When I was doing my undergrad, there was this sketchy shop in a nearby alley where they photocopy textbooks and sold them for just a bit more than the cost of the paper and binding. If they didn’t have it, you could borrow it from the library to lend them and they’ll give you a free copy in exchange.

It’s a question of risk vs reward, not risk alone. I don’t imagine many would care if their candies look different, but if you take away cigarettes, you’re going to get a riot and lots of people going to the black market.

It’s hard to imagine how you would even begin to learn to read. You see text and you have to translate that directly to meaning without imagining the sound in your head? Witchcraft I say.

Unlike conventional batteries, supercapacitors have an exceptionally long lifespan, lasting hundreds of thousands of charge-discharge cycles, whereas lithium batteries typically last only five years or less.

So, what’s the conversation rate between charge-discharge cycles and years?

It’s a bit of a circular problem. Certain journals have a reputation of publishing higher quality work, so if you see where it’s published, you’re more likely to read it. Since it draws in readers, it leads to more citations. More citations means more people want to publish there, meaning that the journal gets to be more selective and gets to choose the cream of the crop. Thus maintaining their reputation of publishing higher quality work.

arXiv is standard in cs. We use this on conjunction with peer reviewed venues (also all free and volunteer run) and it’s been working out decently well for us. Other fields need to follow suit.

if you simply take the average across the available generations (which is what I did)

Bruh

1−(.54+.52+.42+.29)/4 = 56%

This assumes that there’s the exact same number of people in each generation. There are not. If the above is what you did, then what you’ve calculated is the percentage of generations that have over 5k. Squid is talking about the percentage of people who have over 5k. Those are two different numbers.

And menopause

That probably explains why they keep going for the younger ones.

It’s not about how much money you have. It’s owner class vs working class. And even in the case of owner class, I would say that when the thing you own and make money from is yourself and your own image, that’s very different from owning the fruits of other people’s labour.

I’ve been picking them up religiously after I found out I missed Frostpunk. The only ones I’ve played were the big names like Control, Death Standing, and the old Fallout games. For everything else, the client doesn’t give you enough information to decide if it’s worth your time or not. I keep having to go back and forth between Epic and Steam to read reviews and the “similar to other games you’ve played” thing. It’s not worth the effort.

Google has invested in Anthropic too

Denuvo works on a subscription basis. Sooner or later, they’re going to decide it’s not worth paying for anymore and the game will be available to pirate. Waiting a year is nothing.

That only accounts for a small portion of parental contribution and is easily avoidable by an early inheritance.

It’s probably more like no one has helped us improve our healthcare / education / quality of life, so we’ll take a gamble on someone different.

Imagine siding with the dude who got mugged and not the mugger smh

Does that work when you also want to be in control of those companies? All the big CEOs I can think of directly own shares in their own companies.

Assuming everyone coordinates and works together to fight it. It’s much easier to kill someone who refuses to join than it is to protect them.

Question: What is it about spiders that you think generates that ick factor in people?

The mess of webs they leave behind and how you constantly have to pay attention to every surface you put weight on lest you end up with a splotch of spider guts to clean up.

You want the url to look less suspicious, not more.

It’s not pointless. Depending on where you live, there’s a good chance you do have an abundance of cheap housing available. They’re just not in desirable locations, so many would opt to either pay extra for the privilege of living in more desirable homes or even living on the streets.

Regarding taxes, I’m talking about those who haven’t previously paid taxes, are not currently paying taxes while living in the area, and have no plans to pay taxes after they leave the area.