It's also interesting how every thread involving russia, china, etc, someone always comments about trolls but doesn't provide specifics. It seems like a naked attempt at poisoning the well so that one side is prematurely smeared and only one side gets to speak. But I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. Which comment are you referring to? Specifics would be nice.
> I did it not for the posted reasons, but just beacuse it felt right to me.
It probably felt right because it's natural. Newborns pretty much stayed with their mothers 24/7 for all of human history. This is true for chimps ( our closest ancestors ) and even our common ancestor. It's only recently with the push to get women into the workforce where women were encouraged to separate from their newborns so that they could go back to work.
> As soon as they came out, I held them and sang and hummed the same tune to them. It immediately calmed them - with my first, she immediately relaxed and stopped crying whil the nurse took her vitals, measurements and pricked her heel.
The mother's voice also helps premature babies develop. The fetus probably has gotten accustomed to the mother's voice in the womb and associates it with comfort and safety. Perhaps it's an evolutionary relic since many newborn animals are drawn to their mother's voice and vice versa.
Human babies also learn the pre-constructs for the languages being spoken around them while still in the womb, so no reason they can't learn other repeated noises.
> "Lure" is a nice short word for "attract with incentives"
In american english, lure has negative connotations - like pedophiles luring children with candy or human traffickers luring vulnerable people with the false hope of a better life elsewhere.
I don't think people who read the headline came away with a positive view of Ant's $7 Credit Limit.
Do you think the headlines below leave the reader with a negative impression?
"FedEx lures sellers with two-day air shipping after Amazon contract ends"
"Cloudflare goes big on serverless with new CLI, lures devs with free tier"
"Shopping for nostalgia: Toys R Us lures Michigan fans to Canada"
"A ‘Honking Big’ Cave in Canada Lures Geologists to Its Mouth"
"North of Netherlands Lures Elon Musk with Billboards"
Is two-day air shipping bad for sellers? Is signing up for Cloudflare's free tier a mistake? Is Canada a dangerous country full of toys and geologist-swallowing caves? Will visiting the north of the Netherlands be the end of Elon Musk?
If Musk was a charlatan, we wouldn't have this problem. Musk would have failed to put spacelink satellites in orbit and we wouldn't have this problem.
The reason why we have this problem is precisely because Musk isn't a charlatan.
> I also know a lot of people directly involved in SSA and all of them are very concerned with how much these new constellations are going to increase the risk of collisions
Just because they are concerned doesn't mean they are against SpaceX or Musk. Every venture is open to concern.
> SpaceX cultists
Is NASA and the US government SpaceX cultists? You act like Musk just sent this satellites up there without any warning or government approval. He didn't.
All you've done is toss ad hominems at Musk, SpaceX and those who support this venture.
I call Musk a charlatan because he tries to pass himself off as something he isn't. His physics and engineering knowledge is nowhere near the level he boasts about, and he often states things that an SME would find laughable were they not eaten up without question by so many ill-informed cultists. It's dangerous, and unfortunately it's probably going to result in even more harm to people before he's reigned in.
And to clarify, the SSA folks I was referring to are against these types of constellations particularly in the context of the speed and lack of oversight (and no, FCC/ITU spectrum approval has nothing to do with oversight and regulation of the physical objects in orbit) of these ventures.
That's par for the course when it comes to propaganda.
It's even worse when it comes to international news. How many times has china "conquered the middle east" or "colonized africa"? A lot more than you think if you follow the news.
"China's latest conquest: Middle East power broker - commentary"
When we actually invade and conquer the middle east, the media portrays it as "bringing freedom". When we actually colonize africa, the media portrays it as "aid".
Of course it isn't just the west spreading propaganda, china does it also. It's why it comes to geopolitical or controversial events, you need a wide variety propaganda to get as honest an assessment as possible because every side lies about something and is honest about other things.
I don't have anything to say about whether or not the article is anti-China propaganda, but I just wanted to address this comment because there's some underlying assumptions being made here about names and ethnicity.
In this day and age, I don't think a name is guaranteed to tell you much about a person. It's a bit fallacious to say "she has a Chinese name, so she's probably not against China."
She could be from Taiwan or Hong Kong, both of which have plenty of reasons not to like China. She could also have been born and raised by Chinese, Taiwanese, or Hong Kong parents in any other country.
I have an incredibly "white" name, but I'm ethnically Korean. I know I'm an outlier, but it gives me first-hand knowledge that using names to assume things about people's ethnicity (and from that, their beliefs) is not a good tactic.
Systems programming concerns the code between hardware and the application programmer. So pretty much kernel programming.
Application programming concerns the code between kernel and the ordinary user.
Essentially, systems programmers write software that application programmers can interface with. Application programmers write software that ordinary users interface with.
It gets fuzzy at the edges like most definitions, but that's how I think about it generally.
I've always thought of compiler programming as systems programming. I guess it fits your definition of being something application folks interface with in addition to kernel.
It's quite eye opening to learn about the origins of the modern education system. The how and the why of the modern school system. Especially the people who brought the public school system from europe to america. They certainly weren't interested in creating a population of critical thinkers. It's why public "education" is supported by such disparate countries like america to nazi germany to the soviet union to communist china. One thing all countries and politicians and elites love is public "education".
> If that’s true, at what point do we stop vaccinating for it?
We stop when we have a way to actually cure the disease or we create a society where people aren't living on top of each other.
Just like industrial farming requires mass vaccination and heavy antibiotic use due to high animal concentration, humans need to be vaccinated since industrial society requires massive concentration of people in urban areas.
In a 100 years, if medical science can identify vulnerable individuals or actually cure these diseases, we won't need mass vaccination. But until then mass vaccination is the only option. Current scientific knowledge doesn't allow us to keep tens of millions of people in a small area without vaccination.
> It is already known that white sharks flee whenever one of their own is killed by anything
But white sharks fight each other, kill each other and even eat each other on occasion. We know that white sharks fetuses cannibalize each other in the womb. How could they do that if white shark blood scares them off? Also, is there really a difference in smell between white sharks and other sharks, seals, etc?
This is such an easy thing to test. Has anyone taken white shark blood and tested it on white sharks ( captive or wild )? Also, does this only work on white sharks? Do tiger sharks, nurse sharks and other sharks fear blood of their own species?
Finally, white sharks are scavengers as well as hunters ( like most predators ). As far as I know, every scavenger will cannibalize when given the chance. Are white sharks the exception?
Also, most animals flee when they see, smell or hear a predator. So I think it's most likely that white sharks flee when they sense a potential predator.
If truly shark blood scares off sharks, then coast guards should dump some shark blood near beaches where sharks frequent.
Hollywood/Spielberg promoted the fantasy that sharks are predatory to humans, where we are more often mistaken for seals and other natural shark prey when out in the water. An acquaintance recently told me he was surfing at Salmon Creek a couple of weeks ago and a great white hit him on the back of his head with a powerful flick of his tail while he was laying prone on his longboard, a wave came along almost immediately after this and took him shore wards (still prone). This was almost certainly a 'seal slap' stun move, sharks don't do anything by accident. My friend then saw another surfer on his way in paddling out who saw the shark silhouette in the wave and headed back to the beach. It's scary but there are very few actual shark bites and kills of humans despite the terror film sell, but it is still a mystery how we can discourage them from the coastal beach waves where they have every right to be.
Despite dolphin's adorable perception by humans you can see them torturing and raping seals in the San Francisco bay, it's a jungle out there...
Oceanic white tips and Tiger Sharks are man eaters, they have been know to stalk, hunt and consume humans. They will return to devour a human. The meme that Sharks do not eat humans is not entirely true, but the reality is they prefer other meals. Well at least the tiger shark does. Oceanic white tips are the piranhas of the open ocean, they eat everything they come across. It is a good thing they only live in open ocean as if they where a shallow water shark there would be far more shark attacks.
I spearfish, and have spent a lot of time in the water with sharks. There nature is very much like that of dogs. If you show fear, try to flee and basically make yourself look like prey they will get attracted. If you stand your ground, give them a nudge to the face when they get to close. They see you as a competing apex predator that can hurt them, sharks are adverse to fighting for their meal. It is why injured fish is such and attraction to them. I have been in the water with them, just cruising around not paying any attention to anything, someone shoots a fish and all hell breaks loose if you don;t get the fish up fast enough. Once you are in possession of the fish they act as if another shark got it and go back to just cruising around. If they get to your fish before you get it up, they will clean it off the spear in seconds flat.
In my few encounters, Sharks tend to avoid any dolphin species including porpoises and Bottle-nose. In the presence of humans it has been my experience that dolphins tend to be more aggressive towards sharks, running them off. I don't read too much into it, because I imagine they probably do the same when we are not around.
I would imagine that sharks compete for the same food source so they run them off to ensure food availability. Dolphins will also not try to steal your catch, at least not in my experience.
My expereince with dolphins is limited though, I have only been in a pod while spearfishing twice and both times where due to the fact that there was a bait ball, so there where a lot of predators competing for prey fish. Including Sailfish and Marlin, which the dolphins seem to use as the billfish bat thru the ball stun the fish and then the pod will grab some of the stunned fish.
My personal experience is that dolphins know what spearguns are, and don't like them, they generally don't approach if you are spearfishing. The release of a spearshaft and the band pop is a very distinct vibration, many apex fish including large grouper and sharks are keyed into it, in some areas. I remember one time, I pulled the trigger and had two blacktips on me within a split second. The fish was dead on impact so the only vibration was the gun going off. Anyways I would guess that dolphins key into this as well and avoid it.
That being said, when I am in the water without a gun they always approach check me out, push their babies towards me to check me out. I think it's akin to us going to sea world, it really is like hey kids look it's a human check it out, get a good look you don't get to see these too often.
One time my dog jumped in and the babies would swim about a foot under it, to make it go crazy barking. I think they loved the sound as when she would stop they would circle back and get her going again. (Side note: I think dolphins are into ASMR if you are ever in the water with them make sounds they love it). It was the one time I thought to myself, I hope dolphins don't eat dogs because she is a beagle, so small enough. Anyways, they don't, and I am glad they don't hunt humans, if they did we would not be able to enter the water. A human hunting dolphin would be a fearsome predator and absolutely terrifying in a serial killer kind of way. They are really smart and you get a feel for how smart they are when you have natural encounters with them.
> People seem to forget that democracies are supposed to be for the people. Not for corporations. Not for those in power. Not for the wealthy.
That's what we are told. But if you look at actual history of democracy and how it came about ( ancient greek or american democracy ), you know that simply isn't true.
The ancient greek democracy was created by the slave owning master class to protect and preserve their property and rights. In the US, our democracy was created by the wealthy white landowners to protect their property and rights.
The two quintessential democracies in the world were created by the wealthy for the wealthy, not by the people for the people. But it's great advertising.
