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Celebrity owners would have got a brief sparkle from it. Perhaps also some of Apple's marketing budget too. And they continue to own a legacy item which will have notoriety beyond mere function.
Collectors of rare historical firearms presumably don't actually fire them.
However, like many of the peer comments here I feel the overlap of these two domains is vanishingly small. Presumably only yourself and a handful of others would even be aware of the etymology.
As you feel so strongly, perhaps a well-written blog post would rank highly for anyone curious enough to disambiguate.
Lipstick-sized retina scanner (selfies only). No screen, app store or other standard smart-phone features. Secure local network interface to World Coin smart-phone app. Months-long battery life.
Open spec h/w and OSS. Low cost, high-volume production.
Is that really the take-away? If the Catholic Church had not been so belligerent, those wars would not have been needed. Now that we are past that time, we should surely be thanking those combatants who helped disseminate knowledge in spite of the Church whose interest was in hoarding it.
It can be both true that right now predominantly low quality content emanates from LLMs and at some future time the highest quality material will come from those sources. Or perhaps even right now (the future is already here, just unevenly distributed).
If that was their reasoning, I tend agree. The equivalent of the Catholic Church in this metaphor is the presumption human-generated content's inherent superiority.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/china-says-it-wil...
China is starting to move in the right direction, but there's a ton of planning lag. China is by far the largest single consumer of solar panels. It also deploys more wind turbines than any other country.
Two limiting factors are China's insatiable need for ever greater power generating capacity of any kind, and the surprisingly rapid uptake of renewables globally which has constrained new production.
Presumably, you believe that there is something amongst all that "anything else" that has intrinsic importance. Perhaps for you it is humanity in general. Perhaps just yourself and your own family.
Whatever something you might value intrinsically is fundamentally arbitrary. Why not me and my family? Why not other great apes besides humans?
Arbitrarily, I value (desert) ecosystems as having value in their own right. Biodiversity is an intrinsic good, with no further justification required.
But, I will say that to a greater degree than you perhaps would imagine, Japanese people by and large do know what to expect from other Japanese in minute contextual detail. And with that knowledge, they try very hard to meet others' expectations.
I glean from this data point just how safe aircraft are in general.
Yes. From the Left as well as the Right. Jeremy Corbyn is an example of the former.
>> ... from what is now a center-right Labor Party, post Blair.
Labour Party.
It seems traditional party politics were not the primary factor. There were Leavers on both Left and Right. Centrists were less likely to be Leavers than those on the wings of their party.
Demographic factors were more determining of a Leave vote than political affiliation: Age (older vs younger), region (England/Wales vs Scotland/N.Ireland), population density (rural vs urban), income (low earning vs high earning)
If one such characteristic is pleasant smell (and why would it not be), then the answer is obvious. By and large, roses smell nice because human bred them to.
The firm is headquartered in Sapporo. It doesn't directly answer the question, but certainly Hokkaido is not unfamiliar with such temperatures.
There seems to be a solar and a battery component. Also, it is required to sit on a concrete base. Presumably, temperature management is a key part of the system.
China is a fantastic country filled with amazing people, culture, history and so on. It is quite possible to recognise a country's positive characteristics while questioning specific actions by some of the people within that country. This is as true of China as it is of any other country.
Yes, they are. Aside from a few scientists and engineers who witnessed Trinity, the entire world changed after 8/6/45. It wasn't just the immediate impact of those two bombs, but recognising the potential of all the to-be constructed bombs that would surely (and did) follow.
Most would prefer not think about it, of course. Amongst those that sometimes do, the majority are opposed to nuclear weapons' possession and use.
In contemporary Japan it would be hard to find either a dove or a hawk or anything between who'd say bombing those two cities was justified. Hawks are more likely to say Japan was minding its own imperialistic business, just as Europeans had been doing for centuries prior. So Japan didn't deserve those bombings. Doves will be opposed to any kind of nuclear weapon and tend to showcase their compatriots' suffering in order to help prevent further proliferation and destruction.
Some Japanese Buddhists believe that their constant prayers for peace have been directly responsible for averting annihilation of the world since 1945. I'd guess that's 15% of the population.
I haven't read Hersey, but I could easily believe that in the 1960's he was told what people thought he wanted to hear. Not deceptively, but non-confrontationally.