All numbers are abstract because they allow us to conceptualize sizes of things which are similar by treating them as identical.

Fuck off with your fucken "maths" garbage. This britishism is nasty.

They are different apples. And even if you get down the to the primitive subatomic particles, they have some aspects which are the same and some which are different (like their position). "counting" as such is a mental exercise. Nature doesn't count. Certain things exist. There bounds on what existing things can do and impetuses which push them to do things. "Functions" are certainly more abstract constructs than "imaginary numbers." Invertible functions are a group. Do groups exist? Are they real? Speaking of real numbers, is 1 equal to 0.(9)? The answer is yes. Does that mean every real numbers "exists"? Or do they only exist as limits of Cauchy sequences? There is a limited number of things you can do with a small set of "numbers." Namely, they are objects which obey certain operations. As long as there are other objects which obey the same operations, they can also be called numbers. And they also describe phenomena in the real world. Imaginary numbers are only called that because sqrt of -1 does exist within the "real" numbers. But "real" numbers are a human construct, too. Can you have a -1 apple?

Numbers are abstractions. Real numbers are no more or less real than complex numbers. They are all mental models for conceptualizing certain aspects of reality. Nature doesn't do math. We simplify down to abstractions in order to allow our brains to conceptualize some aspects of nature. Some of that involves math.

I am not the one spreading baseless fear or paranoia. Actually, you are here:

This is BIG LIE(TM). A person dies from Covid if they die FROM Covid, not if their death is correlated to having Covid. By the absurd definition you are trying to push, a suicide of someone with Covid would be a Covid death, too. Which would be nonsense, of course.

Oh, right. Those who call out your bullshit must not be educated. Or they are and you are just peddling bullshit.

There was also a somewhat popular club called "KGB" in NYC. Maybe it even still exists. But I don't think that was what he was talking about, either.

not a single person has died *from* the Omicron variant? Because if they could say otherwise, they would.

Austin? Mr. Powers? Is that you? KGB hasn't existed for 30 f'ing years. So naturally this gets upvoted as "insightful" on Slashdot. The millenials must not be able to tell it from "inciteful."

I just watched "Sluga Naroda." And I never liked them more than I do now. Their President is brilliant.

Their "admission" maybe true or it be a lie designed to undermine crypto currency's impact. Either way, whether it is true or not, has nothing to do with whether or not that would make that claim.

It's the system if misaligned incentives in the healthcare industry.

There is a reason why Theranos was able to pull off the fraud it was able to pull off. Insurance companies are not liable for treating any condition which tests do not discover. And doctors cannot be sued for a test which showed that there is nothing to treat. Doctors can, however, be sued for not treating or mistreating after a test shows a problem.

So everyone, who has any decision to make, is incentivized not to discover that someone is sick. If the incentives were reversed (and doctors were only paid if they treated something like dentists are), they would be much more eager to make sure that there is no false negatives when it comes to discovering illnesses. If the insurance companies could be sued for recommending Theranos (which provided cheaper tests but statistically insurance companies had to see that it had a higher rate of false negatives), they would also have incentives to to recommend tests which discover nothing over tests which are more likely to discover something.

User experience is almost entirely controlled by the UI. The OS itself will only effect the experience of the system administrators. And a UI, outside of a web browser, will be controlled by the distribution more than anything else.

Apple doesn't have to. I am so sick of Google, that there is little chance my next phone will Android. I just got sent on another side trip by Google maps yesterday. Which almost caused me to miss a doctor's appointment. But hey, let's pretend that Google is still a real company. The smart response by Apple would be to RAISE prices because the competition is clearly selling a sub par product.

China is not ahead in this case. The surprise is that they have been working on it. But the technology was in development in the USSR in the 70's. And there was a suspicion that China could be working on it now, too. The fact that China managed to created a launch-able prototype, without anyone knowing ahead of time it would happen, that is the real surprise here. Forbes has an article about it.

It doesn't matter how any term is invented. Words' meanings are tied to how they are used -- not how their inventors meant for them to be used.