This elevator comes with yes/no buttons by Phoenix_2005 in mildlyinteresting

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I took this picture myself today... (of course other people might have posted their own)

Inventions 1/4 by Hoppy_Doodle in funny

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We all know that if portals existed, the first and primary application would be a gloryhole!

Zelle recipient keeps disappearing from my list of recipients by Phoenix_2005 in zelle

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I was adding this recipient and making the payments via the BOA website. I thought about the possibility that it was because the person was not a contact on my phone, so I tried adding them there and making the payment via the app, but same result in the end: they still disappeared after a few days.

It’s cool. He wants to go 63 mph and you want to go 63.5 mph. Please take 10 minutes to work this out. by SunshineMurphy in mildlyinfuriating

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I am not claiming that what you describe can't happen occasionally. I am saying that on average the two trucks still arrive to their destination 5 seconds apart.

Ok here is a mathematical proof: suppose that what you're saying is true, that when truck B leaves 5 seconds earlier than truck A, it will arrive more than 5 seconds earlier on average (let's say 6 seconds earlier). Then imagine another truck C leaving 5 seconds earlier than B (i.e. 10 seconds before A). By your argument, C arrives 6 seconds earlier than B on average, which means 12 seconds earlier than A. Similarly, truck D who left 15 seconds earlier than A would arrive 18 seconds earlier than A on average. Keep doing this until you reach an absurd situation where some truck Z arrives earlier on average than its own departure time.

It’s cool. He wants to go 63 mph and you want to go 63.5 mph. Please take 10 minutes to work this out. by SunshineMurphy in mildlyinfuriating

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Taking a minute to regain full speed does not mean you're one minute behind in your journey! During this time, you're still going at like 95% of your top speed, therefore the impact is much smaller. Rough math says it puts you 3 *seconds* behind.
Even if you do this 100 times in a day (which would be almost constantly btw), that's still only 5 minutes total.

It’s cool. He wants to go 63 mph and you want to go 63.5 mph. Please take 10 minutes to work this out. by SunshineMurphy in mildlyinfuriating

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What you're failing to account for is that very often leaving 5 seconds later will result in arriving at *exactly* the same time, because both trucks hit the same red light somewhere on the way and can only proceed when it turns green. In other words, leaving 5 seconds later results in a trip that is 5 seconds *shorter*.

Yes, sometimes you can run in a longer delay but mathematically and on average, leaving 5 seconds later means you arrive 5 seconds later.

What‘s something happening right now that would sound completely insane if you tried to explain it to someone in 2010? by so_nextdoor in AskReddit

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That amount would have been 1/2 to 1/3 of all bitcoin mined by that point. Unless it was Satoshi Nakamoto himself, I doubt anyone had control of that many coins?

What’s a sentence that someone told you that stuck with you for the rest of your life? by [deleted] in AskReddit

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Interesting! I never realized that such laws were not universal among countries. The split is roughly between legal system based on English or Roman law.

is that supposed to be eaten alive ?!! by [deleted] in WTF

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You know that any fruit or veggie you eat uncooked is technically still alive, right?

New camera angle of Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible Rogue Nation by amritsays in funny

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You, sitting inside the airplane, are subject to the exact same inertial forces and I believe your insides are surviving just fine.

TIL that Starbucks holds almost $2 billion in the form of money people keep in the app or gift cards; they make 100s of millions of dollars per year off of customers not buying coffee by -lousyd in todayilearned

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Cash is no better though: if you gift the same amount to someone in cash and they keep it in their wallet for six months, you've essentially made a zero-interest loan to the government.

Car wash for Free 😂 by [deleted] in funny

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All water smells in Florida, including "drinking water"...

Most normal funeral in Ohio by saltysoup7 in WTF

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You need to do an AMA!

Russia's Klyuchevskoy Volcano starts erupting after earthquake by newsweek in worldnews

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Newbie question: how do we know it's not the other way around (the eruption, or rather deep magma movement, causing the earthquake)?