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- Comment on Why do we say, "when I look in the mirror" instead of "when I look in a mirror?" 2 weeks ago:
My assumption would be that it’s because we don’t really look at mirrors per se but rather the reflection in them, so the definite article is indicating the fungibility of the mirror itself. This total speculation on my part though and I might be totally wrong.
- Comment on Is there a "canvas" of the universe? Do we even know? Would a canvas follow the same laws as the paint? 1 month ago:
The question hits on some of the most fundamental aspects of our current understanding of reality and theoretical physics. As another commenter pointed out, one potential answer delves into QFT. Just because OP used a metaphor doesn’t warrant you saying they had “too many pot brownies” and there’s absolutely no need to be a condescending jerk here.
- Comment on How many floors are under an apartment on the second floor? (No basement) 2 months ago:
Sure, but that only applies when referring to indices or to the zeroth element specifically.
- Comment on How many floors are under an apartment on the second floor? (No basement) 2 months ago:
Even in the CS world, ordinal phrases are still 1-indexed (e.g. the first element of an array vs element 0).
- Comment on Are MRNA vaccines any riskier than other vaccines? 5 months ago:
Not even that, more that the correlation might not be there in the first place.
- Comment on why do some people really dislike google?? 7 months ago:
Public companies are by definition amoral. They’re beholden to their shareholders and virtually every decision they make is informed by this obligation. Morality generally only factors into their decision-making insofar as it affects PR and thus the bottom line.
I don’t mean to say that Google or any other company is immoral. I use amoral to simply mean that they operate independent of morality. No public company, no matter how much you may like them, is your friend at the end of the day.
- Comment on why do some people really dislike google?? 7 months ago:
Chromium is open-source. Chrome is not and also happens to constitute a majority of the browser market, and Google has tried multiple times to cash in on this market share to benefit their primary business of advertising to the detriment of users (FLoC, Manifest v3, Web Environment Integrity).
Likewise, AOSP is open-source, but Google has been progressively dismantling it and making various components closed-source (most recently the dialer app).
All this to say, Google is absolutely not friendly to FOSS. As a corporation, they’re beholden to their shareholders above all else and they should be treated as an amoral entity, the same as every other publicly-traded company.