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- Comment on Ubisoft Co-Founder Claude Guillemot Dies In Plane Crash 11 hours ago:
Splitting hairs is when the difference is meaningless. The difference we’re discussing is between answering the question and not answering it.
Others in the thread have given an answer that actually makes sense, and it’s that wealthier people who fly frequently tend to fly in smaller private aircrafts, and those are more likely to crash than commercial flights.
- Comment on Ubisoft Co-Founder Claude Guillemot Dies In Plane Crash 1 day ago:
In a world where there are exactly two people who ever fly, that would make sense. Now what if there are 12 people who fly 10 times a year a 1 person who flies 10 times a month? Will it be more likely that someone in the group of 12 dies in a plane crash, or the one person who flies 10 times a month?
- Comment on Ubisoft Co-Founder Claude Guillemot Dies In Plane Crash 2 days ago:
That’s the wrong question to ask. “important people are more likely to be in a plane than unimportant people” is valid as a partial explanation only if we assume that all aircrafts have similar crash probabilities and are flown with a similar number of passengers.
The frequency with which I personally fly does not impact how often other people fly. All it does is give you one data point on how often other people in my situation might fly, and we don’t know how many others are in my situation, so that information is also useless.
- Comment on Ubisoft Co-Founder Claude Guillemot Dies In Plane Crash 2 days ago:
We might not learn their names, but we definitely learn about the aircraft and how many people died.
- Comment on Ubisoft Co-Founder Claude Guillemot Dies In Plane Crash 2 days ago:
Commercial planes are constantly coming and going through every major airport. Do these wealthy people really collectively fly more than that?
- Comment on Do criminals or terrorist measure themselves by how much bounty is put on their heads? Did Bin Laden think he was king shit because he was the top guy on all wanted lists? 5 days ago:
I think it’s more likely that they measure success by how much improvement they bring to the lives of the people they care about.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
In my experience, IRL conversations are generally more nuanced. I rarely encounter people who are adamant about one stance or another in any kind of absolute terms. But online, you’ll often find people on the extremes, saying that anything AI is good/bad no matter what and getting mad at anyone that doesn’t share the same opinion. And those extremes are often the loudest voices.
- Comment on Flipper!! 3 weeks ago:
Am scientist (not in life sciences). If someone showed me this image, I’d have absolutely no idea what I’m looking at. So that’s one for the 10%, I guess.
- Comment on Could we possibly create a new website/software combining mastodon and piefed ? 3 weeks ago:
As long as you don’t reinvent the protocol
- Comment on If I have PMOS would I be allowed to participate in the Olympics? 3 weeks ago:
That would make sense if you were an actual athlete looking to compete in the Olympics, but that’s not the situation that OP is in.
- Comment on Another redundant app 3 weeks ago:
Who is better suited to know how someone can better present themselves than those having the experience of being presented to?
If one should not do the better thing, then I don’t know what “better” means.
Maybe it’s clearer if I use the same vocabulary as you:
So as a Star Trek fan,
I shouldit’s better if I dress up as a Star Wars fan to please the Star Wars fans looking for Star Trek fans posting as Star Wars fans?
If you care about that, then go do so. If not, then don’t.
That’s the entire point. I know what I want. You don’t know that about me. All you can know is what you want.
- Comment on Another redundant app 3 weeks ago:
So as a Star Trek fan, I should dress up as a Star Wars fan to please the Star Wars fans looking for Star Trek fans posting as Star Wars fans? Regardless of my desire to pretend to be a Star Wars fan and get into all the interactions that entails? I don’t know if you see yet why people find this objectionable.
- Comment on Another redundant app 3 weeks ago:
So they would have a better experience encountering a Star Trek fan posing as a Star Wars fan?
- Comment on Another redundant app 3 weeks ago:
So if I go out wearing a Star Trek and encounter someone who wants to meet a Star Wars fan, then I’m in the wrong for choosing that shirt?
- Comment on Do you stay on vpn 24/7 or turn it on whenever you need it? 4 weeks ago:
If a website loads with a VPN, then it doesn’t exist?
or
If a website loads without a VPN, then it doesn’t exist?
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
My main machine still runs Linux off a HDD and it’s doing perfectly fine.
- Comment on Marriage 4 weeks ago:
Amazing how we all just collectively forgot that Photoshop was a thing.
- Comment on Should hate speech be protected under freedom of speech laws? 5 weeks ago:
When is freedom of speech ever not equivalent to freedom of consequences from said speech?
- Comment on Hail corporate (they did it tho) 1 month ago:
Most people would understand “profit” to mean the net flow of money, not value. If you redefine it this way, then you can no longer look at the “profit” line of a company’s sheets and say that they’re stealing because the number is positive.
- Comment on Hail corporate (they did it tho) 1 month ago:
Profit can also be the value of the labour you put into something. If you buy wood, build a table, then sell it for more than the value of the wood, then that profit is the value of your labour.
- Comment on What if programmers rewrote the English language? 1 month ago:
And we’re constantly doing this. If a word is used a lot and the word is long, we’re going to shorten it.
- Comment on If a person were paranoid about a potential food shortage in the next two to three years, what should they stock up on now? 1 month ago:
That will last the average adult about 20 days, and you’ll probably be constantly feeling hungry during that time. Adding a sack of dry beans would make a huge difference.
- Comment on If a person were paranoid about a potential food shortage in the next two to three years, what should they stock up on now? 1 month ago:
Vitamins degrade over time. You’ll want to make sure that what you get will actually last for the period of time when you intend to use them.
- Comment on We're so back 1 month ago:
The bar for a lot of us is also at “about to lose a limb from infection”. The only difference is that we don’t get a hospital bill to go with that visit.
- Comment on She only wanted the ring bros 2 months ago:
This is why both parents should get parental leave. I just took care of all the nights and slept through half the day. Neither of us had to deal with sleep deprivation.
- Comment on Whats a good etiquette to show you are doing a U turn in a left turn, so the cars behind you know? 2 months ago:
I don’t understand the problem with the car in front doing a U-turn. How does that increase the probability of rear-ending or missing a light? Even if it were a regular turn, some people turn faster and some slower, some people take longer to respond to a light change, and some wait for a larger clearance in oncoming traffic before turning. Whatever they decide to do, you just follow their lead.
- Comment on Random Choice in Newcomb's Paradox 2 months ago:
And you’re saying that those two things are somehow contradictory? Because if so, I don’t see how. If this super intelligent computer knows how you’re going to choose ahead of time, then it must also know how the coin is going to land ahead of time.
- Comment on Random Choice in Newcomb's Paradox 2 months ago:
I don’t know what you’re getting at. Did I say something to suggest I misunderstood this part?
- Comment on Random Choice in Newcomb's Paradox 2 months ago:
This is a hypothetical where a human beings actions can all be predicted with high accuracy. Your actions are constantly being influenced by the inputs you receive, so in order to predict your behavior, you’d also need to predict everything you’re going to be experiencing. This necessarily includes the results of that coin flip and the Geiger counter readings.
- Comment on The person who mounted a spice rack into the fucking studs so a fridge won't fit there 2 months ago:
Having a shitty day-to-day life tends to make minor inconveniences extra infuriating, and vice versa.