Probably a legacy of primitive humans only being able to count to 2. Such limitations are reflected in our language. Hence why we have 'half' rather than 'twoth'.
You can think more about that the week after.
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You can think more about that the week after.
Money. If you are financially independent, you are done with the field. If you are financially dependent, you are burnt out.
Right. You spewed standard anti-china propaganda in your other comment and yet we are to believe you were going to 'defend china'. Good one.
My comment already addressed that: '... Credit both? Credit neither since neither discovered the concept of 'the limit'.'
Neither newton nor leibniz discovered what we call calculus. If we are going to credit them for discovering calculus, we might as well credit the ancient greeks who developed similar 'calculus' and from whom both were 'inspired'.
> But yeah other things are trickier.
No. Even the simplest is tricky. As you just proved.
The best and the worst comments tend to be flagged. Not sure why we aren't allowed to continue the discussion within 'flagged' comments. Just hide it for those who don't want to see flagged threads and let the rest of us continue on.
> Birth rates crashe when people generally feel like there is no future for the current type of society or future societies that their current societies are headed towards.
Perhaps in certain instances in the past, but I doubt it. The current birth rate decline is a result of intentional policies of the elites. Starting with Europe and the US in the 60s and 70s and then these policies eventually got exported to or forced upon our 'allies' or major trading partners. The implementation of these policies varied from pushing '2 is enough' style propaganda to encourage couples to limit the amount of children, propaganda programming to encourage females to put off child bearing to work and of course enacting drastic policies like the 1 child policy ( the 1 child policy wasn't a chinese policy but one of american/european demands for opening trade and attaining foreign investment ). You can see it with bangladesh, india, etc. They are being forced to adopt 'child planning' policies by the US and Europe in exchange for investment. No doubt africa will get the same demands in the near future.
The birth rate decline isn't some natural quirk of society. It is a result of a planned systematic state policy. Everything from education to propaganda encourages men and women to have less children. What's laughable is that the same propagandists are scratching their heads wondering why fertility is declining all the while pushing propaganda to decrease fertility.
Take something as innocuous as calculus. Who discovered it? British say newton did. The germans credit leibniz. What should the editors do? Flip a coin. Credit both? Credit neither since neither discovered the concept of 'the limit'.
It's like this but far worse for many topics.
Everything seems simple because we lived in our own national propaganda ecosystem. But with the internet, wikipedia must try to pick 'truths' out of many 'truths'.
What? Anyone can do so if they wanted. There are plenty of people with 3+ kids in america.
> but not an issue for Europe.
And yet much of europe has a lower fertility rate.
> Remember that it is 50 to 100k in after expenses
What are you spending 50 to 100k on?
Why slashdot, digg, reddit, hn, etc exists. The good old days of maniacally refreshing until a new link or comment popped up. A generation's saving grace.
You don't have to do a quick keyword search. The 'ethical journalism' the guy referred to in this comment thread is a US government funded propaganda outlet.
> Probably because it would seem to be a reasonable enough description of the system of government in that country since 1962.
But not the colonial british government before 1962? Can you show me on reuters article calling the colonial british government 'authoritarian'?
Funny how the democractic russian government and indian governments are called authoritarian, but not the saudi government? Strange.
Lets hope myanmar stays authoritarian long enough to maintains its independence. So many people with political agendas.
No. And it isn't as clean, orderly and organized either.
What major ISP isn't state 'owned'?
> which is why starlink is such a game changer.
That has got to be one of the most naive comments I've read. Yes, the company that works on defense projects is a 'real game changer'. If there ever was a state 'owned' company, it's starlink. If there ever was a state 'owned' person, it's elon musk.
Why does it feel like every time someone promotes 'ethical journalism' here, it's always state backed propaganda? Not only that, people use propaganda terms like 'authoritarian regime'.
> There's no Irrawaddy for Venezuela, Afghanistan, or North Korea.
No. There are many british, american, etc funded propaganda outlets ( fringe and major ) targeting these countries.
> But because of the hard work of The Irrawaddy, Burma/Myanmar is much more visible to English-speaking audiences
Could it be because britain, the former colonial master of myanmar, is trying to overthrow the regime?
> especially when they are such an amazing group.
Are they 'amazing' though?
If AI is good enough to teach people to drive, then it should be good enough to drive the car itself. At that point, it would be pointless to teach the masses to drive when the AI can do it for them. If AI is good enough to cook, ... So on and so forth.
The intention is noble but where does it all lead?
Pound? What country are you from? Why are people so sneaky? Hiding behind 'the west'.
> In fact, we don't have the absurd taboos that force the US to use alternative words.
What? None of what you wrote applies to the US and none of it has anything to do with free speech. It applies to woke social media. What does 'porn tag' have to do with free speech? Besides, my point was being jailed or punished by the government.
> We can:
Question the holocaust without going to jail?
The article and the study is.
> But it is obvious that some conspiracy theories such as replacement theory, the trans "groomer" panic and COVID conspiracy theories have become mainstream within certain political demographics.
And certain conspiracy theories like 'lonely conspiracy theorists in living their mom's basements are secretlly controlling the world' have become mainstream within certain politcal demographics.
That's my point. Neither side are 'lonely conspiracy theorists'. Both sides are part of major political parties.
> Pretending all conspiracy theorists are just "lonely" and harmless people who have no real effect on the world is simply naive.
Yes. So stop being so naive. Most of these conspiracy theories on all sides are being pushed by major media outlets like nature and major political parties.
Good. Why should any country be a conduit for porn? Most sane countries frown upon and limit things like porn, gambling, drugs, etc. Like we used to until fairly recently.
> They are pretty big on cyber defamation and will go after people who make fun of government officials[0]
It's like that in most countries. Other countries can have their own values. Nothing wrong with it.
> They have a comparatively low internet freedom score because they do things like fine middle schoolers for having anti-government websites and the president pursues legal action against YouTubers[1].
Freedomhouse is apparently a state propaganda outfit.
'Most of the organization's funding comes from the U.S. State Department[4] and other government grants.'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_House
You are linking to a propaganda site created solely to push a political agenda. Germany has an amazing 'freedom' scores but you could go to jail in germany for espousing certain beliefs about certain events in ww2.
That south korea scores low in the freedomhouse index is a good thing. Though it is surprising given that south korea is a militarily occupied vassal of the US.
> It's pretty interesting when coming from the west where all the problems are often spoken about in the open.
Are they really? You are conflating 'the west' with the US. Most of 'the west' is not like america. In most of the west, you can go to jail or be punished for speech. Most of the west doesn't have free speech that we do in america.
What's with the neverending 'coming from the west' from foreigners here? So many foreigners here pretend to be americans here? Why?
Everyone here seems to be missing the 'essence' of the study and article. Do these conspiracy theorists influence global pandemic policy? Do flat earther conspiracy theorist affect global climate change policy?
That's what the article and the 'study' is ultimately implying. That lonely conspiracy theorist flat earthers are controlling global policy.
Some think reptilians are controlling the world. Nature and these 'researchers' think that lonely conspiracy theorists living in their mom's basements are secretly controlling the world.
Isn't it more likely that they were fans of Poe and took the book for themselves or they stole it for someone who was a fan of Poe. Doesn't seem likely anyone else would steal such a rare book only to destroy it.
What? Which ones? Undermined how?
> and were used in the lead-up to the January 6, 2021, raid on the Capitol.
I thought a major political party was involved. Not 'conspiracy theorists'.
> They lie at the core of political and social polarization
Really? Conspiracy theorists lie at the core of political and social polarization?
> fueling vaccine skepticism, climate change skepticism
Well then address the skepticism and move on. What's the issue here?
> and anti-science movements such as the flat earthers
Flat earthers? Are we really suppose to pretend flat earthers have taken control over?
No specifics given. It's almost like this study and article was created solely for political purposes.
What's the point of this 'study' and article? Don't question authority?
What's a bigger conspiracy theory than 'lonely conspiracy theorist flat earthers influence global pandemic contaiment efforts'?
Does anyone seriously believe lonely conspiracy theorists influence anything? That's a sillier conspiracy than reptilian aliens influencing world affairs.
Hard work may be a necessary condition. But it isn't sufficient.
But russia is a democracy...
> States have secrets its just the nature of the world.
That's an anti-democratic worldview...
Surprised traffic lights aren't updated to communicate with cars directly. Why not have traffic lights broadcast 'stop' message along with turning red?
I suspect traffic lights, roads and cities will have to be updated to work with driverless cars.
Einstein was wrong about the most fundamental aspect of physics of the 20th century. Also, einstein's papers weren't as 'pivotal' as the media leads us to believe.
It's not just einstein. Look at napolean. The guy was one of the greatest military dunces and yet the media portrays him as a military genius. So much of our 'heroes' are artificial creations. Today, it's Turing. The media makes it like he won ww2 for us and that he invented the computer. He did neither, but people think he did because the media decided to canonize him.
Not most. All. Including ours. All independence stories are nonsense if you bother to think about it.
> They were enabled by the US to kick out the Europeans out of their colonies.
That's some serious revisionist nonsense. Not only was the US was one of major 'european' colonizers in east asia since the early 1800s, it was also a major guarantor/protector of european colonial interests in east asia. The US fought the japanese in ww2 mainly to protect european colonial interests. Delve a little deeper than superficial propaganda. The vietnam war was the US fighting the vietnamese to protect european/french colonial interests. Heck today, the US is the major 'european' colonial power in east asia, and the rest of the world, protecting european colonial interests.
> The punchline is that this is hurting the US even more now as that keeping these governments aligned is a much harder job than imagined and they are being scooped by Chinese influence in the present day.
'Scooped by china'. What gibberish. Does that mean they were 'scooped by the US' after ww2?
For the same reason newton is while leibniz is not. And einstein is but bohr is not. Marketing. What gets to be a household name is determined by those who command the media/cultural apparatus.
Interesting. Abraham Lincoln also wanted to expel blacks. Lincoln was a member of the American Colonization Society which aimed to send blacks (free or enslaved ) to africa. Also, lincoln was a virulent white supremacist as well. But for some strange reason history doesn't like to dwell on that inconvenient truth.