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I believe the second half of your comment is exactly what I was getting at.

I’m more familiar with how Starlink compares to existing publicly-available satellite internet options. Here are some brief points: - data throughput orders of magnitude higher, - …

However, the Earth’s own radius dwarfs the height of LEO, so they’re actually roughly the same. There are other reasons we don’t currently experience major problems with collisions…

The article indicates they were unable to handle the increased electricity load, which caused blackouts. Additionally, sometimes unnaturally high temperatures break AC systems put …

He is far more than just a narrator. His 77-year career created and defined the wildlife/nature documentary as a genre, beginning at a time when television was so new that it reall…

I disagree with the claim that a greater proportion of people go hungry, and more are homeless, today than at any point in recent western history. These have broadly been on a down…

I believe that is the same event as in my comment.

> Imagine you take a conspiracy influencer and actually put them in the spacecraft with the astronauts so they could see the whole thing with their own eyes and wouldn't be able to…

> However, they just change their original message, maybe to remove a typo, change the date or add a friendly note. Then the three letter agency does a glorified 'diff' and they ar…

Your entire comment is filled with false claims and figures. In 2025-26 there are an estimated 39.1 million people paying income tax - 56.0% of the population [1]. Of course, in th…

This depends entirely on how you hold your phone in your hand. For some positions, someone would need a 5” thumb to reach the corner. You can’t make such sweeping statements for so…

This information is now many years out of date - they no longer have this policy.

You are wrong, this same story was not reported more than ten years ago. The article is not a report of a man being arrested, tried, and sentenced (doubtless the extent of reportin…

Are you suggesting that the BBC, the world service arm of a British public broadcaster (that is editorially independent from the state and even the wider BBC), began spending five …

Do you mean to suggest that computer hardware does not need to be cooled when it is in space? Or that it is trivial and easier to do this in space compared to on Earth? I don’t und…

This will let you download all of your photos that already exist on iCloud Photos. Going forward, you’d want to set up some other way to sync photos you take from your phone to you…

The s-, i-, and r-processes do however follow the same mechanism at the most fundamental level, even if it results in wildly different production paths. I think the author was simp…

I believe it’s quite common for people to marvel at the vastness of the universe. For that reason, people might like the tangible link that they feel to the rest of the universe wh…

The front page of the BBC right now, at the very top, is a large photo of protests in Iran. The headline reports that hospitals are overwhelmed by the regime cracking down on prote…

University exams being marked by hand, by someone experienced enough to work outside a rigid marking scheme, has been the standard for hundreds of years and has proven scalable eno…

OTOH, no company or item exists in a vacuum. If McDonald’s suppliers have increased prices, and their employees expect higher wages due to inflation, then McDonald’s must increase …

Anthropic does seem to have more ethical practices on that than most companies in this space, purchasing and scanning physical books rather than pirating them as Meta and OpenAI di…