Plastic-Wear-3576

Plastic-Wear-3576 t1_jdyyetq wrote

The confusion is that the headline and opening sentence of the article itself are different.

The headline says what you're saying, the highest rate of population growth will be at 8.6 billion people, then that rate will taper off, but their will still be growth.

The first sentence in the article says that at current growth rates, the highest POPULATION, not growth rate, will be at 8.6 billion people, where the population will then begin to decline.

Simplified:

Headline -> Population will grow past 8.6 billion. Article -> Population will not grow past 8.6 billion.

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Plastic-Wear-3576 t1_it4szic wrote

I ran into a scenario years ago when Starcraft 2 came out. I bought it, and it completely crushed my computer beneath it's boot.

Convincing my parents I all of a sudden needed a new computer was a stressful one.

Nowadays you just expect a game to run on your PC unless you have an older PC and the game is a true ship of the line nuts to butts eye watering game.

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Plastic-Wear-3576 t1_it4qf2m wrote

Eh. Computer speeds have definitely improved in other ways. SSDs can make an otherwise slow computer fast.

It's like in video games. Games today in terms of textures don't really look much better than games from 5 or 6 years ago.

But lighting has improved immensely.

People will find ways to continue to improve, physical limits be damned.

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