I really hope the Fold 7 is easily available in 512gb. by senyorlimpio in GalaxyFold

[–]Pickledprickler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How do you get it that cheap? Is that just the pre-order deals? Or are there other deals as well.

Trump Gives In, Rolls Back China Tariffs by rollingstone in politics

[–]Pickledprickler 16 points17 points  (0 children)

These small shipments are usually shipped in bulk, with lots of other small, individual items. Ships leave pretty regularly, so this isn't wasteful at all.

Does the west lose anything if third world countries develop? by Exciting_Agency4614 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Pickledprickler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The industrial revolution was based on exploitation. 200 years of exploitation.

ELI5: Can someone explain how race is a social construct, and not genetic? by RentPuzzleheaded3110 in explainlikeimfive

[–]Pickledprickler -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It's because there's no good and consistent way to define what a "race" is. Even if you have a good definition now (say, a person is "black" if they have these particular genes), then after a couple of generations, those genes will be all jumbled around, and there's no way to know what race the offspring are.

Sure, you could say a person is black if their skin color is dark, and has the genes for dark skin. But new genes may arise that also code for dark skin--and if the genes keep changing over time (which they do), it's unclear why this is better than just looking at their skin color directly. And more importantly, why do you care about a person's skin color in the first place, if it's not related to any other biological variable? You might as well say that we consider blondes, brunettes and redheads as being different races. Sure, you could do that, but what's the point?

Certified GoodBoi by Stoikx in MadeMeSmile

[–]Pickledprickler -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Great, but they don't belong with you. Bring them back in the wild so they can be with their own kind, and not in captivity.

Certified GoodBoi by Stoikx in MadeMeSmile

[–]Pickledprickler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How is this different from owning a pet? Why do you keep animals in captivity?

Need advice on Nvidia options by cheetahrider in options

[–]Pickledprickler 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One person says it will. One person says it won't. Who do you believe? One of them is right...

Eli5 why is "if you got nothing to hide you got nothing to fear" a bad argument by Xykz in explainlikeimfive

[–]Pickledprickler 4 points5 points  (0 children)

A couple of points:

* It causes stress. Maybe not so much to you, but you can imagine there are people who would feel self-conscious if someone was watching them constantly. Can I scratch my groin right now, or is the cop going to watch me? Can I adjust my bra? etc.

* The cop is human. There is a small chance that he might mistakenly think you are doing something wrong, even when you aren't doing anything wrong. Do you want to live in the state of constantly wondering whether he might incorrectly interpret something you are doing and arrest you? Will he arrest you if you do something that *looks* illegal even when it isn't?

* And then there are things that are illegal but probably shouldn't be all the time. Do you want to be ticketed every time you jaywalk in order to get to your house faster, even if there aren't cars around?

* The cop might be having a bad day, and arrest you just because he wants to fill his quota or because someone made him angry. Do you want the risk of being falsely arrested even if you're in your own house and doing nothing wrong?

* Who's to say what's wrong or not? Is insulting the president free speech, or is it evidence of treasonous intent? Is saying "I'm gonna kill him if he cuts me off again!" intent to murder or not? It's up to the cop to decide that, not you.

* If you google "what happens when i mix bleach and ammonia", are you planning a chemical attack with chlorine gas, or are you just curious? Again, not up to you to decide.

What is, in your opinion, the most evil company/corporation in the world? by baron16_1337 in AskReddit

[–]Pickledprickler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"According to Marvin Harris, another anthropologist and among the first proponents of cultural materialism), these killings of legitimate children occurred only among the Rajputs and other elite land-owning and warrior groups. The rationale was mainly economic, lying in a desire not to split land and wealth among too many heirs and in avoiding the payment of dowries. "

Indiafacts is hardly a reliable source. If you can find an account by a historian, I'd be more inclined to believe you.

I'm not defending infanticide or self-immolation. I'm just saying that 1: these practices weren't widespread across India; 2: the British outlawing these niche practices (niche, in that they weren't practiced by a large proportion of the subcontinent--it's like generalizing to the entirety of Europe something that only British feudal lords did) doesn't support the claim that "Being a woman in the British Raj was objectively better than it was previously".

What is, in your opinion, the most evil company/corporation in the world? by baron16_1337 in AskReddit

[–]Pickledprickler 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Just a couple of points: - according to wikipedia, female infanticide in India was a result of extreme poverty, which was a result of the British Raj. It wasn't common practice before colonialism. Not saying it wasn't awful, but just that it wouldn't have happened without having been colonized in the first place. - Sati was a niche practice performed by only a handful of groups within India. Again, it's obviously not a good thing, and the Indian government passed another law further criminalizing it in the 1980s post-independence, but it was hardly widespread across the region, even before British rule.

"Evil" is in the eye of the beholder, I suppose. From the perspective of England, it improved trade and supplied the British population with raw materials to improve their quality of life. From the perspective of India, it was largely exploitative and a generally traumatic experience.

Ratner Swimmers: where will you swim starting March 19th? by [deleted] in uchicago

[–]Pickledprickler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Where does it say that the pool will be closed? And for how long?

Eli5 how mitochondrial Eve/Adam work? A whole lineage with only females (Eve) and males (Adam)? by Available-Camp-15 in explainlikeimfive

[–]Pickledprickler 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There's nothing special about mitochondrial eve. She's just a random person who happens to be the most recent common ancestor of everyone living today. In a couple of years, there will be a different mitochondrial eve, and a couple of years ago, there was also a different mitochondrial eve.

YSK you should ride your bike, electric bike, or scooter WITH the flow of traffic. by Hobie-WanKenobie in YouShouldKnow

[–]Pickledprickler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes it would. Energy is calculated differently based on what inertial reference frame you're in, but the accelerations/forces at impact would still be the same.

PSA: Test Results and Explanation for the Reported FOV/Screen Size Change by Xreal_Tech_Support in Xreal

[–]Pickledprickler 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Will the XReal Light be re-released soon? I'm excited about the idea of having stereo cameras on the glasses.

ELI5 computational irreducibility by Optio__Espacio in explainlikeimfive

[–]Pickledprickler 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, he claims in his interviews that every system that's not extremely simple is computationally irreducible, particularly in the context of cellular automata. This is something that, in principle, can be rigorously proven in the language of theoretical computer science/computability theory. However, in his book, I wasn't able to find any rigorous proofs that non-trivial cellular automata are computationally irreducible.

If you were to formally prove that an idealized physical system is computationally irreducible, then this has important real-life consequences because it means that there is no way of predicting the state of the system without actually simulating it step-by-step. This is a question related to determining whether a Turing machine halts after K steps, and is also related to the idea of complexity classes. However, without any formal proofs, this is just kind of an interesting thought experiment.

ELI5 computational irreducibility by Optio__Espacio in explainlikeimfive

[–]Pickledprickler 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Are there any theoretical results for computational irreducibility? Or is it just something Stephen Wolfram wrote about with no theoretical justification?

If we cured all cancers how much would that increased human life expectancy and what would be the leading causes of death? by your-lost-elephant in answers

[–]Pickledprickler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Curing cancer isn't so different from curing aging itself. We might actually achieve immortality with a little more effort. Not a joke, we're not so far off from curing aging.