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Which is fine if the prices are given per 1 kg or 100 g. Here in the US they have the prices by the ounce or by the pound, by the gallon, quart, or liquid ounce ... not exactly tra…

Yeah, the actual work seems to have been done by the people running the underlying http://numbersapi.com/4/6/date

No, power is just torque times angular velocity. No constants involved.

I've noticed that e.g. over dinner only groups of 5 or smaller can keep one coherent discussion going; if you go to 6 or more people they will inevitably split up into subgroups. T…

My CV reads like I am a Jack of all trades (and clearly master of none ;-), but I'm currently in a software developer role that I feel very comfortable in, except maybe that there …

I think we've all heard of the "Dunning-Kruger effect" (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10626367) which basically states that people with low skills in a given area tend to ove…

I came back to HN (does it fall under #3 or #5?) just to remark something along these lines ...

Looks nice, but is there a reason it interprets m^2 * Pa correctly ≫ 1 Pa * 2 m^2 / N 1 Pa × (2 × m^2 / N) = 2 but doesn't automatically convert a result to N? ≫ 1 Pa * 2 m^2 1 Pa …

Is it possible that the high infant mortality weeded out more children from less healthy socioeconomic and genetic backgrounds than today? So on average you'd get healthier adults …

It seems like you have good reasons to be toxic ;-) I have felt similarly in some organizations. In your case "toxic" seems to be that pointing out negative things about the organi…