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  • Fritz Haber, the Veritasium video about him is fascinating (The Man who Killed Milioms and Saved Bilions). He developed the chemical process to efficiently synthesize ammonia, one of the key discoveries that allowed mass adoption of fertilizers and the incredibly rapid growth of the human population in the 20th century (you could say that thanks to him, bilions of people could live and be fed by modern agriculture).

    Tragically, he also had a fundamental role in developing chemical weapons during WWI, although he belived their use would reduce the number of deaths as army would simply avoid gassed zones, so who knows if he really intended and believed in the milions of deaths he caused. Ironically, he also helped developing Zyklon B during the rise of nazism (while it was still used as a pesticide), but was quickly forced to flee from Germany because of jewish origin. Later, his last invention would be used to kill even more people.

  • If you demand proof to state they do, you should provide proof when stating they don't. It's not like Apple is the most trustworthy company in the world. With big tech it's always reasonable (definitely not certain) to assume they could be spying on your activity, and unless you are able to download your software source code, check it and compile it yourself, it's almost impossible to tell.

  • Think of all the pollution you would not make if you died! Maybe we should all die a little bit more

    /s of course. Healthcare is inherently wasteful, just think of all the single-use stuff, that's the cost of saving life. It's okay to minimize waste, but should not be done at cosy of people's health

  • I see what they want to do: no sane insurance company will provide such contracts unless they either:

    1. make the customers pay exorbitant prices
    2. require background checks and do the control themselves

    Any of those will of course disincentivize people from owning guns, which is a good thing, but it's crazy that a state has to offload these controls to a private company because there is no political willingness to do it in the right way.

  • Doctor comes from latin (from the verb docere - to teach) and basically means teacher, or someone with enough knowledge in a field to teach. The term is still used as an academic title, but in different way in different countries. For example, while in english speaking countries ot is used for someone who completed their PhD (phylosophæ doctorate), so someone with enough knowledge to do research and teach to an academic level, in Italy the title "dottore" is given to any who got a degree, even a Bachelor's, so a physician is a doctor in medicine because they graduated in medicine.

  • Read the line above the other, it sais SNVDARE (snudare) which literally transalted to denude, figuratively to draw I guess, because you remove the sword from it's clothing (the sheath).

    Fun fact, "vagina" comes from the latin word for sheath.

  • I've been using OVH for a while, the price is decent (~1.5€/inbox + VAT) and they have a quite comprehensive mamagement interface, with the ability to create different admins account I believe. Of course you can configure your accounts with any client and the documentation is a bit confusing but complete

  • Netflix and all other streaming services use DRM to provide content. Firefox might have different DRMs from Chrome, even worse if you are on linux. As far as I know reading from other posts, there are several DRMs with different "tiers" of encryptions, lower tier are less trusted so websites only give them lower quality content, but they have more open licenses so it's easier you'll find it on an Open Source browser deployed on linux. I don't know if there are ways to use different DRMs, maybe proprietary ones

  • Your comments seems to imply that just using the language is enough to learn it. This is not necesserily true, especially with more complex grammars than english. You need a source to teach you grammar and basic vocabulary, then you use these basics information to roughly understand spoken language and slowly building up your actual vocabulary and consolidate the rules. You cannot skip neither of those two passages