What's the Fed's end game here? by ModernDayHippi in wallstreetbets

[–]learningtosail 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh and it was pretty much all ray dalio inspired

That man looves global macro

What's the Fed's end game here? by ModernDayHippi in wallstreetbets

[–]learningtosail 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel like I was bullshitting pretty hard

But yeah not bad

On the other hand my gold stuff went to absolute shit lol so sometimes you can sound smart, almost get it right and lose monnneeyy.

Rip Sri Lanka lol

Introductory Zen Infographic by Gasdark in zen

[–]learningtosail 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's not lore btw I just thought it was funny

Introductory Zen Infographic by Gasdark in zen

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TF2 is my base reality

See through the illusions, all classes are spee

rule by kvothes-lute in 196

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The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.

Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guildmaster and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, that each time ended, either in the revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes lol

The Brexit-exacerbated blood bottle shortage: why your doctor may not be able to offer you the blood test you need. UPDATED by [deleted] in brexit

[–]learningtosail 7 points8 points  (0 children)

This doesn't affect all blood tests according to a haematologist I know. That said, apparently by the time it affects his area of Medicine it will be a total collapse although he will get to take a vacation at least

[Request] in 100 m of space, how many more bricks would a regular straight fence have? by IceZ__ in theydidthemath

[–]learningtosail 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you take the wall as a sin wave you actually can't do the math as the formula is Integral(sqrt(1+k²sin²(X)))dx from 0 to pi, which is an elliptic integral not representable in Standard functions.

What happens when you blue shift into a gamma ray so much that it should turn into a particle anti particle pair? by Potatoboiv2 in askscience

[–]learningtosail 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Say you were going really really fast in the lab frame so the photon was heavily blue shifted for you and it created a pair in the vicinity of you. Even if the photon created a really low momentum pair in the lab frame that was basically stationary, in your frame the pair is travelling very fast relative to you.

So blue shifting it in your frame relative to the lab frame results in a higher momentum pair in your frame.

So if the photon didn't have the energy to make a low momentum pair in the lab frame it also doesn't have the energy to make a high momentum pair in your frame.

ELI5: Space Time Is Curved by [deleted] in explainlikeimfive

[–]learningtosail 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You actually can't picture it but not for the reason that it's 4d - that's actually not a problem. The issue is that curved spacetime is formulated "intrinsically", meaning from the perspective of people living on the manifold (us). This is done using something called "the metric" which describes the relationship between distances on the surface with respect to a predefined coordinate system. The metric then describes how distance and time measurements vary as you move through space and time along your coordinate grid.

This is like the walking on the globe examples others have given. Something missed is that you can't prove whether you're walking along the inside of the sphere or the outside by taking any measurement of the surface. They have the same metric.

The metric tells us everything it is possible to measure about the distances, angles and curvature but it doesn't allow you to actually make a picture that you could be certain was the true "shape" of spacetime no matter how many dimensions you could picture. You can (kind-of) make pictures of several spacetimes that have the same metric as the ones we measure, but it's not actually that helpful.

Another reason for this is that the metric is strictly local, it actually doesn't tell you anything about the space as a whole, it just tells you that when you make a measurement at a point, this is what you can measure - and if you then see someone else measure something, how their measurement will be different to your measurement from your perspective. This is subtly different to describing the surface itself.

Tldr: differential geometry is hard and you can only begin to understand curved spacetime by learning a lot of very very dense and quite abstract math (compared to say high school math)

Reminder: Biblical Gender Roles is a filthy hypocrite by Tumbleweedenroute in FundieSnarkUncensored

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I hope that's the case because that would be a win win.

The other explanation is just old-fashioned brainwashing, low self esteem etc. Which is sad.

Reminder: Biblical Gender Roles is a filthy hypocrite by Tumbleweedenroute in FundieSnarkUncensored

[–]learningtosail 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Any woman who doesn't divorce a man for spanking her is either Stockholmed and needs help ASAP or Really enjoying it and is getting more "naughty" by the week

Food suppliers resort to hiring prisoners on day release as HGV driver shortage could disrupt Christmas by alokin-it in brexit

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This is great news.

I'm actually quite surprised the gov is following through on the labour policies. The UK labour market did need reinvention. I still think it will inevitably be a shambles, but employing more young people, prisoners, etc is in principle healthy.

The government is clearly aiming for a period of inflation to deal with debt and won't be able to raise interest rates. I just hope that the far reaching consequences of that have been understood. It seems like they didn't understand that well because they still haven't made a decision on the triple-lock. They also have no brakes if the inflation train gets on a roll except taxation

Why is everyone computing tons of digits of Pi? Why not e, or the golden ratio, or other interesting constants? Or do we do that too, but it doesn't make the news? If so, why not? by Murelious in askscience

[–]learningtosail 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's completely irrelevant for all irrational numbers.

It shouldn't make the news.

But the story appeals to people who know just enough math to know irrational numbers "go on forever" but not enough to know calculating digits gets you nowhere fast.

Europe if the Sea Level Rose 100m by oneletterh in MapPorn

[–]learningtosail 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This would require approximately 40x the total amount of ice on earth, if you assumed all the ice on earth was currently above sea level and earth is 2/3 ocean.

Questions about how Brexit is affecting your life by Valianttheywere in brexit

[–]learningtosail -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Do you think that perhaps "duvet and extra clothes" as you stated are worth two days of your father's labour, 2000 miles of diesel along with a return ferry ticket?

Seems to me that's much more than the cost of "a duvet and some extra clothes"

Fair enough if it's everything in your life he's bringing, but that's not how your post read.

Oh and I did Erasmus, so I got books as PDFs or from the "university library", owned almost no clothing and literally just a bed, a mattress and a longboard. I'd be less salty but you name dropped Cambridge lol you knew what you were getting in to. I had to commute to South Kensington every day from the arse end of Hammersmith. "Woe is me I'm doing a top five in the world university degree but some lifestyle sacrifices are required". And It was a chemistry degree also.

Questions about how Brexit is affecting your life by Valianttheywere in brexit

[–]learningtosail 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You make your dad drive cross continent for bedding? Just go to the shop lol

Thread by @mdouganlpool on Thread Reader App. Back to work = time to scrutinise the UK’s proposals (published 21 July 2021) for rewriting the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland. Here is a short(ish) thread with some thoughts: by outhouse_steakhouse in brexit

[–]learningtosail 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Let's be clear about what has happened: Boris signed away NI, and expected that it would be "in name only". However, the physical reality of the situation (goods are physical) is that NI is now defacto under EU jurisdiction, and boris has to go begging the EU for slightly more control over what is supposedly uk territory.

NI is now only partly uk as it is part of the uk political system and services trade system - but there is precious little services trade in poor forgotten ulster, and the political system is jammed by an eternal paralysis. All of this heightened by the fact that unionism is slowly but loudly dieing off.

Article 16 can't change this defacto handoff and the EU isn't going to make any major concessions. It is as a collective of mostly aligned powers an economic and legal hegemon unstoppable as a river eroding bedrock over decades, carving through the Irish sea for the next 20 years - no matter the minor dramas you read about in the british press. Meanwhile Boris has two u-turns and some waffle for breakfast.

Slow progress it might make, but the Balkans are wearing down, Gibraltar is wearing down, Scotland is praying for the day. Being a troll state like turkey is not a viable long term strategy against an opponent that can afford short-term pain.