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Xavienth ,

It is the quadratic formula. It already is the solution. The problem is any quadratic of the form ax²+bx+c=0

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Have people never heard of the quiet game outside of an Australian cartoon?

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I’m not clear on the details but I think some servers just hook up open loop to mains water for cooling.

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But wait, if a lone wolf gets 53% of the moose, but a pack of six gets 83% of the moose, then per-wolf that’s 13.8% of the moose. Why would an individual opt to hunt in a pack then?

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Which would conversely strengthen the idea that wolves hunt in packs due to the difficulty of hunting.

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Typo?

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It’s a person by person thing and I suspect age plays a large part in feelings towards the term. In general I would say avoid the term unless it is requested.

My friend didn't have a great experience with Linux

I have been daily driving Linux for over two years now and I have switched distros many times. So, when my friend bought a new laptop, I convinced him to install Linux Mint on it. I asked him if he wanted to dual boot, he said no because it would fill up all his storage. We installed Linux Mint. The other day, he wanted to play...

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The most Linux response. Linux doesn’t fit your use case? Clearly your use case is wrong! /s

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A successful organism would not have evolved to highly express cortisol to weed itself out in the case that it has a stressful life. It makes no sense for an organism to evolve a trait that makes it at best equally likely and at worst less likely to reproduce.

The reason we release excess cortisol in modern life is because our bodies did not evolve for constantly present stressors, they evolved to be stressed in a situation, run away from the tiger, and then you’re good.

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Seems like that should actually be quite a useful task in the Netherlands considering all the polders!

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You believe in the moon?

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That is the only way the rich and powerful know how to act. Because ultimately, might makes right under capitalism.

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IT is technology so i think the I would be for engineering

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Interesting fact about the NM whiptail, they still need to have sex to reproduce for some reason, despite no gene swap occurring.

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If you make driving easier than transit, more people will drive who previously took transit. The reverse is also true. One of these situations is more desirable for myriad reasons.

As well, additional demand can be created by convenience. People will make trips they otherwise never would have if it’s easier to make them.

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The joke is on you. There are places where it already is easier than driving. What do such places have in common? There are so many people that having everyone drive is literally impossible to accommodate. You wouldn’t drive in Manhattan, Tokyo, or Seoul. It literally makes absolutely no sense to. In these cities, public transit is faster and way more convenient.

Smaller cities can replicate this effect by just… not outrageously favouring car infrastructure like they do today in North America. That doesn’t mean exclusively making driving worse, it means making public transit better at the same time with the freed up funding. And the freed up money is a lot, car infrastructure is super expensive. More routes with more stops at higher frequencies are made possible because of higher ridership, which increases convenience and makes it more likely you will get almost exactly from your origin to your destination.

But the American brain cannot conceive of this. “Communist transportation” fucking lmao. What if we made cities more liveable for humans, not for cars? Nah we can’t do that that’s communism.

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So you think we should decentralize cities. Make it so you don’t need to go downtown for everything. Everything you need would be within 15 minutes of walking.

… A fifteen minute city perhaps.

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Not to mention that an idea is not a game, not even conceptually. There’s a reason it’s called game design and not game turn-idea-into-code.

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that’s what they want you to think

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Lebanon enters chat

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It’s perfect for Canadians

How should I change my polite behavior to be more accommodating?

My parents raised me to always say “yes sir” and “no ma’am”, and I automatically say it to service workers and just about anyone with whom I’m not close that I interact with. I noticed recently that I had misgendered a cashier when saying something like “no thank you, ma’am” based on their appearing AFAB, but...

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All of these, maybe with the exception of duck and gaffer, if said in North America would be either not seen as gender neutral, or would be especially creepy if a man used it.

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Or they just have different connotations here. Would it be acceptable for a man to go up to a woman he’s never met before and say “I’m in love with you” while she’s just doing her job? If you say yes, I have to wonder who of us was really raised wrong.

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Man unable to comprehend that words can have different meanings in different countries, and is unable to understand analogy, more at 11

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person whose entire account is promoting anti-communism “i hate how communism is being shoved down our throats”

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I said this at launch, you cannot do early access with an established IP. The agreement is a reduced price because you’re paying to get in on the ground floor before it actually gets good. But for an established IP you’ve already built your audience, so most people are going to buy on day 1 at the reduced price, so the “reduced price” has to basically be full price. Now you’re paying full price for an unfinished game because Take Two pushed them to release an unfinished game that had been delayed by years.

It was doomed from the start.

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I don’t think you could sustain an electric ship with solar panels, but I wonder if you could appreciably extend the range of this ship by adding solar panels.

Hell, if panels get cheap enough you could slap panels on top of all the battery modules. If they happen to be covered by something else, so be it.

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calling it a “linguistics misunderstanding” makes it seem more scientific than it probably is. I’d like to see some evidence to back it up, because to me it just looks like some Tumblr user’s conjecture.

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Presumably if they’re the product of exactly two factors then those factors would have to be prime, otherwise it wouldn’t be exactly two.

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The definitions often exclude 1. In the case where you include it you could then say a semi prime has exactly three factors.

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Sentient life?

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No but it sure was based

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Oh my god this entire thread sucks. Norway isn’t fucking socialist and we should not aspire to be it because capital still reigns. You can’t have a mixed economy, either capitalists have power or they don’t. And OP, capitalism really is working great for the millions who starve to death every year or die of preventable diseases. The West benefits from wealth extracted from poor nations where such happens, we wouldn’t enjoy such a quality of life if not for their bodies. That’s a fucked up system. Much of what you hear about former socialist countries is actual propaganda because guess what, capitalists rule the world. You are not immune to propaganda.

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Miss, as opposed to Mister universe

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Presumably an asexually reproducing species wouldn’t have a concept of gender since it arises from social classifications of sex, which they also would not have.

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It’s 6 fathoms deep not 5 fathoms where you’re experiencing two atmospheres, and that’s absolute not gauge, so 1 atm higher than ambient.

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It’s less the result of a sensible system of units (like how 1 L of water ideally weighs 1 kg), and more fortunate happenstance in this case.

The formula for hydrostatic pressure* is:

∆P= ρ·g·∆h

where ∆P is the difference in pressure across the difference in height ∆h, ρ is the density of the liquid (~1000 kg/m³ for water, slightly more for sea water), and g is the acceleration due to gravity.

So the reason it works out nicely is because g is a little bit less than a nice factor of ten (9.8 m/s²), and the density of sea water is a little bit more than a nice factor of ten (typically 1025 kg/m³), and 1 atm also happens to be almost a nice factor of ten (101,325 Pa). That’s why the difference between the approximation and the actual* is less than a percent.

*This assumes a constant density of the liquid, which for water is reasonable, however different depths can have different salinities and temperatures in layers which change the density by less than a percent. Additionally, this assumes a constant acceleration due to gravity. At depth, the acceleration due to gravity can be higher, but this also has an effect that amounts to less than a percent even at the deepest point in the ocean.

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58% of a total that doesn’t include the emissions outsourced to manufacturing companies in the third world.

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Fusion won’t be the silver bullet people tout it as for much of the same reasons as fission isn’t (mostly politics). No politician wants to spend billions of dollars on something that is going to take a decade to even be functional and another decade to break even. It would get cheaper with scale, but so would fission, we just never let it get there. It also still produces radioactive waste, despite what proponents claim, and it even produces more radioactive waste than a fission reactor by volume. But it isn’t as long-lived.

These are the same tired arguments we hear about fission. If your country isn’t actively building fission, it’s probably not going to build fusion, aside from demonstrations.

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Canada is wrong here. I think 1971 is referencing when our new constitution was prepared (which we didn’t have the right to implement or edit without British OK until 1982, but this is not celebrated). What is celebrated is Canada Day, 1 July 1867 but that celebrates Confederation into Canada under British rule, not Independence.

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First time I’ve seen somebody acknowledge that it’s not just nation states with such capabilities. There are some huge organized crime syndicates.

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Proven innocent literally is not a thing in court, that’s not how that works

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Article 5 specifies that the attack itself must occur in Europe or North America.

I reality, i doubt anyone at NATO would really care about that technicality, but another user pointed out the Canadian embassy hadn’t seen use in 12 years or something like that

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I mean, that is true when 100% blocked (totality)

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The partial eclipse is nothing special. Any given location gets one every few years or so.

Totality is the really neat and special thing, and it isn’t damaging to your eyes. (assuming you don’t pre-empt or overshoot the timing)

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Go back to Reddit and have your opinions fed to you by billion dollar corporations

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typical blahaj user

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