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Because that's when you start hitting the precision limits of the simulation.

Yeah. Generally the best we've been able to do is mathematical inference based on implications of the broader models that are our current best guess. The good thing about physics is if it works anywhere, it has to work everywhere (except inside singularities). Of course if it somehow turns out...

All scientific claims are hypotheses. Experiments can only prove claims false, not prove claims true. The best we can do is say, "Our observations thus far do not contradict this hypothesis." I'll admit that statement is too hand-wavy to be strictly true. I came across it in a book recently (I...

That's how I read it. I guess he might have meant to say, "Open a legitimate business and lose money the first year, against which you apply the first-year expense amortization of your business vehicle", in which case that's fine but a lot more work to actually implement. At that point you'd be...

My sister is a nurse. Nurses are fucking heroes.

And planning and organization of work flow, of which I don't get the feeling GRRM did much.

Sure. There's a fair amount of power-creep retconning, though. Quick Ben originally had seven warrens back in the early books when ground-level humans didn't even know that Elder warrens existed, which made for a cool character concept and nice twist/reveal. Towards the end we've somehow arrived...

Malazan characters have comic book power levels, where they're exactly as potent as they need to be to create drama in the plot. While I fully admit it's fun to read, it's also pretty clear Erikson makes it up as he goes along without a great deal of concern for what amounts to deus ex machina...

Exact same situation here. It doesn't even matter if you want to keep the principal in the company. You still get taxed on the option sale price as if it were a bonus (highest marginal tax rate). #windfallproblems

Is it edema? Are your limbs swollen? If so you'll want to get checked out ASAP since there are very few benign causes. Edema - Symptoms and causes

Bummer. I did always wonder how they were going to deal with this issue. Chop at sea is inevitable. I have a cousin who works at SpaceX. I'll ask and see if he'll share how they plan to handle this in the future. He gave me a tour of their factory in Hawthorne a couple years ago. Coolest...

This is the civil suit. Per linked article: "McGregor is still facing criminal charges for the incident -- including felony robbery and misdemeanor criminal mischief. If convicted on all counts, Conor faces up to 6 years in prison. "

Conjunctivitis is the most horrifically contagious thing this side of the norovirus. If their eyes look like a Nickelodeon slime factory take them to a doctor and get antibiotic drops ASAP. If they're just red and itchy with minor pus it's probably viral and you just have to ride it out. Don't...

Cool. Looks like what they need is to put a sport parasail on the fairing with some motors and a remote control and have some RedBull athlete on the ship fly it down, and get RedBull to sponsor the launch.

I've been staring at IRS documentation for three hours and I still can't tell if my consulting business qualifies for a QBI deduction or not. I have some thumbscrews and bamboo slivers for whatever genius thought this was a simplification of the filing process. As far as refunds, I always...

Rotary tools + hair. What could go wrong?

When do they go to bed? My kids wake up too early on the weekends (7), but fuck 5:30. Kids sleep more than adults. Maybe you need to trade some evening time for morning time?

You should read this book. Tegmark's basic idea is that at the core, reality actually IS math in the most fundamental sense. Our Mathematical Universe

The trick is that mass isn't a concept coupled to volume. Mass is an attribute carried by the Higgs field. What we think of as matter occupies volume due to being dispersed across space by the balance of strong/weak forces vs gravity. Once gravity wins that battle the focus of the Higgs field...

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I stayed at home with my son for a while when my consulting business was slow. It is a special kind of grind, but it's no worse than a full-time job and using that as an excuse not to clean up after herself is #1 bullshit.

EPO increases your oxygen update by boosting your red blood cell production. TJ could maintain a higher work and recover faster, causing his opponents to gas first and allowing him to capitalize on their degraded form. In an MMA context it could easily contribute to late-round knockouts.

Raw image, visible spectrum. The "photo" they published was a transformation of radio signals.

You can know what your break-even price will be relative to what you paid, but that may or may not be the price you can actually rent at given the specifics of your local market. I know where I'm at I can rent a house at about 2/3 the cost of owning the same property.

Hard to hide the week-long recovery from having your nuts severed. He'd be better off installing a testicular hot water bath at his office.

Outspoken egomaniac turns out to be hypocritical cheater? I'm shocked.

Tit-for-tat arguments are rarely productive, but at some point you do get to bring into the discussion the fact that you're earning all the money and are entitled to at least a 50% say in how it's spent.

Meet with the planner to appease the wife and help get your head in the right space, but don't sign up to have your investments managed. Do a little research and then go to Vanguard and do an 80/20 or 90/10 stock/bond split in the lowest-fee domestic/international funds you can buy.

You do you, but in my mind if you're not paying your bills and then putting 20% towards debt service and savings your lifestyle is exceeding your means.

Erm, what? Are you talking some specific investment, or just general stock/bond retirement savings? If you're not investing you're doing yourself a HUGE disservice later in life (although right now might not be the best time to get into the market). That aside, you're entitled for some return...

He's apparently sold 200k+ cases. Whether that's a lot or not I have no idea. Reviews on the actual product range from "it's dogshit" to "it's not awful but not great, and maybe not a rip-off at $30"...

And, I will repeat, it is not the victim's prerogative to drop charges. The DA may or may not consider the victims' wishes and decline to proceed. This is a fine distinction but an important one. If the perpetrator has irritated the DA enough, it does not matter what the victim wants. We got...

This all started because I pointed out that it's illegal to pay someone to alter or retract sworn statements given to law enforcement, which for some reason you disagreed with. I was quite clear that everything I said pertained to criminal charges only and not whatever civil suits may or may not...

Jesus christ, you guys. Unless this is all just one-sided venting I have to wonder why you are with the people you're with. My wife and I have been together 14 years, 2 kids, and never once have we had anything close to the kind of bullshit between us that you all are implying is a part of daily...

One of us is confused, yes. The victims get a "choice" in the pressing of charges when the DA doesn't really care one way or the other and/or when their testimony is the only evidence. In a celebrity case like this, the DA most likely does care. Conor has already been arrested for a felony...

I wonder if my vision is starting to go. I went for a couple weeks working 16/7 in front of a computer (yay, small business!) and had a day of absolutely incapacitating headaches. Vision was blurry and I couldn't do anything other than sit in the dark under a pillow. Cleared up over the weekend...

Yeah, you've got water draining back into the structure. Nuh-uh.

Explain that physics only allows two parental attendance events. Create a lottery where you draw two events out of a hat. Make the kids do the drawing.

This persists until the first time they live in a bathroom where something leaks and gets moldy and stays that way for a year before you get around to re-grouting and re-caulking, and then when you DO get around to it they can't use the bathroom for 2 days until it cures.

This is why tubs can go fuck themselves in general.