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It works if you don't care about magnitudes, distances, or angles of complex numbers. Those properties aren't algebraic.

You're right that a business wouldn't lower prices if customers keep showing up. The basic causes of prices falling amount to two: increased supply, and decreased demand. On the su…

> It would be perfectly straightforward to fund that entirely by raising income taxes on the highest earners. Even if you do that, you're still getting inflation. That'll hit every…

> Based on what? Someone with a high school diploma will earn on average $1.3 million over their lifetime. Someone with a B.S. averages $2.3 million. The college degree is thus wor…

> The question is if you think "most recent college graduates without wealthy parents" are a population worthy of government assistance. And, quite frankly, I'd gravitate towards a…

The length of the burst tells us the maximum size of the event. Imagine the event takes place instantly at the source, and that the source has some size. If we observe the event ov…

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Played this (or something very similar) growing up. We called it "squeak".

I have a macbook air with an egpu connected by a thunderbolt 3 port. I unplug the gpu when I want to take the laptop somewhere, and plug in back in when I'm at my desk.

The issue with schools is that they're daily large gatherings where the virus can be transmitted. Children can be carriers with schools providing the network effect for spreading c…

FL300 (30,000 feet) is usually within the troposphere. And that's highly relevant, because the troposphere is well-mixed. Water vapor emissions at 30,000 feet are going to come bac…

So, 500 million metric tons sounds like a lot, doesn't it? But there's the fact that it's getting dumped into an already big system: the atmosphere at large. Let's check it out it …

Erm... I feel like you're maybe projecting and/or arguing a strawman. Acknowledging that humans are causing the climate to change is quite a far cry from demanding actions from Chi…

Good question! It means that the probably of finishing in the next increment of time is always the same. Just got up to the teller? There's, say, a 20% chance that you're done with…

It was indeed established that Pluto had an atmosphere before the New Horizon flyby. The atmosphere is mostly seasonal. The air freezes when Pluto is far from the sun, and sublimat…

> The issue is rather that we don't know what all that star stuff becomes once it goes into the black hole, though there are theories. The problem is that the defining feature of a…

Oh, dear god no. Nicotine inhalers exist, and I went to a doctor to get a prescription for them a few years before ecigs became prevalent. The doctor insisted that Chantix was the …

A secure service wouldn't have an easy way of getting at a user's password. They'd store the salted hash of a user's password, and not the password itself.

The definition I gave is, nonetheless, the accepted definition of the term. Can't find a citation for yours. (Note: I do understand about utility, and how/why progressive tax syste…

Definition of "regressive tax": A tax that takes a higher percentage of income from low-income earners than from high-income earners. By definition, the tax system in the post you …