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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

In the book there's an additional interesting scene with Rico and the recruiter: Rico runs in to the recruiter as he's leaving the office. The recruiter does actually have prosthetic legs, and he's walking out the door. Rico asks why he didn't have them on before. The recruiter explains that his job is actually to scare away recruits. He's supposed to show potential recruits his missing legs as a consequence of his service. That way those that aren't really serious about it, those who are doing it because it just seems like a cool idea, don't go through with signing up. He then explains that the government doesn't require him to be a living warning sign in his off-time, so he puts on his legs and goes about his life that way.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

They're not writing in binary. They're defining a base 10 number that is 0.11, followed by a single 0, then 1, then two 0s, then 1, then three 0s, then 1, and so on. The definition ensures that it never repeats, but because it only contains 1 and 0, it would never contain any sequence with the numbers 2 through 9.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Balatro doesn't have anything like gambling. There's no betting. You don't even have an opponent. The chips are only points, and the goal is to get as high a score as you can. The rules vary wildly from poker in ways that could never work with multiple players, let alone with real cards. It just looks like poker at the start and that description helps give you an initial idea of how to play.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Sceptre is the name I see whenever there's a discussion about who still makes dumb TVs.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Air quality can certainly be impacted by density, but neighbourhoods that aren't car dependent promote exercise by giving people the ability to lak or bike wehn going out instead of driving (which can also help the overall air quality).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Maybe the cyclists don't like the stop signs that the path frustratingly has but the road does not? Around that stop there are two within a few hundred metres, and frequently stopping (or slowing down fot a rolling stop) makes riding slower and more tiring. That's probably not nearly the entire motivation, though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

It seems to also factor in leaks of NG, which is much more potent as a greenhouse gas than CO2.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

The vast majority of those subsidies (rebates, sales tax exemption, government procurement of EVs) you linked don't seem like they would apply to exported vehicles. This suggests exports would indeed be very price competitive, wouldn't it?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago

Would you say you became disenchanted with it?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

This sounds like you're describing "The Handmaid's Tale", which is not what this thread is about.

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