Let me run a linear regression and get back to you

That makes sense, its like overdosing on pot.

The last bit about radiation decreasing cancer risk in low (but still elevated) doses seems pretty suspect though. Where did you find that research?

What if I use it to caress my face? What about then?

That’s true for radiation poisoning.
I’m asking about increased risk of cancer.

Lots of those things in our natural environment that you mention do increase our risk of cancer, with long-term exposure

I guess a better way to phrase it would have been

How many daily bananaHours do you need long-term to increase your risk of cancer by 5%?

Edit: just added this to the post because commenting on my own post is stupid

I’m aware of BeD, which is the inspiration for the post.

But I’m not talking about radiation poisoning, because we’d know if spending a day in a banana plantation was fatal.
I’m wondering about increased risk of cancer form long term banana plantation exposure.

Almost certainly. But I’m not going to eat thousands of bananas in a day.

I bet it’ll be great for people who are willing to sacrifice their personal data and the environment.

Because I mean, it’ll learn your tastes and create hyper-personalized videos for exactly your tastes.
But theyll also have a hyper-specific record of the kinds of things you like. How many people gonna give it access to all their chat histories and shit. God can you imagine the potential for leaks (pun intended)?

Is it still an underpass if you’re not passing anything?
Is it still an overpass if you ain’t over shit?

Shut from where?

Shut your nostrils completely? That doesn’t seem normal.
Shut the air passage near where it enters your throat? I think that’s normal.

I’m nearly certain that nobody who died in WW2 is alive today

You can see much much further than you can hear.

You can presumably walk out of earshot. You have to go VERY FAR before you’re out of camera shot for even consumer cameras.

It’d be interesting if there was a multi-modal device-to-device communication protocol, so that you needed both line of sight and be within audio range to be able to pick up the conversation.

Although just record them typing at that point so never mind.

That’s the whole point of this post.

What if you do retain your memories, but your past lives were creatures that didn’t have the ability to form memories?

I would call all of those “something like a soul”; an embodiment of your essence external to your physical body.

If it’s not an embodiment of your essence external to your physical body, then it’s difficult to really call it reincarnation, since it’s not you

I feel like there’d be a lot of ants and insects in there too.

The way they die in old age does not appeal to me.

Growing forever, but eventually when they get too large, their shell becomes so difficult to molt that they die of exhaustion before they can complete their molt.

I assume that belief in reincarnation requires belief in something like a soul to be reincarnated

Imo the main issue with oop is that it’s very easy for people to make bad designs. Generally the feeling I get is that if you work on a well designed codebase, then you’ll come to like whatever the main paradigm of that codebase is, and if you work on a poorly design codebase you’ll come to dislike the paradigm.