practicemaths

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by practicemaths 2y ago
Bezos is funding this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock_of_the_Long_Now
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by practicemaths 2y ago
Simple. American society tends to value blond white girls more. Notice you didn't question what the gender of the grandchild.
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by practicemaths 2y ago
Oh, so there are other means or systems that are good or even better, i.e. more sufficient to fix or improve society than just blind competition. Got it!
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by practicemaths 2y ago
45,000 homeless people. “We will get people housed. We will get them off the street. We will get them into temporary housing, address the reason why they were unhoused and get them into permanent housing.” Does not sound like much of a plan
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by practicemaths 2y ago
Another user posted in above "As of 2023, the global average replacement cycle length for a smartphone is 3.6 years." I'm not disagreing on a technical level. I agree. I use a pretty cheap ass phone myself that I bought off t
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by practicemaths 2y ago
Yes, your personal experience is not the same for the average consumer class. Which is the majority of phones & cars are designed for and sold to.
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by practicemaths 2y ago
Do those same cars have 0 problems with them and not require any scheduled maintenance in those 13 years?
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by practicemaths 2y ago
Yes, but the automakers and car salesman aren't selling to you.
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by practicemaths 2y ago
People trade in cars every 3 years. I imagine it's similar to phones. Plus phone battery life does degrade pretty heavily over time and heavy use.
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by practicemaths 2y ago
So, if competition is supposed to fix other aspects of the economy, why is healthcare disproportionately high compared to other things? There are several hospitals around me. Endless amount of doctor offices. There are several health insura
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by practicemaths 2y ago
So, competition benefits consumers, which are a subset of society. Say that instead.
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by practicemaths 2y ago
I do not understand the statement "Everyone would benefit from competition". How is that not an oxymoron? Surely those that do not win in a competition are losers. How is that a benefit to them?
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by practicemaths 2y ago
In the abstract: "Light-weight, high-strength, aluminum (Al) alloys have widespread industrial applications. However, most commercially available high-strength Al alloys, like AA 7075, are not suitable for additive manufacturing due to
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by practicemaths 2y ago
This is very highly dependent on where you live in America.
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by practicemaths 2y ago
Too bad there aren't County and other elections out there. It appears that Palo Alto has elections for city council every 4 years. Here's an election guide: https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/Departments/City-Cler
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by practicemaths 2y ago
You really need to go back to school.
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by practicemaths 2y ago
In 10 years, $10 Big Mac is going to seem cheap.
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by practicemaths 2y ago
It's not too expensive to start paying for fundraising dinners for your local representatives, mayors, congress persons, etc. You can help get people elected into local positions that align with your interests. AND some of those people
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by practicemaths 2y ago
One side is willing to raise taxes on billionares and continue to have democracy. The other not so much. your argument stopped having any semblance of merit at least decade ago. Now it is laughably unbelievable. Now, ought there be more dir
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by practicemaths 2y ago
Short video lesson for you: https://youtu.be/M6PuutIm5h4?si=RmUV7D74DYfPoY2l
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by practicemaths 2y ago
Hmmm I did not realize conservation of momentum was absolute hogwash. News to me.
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by practicemaths 2y ago
Without having specific numbers in front of me, yes fuel cells are delivering comparable power as batteries. Plus the hydrogen is lighter than batteries. Combusting may save on some of the complexity fuel cells but you are losing efficiency
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by practicemaths 2y ago
I think contextually it depends. If you compare rural living to urban living, then maybe you could say latrines and baths contributed to increase in parasites. However that's a bad comparison. What would be better is compare similar le
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by practicemaths 2y ago
How though? If people are maximizing return with the system the way it is, where is the incentive to actually change this on a large national scale? Who's going to fund this change? A few with populist rhetoric getting power is not ach
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by practicemaths 2y ago
How does this address the issues of incentives, or rather lack thereof?
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by practicemaths 2y ago
Where is the incentive to do otherwise? Whom is going to fund multiple executive and legislative candidates to get this done? Not trying to dismiss your point outright, just while it's a good notion, I for one do not see a practical wa
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by practicemaths 2y ago
> It runs on coffee Or for Erdös, amphetamine. Also I find it ironic to fro them to gripe about alleged "hyper-specializatiin" given that part of the beauty of Math is discovering how seemingly unrelated areas are in fact conn
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by practicemaths 2y ago
"The testing and certification industry is odd. In theory, it exists to serve the public good and uphold consumer protection laws. On the other hand, its customers are in the private sector. Normally, market forces would dictate that b
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by practicemaths 2y ago
There's growing commercial use of EVs. These will be driven harder and longer. They will not last 10+ years. The point that you're missing is that you can extend a packs life with a secondary application. That secondary applicatio
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by practicemaths 2y ago
TBF laziness is the natural order to the universe. Ain't nothin doin more than it has to.

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