wischi

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 23 hours ago

Didn't the right one train the ninja turtles?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

böll böll kernöl

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (6 children)

By that logic these devices can have internal batteries too.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

You don't. You live in a country with some very wealthy people. The USA is almost a third world country according to many statistics.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago

For upvoting a picture of Mario's brother?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think I know what you mean and it's true if you look at world class. But that's the reason why sometimes we use those properties to cluster people into groups to make it more fair. A lot of fighting sports are split into weight classes. We have paralympics, and we split many sports into male and female. Even in chess where almost everybody agrees that there is very likely no performance difference between man and women, but there are so many man playing chess that statistics alone tells you that most outliers (best and worst players) are also men.

But with "fairness" you have to draw the line somewhere or the groups that are able to play against each other would be too small. In the extreme it would mean that it's only fair if you compete against yourself, like in trying to break you own personal records.

Even paralympics aren't fair. It makes a difference to shoot with a bow if you are missing a leg, or an eye or an arm. Getting too specific will certainly make it fairer but would result in more groups and less people that would be allowed to compete against each other.

I'm personally not interested in watching any form of spots, so I couldn't care less about who's allowed to compete against whom, but I think it's only understandable if people that went through puperty without testosterone would complain if they would have to compete against more and more people who went through testosterone puperty.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

They are Trump supporters. Not voting is also decision. You vote "I'm fine with whoever wins".

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

If you really think about it a ton of things are way too cheap so in a lot of scenarios it's way cheaper to buy something new compared to repairing something old.

Think of a nail for example, from digging up some rocks that contain a bit more iron than other rocks, process them through many stages many of us (including me) have no idea, just to ship them around the planet. But if you have a bent or really messed up nail, everybody would just throw that refined material away because it's cheaper than a cent.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

If a person goes through testosterone puperty there are undeniable advantages over everybody that didn't, in sports where physical strengths matters. I'd really love to get my mind changed on that, could you please name the study and/or journal where it was published.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Are they? I just googled him and it seems to be a pretty neutral selection of news article, Wikipedia and even the mentioned link was link four or five (depending how you count the the first news section)

PS: I'm from Austria, maybe it's different in the US

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You should stop saying one person. That was never! true. Not for Putin, not Trump and also not Hitler. It takes a lot of people to see it the same way. If everybody would've been against Putins decisions he would have died the moment he proposed to anex the Krim. Putin is not Chuck Norris that walks over there and does everything himself and it's the same with Trump. A single lunatic is completely irrelevant to world politics. But a single lunatic that tells everybody how they think might be enough for others to join in or ride the same wave.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Make America Go Away

 

I often find myself explaining the same things in real life and online, so I recently started writing technical blog posts.

This one is about why it was a mistake to call 1024 bytes a kilobyte. It's about a 20min read so thank you very much in advance if you find the time to read it.

Feedback is very much welcome. Thank you.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

https://zeta.one/viral-math/

I wrote a (very long) blog post about those viral math problems and am looking for feedback, especially from people who are not convinced that the problem is ambiguous.

It's about a 30min read so thank you in advance if you really take the time to read it, but I think it's worth it if you joined such discussions in the past, but I'm probably biased because I wrote it :)

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