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So the tip of the iceberg is just the tip of the iceberg

With just one photo we can’t really say if the exposed portion is roughly spherical. However, the guy taking the photo who presumably got a better look seems to think it was “diamond shape.”

I wish I didn't think this immediately as well.

No, but golden Labrador icebergs are the friendliest of all the icebergs and can make a great addition to any family.

As long as we keep pushing CO2 into the atmosphere and don't run out of ice, yeah, most likely.

That's for new soot depositing on ordinary, existing glaciers with previously high albedo. That causes a spiraling feedback effect of more forest fires and accelerating glacier melt,

It's probable that these dark glaciers are mostly sludge with only a bit of ice. We won't know until some field researchers go out there and gather data and samples.

I'm sure you know more about iceburg ages than the professor of oceanography that dated it.

This post--which actually engages with the content of the article--is being downvoted, while "Do black Labrador icebergs also have webbed feet, to swim better?" is being upvoted.

Where do we run once the redditification of HN is complete?

It’s a local quirk of the Canadian fish industry more than anything. DFO uses the phrase in their fishery notices: https://www.nfl.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/en/node/2377

The history page of the local union, they use the phrase “fish harvesters” rather interchangeably with “fishermen”: https://ffaw.ca/about-us/history/

It could be to make fishermen gender neutral, but I think it is to hide the fact that you are essentially killing the fish by the thousands, letting them suffocate. Fish harvesting sounds innocent and PG 13.

There's a union or collective bargaining guild that has trademarked the term Professional Fish Harvester in Canada. #PFHCB

I am guessing that it is a translation artifact.

It makes sense in the context of fish farming. Not sure if that's what this is, though. Harvesting doesn't sound appropriate for catching wild fish.

Might one say fish harvesters capture "exponentially more fish"? (Sorry, couldn't resist...)

I think it might be a gender-neutral version of fisherman. Not something like a factory ship.

Fisherman: catches fish

Fish harvester: might catch fish, but might also be the one that cleans/processes them and isn't actually involved in pulling the fish out of the water

ohhh, I thought it was the boat

It's two numbers. It's a constant increase, you can fit a line between them, but also a degree 10 polynomial or an exponential curve.

Yes, it just means "a lot".

This is how language develops, I’m afraid. But imagine that the age is 10^k where k is something like “age class”. Then indeed the age grows exponentially :)

1.0116^10000 ≈ 100000

Journalists tend to just think of it as "a lot more", but since they didn't specify the base of the exponential we can at least find a way to make the article technically correct. There are fun classes that admit incomparable values, such as the Surreal games. If they'd said "the game {1 | -1} is exponentially more than { | }" then it'd be impossible to find a base to make the statement true. There's lots of fun to be had with this sort of math, as you know.

If we want to express ourselves using exponents, consider that 1000 years (1×10^3) and 9000 years (9×10^3) would be of the same "degree" of ancestry, while 100,000 years (1×10^5) would be of completely different (exponential) significance.

1000^(5/3)=100 000

1.01158^1000 ~= 100000

Exponentially more!

10^2 in exponential form...

At least he didn't say logarithmically more

1000^1⅔=100000

it's not only the media.

it's just a figure of speech, (used like some people (ab)use "literally"), which I am sure you know, considering your profile, or even otherwise.

other people than the media use it too:

e.g. this Rob Pike post about Go (the programming language, not the game you like):

Less is exponentially more

https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2012/06/less-is-exponenti...

any exponential can reasonably be approximated to a linear in the right range

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