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Comment Re:Muslims don't live longer (Score 1) 94

The first paragraph is sort of reasonable, but fraught with confounders. The second is just making the original error but substituting the author's pet cause and adding some religious weirdness. Fortunately the exact same argument deals with it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The highest per capita meat consuming countries are non-muslim. The muslim countries are all mid tier except for a couple gulf states, including Qatar.

Sacrificing animals is big part of Islamic religious ritual.

Lol. It's a big part of Christian religious ritual too. That doesn't mean people do it very often.

Comment Re: It's probably research affected by undue influ (Score 1) 94

No, they're part of normal society that pushes their wishes and ideals as truths. Science is a weird niche branch of philosophy that says that's a bad way to generate knowledge.

That's hard enough for trained scientists to do never mind the masses. So the masses politicize papers with conclusions they don't like. Notice most of the arguments aren't about the data, they're something along the lines of "idiots won't understand this so it's dangerous to publish."

Comment Re:Data centers on the moon (Score 1) 130

We were talking about why you can't send information faster than the speed of light. Nobody said communication via entangled particles was the same as classical communication. It requires classical communication. In the case you're talking about, that classical communication even has to come first.

Comment Re: eSIM was never about customers (Score 1) 95

I currently have six travel eSIMs in my phone

The article author transfers eSIMS between phones frequently, several times a month. Swapping eSIMS in one phone is easy, quick and much superior to the physical kind. Swapping between phones apparently runs into some problems if your carrier is braindead. That's what the article is complaining about.

Comment Re:eSIM was never about customers (Score 1) 95

Most of the world has phones with a SIM slot and support for eSIMs. IIRC Apple (and now Google) removed the SIM from their phones because most Americans don't swap SIMs much.

The guy who wrote the article is a niche user who swaps his (e)SIM between several phones fairly frequently, probably sitting at his desk. That's definitely a use case where a physical SIM is superior. For pretty much everything else an eSIM is better.

Comment Re:No such thing as dark energy (Score 1) 67

Dark energy is a line on a graph that has a slope that's not zero. The one group has been measuring points on that graph. The other group has been speculating about how the points on the graph could be biased. Both of them find, to ever greater accuracy, that the slope of that line is not zero.

They're not "starting from dark energy" or "trying to fix dark energy."

Comment Re:Starlink? No. All satellites? Yes (Score 1) 140

Lol. That's a 60s or 70s era ballistic missile. Maybe some stage of it nudges a little knob out into the airstream so it can "maneuver." It sure as hell doesn't carry the kinetic energy of a nuclear bomb.

I repeat: take a break from the Internet. You're either reading straight up fantasy or conflating Russian propaganda with some stuff you read once about hypersonic shells not needing conventional explosives because they carry enough kinetic energy.

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