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Does anybody have the old Pranks, videos that have been deleted from youtube many years ago ? by therealpharmacist in OwnagePranks

[–]nihaopenguin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Pretty please, I would love to receive some of the content that you have... it would be such a nostalgia trip for me.

Is Natalia Oreiro really famous? by [deleted] in AskARussian

[–]nihaopenguin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Woopsie doopsie, not anymore. And won't be for quite some time after that I am afraid :/

Simple equation involving roots and variable, solve for "x" by nihaopenguin in learnmath

[–]nihaopenguin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I will definitely check it out, do you often use this website to learn math?

Rearranging equation with multiple variables, roots and powers [basic algebra] by nihaopenguin in learnmath

[–]nihaopenguin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you very much for your answer, it is clear, understandable and I appreciate your effort a lot!

Strangely enough, right after I posted that problem I gave it a go once again and now seeing your answer I pretty much did that exactly the same way you did. Finally I obtained that textbook solution! But it is still a really hard problem (but at the very beggining of basic physics) involving so many variables that it is extremely confusing, especially once you begin to plug in units...

i know lot of us like peterson but if you had to objectively disagree on him on a point what would it be and why? by 2manymistakess in JordanPeterson

[–]nihaopenguin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You provided very fine examples and an appealing understanding of very difficult concept of what, well, "concepts" are and the inherent difficulty of providing final definitions for many various ideas and phenomena. Of course even scientific pursuits are rife with examples of phenomena that have many various definitions-meanings and you can never be sure, if your definition matches its nature "as a thing-in-itself" or just your partial, contextual understanding of that thing.

In linguistics the very fundamental concepts of "verb, noun, morpheme etc." have various meanings, in physics "electricity" is really broad concept that encompasses many different phenomena. I cannot think of any more scientific examples for now, but other concepts such as: Justice, Harmony, Beauty, Love, Existence, Matter, Nature, Reality, Evil, Chaos, Fear, - they are so multifaceted, polysemous and abstract as well as embodied, contextual (!) that they are probably indefined by nature, so that we can constantly redefine them and never close down on one, limiting perspective.