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Comment Re:We will avoid it late and suddenly, or not at a (Score 1) 45

We'll be wondering why there are so many starving refugees before we move a millimeter on the climate change issue. Of course, the longer we wait to act the more expensive and difficult it will be to overcome. But doing things the stupidest and laziest way possible is a bit of a pattern with us.

Comment They should behave like a free market democracy! (Score 1) 142

That's terrible, they poured $15.5B into the industry over the course 25 years.

Wait no, that was the US. And it was Boeing alone they poured that much into.

The US/Boeing and EU/Airbus have been arguing back and forth for years about each side's unfair aerospace subsidies (that are not subsidies if you ask them).

Comment Re:Science how does it work? (Score 2) 58

It's hard to know what to put in a science book that would not be revised in 1000 years.

Just claim the book is the source of truth and punish anyone who disagrees. It would save millions of people from wasting their time learning there are 7 continents then finding out someone else has always thought there were 5, and someone else split the difference and says there are 6, and when you count them yourself there are only 4.

I guess that you can put in Newtonian mechanics with the caveat that it is very accurate only for objects with mass between 1 nanogram and one sextillion kilograms moving at less than 0.1% of the speed of light.

You can think of everything derived from p=m*v and F= dp/dt as a first-order approximation and incredibly useful, especially when you already have error bars around your physical measurements.

You could put in many chemical reactions and the periodic table up to atomic number 103(Lawrencium) and maybe add factual information for atoms with atomic number between 104(Rutherfordium) and 113(Nihonium).

41 Columbium (Cb) is now 41 Niobium (Nb). And there's 74 Wolfram (W) which now about two-thirds of people call it Tungsten.

It would be interesting to try to figure out which scientific "facts" will still be considered true in 1000 years.

All of them, if such a book is defined as a book of truth. A truth so concrete that nothing, not even reality, can override.

Comment Science how does it work? (Score 5, Funny) 58

Why can't scientists give us a straight answer on anything? Constantly revising things when new data is discovered and new models are created.
It would be simpler for me to understand if they would just write one book and never change it for thousands of years. I'd be inclined to worship that kind of book, assuming I can read.

Comment Re: just wait for it to try to drop someone off in (Score 1) 22

Waymo is (relatively) safe. Someone being pessimistic and predicting disaster then being wrong is not the same as lying. Lying is a word that means an intentional deception or deviation from the truth. I'd argue that Joe_Dragon has no crystal ball and cannot predict the future with perfect accuracy. Therefor he wasn't lying, but expressing his personal opinion.

Comment Not really (Score 1) 123

And if there are, they'll fall out of support after a few years.

I have a Star Labs StarLite tablet. It has MPP Pen support which is nice for doodling and note taking. It's basically a Linux-friendly PC architecture, so put whatever you want on it (except Android). I'm running Zorin on mine with some small compromises, but there are other distros known to work on it.

I went with this rather pricey option because if it's a PC, the odds of future Ubuntu/Fedora/Debian/whatever distros supporting it seems very high. And getting Chrome, Firefox, Xournal, Krita, SyncThing, and other handy apps onto it is easier for me than finding Android versions of those things that are well supported and ad-free.

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