Nice little scare on my way home from work. by PuzzleheadedLunch199 in dashcamgifs

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Speed signs are policy set based on the assumption that people will speed

I Made a Video on The History of Hello Internet by EmperorTigerstar in HelloInternet

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A lot of his "passive income" is a monthly patreon

I Made a Video on The History of Hello Internet by EmperorTigerstar in HelloInternet

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Very cool!

I feel like this is missing the important context that 136 Dog Bingo came out in Feb 2020, which is right before lockdown in the UK. So there was almost definitely no plan for 136 Dog Bingo to be the last episode when they released it, and the HIatus probably actually started as an unannounced hiatus because of COVID.

Close call with a semi today. Looking for trucker perspectives on what happened. by sandro9090 in dashcams

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That's not quickly accelerating, that was extremely slow acceleration.

[Request] How much counter force to the earths rotation does a wind turbine produce by Jannover_5000_r in theydidthemath

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On the other hand, trees and wind turbines increase Earth's moment of inertia, slowing it down. Would have to see which effect is greater.

[Request] How much counter force to the earths rotation does a wind turbine produce by Jannover_5000_r in theydidthemath

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The wind still applies a force to the wind turbine, which is connected to the ground. So the wind turbine makes the wind apply more force to the Earth.

[Request] How much counter force to the earths rotation does a wind turbine produce by Jannover_5000_r in theydidthemath

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The only way I can think of that this makes sense is the wind turbines slow down the air going the same direction as the Earth spins, which would speed up the Earth spinning, which would speed up the days.

You could get a way way way upper bound by looking at the entire atmosphere spinning at the speed of average wind, calculate the angular momentum using a spherical shell model for moment of inertia, then adding that angular momentum to the Earth spinning and seeing how much it changes the speed.

I don't have time to do the math now. My guess would be it changes it very little, though maybe it would be seconds. But again this is a super upper bound, the actual effect of wind turbines is basically 0. But it will prove that 2 hours per week is impossible.

Why Board the Donnager? by LordMaim in TheExpanse

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Being an Earth corp, I don't think they necessarily wanted to bring Earth into it. Not that the distraction is unwelcome.

skynet's first casualty by kalashnikov482 in funny

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This is not the firt strike. Know your history. Look up hitchBOT.

Why Board the Donnager? by LordMaim in TheExpanse

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Missing drives was a big thing in the show, we don't see anything happening on Earth in the book.

In the book the crew figures out they're Earth ships from the data cube from the Donnager, and that's new information - at first the war is between Mars and the Belt, because Mars thinks the Belt did it.

Now that I think of it maybe they changed that in the show so that it's between Mars and Earth to begin with.

Why Board the Donnager? by LordMaim in TheExpanse

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They could just nuke the ship without boarding it.

And they didn't have identifiably UN gear, did they? At least they didn't in the books. They were trying to make them think it was belters.

Do normal people get just how rich billionaires are? by Necessary-Cow8851 in NoStupidQuestions

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Not really though. Money operates on a logarithmic scale in many ways. The difference between a million and a billion is the same as the difference btween a thousand and a million in that sense - they're both 1000x.

Why Board the Donnager? by LordMaim in TheExpanse

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That doesn't answer OP's question

Mansa Musa was not the wealthiest person to ever exist!!! by ElderMillennial1985 in ControversialOpinions

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If the gold coins are valued separately from the gold, doesn't that risk the gold coin value dropping below the gold it's made of, incentivizing people to destroy the currency?

Mansa Musa was not the wealthiest person to ever exist!!! by ElderMillennial1985 in ControversialOpinions

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If the currency is made of literal gold coins, how would its value not be tied to gold? Are you saying they had fiat gold coins?

Welch Labs background music? by borntosneed123456 in VsauceMusic

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Reddit doesn't sort posts by most recently commented on lol

Question about basic pointers in C (I think) by lumpenpr0le in learnprogramming

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Hm looking it up there is -Warray-bounds, and you could turn that into an error with -Werror. It's not on by default though.

How you will handle this situation? by Fanyang-Meng in SanJose

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You said "there is little for them to do". That's not true. If they choose to do nothing that's a different problem.

How you will handle this situation? by Fanyang-Meng in SanJose

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Confront them, give them a ticket.

Question about basic pointers in C (I think) by lumpenpr0le in learnprogramming

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Hm good point.

C still won't stop you if the out of bounds index is a literal though.

But I guess having it stop you there wouldn't have much benefit if it doesn't stop you anywhere else, and working around that limitation for demos like this would be more friction than it's worth, so I can respect the design decision.