INeedMana

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Here it's similar. I've found out that if to the question

do you have our membership?

I respond "No, thank you", they often understand correctly and don't assume I want to set one up

[–] [email protected] 103 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The more I think about it, the less sense this graphic has

  1. If not per sq km, it should at least be per capita
    just checking on wikipedia, divided by area GB should have bar around twice high as Germany. 209k m^2 vs 357k m^2
  2. and what does it mean 1 datacenter in the first place?
    big as a city sprawling datacenter complex and a bunch of racks in the cellar both count as 1?
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

For some reason I also read "first" the first time I looked at the title

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

This is where the name relativity comes in. You have to think in terms of relative speed. Your speed relative to earth will indeed advance closer and closer to c but never reach it. There’s a bunch of really wild and crazy implications behind this.

ah, right. In a ship travelling with c, for someone outside the ship, I turn on the lights and observe the light to travel with c. For that external observer the light from my lamp travels at the same speed as my ship

My mind was already bent! ;)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It’s popular to think of those things as like crazy high G turns but they’re not. You’re just flying in a straight line through space time.

Soooo... Interstellar was wrong with all the shaking of the camera?

Are you on earth or is the ship in space accelerating at a constant rate? Again, there’s no way to tell. They are, physically, the same.

In case of accelerating ship, I wonder what would happen in local frame once you hit/get really close to c. You'd get decelerated out of nowhere? Just as if you hit something?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

The understanding I got from school was that gravity might be some kind of force and basically one mass attracts other mass, like electric potentials do

Keep in mind, that was 20 years ago. Our understanding might have changed and tbh I wouldn't expect a high school physics teacher to be on the bleeding edge of research in all physics fields

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (3 children)

True. But that correction still doesn't unbend my mind

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

As with any shared POV

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I think it's like racists. Whether one wants to be one or not is not tied with being one or not. That doesn't mean they all have one secret handshake

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

🤯

So basically L before consonants is generally mute?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Wait... What? I'm not supposed to pronounce the l in salmon?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Illusion — Why do we keep believing that AI will solve the climate crisis (which it is facilitating), get rid of poverty (on which it is heavily relying), and unleash the full potential of human creativity (which it is undermining)?

Because we keep reading sensationalist advertisements presented as articles instead of experimenting with it ourselves, understanding what it is

And unfortunately, this article is also just a response to media clickbait, not a discussion point it tries to look like

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