"Lebanon’s GDP plummeted from close to US$ 55 billion in 2018 to an estimated US$ 33 billion in 2020. GDP per capita fell by around 40 percent in dollar terms. "

Per wiki, the Beirut explosion in 2020 also did some 13 Billion USD in damage, too

Moldova has a "frozen conflict" where Russia is holding a fair fraction of their territory hostage. It's less bad than Ukraine, but still a problem.

Thanks for pointing that out, it's not really in the news.

So both countries have a long standing conflict in common and sadly neither conflict seems to have any chance of being resolved.

>>>but it's likely a direct consequence of the historical conflict in the region.

Yeah, the security situations in the 2 countries are VASTLY different. Lebanon has militant Palestinian refugees[1], Hezbollah, Israel, Syria, Iran, and ISIS-adjacent insurgents [2] all regularly killing each other (or Lebanese government forces) in their territory.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nahr_al-Bared_refugee_camp#200...

[2]https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-leba...

Advertising as in broadcasting, not as in marketing.

Some Bluetooth LE devices use advertising as a way to constantly send out payloads without a direct receiver.

In English, pink and brown are very specific colors which the brains of native speakers might not associate with their true hue values.

That's why the original commenter was having difficulty finding brown, because we do not necessarily associate it with a dark orange or flesh color with de-saturated red or orange.

But if we were trying to paint something like dark teal water. The brain would immediately go straight to blues/greens.

These "color categories" that we form in our brains can be different in every culture or language. That is issue with what was suggested.

> That's why you were having difficulty finding brown

Not sure if you’re replying to the right person? I didn’t say anything about finding brown being difficult.

I don't even know what that would mean for it to be difficult to find a colour?

> because you do not necessarily associate it with a dark orange

That’s what brown is - a dark orange. The same way navy is a dark blue. But nobody makes videos claiming that navy is a weird colour because it’s actually dark blue.

It sounds like the brown-orange link is intuitively obvious to you. But I think the claim being made is that for most native English-speakers, the link between orange and brown is significantly less obvious than that between X and dark X, for most colours X. FWIW that is true in my case.

(Not that I deny the link exists; but when I look at e.g. an orange next to a dark brown tree branch, I don't see them as versions of the same colour in the way I do with, say, a lime and a dark green leaf. That's not a great example but hopefully you see what I'm getting at.)

This seems like a simple case of different people finding different things unintuitive.

My theory is that many people have a mental model of colors that maps roughly to the hue and value in HSV, so for example terms like "dark orange" is a value followed by a hue. Now suppose you understand brown as a "dark beige", that's suddenly confusing because beige introduces saturation and you cannot map beige back to orange without thinking about saturation.

> Now suppose you understand brown as a "dark beige"

I think my point is brown is dark beige, and beige is light brown. Neither is canonical. Is orange canonical? Maybe it's high frequency red? Or low frequency yellow? That's what Newton thought! It's all relative.

>does this mean that if disney resorts open up to third party vendors (assuming they haven't already), they can't require them to accept the disney payment wristband?

No, this is equivalent to the vendors having the ability to accept other forms of payment, such as cash or other credit cards, if they choose alongside the wristband.

but then because the wristband is more expensive, they'll hide or break the wristband machine and the next thing you know, downtown disney is now the bowery with sketchy ad men in pinstripe suits chasing everyone around. the whole reason why people pay to go to downtown disney is because they don't want to deal with that shit.

the simple fact no one wants to admit is that the msrp for an iphone or an android does not even come close to the r&d costs for the software, hardware and backend platforms. android is open, but in exchange for that, users pay by broadcasting all their activity to creepy marketers. ios is closed, but rather than take money from creepazoids who are stalking and trying to sell to and complicate the lives of users, they charge a tax on all commercial activity on the platform... to pay for the platform.

now third parties are saying "we don't want to pay the platform tax" but this is couched in all this bullshit about app store freedom or choice in payment processor or whatever.

if you don't want to pay the platform tax, don't do business on the platform. don't try to wreck the platform's business model and value proposition for the users who choose it over the digital advertising dystopia that is the "open" internet in 2021.

The current design is made to compete with small cargo planes to remote small landlocked cities like many in Alaska with no roads.

To be able to compete with trucks they would need a significantly bigger airship as efficiency scales with size.

Yes, Tolman–Oppenheimer–Volkoff limit would estimate a star around 1.5-2.5 sun masses could result in a stellar black hole.

We don't know much about stars collapsing, and the mass wasted in the process to have a more accurate number at this point.

That's only true for black holes created from the collapse of stars. Primordial black holes would have been created in the early universe and be much much smaller.