The US controls the oil monopoly, where as China controls battery minerals.

The US can’t compete in electric vehicles solely due to lack of control over the complete supply chain.

The shapes just look like the letters. K’s have sharp corners, B’s are round.

The effect replicates in languages with other writing systems.

That seems to me like it just shifts the problem one level. Why are K's and Kikis spiky and why are B's and Boubas round. Why is it universal too across people with different writing systems and languages.

I can think of so many counterexamples on the spot: Latin, Arabic, Hebrew, Japanese syllabaries. It's really only the Greek Kappa that is spiky.

There is a pre-print which claims to have found this effect in 3 day old chicks. Given three day old baby chickens are not renowned for their literacy skills, it would point to some much more deeper origin.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.05.17.594640v1....

https://www.science.org/content/article/scienceadviser-even-...

In Telugu, k is one of the smoother letters: కి (ki: the squiggle at the top is the i vowel sign).

I think it is related to the physics of the mouth producing the sound, and we do a form of synesthesia: doing b-u-b seems (to me) quite smoother of a transition than k-i-k. If I stop blowing the u sound my lips close again; when I finish the i I have released the muscles and I need to hold again for the next k. It al feels more sudden an explosive with k. Also the b sound you voice it (otherwise it would be p).

Nearly as effective? It’s significantly more effective!

Would you then argue for Youtube to take the Netflix path and not provide non-paying users anything?

I'd argue that regulators should have a serious look at the effect of Youtube on that specific market, and if the only solution is the Youtube free tier disappearing I'll be fine with it.

We're in a skewed situation with a near monopoly that only companies at the size of Bytedance can challenge, and I'm not sure why we should see the status quo as something to be protected or encouraged.

> if the only solution is the Youtube free tier disappearing I'll be fine with it.

That'd be something most people wouldn't agree with. People always ask for free link anytime a paywalled article posted.

I’m surprised to hear that. I just switched from Spotify to Youtube Music and found the audio quality to be way better, even though I had Spotify set to high.

I’m a paying customer, but my biggest issue is that the content and suggestions themselves are still ads. I feel like I am paying to remove ads from within my ads.

The videos I am being recommended are still about how natural McDonalds food is, how this natural supplement from XYZ is disrupting healthcare and how this coffee machine will revolutionize the way I make coffee.

If the recommendation algorithm would be a bit less corporate, I’d be a happy customer. That, plus Apple Watch standalone Youtube Music app.

Is this written by AI or why does this make no sense to me?

it's not AI (at least I am not aware, but the simulation argument is pretty convincing!)

To top it off, the issue isn’t dyes, it’s artificial dyes. You can still dye your mint ice cream green, it will just be a slightly lighter shade of green.

You can get dark natural

:D

What does this even mean

Some kind of trolling, I assume. Diana is not trans.