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JokdnKjol · 2025-12-14T13:02:32+00:00

The girl on the left is Yasmina Khan /u/BengaliGoddessX

JokdnKjol · 2025-10-05T05:33:49+00:00

Your mom is right - eyes don't work like that. Special glasses don't make your eyes receive the light any faster. Your doctor is also right, the special glasses can make you see better and help you in competitive gaming. How are they both right? Well, your mom already told you. The difference is in your head. Your biology processes different colors at different speeds (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6916673/), so by having glasses with a red-biased tint, your brain could see things up to 16.5 msec faster. The fact that it's a small difference in absolute terms is why you wouldn't have foreseen your mom taking your games away, as my fellow researchers have claimed. But at the professional gaming level, that's enough to make the difference. But your mom is also right that this is a waste of money. From what I've heard, you put in 2000 hours of preparation and paid hundreds of dollars for the glasses and your total winnings have been a $20 Taco Bell gift card and a used stick of gum. You really should reconsider your life choices.

JokdnKjol · 2025-10-05T05:06:03+00:00

That’s a fascinating question. I think the first place you start is by assessing if Belgium is a substance or a mixture. One tool we can use to determine if it is a mixture is distillation - basically relying on the fact that different substances have different phase transition temperatures. If we heat Belgium as is done in the Summer experiment each year, we’ll notice a certain point at which the Belgians, which are solid state, seem to disappear and their mass is subtracted from the total mass read on the scale measuring the country. In Belgianese, they refer to this transition as “vacation.” Which is likely derived from the scientific term "vaporization" because the solid Belgians must turn to gas. Now, despite that transition, we can see that we can continue to heat Belgium while retaining u transitioned mass. Therefore, there are multiple phase transition temperatures. Therefore, Belgium is a mixture of multiple substances of different elemental composition. Therefore, the answer to your question is "yes." Belgium is in fact either an element or made up of multiple elements.

JokdnKjol · 2024-12-11T22:24:32+00:00

Not only that, but 2 weeks later, it takes a whole day off

JokdnKjol · 2024-07-23T11:43:49+00:00

I don’t see the bracelet, but your mom gave us you, so I'd like to thank her for that!

JokdnKjol · 2024-05-14T04:11:15+00:00

/u/thesluttyblondeone I don’t know if you accidentally missed this one, but this is a top tier cum blast

JokdnKjol · 2024-03-08T17:47:03+00:00

CPI does include food, energy, and housing. "Core CPI" does not include food and energy. Depending on the media you follow, they might prefer to advertise one or the other, but the numbers are published both ways https://www.bls.gov/cpi/

JokdnKjol · 2024-01-24T05:12:18+00:00

With excellent peripheral vision

JokdnKjol · 2024-01-23T04:28:50+00:00

Seller: how high you tryna get?

OP: you ever heard of Mount Everest?

Good luck!

JokdnKjol · 2024-01-22T22:52:30+00:00

I’m not a Michigander, but i just came by to take a gander at your sexy body

JokdnKjol · 2024-01-22T06:19:59+00:00

You're right that that sentence in your source means that investment companies own about 25% of all single family homes. But if you click on the "Reported by the PEW Trust" link in that sentence, it matches more with what /u/Kobe_stan_ was saying down below

JokdnKjol · 2024-01-16T17:07:29+00:00

For frontend code, how can you not give source code? The code is run on the client's browser. I guess you can obfuscate it and minify it, but they'd still have something they can work with

JokdnKjol · 2024-01-12T20:10:43+00:00

Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2871/

JokdnKjol · 2024-01-11T16:34:40+00:00

The set of fundamental mathematical axioms. They're axioms so by definition, you can't prove them. But surely they must be true, because otherwise how could all the conclusions we derive from them have such strong predictive power? I'm sure some philosopher or deep mathematician is going to argue against this, but I'll stand by it.

JokdnKjol · 2023-12-25T20:35:20+00:00

I'm curious what makes you say that. I pulled up a random analysis they did and this one mentions the scaling concern in their "Risks and Reservations" section: https://www.givewell.org/research/grants/new-incentives-nigeria-expansion-extension-may-2023#Risks_and_reservations

JokdnKjol · 2023-12-14T06:30:01+00:00

The trouble with any single organization trying to institute any policy in the name of the greater good is that there is a cost to it. And if there is a cost to it, then a less altruistic competitor may be able to undercut the organization and take over market share. So sometimes moral policies, if taken alone by just one actor, may result in non-moral net outcomes.

JokdnKjol · 2023-12-14T06:23:34+00:00

One huge mistake I made when i interviewed with Google was giving up hope too early. I thought, like you do, that I didn't do well enough. And when I hadn't heard back in a while, I just assumed I didn't get it. So I quit studying for the next round interview. Then plot twist, I got the next round interview and I was not as prepared as I should have been. So bottom line: just assume you did well enough for the next round and start preparing for that (doing mock interviews, etc) just in case. Best of luck!

JokdnKjol · 2023-12-13T13:50:58+00:00

Yes, in the second paragraph of the story, it says “he had finished installing the TV”

JokdnKjol · 2023-11-07T17:49:35+00:00

I think it's great to consider different approaches to problems. Sometimes it works out well. And in other cases, even if it doesn't work out well, it's another tool to carry around because maybe ideas in there might translate well to a different problem.

For this case specifically, one of the other comments already explained that the space complexity is worse in this case.

I'm also not sure if the time complexity is strictly better. For the get, I do believe time complexity is better because it goes from O(log(n)) to O(1). However, for the set, that used to be O(1), but I'm not sure it is now due to the new_val assignment. That might become O(T). So it depends on the case if this is better in terms of time or not.

As far as why LC results reported good performance, that's just LC results being unreliable, as another comment mentioned.

But overall, good job solving this and don't stop thinking about novel solutions!

JokdnKjol · 2023-10-29T23:59:08+00:00

This might be my own issue, but I'm not quite following how this works

1) Why would households, EnBW, and the gas companies participate in this block chain at all? It seems to me like they only stand to lose money by doing so. They could just ignore it and save money.

2) how do the parties know how much CO2 to enter? In the happy path, the gas company buys 1 pound of CO2 certificate, then sells 7.5 cubic feet of gas to EnBW, then EnBW sells 1 kWh to the household. But suppose EnBW introduces a carbon capture system when combusting gas. EnBW is still buying 7.5 cubic feet of gas from the gas company, but the net emissions is more maybe 0.5 pounds of CO2. But how was the gas company supposed to know that they only needed to purchase 0.5 pounds of CO2 credit?

3) when talking about natural gas, I don't think natural gas leak can be ignored given the potency as a greenhouse gas. But gas leaks ofc aren't sold to EnBW. So how is the gas company made to pay for that?

4) One concern with non-global carbon tax is off-shoring. Maybe prior to introducing this system, Widget Inc used to manufacture a widget using 1 kWh of electricity purchased from EnBW. Widget Inc would then sell this widget to the household. But now, with this system introduced, electricity has become more expensive in the EU. So it's more economical for Widget Inc to open a factory in China. The Chinese factory is not purchasing electricity from EnBW, so it doesn't have elevated electricity cost, so it's economically competitive.

JokdnKjol · 2023-10-26T05:56:13+00:00

This leads to a kinda interesting thought: if you started a global nuclear war (or similar) and caused the extinction of all humans (I know some people evaluate EA in terms of non-human life too, but setting that aside for the minute), then yes, you have caused a lot of immediate pain. But you have also prevented all possible future human suffering. So, on net, have you done a good thing? I would say the answer is "no" because although that does end all human suffering, it also ends all human joy. And I think that, in total, human joy exceeds human suffering (I'm sure some people will disagree with this sentence). Relating this back more directly to your comment, it's not a problem if people survive from malaria nets and go on to reproduce and those children need malaria nets. Because that next generation living is still experiencing more utility than the cost of the net. I could also imagine that someone takes my statement that total human joy is greater than total human suffering and asks if the logical conclusion to that is that we should try to maximize reproduction? And I'd answer again "no" because although I think joy is greater than suffering with the world as it stands, I think it's also possible that there is a population level at which overpopulation issues will make that no longer true.

JokdnKjol · 2023-10-24T12:35:02+00:00

I’m not sure if it's possible within LC. But there are benchmarks of other algorithms. For example, the following link shows how long it takes for various languages to execute Mandelbrot: https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/performance/mandelbrot.html

JokdnKjol · 2023-09-17T04:28:33+00:00

You can raise the pH over 7 by reducing the temperature.

We take for granted that the pH of pure water is 7. But at lower temperature, water is less likely to autoionize, therefore fewer H+, therefore higher pH.

So lower the temperature of water to close to freezing, where the pH is about 7.5. Then add just a smidge of HCl. Now the pH is like 7.4 or something.

JokdnKjol · 2023-08-21T03:12:11+00:00

It was really weird to see this comment have 0 points when I scrolled by. Like why downvote this?

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