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You might as well give an example where it's actually wrong (yes, steps 1 and 2 should be reversed but the result is the same). The error I referenced: (138,888^2 = 1.93 x 10^8, not ^10)

Edit: Lol, I should have known better. I went back and checked and about halfway through it miscalculated a velocity figure by two orders of magnitude.

It's km/h, not km/s. 800,000 km/s is over twice the speed of light. As far as getting that high, it's "possible" but not realistic. Some napkin math says that it would take about 15 years to accelerate to that speed, assuming the impulse is equivalent to other plasma engines. Double Edit...

Clearly inspired by me playing Skyrim. Edit: I expect the series to end when Carl finally exits the dungeon and his inventory dumps onto the ground, causing a gravitational singularity.

I'm pretty sure Connor just did some math and peaced out after deciding he had enough money to keep himself in booze and coke for the rest of his life.

This site is has aids.

Dude, they've had Michelle Monaghan, Rebecca Ferguson, and Hayley Atwell. Not your standard mindless T&A, sure, but that's some all-time eye candy.

Depends what you mean by good. The first one was actually a noir art film, second was 90's John Woo that was only ok and hasn't aged too well, others are fun heist/action flicks. I'd say the Rotten Tomatoes rankings are at least directionally accurate...

We abandoned the gold standard in 1971.

I'm surprised it's that cheap. Blacktail Studios sells epoxy slabs for >2x that.

I'm 46. I do economic modeling and optimization for heavy industry (capital investment, etc.). Noodling about the future is a professional requirement.

Meh. You should never stop wondering how things work.

I'll be really interested to see if trend-based technical analysis continues to provide explanatory power in the next 50-75 years as the populations of the major powers stabilize and possibly contract. I've never gotten deep into the philosophy of technical trends, but they do seem to be a...

Sorry, can't help the pedantic economist in me coming out. Intrinsic value is the worth of something in a non-financial context. Modern currencies have no intrinsic value. Neither does BTC. Gold has intrinsic value because of its various uses as a physical metal. "It's worth something because we...

Sounds like you've got your mind made up. Good luck.

We don't. I want my wife to look like a real woman. Much like tattoos, I've never once thought, "Wow, that was an improvement." Botox makes people look like uncanny valley plastic dolls. It doesn't fool anyone and just broadcasts insecurity.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/04/chatgpt-can-now-remember-and-reference-all-your-previous-chats/

I expect it's happened to more of us than we know about. I think I'm typical of the old-school user base and I'm in my mid-40's and have somehow been part of this insane shitshow for over half my life. I've lost 2-3 IRL friends and have a social circle orders of magnitude smaller than this forum.

The result is its own downside. We all get old and wrinkly. Own it with grace.

And if that reason is "Because we just took all your shit away. Now you get to do it again!", people will be understandably upset. Rust isn't really analogous, it's a pvp game. The reset is because the economy is tuned to where it's basically impossible for newbies to enter after a certain point.

"The company says it is not shutting down but is instead 'restructuring our operations." Yeah, they're restructuring into asset liquidation.

Perfect summary of my problem with these mechanics.

Interesting. Research for the curious: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7464827/

15 lbs down since April. Shooting for another 10-15 before my next cholesterol test in October.

I just finished the main plot and side quests, liberated everything, and only have a half dozen scavenger hunt items left. What a fucking great game. Straight to the all-time pantheon.

It's only theft if they do that with money you've specified should go to principal. If you didn't specify that, you've left a grey area where they have to pick one way or the other. Then you'd have complaints that someone tried to pre-pay before they went on vacation, the bank took that as...

He's just saying that your $1400 might held for x3 y3 at the time the third payment would normally be due unless you specify that it's supposed to go to principal. If it is counted towards principal, that should accelerate you along the amortization schedule as you expect. This is (sadly)...

(Edit: My first post was confused.) This sounds wrong unless the terms of the mortgage somehow preclude early repayment. Simply counting towards your next payment doesn't accelerate you along the amortization schedule and you'd end up paying 30 years of interest over some shorter time period...

Maybe I'm weird, but I did. I could have bought my house in cash but chose to stay diversified and went for a 60% down payment instead. I am relatively cheap and wildly debt-averse in basically every other aspect, though. I kept the difference in the market and have ended up a similar 2%-er.

Also your expectations on inflation. If you get a good rate (not recently) and hold that loan over a medium to high inflation period (likely for the next decade) the real value of those future dollars is vastly reduced.

Your previous comment seems to be direct at me with the tone that colonoscopy is unnecessary, yet I said three posts up that I have an immediate family history. For vasectomy I and others have outlined reasons why alternatives like IUDs are not good solutions for our partners. You can be...

If you're not interested in living to see your kids grow up, you do you bro. No one does this for funsies.

I don't think we're having the discussion you think we've having.

Finger up the ass is for prostate cancer, and they don't do it any more because PSA is more reliable, earlier, and obviously less invasive. (Your colon is five feet long, so you'd need some epic fingers for probing.) For colon cancer you get the joy of colonoscopies, which I have the privilege...

It's important to note that the 15% is relative risk, not absolute (base risk times 1.15, not base + 15%). Still worth thinking about if you're otherwise at higher risk for prostate cancer.

Wood welding.

I'd pick BJJ. Krav has a very high percentage of bullshit that will never work (varies by school/teacher), and those parts that do work are better gained from any kind of practice that has a robust live sport/sparring element. Basically MMA, BJJ, Judo, Sambo, wrestling, boxing/kickboxing. Anyone...

Yeah, it's crazy. I stopped training in 2017 after my sixth knee surgery but my wife kept going. The ability to instantly access details from the highest-tech sources has completely changed the learning process over the past few years, and she got better SUPER fast. When I started in '09 we were...