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Before you figure that out, you will be surprised to discover that it's impossible to tell if the speed of light is the same in both directions, with only the average of a round trip being the speed of light.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-way_speed_of_light

Anyway, reading that should help you answer your own question, or at least give you a lot more questions to ask.


Criticism: It's not literally impossible.

I hate this one because it's true Einstein said we cannot measure the speed of light in one direction that is independent of the clocks' synchronization technique being used to measure.

And yet, somehow we changed that to "we don't know the speed of light in one direction!!!" Which is bogus - can you imagine if speed of light was different if you were pointing east vs west? In space, what is even a direction vs another?

Did you even read the wiki you linked? We've done one-way speeds, it's down below.


How do you synchronize the clocks and compute the measurement, without depending on the conclusion?

You run into a similar problem with Michelson-Morley: because the apparatus and the light both get distorted by any motion, you can’t even in principle detect the aether wind with interferometry. You need a non-comoving dynamic source, eg, LIGO with black hole collisions.

Their one-way experiments seem to require similar, ie, we can observe dynamics but cannot measure a static bias.


Ah missed this - 2 days later, sorry.

I'm over my head with your statement, but my guess is - Yes that's the point. Either you do 2 way or you accept 1 way clock-sync collusions.

My argument is it's not "We don't know speed of light in 1 direction". Also, there's another common youtube video that says "we've never measured teh speed of light!".

Those statements are just for click bait, shock value. It's not rooted in the science.


I think that depends on if they distribute it with the install package, or if they download it once installed.

True, but the limiting factor for plant growth is sun, not CO2. And when they have full sun the limit is how fast they can absorb it.

So far as I know plants are not limited by co2 absorption, so adding more doesn't really help them.


Isn't 35% more definitionally demonstrating that that limit was surpassed already or we're fighting facts?


Doctors make mistakes pretty much non-stop, and they are rarely held accountable because the system as a whole works OK. AI makes less mistakes than the doctors do (I read a lot of medical notes).


He specified "terrorists", See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49340403 for actual sources, including in Hebrew (although it was flagged to death for reasons unknown).

That message a reply to YOU, but that didn't stop you from posting the same false info multiple times in this thread.


I'm not sure how you sleep at night.


Anyone resisting ethnic cleansing is a "terrorist", and so is anyone that happens to be standing next to them, as well as their nearest kin. We know the playbook.


In Hebrew Sunday doesn't have a name, it's simply called "Day one", this is also true in Portuguese, Arabic, Greek, Chinese, Vietnamese, and others.

So no, the week does not start on Monday, it starts on Sunday.

The name "Weekend" came long long long after Sunday was considered the first day of the week.



That’s a late 20th century invention, and not universally followed. Consider Unix time functions, which predate the ISO standard and follow what’s common practice in America even today, that Sunday is the first day of the week. Of course, Sunday was the first day of the week in Europe for over a thousand years and that practice has not fully been extinguished.


> The 7 day week is completely artificial.

Actually it's 1/4 of a month, which is defined by the moon.


>1/4 of a month

Where does the 4 come from? Human artifice.


Moon phases as time keeping are as old as any of the others (ie prehistoric)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_phase

Does not line up perfectly with days, so different cultures handled that differently, but pretty much all cultures had something like a week.


4 Earth Quadrants simultaneously rotate inside 4 Time Cube Quarters to create 4 - 24 hour days within one Earth rotation.


>4 Earth Quadrants

Another arbitrary invention. Why not divide by 3? Or 5? Or any other magic number?


Just as the clock face has 4 quarter corners, an Earth hemisphere has 4 quadrant corners. Those 4 different corners equate to 4 different Worlds, with each having its own separate day, own separate year and a separate human race.


This article does not make its case. He shows a graph of "random" data, and then just kind of keeps going. But that random data is the meat of the whole thing.

Cut out 60% of the useless text, and focus on explaining why random data should look like that.


Agreed. Also it seems like, if the actual test scores and perceived test scores were both sampled iid, the “perceived” line should just be flat, with everyone being at 50th percentile. The fact that the displayed graph deviates from 50 in a way that more resembles the empirical data makes it seem like a cherry-picked random sample


A profile is a full new browser, these containers are just tabs. So they mix into the current browser window.

They are much more lightweight, and the workflow is better, just switch tabs.


I have containers on Firefox, and I do NOT have this extension installed.


They've been available natively on Nightly with some basic UI support since they were first implemented a decade ago. Some other pre-release builds have them too but it's been too long and I cannot remember which ones did or didn't.


I don't use Nightly and I've been using containers for I think that long without any extension for it.

Edit: looks like I enabled them manually and couldn't remember/find it, it's in about:config under the name "privacy.userContext" instead of "containers".


as far as i remember, the low level container functionality was always in the core browser. what the extension adds is the UI to manage containers. with this change it appears the UI is merged back into the core browser.


It's been there just as long, turn it on with "privacy.userContext.ui.enabled" and manage them at "about:preferences#containers"

The addons added extra functionality but everything they've listed in this announcement is already there. Sounds like they're just flipping these two flags by default.


The Facebok Container extension also makes containers available.


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