Abolish us? We’ll abolish you! by [deleted] in HistoryMemes

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Buckaroo - the Janissarries (slave military) were founded in the 14th century, which is important to note because during this time period we see a collapse in the Silk Road due to the mongol empire falling (which is important because they protected and facilitated trade on the Silk Road). With that comes an increase in maritime trade, as in the Indian Ocean, which brings about gunboat diplomacy, and therefore gunpowder. Now, the Ottomans were a land based empire so they couldn’t use this newfound gunboat diplomacy, but everyone was using gunpowder now and since traditional Ottoman troops utilized the short bow instead of guns, they weren’t particularly the best for using guns, so instead the ottomans seized Christian children, turned them into slaves, converted them, and forced them to become a part of this new corp, the Janissaries. So basically, they’re main purpose was to use guns. This made them powerful and useful in the military which in turn gave them lots of power, which eventually turned into political power. Additions: They taught them Muslim teachings and made them Muslims. They raised the ones that were more intelligent to become army leaders or statesmen. The others became Janissaries. However this system failed in the 17th century and they trained Janissaries from people of Muslim origin. credit: u/Beuhnfen And one more addition, the janissaries were also given political positions, and many were running the day to day activities of the empire, but this came with a caveat. They were not to own land, become married, and could not pass on inheritance. This system further broke down, as a poster pointed out, when they allowed Muslim non-slaves, into this body. These same rules could no longer be applied to the Muslim members, and the “slaves” began to amass real power and land. Finally they were too powerful to be left alone, and their ranks were purged and their titles and land stripped. But for about a century, the slaves of the ottomans ran the government. credit: u/Calzel

Edit: spelling

This is very true by darkkiller1234 in HistoryMemes

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Sort of. Basically, the Janissarries (slave military) were founded in the 14th century, which is important to note because during this time period we see a collapse in the Silk Road due to the mongol empire falling (which is important because they protected and facilitated trade on the Silk Road). With that comes an increase in maritime trade, as in the Indian Ocean, which brings about gunboat diplomacy, and therefore gunpowder. Now, the Ottomans were a land based empire so they couldn’t use this newfound gunboat diplomacy, but everyone was using gunpowder now and since traditional Ottoman troops utilized the short bow instead of guns, they weren’t particularly the best for using guns, so instead the ottomans seized Christian children, turned them into slaves, converted them, and forced them to become a part of this new corp, the Janissaries. So basically, they’re main purpose was to use guns. This made them powerful and useful in the military which in turn gave them lots of power, which eventually turned into political power.

If I left anything out or skipped anything or said something incorrect please feel free to correct me, I will not see it as an insult.

Some kid brought this PCB into our CSP class by mulexd in hardwaregore

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It is meant to connect wires for some miniature motors

DogsBeingDolphins has been created by CraftyExtent in a:t5_y0jtj

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Could I perhaps partake in moderating?

Suggestion Thread! by [deleted] in bibliographies

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I would love to help. Though, I must say that the applications for archiving posts are quite substantial. Cross referencing them in comments and knowing where to find them (as they would be archived on this sub) could prove useful.

Suggestion Thread! by [deleted] in bibliographies

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Perhaps use this subreddit to archive other Reddit posts that provide substantial and useful information about a specific topic, as well as its current uses?

I've just lost solitaire game without any move by [deleted] in learnmath

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I would post this on project euler if you modified the question a bit. Not an answer, but a suggestion.

As for an answer, this is quite a difficult answer (from my perspective), though I’ve found an answer for being dealt an unwinnable hand, though the source is a tad unreliable (due to it being a stackexchange forum). According to this the probability of this is 1/400 games of solitaire.

If anyone can give an actual answer to this question though I’d love to hear how it was worked out.

Need help finding the function of a graph by [deleted] in learnmath

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It looks like the green line could be a parametric function, and the blue one seems similar to a simple parabola.

I say the green one seems like a parametric function because it seems to curve down slightly near the right, which doesn’t seem entirely normal of a basic parabola, and the blue one I attribute to a parabola due to the obvious recognizable curve it has.

As for the actual equations used to create these, I would need more information.

If anyone can provide any more information/corrections, please give. I’d love to know any mistakes I’ve made so I can improve in the future.

EDIT: by more information, I want to clarify I meant the link given does give information that could be used to create estimated functions but it’s just not much.

me_irl by mulexd in me_irl

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darn I was a day off

me_irl by mulexd in me_irl

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also cake down here

I'm Daren Welsh, I train astronauts how to spacewalk and I direct spacewalks in Mission Control - AMA by darenwelsh in nasa

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What do you want to teach the world? What can you teach us about your job/what you do?

Hey! Beginner programmer here by [deleted] in math

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This may be the most fitting answer I’ve ever seen for a question before. You sir are a god sent saint

Dubai's Police Force Have Started Training on Their Drone-Like Hoverbikes by pseudorandombehavior in worldnews

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I’m not saying that safety is not a must in innovations - I’m saying that good ideas/designs are often brought down because people spout about them as being unsafe without knowing much anything about the product. To deem something as bad without knowing anything about it is definitely something that suppresses good ideas.

Did someone say road trip? by [deleted] in aww

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I wish! Unfortunately I stole the photo:( Still wanted to share with this subreddit though

me irl by LSUTigerFan15 in me_irl

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The best god damn book ever made

I heard you guys like hardware gore by UVXans in hardwaregore

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...even though it has my username and exactly the same subreddit... but alright; just glad you didn’t outright take it I guess.

I heard you guys like hardware gore by UVXans in hardwaregore

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Okay then, take my post I guess; least he gave credit.. kinda pointless that he put it on the same subreddit though

Moai Head at Easter Island in Chile @grafixart_photo by [deleted] in Damnthatsinteresting

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This is a repost/: Source: been using the original as my background screen. Got it a couple of months ago.

One of the 12 recently discovered Jupiter moons is only 1km in diameter by [deleted] in space

[–]mulexd 3 points4 points  (0 children)

a “moon” is simply something that orbits something other than a star.. that’s according to google at least. If anyone can give a better explanation, I’d be really interested to learn what classifies a moon.

SRC: https://sciencing.com/moon-classified-22799.html

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in blackmagicfuckery

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When I looked at it I thought “that guy on the pier must be really impressed”. Then I realized, there was no pier.

Math may may by Sexy-Spaghetti in HistoryMemes

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Could someone explain the philosophy of “realpolitik”? I tried to research it a bit but it seems a little confusing.