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I'm aware that saving face is a thing in Korean culture. But when the cause of the plane crash is a North Korean bomb or a Soviet missile it seems disingenuous to lump that flight into your list about how Koreans save face as they crash their plane. Kind of like you can't find many examples and have a publisher deadline looming. At least one Korean speaker takes issue with how Gladwell interprets relatively benign cockpit communication. It also doesn't explain why other cultures that also have saving face as a 'cultural thing' don't have similar problems. When you get down to it plenty of airliners flown by pilots of every nationality have crashed due to miscommunications and pilots being overworked. Its one of the few core reasons airliners crash anymore.

The ferry incident is terrible, but that's also hardly unique to Korea. Many of the lifeboats on the Titanic launched less than half full because passengers were assured it was safe by crew and thought they'd be better remaining on the ship waiting for rescue.

Gladwell might get more benefit of the doubt if he doesn't also have a bizarre chapter on how Asians are better at math because rice is hard to grow. He switches very quickly from talking about how rice farming is important to southern China, which he can't get statistics for, to just that "Asians in general are good at math". The only study he references (Trends in International Mathematics and Science) lists Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea, and Taiwan having higher math scores, none of which are super dependent on rice farming. Thailand and Indonesia are massively dependent on rice farming and performed very poorly on the math study, but Gladwell doesn't mention that. "Rich countries have better education systems" isn't a very interesting chapter.

Outliers needs to be taken with some salt. A lot of his examples seem to either be restatements of well known bits of sociology or fall apart when anyone with a relevant interest/specialty looks at them.

My personal 'favorite' is his use of 7 airline crashes to claim that Koreans are "culturally" predisposed to crashing airliners. 2 of the crashes happened because of Soviet missiles, another happened because of a bomb on the plane, and crew culture was not a significant factor in any of the official accident reports for the rest. This was also his conclusion from 7 incidents.

It honestly sucks because "do more authoritarian cultures have more problems with crew culture" is actually an interesting question. You could contrast German flight crews and Australian flight crews maybe. Or contrast anyone really, instead of looking at 7 incidents and concluding it was because they're Korean.

This shouldn't even be a fringe Christian belief. At least one of Paul's letters at the end of the New Testament explicitly spells out, "don't police other people's behavior", in reference to non-christian practices not being a matter for christians to worry about. It follows pretty directly from "let he who is without sin cast the first stone".

Enshittification is pump-and-dump for companies over years instead of stocks over days/months.

Academia's problems with replication and funding for null/negative results have been known about for a while and are a separate problem. I guess it could be argued that they're related in that maybe an academic's career shouldn't be based on the profit cycle of their institution.

I think this is much more likely what they think people will pay. And/or what they think a percentage of people will pay that will cover costs/lost revenue from other users leaving. They have basically zero incentive to make it a 1-to-1 replacement.

Not OP but my electicity is <$0.10 / kWh because of where I live. It seems like it would take much more than 13 years to hit the break even point on upgrading the monitor just because of energy efficiency.

Even if the newer monitor has less of a lifetime environmental impact, throwing out the old still working one is still wasteful. It's already made and working. Using it longer lessens your environmental impact. If you repair the old one when it eventually breaks, that's still less of an impact than an extra ~20% electricity usage. Especially since electricity generation is getting greener all the time.

YouTube premium

Offline and Background video play are the two main ones they tout. Which have also either been part of youtube previously or easily done for free by third party apps.

The important part about Flat Earther beliefs that always seems to get left out is that they're a fundamentalist christian sect.

They don't believe the Earth is flat because of "the evidence", or even necessarily that the Earth is flat that's just the corner of their belief structure that got famous. They believe that the biblical Truth from God is the enemy of Science and that "they" are trying to keep that from people, in order to lead people away from God. Then comes the "evidence" and "debates" which are them trying to meet non-believers halfway, but fundamentally not understanding how/why science is a way of processing information.

Fortunately/unfortunately most Flat Earther's got made fun enough publicly enough that they're not really preaching it anymore. They've since moved on to other apocalyptic religious movements like Qanon/MAGA.

Imperial conquerors from across the sea with slave sorceresses and Texan accents.

Wheel of Time is top tier.

"Of the people that like bread, some are vegan."

That anti-semitic people are also anti-Israel is not a surprise. Lumping everyone who is critical of Israel in with anti-semitists is a logical fallacy. Saying that anyone critical of Israel's actions is anti-semitic is dogma.

I'd put money on the nurse being a roleplayer / watcher. It's a character attribute you can have in DnD 5e and I believe pops up in a few other tabletop games, so like, golems/robots "don't get tired."

Also totally possible he just likes older media of course.

There are ~20,000 objects in orbit large enough to be tracked as hazards. Personally unclear if that includes active satellites, but that's 'only' another ~10,000.

There are ~100,000 airline flights a day worldwide.

How crowded does the sky look with planes?

Yes space junk is a thing to be concerned about / regulate. But at the scales involved it's basically negligible. We're orders of magnitude away from any kind of cascade or locking ourselves out of orbit or any other doomsday scenario.

IIRC its more just poor notification of low battery.

If you're moving and the battery gets low it can not have enough power to keep the board stable. Early ones I feel like I remember hearing they would just 'stop'.

Which were Facebook branded/partnership.

I do think it's weird those flew under the radar when people flipped out so much about Google Glass.

See also SEO. Or marketing in general I guess.

In theory, you have a better widget so you want to get it to the top of the relevant search results. In practice.... 10,000 people trying to make money off a lemon pie recipe create a hellscape of mostly indistinguishable garbage that technically fits the description.

This is the only reason I haven't bought one yet. I have no use/need for a new laptop, but really like the idea at the very least over... every other manufacturer really.

Being able to choose/swap out ports alone would be fantastic.

This is like asking if using left handed threaded screws would make it easier or harder for China. They're already the ones manufacturing all the components and the device itself. Removing/adding a step in the process doesn't change anything.

DRM hampers legitimate customers / repair without actually doing anything against piracy.

LLMs are at least a quaternary(?) source. They're scraping secondary/tertiary sources. As such they're little better than asking passersby on the street. You might get a general idea of what the zeitgeist is, but how true any particular statement actually is will vary wildly.

Math itself is designed to describe relationships between things. That doesn't mean you can't mock up a 'reasonable seeming' equation that is absolute nonsense after further examination, but that a layman will take as 'true enough'.

LLMs don't cite things. They provide an approximation of what a human might write. They don't know what they're writing or how it relates to the 'real world' any more than any other centerpiece of a Chinese Room.

Also SHARP