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Comment Re:All copper is "oxygen-free" (Score 1) 42

The only thing stopping you from calling the water pipes in your house "copper-phosphorus pipes" is laziness and poor attention to detail.

Have you ever heard a single person, including plumbing professionals, call them "copper-phosphorus pipes"?

No. Because that's not how the English language works. You're the one who is too lazy and ignorant to figure out how people actually communicate in society.

Hint: The systematization your mind wants to apply to everything is not absolute. You need to figure out when to relax the formal logic rules when they start to result in absurd outcomes.

Comment Re:Smartphone failed. Smartphone with bad AI won't (Score 1) 46

At least they should take this opportunity to think of better branding for their phone. "Fire Phone" is a terrible name for any product that contains lithium ion batteries.

However, I don't see how "all AI" is going to work out. Computers were invented because they made predictable, repeatable calculations. That's important for things like safety and security. People aren't going to be happy if their phone hallucinates a custom map giving them driving directions onto the runway of their local airport, or takes the initiative to wire all the money out of their bank account to the link in an incoming scam email.

Comment Re:Anonymous accounts are easy to identify (Score 1) 54

The headline is not incorrect. It just doesn't contain the entire summary. You therefore made the assumption that the verb "identify" applied to the wrong thing.

Just like your original comment didn't say that you were talking only about the headline. That was supposed to be inferred by the reader by your context. Maybe you should have set forth your entire argument in your subject line.

Comment Re:This constant assumption that dark matter is ri (Score 1) 71

Dark matter, whatever it is, is known to be true. So far, nobody has found any interactions with electromagnetism.

My point was, a lot of people point at that situation and say: "We can't see it! So it must not exist, and you are stupid and ignorant for hypothesizing that it could exist!"

Comment Re:This constant assumption that dark matter is ri (Score 3, Insightful) 71

You mean that you just don't believe in any measurement that is not made directly using the electromagnetic field.

If there are measurements made via the gravitational field, you don't believe it unless somebody figures out how to replicate the measurement directly using electromagnetism. If there is a physical phenomenon in this universe that simply never interacts with the electromagnetic field, well then it just will never exist for you.

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