less rights for people but more for corporations (and immunity to consequences/ab…

In some way they are telling that they respect your privacy. Or they have your data (and then do something with it, now or later), or no one will. They could provide some Google-st…

The predecessor of the N9, the Nokia N900, with Maemo, is not even mentioned in the article, and it caused a buzz at least in the circles I were back then. And it had one of the be…

If systems are not ready, then there is plenty of room of systems doing it the wrong way.

Suppose being charged by time used to run your tasks. Then your task takes -1 second, you will be charged zero, 1 second, or 18 quintillon seconds?

"Right" without use case can be wrong. And by use case I include scale. For a small team, few machines, some in-place infrastructure may worth it. Smaller than that may be overkill…

One problem with trying to make satellites invisible is that you are making them invisible. Probably the dynamics up there are not the same as down here, or try to apply logic that…

The "Who watches the watchers?" question is not rhetoric once you take into account present and near past abuses of those that perform surveillance and the ones that have power ove…

Time matters in some of the categories there. What if a meme (I don't know, money, the tragedy of the commons, some future cult of the dead or whatever) works as a great filter and…

Never cross a river 4-feet deep on average. A heatstroke may not let you see how cooler the rest of the year may be.

Dead people doesn't count. At least until is their turn, I suppose.

Is not about doing something never been done before. Feels more like doing something that can be sold, because else there could be legal problems, competition, captive markets and …

We have to distinguish "our" dreams from, let's say, cultural ones. A lot of what we want, what we perceive as living a full life, having fun and so on comes from culture (and incr…

At some point they should stop using the European part of the name.

The Postel's Law (or Robustness Principle) is related to this, be conservative with what you do (i.e. try to closely adhere to standards for your outputs) and flexible in what you …