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Just curious. Matt talks about this exact forum argument in the book while on the topic of off-by-one errors. Super hilarious book, highly recommend.

By chance, have you read Matt Parker’s “Humble Pi”?

Sure, but if you’re using the IVT as a proof that there was a point where there was indeed a “first chicken egg”, you still haven’t answered whether the first chicken egg came before the first chicken. Clearly there was a first egg and there was a first chicken, IVT proves this, but which came first? This depends on those definitions. We’d need to find exactly where it “passes over”, which could depend on who you ask.

If you define a chicken as hatching from a chicken egg (“every chicken must have hatched from a chicken egg”), then the egg came first. If you define a chicken egg as an egg that was laid by a chicken (“all chicken eggs must have been laid by chickens”), then the chicken came first. And notice how these definitions are not necessarily mutually exclusive, leading to this whole philosophical issue in the first place.

If, in a much more extremely broad sense, we’re asking which came first, chickens or eggs in general, then I think we could agree that eggs came first, as I believe creatures were laying eggs long before the first “chicken” emerged, for most definitions of “chicken”.

I don’t think you can use the Intermediate Value Theorem to answer this. If taxonomists can entirely agree on one single path at each and every stage of evolution, the singular point of where an egg is now defined as a chicken egg where the egg that the creature which laid it hatched from is not a chicken egg–or vice versa, where a creature which is now defined as a chicken where its parents are not chickens–cannot be objectively determined. They’re human-defined lines, which makes this entirely a human philosophy problem in the first place.

(EDIT: messed up the formatting of this image) I like this analogy here:

It’s not completely relevant to this discussion, but it has some good points here. We can all agree that, at some point, it stopped being one color and started being another, but any method we use to draw that line would be arbitrary anyway. Maybe you take the hex code and find the point where the blue value is greater than the red value, but where is the text purple? Does purple even exist under this definition? Or maybe the text is red when, say, the hex for red is 80+% the total color value, blue for the opposite case, and purple for the in-between cases? But then, why 80% and not 90%? This is starting to sound really pretentious, but my point here is that in agreement to your last point, there’s no correct scientific answer to this problem.

If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is around to hear it, does it make a sound? Of course it does.

yiga clan moment

Except American aerospace.

yo it’s coco jumbo

Tip value sure, but tip percentage? I mean think about it, the price of the food will go up, so the percent of that elevated food price will also go up. Like, if I bought a $20 meal and tipped 15%, that’s a $3. But if because of inflation or whatever, the $20 meal increases its price to $40, a 15% tip is now $6. The tip has gone up, but the percentage has remained the same.

So why are tips now going up to 21, 23, 25, hell I’ve seen a tablet that suggested 30%? (We all know the answer why, I’m being rherorical.)

No they don’t, this is tax fraud and illegal. Companies are not allowed to claim donation round-ups as their own for tax purposes. They may match donations, which they can claim, but they cannot claim money they did not spend as their own donations. You, however, can, if you keep your receipts.

“Just because it’s illegal doesn’t mean they don’t do it” – Fair point, but this is the IRS we’re talking about. I doubt big business are willing to fuck around that particular avenue. Other avenues, definitely.

That’s seriously my top contender for my next phone right now, and it’s a model more than a year old. But it’s the only 1 of 2 available phones on the market with 5g, a removable battery, and an SD card slot. Fucking baffles me.

cool, but what about removable batteries

H*LL YEAH BROTHER

CRANK THAT MFIN HOG TODAY AND TOMORROW

The twitter account is a satire account. They’re trying to stir the pot.

Former college TA for physics here, I can tell you that not every teacher/professor does this by choice. My professor was obligated to use the textbook which included an access key for a homework site. He had to use this homework site (which already had the questions on it, he didn’t make them), which meant students had to buy the hardcopy textbooks to gain access to the homework portal to do and submit the homework. He knew it was bullshit, I knew it was bullshit, the students all knew it was bullshit, but his hands were tied. He had no choice, and I could see the pain in his eyes whenever anyone asked why he assigned homework using the online service rather than good old fashioned paper and pencil.

Well, who forces him to use this system? Follow the money, you’ll probably figure it out. This was at a very large university in the US, but I can assure you this happens at all colleges, big and small.

The only drawback is how long your onosecond is. If you have a very high onosecond, the undo send button can’t help ya.

My father had the worst flu of his life in January of 2020, bed-ridden for a week. And conveniently, he never caught covid. He’s absolutely convinced what he had was covid, and at this point, I’m inclined to believe it.

I’m so incredibly fed up with freebooters, but what can one man do really?

I’m just confused, man. What on Earth happened?

It’s not a good meme, but it’s my most current. I’m reading Steel Ball Run right now.