Noon versus midnight is nowhere near as troublesome as ensuring you're clear on which day midnight belongs to. A lot of things get scheduled for 12:01 am or 11:59:59 pm for that reason.
An hour is 1/24 of a day, so maybe that's a little too much, but I doubt any human activity would be affected if we saved up the discrepancies until it was a half or a full minute.
Ancient Egypt had periodic floods of the Nile, and when your whole population is unemployed and homeless for 2 or 3 months every year, public works projects in the desert can be quite appealing.
Although I'm skeptical of over-reliance on technology for diagnosis, some kind of pattern recognition for images that could distinguish the 50 or so subtly different skin condition examples in my anatomy textbook could be very valuable.
Every "first-person" game is essentially a virtual reality, it's just the experience is limited and requires a minimum of imagination. A total immersion experience in a virtual reality will be very cool, and the technology behind it will be very cool, but the limits of the existing 'technology', or even the technology 10 or 15 years ago, don't seem to bother people that much. Rather like how movies in the 50s and 60s did not have 'realistic' special effects, but people enjoyed them all the same, maybe better than the remakes with the latest special effects.
Some people get a disproportionate level of anxiety from being lost, but typically it's not difficult, at least in daylight, to find your way back to major (and familiar) roads.
Getting lost will waste time, of course, and I suspect some people are so poor at time management that they are unable to cope with minor delays.
The difference between English today and earlier examples like French, German, Latin, Arabic, Greek, Aramaic, etc., is the vast bulk of written material available in English, and increasingly audio and video digital formats, plus the fact that while English is as difficult as any other language to speak well, it is easier than most to speak, and especially to read, passably.
Technology for translation will make that reality less relevant but is unlikely to change the relative positions of the big languages. English, Mandarin, Spanish, and Russian will still have a lot of wealth associated with them.
It is a loss for the world because when a language becomes widespread, it loses a lot of its distinctiveness. English has the grammar that it does largely because the English language community went through several iterations of that process.
If we ever get bulletproof failproof rocket launches what's wrong with sending the shit one way to the sun?
Or, better yet, the far side of the Moon!
Seriously, though, by the time we have fail-proof rocket launches, we'll probably have technological solutions to a whole host of what seem like problems now.
requiring other people to agree to your solution before you'll admit the problem exists
I think maybe this is the whole basis of climate change denial. People care more about their own pet solution than they do about the problem. And so far the solutions have not been inspiring.
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I suppose it frequently tastes a better than metropolitan city water though...
Unlikely, since it frequently is metropolitan city water.
This has been going on for billions of years.
the problem is not that Earth is slowing down, but that the speed is slower
Try thinking that through a little more carefully.
Noon versus midnight is nowhere near as troublesome as ensuring you're clear on which day midnight belongs to. A lot of things get scheduled for 12:01 am or 11:59:59 pm for that reason.
An hour is 1/24 of a day, so maybe that's a little too much, but I doubt any human activity would be affected if we saved up the discrepancies until it was a half or a full minute.
Ancient Egypt had periodic floods of the Nile, and when your whole population is unemployed and homeless for 2 or 3 months every year, public works projects in the desert can be quite appealing.
Not the entire Christian community, only the very narrow-minded ones.
That's only a good practice for stories which have two sides. It's an extremely bad practice otherwise.
Lots of atheists believe in higher powers. Just not supernatural higher powers.
It's passive-aggressive form of censorship, but freedom of expression is stifled all the same.
Especially seeing that that was the goal of the surveillance, not an unintended side effect.
Without them we would never know that sulphuric acid is unpleasant!
Although I'm skeptical of over-reliance on technology for diagnosis, some kind of pattern recognition for images that could distinguish the 50 or so subtly different skin condition examples in my anatomy textbook could be very valuable.
Every "first-person" game is essentially a virtual reality, it's just the experience is limited and requires a minimum of imagination. A total immersion experience in a virtual reality will be very cool, and the technology behind it will be very cool, but the limits of the existing 'technology', or even the technology 10 or 15 years ago, don't seem to bother people that much. Rather like how movies in the 50s and 60s did not have 'realistic' special effects, but people enjoyed them all the same, maybe better than the remakes with the latest special effects.
Then you plug it into your flying car and it takes you there.
Some people get a disproportionate level of anxiety from being lost, but typically it's not difficult, at least in daylight, to find your way back to major (and familiar) roads.
Getting lost will waste time, of course, and I suspect some people are so poor at time management that they are unable to cope with minor delays.
But this is about Wikidata.
100 000 000 000 should be enough galaxies for anyone.
Il allait sans dire!
Chinese characters aren't that hard to learn.
It took about 3 years of reasonably intense study to be able to pick up and read a novel without too much difficulty.
Most of us call that hard to learn.
It's jargon in active use, used by people precisely because it's not mainstream.
The difference between English today and earlier examples like French, German, Latin, Arabic, Greek, Aramaic, etc., is the vast bulk of written material available in English, and increasingly audio and video digital formats, plus the fact that while English is as difficult as any other language to speak well, it is easier than most to speak, and especially to read, passably.
Technology for translation will make that reality less relevant but is unlikely to change the relative positions of the big languages. English, Mandarin, Spanish, and Russian will still have a lot of wealth associated with them.
It is a loss for the world because when a language becomes widespread, it loses a lot of its distinctiveness. English has the grammar that it does largely because the English language community went through several iterations of that process.
Well, we actually knew that was false (not counting the wilfully ignorant). This we're only 99% sure about.
No, the United States government made a claim about a hostile action by an unpopular country, and that's automatically factually incorrect.
If we ever get bulletproof failproof rocket launches what's wrong with sending the shit one way to the sun?
Or, better yet, the far side of the Moon!
Seriously, though, by the time we have fail-proof rocket launches, we'll probably have technological solutions to a whole host of what seem like problems now.
requiring other people to agree to your solution before you'll admit the problem exists
I think maybe this is the whole basis of climate change denial. People care more about their own pet solution than they do about the problem. And so far the solutions have not been inspiring.