Way too often, news sites primarily rely on twitter.

For example, yesterday I wanted to know which countries voted against the UN resolution. I used Google, found a news site with the info, but it was an embedded tweet with an image.

And to enlarge the image, I had to click on it and it opened the tweet on Twitter.

Same is also true for a lot of videos on what’s happening in Gaza or Ukraine.

Me neither. Apparently, some schools teach this, but most only learn this in college.

Which is why the culture war so often involves College educated van non-College educated.

I’m on the College side of the culture war, but we must kind of acknowledge the truth that we had extra education that the other side did not.

Some of them might resent us for it, some of us might be snobby about it.

But at root, that’s where the culture disparity stems from.

This. I also remember being overwhelmed at the Great plateau, but I’m hindsight, it’s just a simple tutorial…

It just kind of sucks because there isn’t really any guidance. The key is to talk to the old man and read the book in his hut.

At the risk of almost spoiling it… they are trying to teach you the cooking mechanism, which is quite important in the game, but has quite a learning curve.

Once you get out of the great plateau, then the game really starts and boy is it big. Just enjoy the scenery and don’t get too focussed on quickly completing it.

I kind of regret rushing the game the first play through.

Eventually I played through it multiple times. It’s really, really good. But it does take a lot of time!

Sure, they all use open source to varying degrees.

But most of Android is actually contributed by engineers who are being paid by Google.

We could argue that $300K in San Francisco is still exploitation, but there are worse forms of exploitation in any case.

Tell me how the math works out on this one.

Because last I checked, Microsoft, Apple, Oracle and Google still are the biggest companies and their wealth rests primarily on closed source software.

I would think for the “largest” transfer of wealth, we would be able to pinpoint some poor exploited geeks coding software juxtaposed against some rich fat cats making money off of it.

But Linus Torvalds doesn’t seem poor and IBM/Red Hat, while rich, is much smaller than Microsoft.

The reason this meme doesn’t work is because people in 5001 BC also had bows.

It would have a better punch if you took something like the burning of Alexandria in 48 B.C. or the stabbing of Julius Caesar in 44 B.C.

If you have good insulation then the weakest link is usually heat lost through ventilation, or an inefficient heating system.

Ground source heat pumps have their place, but it’s really a niche. It is possible to cheaply heat a home without them.

Houses need fresh air and need to expel dirty air.

The dirty air is warm, while the outside fresh air is cold. With heat recovery ventilation, the heat is transferred into the incoming air and the exhaust air becomes cold. This warms up the air in a very efficient manner.

It can also be combined with a heat pump to extract even more heat out of the exhaust.

Geothermal has advantages, but air source is getting so good that it’s really becoming a niche.

Spending $5K on insulation or heat recovery ventilation will be more effective than spending it on a hole.

I saw an awesome home refurbishment in Montreal, they just went all-in on insulation. The heating was just done with a 500W resistive heating coil, just for the coldest days. They didn’t even have a heat pump, except for the heat pump boiler. The heat recovery ventilation did the rest.

Indeed, but yours is probably cheaper and more effective at cooling when it’s hot and humid out.

For people up north, they will buy a “cold climate air source heat pump”. In temperate regions, an “air source heat pump” will suffice, while down south you will buy an “A/C with a heating mode” (also called reversible A/C).

And it’s not just about whether the coils can defrost. The whole machinery and refrigerant are different to optimize under those conditions. A cold climate heat pump has a setup that is more similar to a freezer than it is to an A/C.

Sorry about the downvotes. People need to re-learn internet etiquette.

Your mini-split isn’t designed to function as a heat pump at low temperature.

In places like Sweden, they also use heatpumps that are designed for those conditions.

In other news, don’t drive in a Swedish winter with summer tires.

I think this happens to all professions.

I edited articles as a teenager in the early 00s when most people still used brittanica and Encarta. The quality was probably really bad, but the articles didn’t yet exist or only had a stump.

But the articles now have a much higher quality, with good sources and a very consistent style. If an article doesn’t exist today, it was purposefully removed because it did not meet the criteria to have a wiki page.

Obviously, such a thing becomes more of a dedicated hobby and not something a few amateurs do on a whim.

Similar things happened to YouTube videos, or historically, to things like singing, story telling, quilting, etc.

As something becomes more popular, the pool of participants grows and the selection becomes more difficult.

How do you people even math.

You might as well use a composite number if you want to create useless sets of numbers.

Then you have one set that contains multiples of 3 and two sets that do not, so it is not symmetric.

Yes, but not really.

With 2, the natural numbers divide into equal halves. One of which we call odd and the other even. And we use this property a lot in math.

If you do it with 3, then one group is going to be a third and the other two thirds (ignore that both sets are infinite, you may assume a continuous finite subset of the natural numbers for this argument).

And this imbalance only gets worse with bigger primes.

So yes, 2 is special. It is the first and smallest prime and it is the number that primarily underlies concepts such as balance, symmetry, duplication and equality.

This, I would just buy Monero (XMR) on an exchange with KYC. Once you start using it, it’s impossible to link it back to you.

If you are really paranoid, use a throwaway temporary wallet. Transfer from the exchange to that wallet and then from that wallet to your main wallet and throw away the wallet you used to interact with the exchange. You can then honestly claim you lost the keys to that wallet.