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> The length of pi is continually increasing, and there doesn't appear to be an end. Huh? How is this an unsolved problem? It's known that pi is an irrational

> The length of pi is continually increasing, and there doesn't appear to be an end. Huh? How is this an unsolved problem? It's known that pi is an irrational number, so it doesn't have an "end". We can always compute more digits. Or did you mean something different?

inscionent 7y ago
Too much Aronofsky?
m11a 7y ago
Not sure on the customer service one either. The same logic means calling privacy policies a problem because we legally have to follow privacy law? Warranties are there for consumer protection. Most people know what they're there for. Even if some people didn't understand it, businesses that treat warranty as "something we legally have to do" probably don't consider the confusion about warranty a problem, because clarifying it would make more people exercise their warranty rights, and hence more costs for them. Honestly, I don't see how any of the examples, except perhaps the software engineering one, are problems experienced by businesses that they wish to solve. Perhaps I'm greatly misunderstanding. ---- Edit: I think the OP may mean businesses that wish to advertise their warranty protection better explaining to users what that "end date" means, and what the warranty offers them. Which I think can be done fairly easily: look at what Apple does to advertise their warranty protection, or the warranty stickers on every fridge/washing machine you've ever bought. Although, Apple tries to upsell AppleCare rather than advertise their legally mandated "Apple Limited Warranty" and consumer law warranties.
- Nirvash 7y ago
  In regards to warranties, it can be difficult to explain that service will cost money after a year for instance. Especially when it's an issue a customer didn't directly cause (i.e. spontaneous part failure).
pandler 7y ago
Giving OP the benefit of the doubt here, it seems like a straw man example off the top of their head, just to throw some ideas out there.
- mpfundstein 7y ago
  Is OP schizophrenic? Can wr please stop this theirs bllsht. Write his or her if you want to be PC. Otherse you are right
  - lidHanteyk 7y ago
    Lucky 10000: Some 1-2% of the population is neither male nor female. Hope this helps: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex
    - jonfw 7y ago
      1-2% includes people who have extremely minor deviations from the norm and requires you to use the most strict biological definitions of 'male' or 'female' that we could possibly use. The vast majority of these 1-2% are still easily assigned a gender. From your wikipedia article- > If you ask experts at medical centers how often a child is born so noticeably atypical in terms of genitalia that a specialist in sex differentiation is called in, the number comes out to about 1 in 1500 to 1 in 2000 births [0.07–0.05%]. But a lot more people than that are born with subtler forms of sex anatomy variations, some of which won't show up until later in life.[132] There are some percentage of people who aren't overwhelmingly male or female, and it's important to consider them with our speech, but I don't think 1-2% is a fair representation.
      - lidHanteyk 7y ago
        How courteous of you to assign gender definitions to people based on their chromosomes! Binary gender theory is the tail wagging the dog; it's backwards reasoning used to prop up outdated cultural beliefs.
Nirvash 7y ago
Definitely a bad example on my part. I'd love to say I meant something different, but I simply blanked on pi being irrational.
- ggambetta 7y ago
  It happens :) You did pose a very interesting question!

inscionent 7y ago

Too much Aronofsky?

m11a 7y ago

Not sure on the customer service one either. The same logic means calling privacy policies a problem because we legally have to follow privacy law? Warranties are there for consumer protection. Most people know what they're there for. Even if some people didn't understand it, businesses that treat warranty as "something we legally have to do" probably don't consider the confusion about warranty a problem, because clarifying it would make more people exercise their warranty rights, and hence more costs for them. Honestly, I don't see how any of the examples, except perhaps the software engineering one, are problems experienced by businesses that they wish to solve. Perhaps I'm greatly misunderstanding. ---- Edit: I think the OP may mean businesses that wish to advertise their warranty protection better explaining to users what that "end date" means, and what the warranty offers them. Which I think can be done fairly easily: look at what Apple does to advertise their warranty protection, or the warranty stickers on every fridge/washing machine you've ever bought. Although, Apple tries to upsell AppleCare rather than advertise their legally mandated "Apple Limited Warranty" and consumer law warranties.

Nirvash 7y ago
In regards to warranties, it can be difficult to explain that service will cost money after a year for instance. Especially when it's an issue a customer didn't directly cause (i.e. spontaneous part failure).

pandler 7y ago

Giving OP the benefit of the doubt here, it seems like a straw man example off the top of their head, just to throw some ideas out there.

mpfundstein 7y ago
Is OP schizophrenic? Can wr please stop this theirs bllsht. Write his or her if you want to be PC. Otherse you are right
- lidHanteyk 7y ago
  Lucky 10000: Some 1-2% of the population is neither male nor female. Hope this helps: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex
  - jonfw 7y ago
    1-2% includes people who have extremely minor deviations from the norm and requires you to use the most strict biological definitions of 'male' or 'female' that we could possibly use. The vast majority of these 1-2% are still easily assigned a gender. From your wikipedia article- > If you ask experts at medical centers how often a child is born so noticeably atypical in terms of genitalia that a specialist in sex differentiation is called in, the number comes out to about 1 in 1500 to 1 in 2000 births [0.07–0.05%]. But a lot more people than that are born with subtler forms of sex anatomy variations, some of which won't show up until later in life.[132] There are some percentage of people who aren't overwhelmingly male or female, and it's important to consider them with our speech, but I don't think 1-2% is a fair representation.
    - lidHanteyk 7y ago
      How courteous of you to assign gender definitions to people based on their chromosomes! Binary gender theory is the tail wagging the dog; it's backwards reasoning used to prop up outdated cultural beliefs.

Nirvash 7y ago

Definitely a bad example on my part. I'd love to say I meant something different, but I simply blanked on pi being irrational.

ggambetta 7y ago
It happens :) You did pose a very interesting question!