I agree. Putting a hard estimate of 2% (or whatever) on a single event just serves to make one seem less credible to people who understand probability and statistics. It's a manipulation tactic to make one seem like a credible expert to people who don't.
Even if the estimate seems reasonable, it's absurd to claim a specific probability for complicated future outcomes like "nuclear war".
Not to mention all the extra labor and effort it takes to sell a $200 ticket than a $100 ticket. So their 15% addon fees will scale with ticket price instead of with their actual costs, since they have no competition to motivate them to do otherwise.
I think it's more likely they invented a cover story for how they actually found the pilot. Why would the CIA advertise this tech, otherwise? In this case, maybe they just replaced carrots with "quantum".
When it comes to computer topics, I seek out good book, like `The C Programming` language when I was 14 or research papers for a coding project. PDFs ok in a pinch, but being able to sit in a cafe, a waiting room, airplane, etc. and read without issue is nice. They go any where and don't need a power outlet. For my own books, I pencil notes in the margins. And not just tech. books, but fiction too. A good'ol paperback tuck in my wait band behind my back or in a large coat pocket. Books work. They exercise memory, improve reading and writing skills (more you read, the better your writing becomes by example), and a new book smells nice, like a new car but cheaper.
We had a six day blackout a few years ago in Ottawa after a hurricane. My to-read pile staved off boredom and filled a void. Analogue tech has a place.
This.
Does Caprica count as prior art?
One of many such quirks which are absolutely, definitely not intentional nor contributing to widening the economic class gaps or tax burden shouldered by those with the least.
I agree with the engagement motivation hypothesis. Including the meta-engagement, like this thread. There's profit to be found in the long tail!
Our customers are distracting themselves from the distractions they are buying from us.
Idiocracy was prophecy, not fiction.
In the next issue of Dystopian Adventure Stories...
I'm antinatalist, but I haven't seen evidence of most educated people being so. I'm curious if there is data to support this claim.
Right after Fire, The Wheel, Religion, Art, and Cryptography.
Aka. "good facts". Too bad "real facts" aren't the alternative of choice for most media/news outlets.
Any circuit design must contain at least one part which is obsolete, two parts which are unobtainable, and three parts which are still under development.
