supernewton

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by supernewton 4y ago
Money in general are traded for productive goods and services , not other kinds of money. That's why it's not negative sum. If you had a bunch of people trading between USD and GBP amd EUR and doing nothing else, that would be ne
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by supernewton 4y ago
It's not too weird -- "Terry" is always spelled with two r's, and yes English is weird but if you didn't have any more specific knowledge you'd also assume the name Terry is derived from is also always spelle
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by supernewton 4y ago
Some notes - Permutation-fairness is likely too strong of a condition at anything other than serious competitive tournaments. When playing a game casually, usually the group first sits down in a circle and then chooses someone to go first,
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by supernewton 4y ago
LEDs themselves don't really get warm, but LED bulbs that plug into a wall socket have a transformer in their base to step mains voltage down to something the LED can handle, and that can get quite warm.
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by supernewton 4y ago
Nah, Beholders have 11 eyes, so we're good here.
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by supernewton 4y ago
I mean, the real improvement to D3 was they massively upped the drop rate of rare items, which "coincidentally" happened when they stopped taking a cut off people selling their rare items for real money.
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by supernewton 4y ago
Yes, but in the time it takes to complete a PhD, the junior engineer can usually get promoted at least once. So you both end up in the same place, but the guy who went straight to industry was making 3x more than the PhD in the meantime.
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by supernewton 4y ago
I imagine university dining halls often aren't "properly" wrapping their burritos and may be part of the motivation behind this invention :)
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by supernewton 4y ago
From the article, a 100 golfer tournament with a hole in one prize of $7500 costs $187 in premiums. If the hole in one probability of each golfer is 1/12500, the expected payout is only $7500/12500*100=$60, so I'm going with
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by supernewton 5y ago
A nautical mile is equal to (about) one minute of latitude, which probably made calculations easier back in the day, with the tradition carrying forward.