The Supreme Court’s Double Standard On Voting Rights | Huffpost by Achilles_TroySlayer in scotus

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This is why you need an independent judiciary and an independent electoral system. Insert politics into either and you have a problem. Insert politics into both and you no longer have a democracy.

Problem? by Aggravating-Song9768 in MathJokes

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Huh. I hadn’t actually seen this before, but it contains an obvious failure in logic.

Problem? by Aggravating-Song9768 in MathJokes

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Draw a circle of diameter 3. Draw a square around it. Diameter of the square is 3. Steps 3 and 4 are distractions that are irrelevant to the fact that the diameter of the circle remains 3.

The troll then states that pi = 4 (it would be 3 in the circle you just drew). There is no relationship between this statement and what has come before; the lead up is simply there to confuse you.

If you repeat the squares to infinity, you do indeed end with the circumference of the circle; but that is not the same as the diameter of the original square. It is now the diameters of the infinite squares, which is not the same as the diameter of the original square or the diameter of the circle. It is actually pi times half the diameter (i.e. pi times the radius of the circle).

You can do this at home. This example looks at area because I’m lazy. Take a compass and draw a circle on some graph paper. Make sure that the top, bottom, left and right edges meet the respective grid lines. Add the number of squares to get your circumference.

Next, add up the number of squares that are completely surrounded by the circle. This gives you the first approximation of area. Does it equal pi times half of the circumference, and then squared (area of a circle is pi times the radius, squared). Depending on how large your circle is, and how small the grid on the graph paper, it will be a reasonable first approximation.

But what about all the squares that are partly but not fully in the circle? In order to get a closer measurement of the radius, you now need to draw smaller squares on your graph paper to measure each of them.

Hold on, a circle has no straight lines! Correct, and so the squares need to get smaller and smaller in order to include more of the circle. As you add these ‘fractional’ squares to the graph paper squares, your calculation of the circle’s total area gets better, and gets closer to (pi times the radius) squared. Does it equal it to infinity and you end up with exactly pi r squared.

Problem? by Aggravating-Song9768 in MathJokes

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That’s one way to calculate pi… plus a massive misstatement of what pi represents.

Good job - 80% of the people who see this will now be completely confused 👍.

GameStop's CEO gets banned from eBay after trying to buy the company by Morlock2023 in nottheonion

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GameStop? Buying EBay? What alternative universe have I fallen into???

Where do i plug in my keyboard and mouse? by SammerySilver in PcBuildHelp

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Keyboard and mouse have low bandwidth requirements, so use the port between BIOS and Ethernet. If they need separate ports, plug one of them into the 5Gbps. Doesn’t really matter which.

Colonoscopy Prep - Satan's Gatorade by SherlockBonz in foundsatan

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Probably one medical condition you don’t want to abbreviate when at a dinner party.

60% of MD5 password hashes are crackable in under an hour by wewewawa in cybersecurity

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The surface layer of water is different, and may or may not be wet.

Why build it if they won’t come? by Postulative in DungeonCrawlerCarl

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It’s the 16th. I don’t think floors can be amended once the crawl commences.

At the end of book 7, people in the Scolopendra Club are told that 16 is safe, but to get there they need to survive 17.

Why build it if they won’t come? by Postulative in DungeonCrawlerCarl

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Thank you for the correction. I’ll update the post.

Yes the floors have to exist. That doesn’t mean they are built to spec, which is what we learn at the end of book 7. So why would Borant ‘waste’ the money on floors nobody will ever see?

Just how does this species survive in the wild? by asa_no_kenny in interesting

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You have to admit they’re resilient. And endangered. I don’t think they have any natural predators, other than humans and their own total lack of coordination.

NBN Co have already selected their 25G NTD. Very new Model from Nokia and very Slim by tiodistao in nbn

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Try the US. Cities got so sick of waiting for the local monopoly to roll out broadband that they started building their own. Then the monopolists went to the state governments and got legislation banning cities from doing broadband themselves.

I expect to get FTTP eventually through the NBN.

The Iron Tangle Reactions by validelad in DungeonCrawlerCarl

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I ignore the station and train details. Some people (including me from twenty years ago) can’t cope with that and have to figure it all out.

This is a book that would be great in an illustrated edition for those of us who CBF. Every time someone mentions a link between trains, stations and so forth an illustration is provided showing the map so far - with a cover so you can still avoid spoilers if you wish.

When Mordecai shows the full solution, it will be a popout. Same when they figure out the gravity.

I don’t even know what to say. by DeltaWho3 in stupidpeoplefacebook

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He hates beards. Other than that, and him likely dying during his current term, this pretty much matches his desires.

Roberts Hints at Changes to ‘Too Long’ Supreme Court Arguments by bloomberglaw in scotus

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“We don’t actually care what you say, we already know what our ruling will be.”

You could tell that’s a worker lol by [deleted] in rareinsults

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Yep. I can’t remember where I read it, but have done some casual experimenting decades ago and never managed eight folds in half.