A different context, but I think this is actually a pretty good rule for software engineering. A number of times I was sure a problem was someone elses fault, only for them to find my own silly mistake that I was overlooking. Sometimes the opposite also happens to me. Now I really make sure and typically find the actual root cause of problems before I suggest someone else caused it.

It should have been an eye opening moment the last time he got in. But, here we are.

Yeah people in the US tend to assume everything is about the US. Sometimes it’s good to remind them that other places exist and have internet.

You got me curious and I wasn’t satisfied with any of the existing responses to this. I agree that public sightings would certainly be correlated with whale population, but it would have plenty of other compounding factors, so it’s a pretty poor way to estimate population.

The Internation Whaling Commission will do sighting surveys do get an actual population estimate. This is with groups of specific people going out in boats and/or planes to spot them and using those numbers to extrapolate population number with certain confidence intervals. I’m not sure how they do the extrapolation, but I can’t be bothered looking into it further.

I did also find this plot using population estimates, including a projection to 2030 (made in 2019)

https://www.abc.net.au/triplej/programs/hack/humpback-whale-population-hunted-to-near-extinction-recovers/11609318

I’m guessing we would have the capability to gather more accurate measurements, but there’s probably just no funding for that and the current sighting surveys are good enough for what we need…

David McRaney has some really good content on this topic. I recommend listening to his podcast episode called How Minds Change, about deep canvasing. He has a whole book by the same name, if you want to read more about it.

Edit: I should summarise the key points I’ve taken from consuming his content:

• Facts and figures don’t change minds, stories people can relate to are much more effective
• Changing minds can take a lot of time
• An approach known to have a decent success rate is to have a calm discussion where both people are trying to understand each other and find some common ground while following the steps of deep canvasing

Having said all that, it’s best in 1 to 1 conversations. Not sure how effective you can be on the internet, but I do think it’s best to try to show understanding of other peoples views and steel man their arguments (opposite of straw man) while sharing your own views.

Well there wouldn’t be much point to the Great Chinese Firewall if lots of uncontrolled information was flowing in and out through social media.

Logical fallacy: Fallacy fallacy

Well now seems like a very good time to set a precedent

I don’t think you fully grasp how Wikipedia works and how much work is put into it to keep it up to date and accurate. Maybe you should try changing the meaning on that page and see what happens (although I don’t actually condone that kind of behavior).

I could vouch for that specific article, because it words it better than I could. But, it seems you’d rather have a ridiculous argument than have your question answered…

Wikipedia is probably the most trustworthy source around. It can be wrong so you should still verify it if you want to be sure. But, I don’t think there’s another site with a large amount of knowledge that is so consistently accurate.

What you should have learned from school is that you don’t cite it in your papers, because it’s not the original source for anything. But, you definitely should be using it for your research and using its citations to go deeper.

I could understand that. But, with a bit more context from the article (that I should have included), it’s talking about the criminals that are targeting specific individual children to assault them.

When a parent is anxious about the child enough to install a bloody tracking app. The parents is giving the data about the child to the criminals.

That sounds unlikely and more paranoid than the parents who would install those apps… How many criminals are going to data brokers to track their child targets?

Could it be a cleaver use of the Streisand effect? Or am I giving them too much credit?

I heard about this before and from memory, that’s how this started. People were researching why adult teeth weren’t growing and were looking for what could make them grow.

I think the 80% number is outdated (although most of the energy is still wasted)

F1 engines achieve a peak thermal efficiency above 50 percent, significantly higher than a modern passenger car’s 35 percent thermal efficiency - https://www.motor1.com/news/655596/video-how-f1-engines-make-1000hp/

So more like 65% goes out the tailpipe…

Yeah, but who decides what’s an official act? I think that ruling was only ever meant to benefit republicans

Not to mention that the founding fathers would hate what has become of American politics…

Sometimes it’s not so easy to fire up a GUI, like when you ssh into another machine.

Reminds me of these guys trying to grow brain cells to play doom

• Ep1: https://youtu.be/V2YDApNRK3g
• Ep2: https://youtu.be/bEXefdbQDjw
• Ep3: https://youtu.be/c-pWliufu6U-

Why would you have 30 days in those months? I’m a fan of having exactly 4 weeks each month (28 days), across 13 months. Then every month is the same. If the 1st is on a Monday, then the 1st of every month will always be a Monday. You just need to add a leap week in every now and again.