Darkaga

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 8 months ago (2 children)

The term you're looking for is "regulatory capture."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Relativity? A light year is a measurement of distance, not time. A ship traveling at.95C would only take 4 months to travel 1 light year from the perspective of the crew. To outside observers it would take a over a year.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)
  1. I don't think you understand the definition of Agnosticism.

  2. Define God(s)

[–] [email protected] 99 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Hard Drive is a satirical site like The Onion but focused on technology.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

4chan: "Gamer words"

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Not too be too pedantic but this is the full, accurate quote from Prejudices: Second Series, "Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

The current loan gets rolled into the next loan and becomes a revolving door of credit. As long as you don't spend faster than the assets appreciate you'll always end up ahead.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Age discrimination in the US only applies if you're discriminating against them for being over 40. This doesn't apply here since they're being rejected for their birthday and not their age.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You can't discriminate against someone for being older than 40. Being under 40 or having 4/20 as your birthday aren't protected groups.

[–] [email protected] 82 points 11 months ago (8 children)

You have to leave room for Oracle.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (5 children)

1/3 being equal to .333... Is incredibly basic fractional math.

Think about it this way. What is the value of 1 split into thirds expressed as a decimal?

It can't be .3 because 3 of those is only equal to .9
It also can't be .34 because three of those would be equal to 1.2

This is actually an artifact of using a base 10 number system. For instance if we instead tried representing the fraction 1/3 using base 12 we actually get 1/3=4 (subscript 12 which I can't do on my phone)

Now there are proofs you can find relating to 1/3 being equal to .333... But generally the more simplistic the problem, the more complex the proof is. You might have trouble understand them if you haven't done some advanced work in number theory.

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